What I Believe If you want to increase productivity, I believe you need 3 key things. In a previous post, I wrote you needed ritual and motivation. After some reflection, I decided to update that. First, create a system to ensure…
This is a guest post written by Kat Boogard, a writer for Toggl who covers a little bit of everything — but places most of her focus on career, communication, and self-development topics. So, you want to be an amazing…
Story points are a unit of measure for expressing an estimate of the overall effort that will be required to fully implement a product backlog item or any other piece of work. When we estimate with story points, we assign…
Leadership in Agile Organizations On Tuesday October 4th 2016 it is time for our annual Conference on Leadership in an Agile Organization. What can you expect? We’ve got keynotes from Jurgen Appelo, Jaap Peters and Edwin Stoop. Parallel sessions on:…
Achieving system optimisation goals in LeSS Large-Scale Scrum(LeSS) has incorporated deep Systems Thinking ideas in its recommendations. Whether it’s the way Sprint Review is done or the recommendations around team co-ordination, LeSS recommends system optimisation over local. In this short…
On Thursday Oct 13 2016, as of 17.30 hrs Yacht and Marcoms Chapter of Agile Consortium International organize a knowledge sharing session at Yacht HQ in Amsterdam about Agile within the Marcoms domain. “For the past five years I have had…
If you work on a Scrum team, you undoubtedly know you should have a product backlog and product owner. But what, exactly, is a product? For some teams, this can be a rather fundamental question. After all, an organization cannot…