What do high-performing IT orgs have in common? They’re more agile: They are deploying 30x more frequently and with 200x shorter lead times than their peers. They’re more reliable: They have 60x fewer failures and recover 168x faster. They’re #winning:…
Recently I experienced what was one of the saddest moments of my career when, while re-watching “Return of the Jedi” for the 116th time, I realized I was coaching a company that was basically the Empire. Surely you remember the movie's…
A programmer wrote scripts to secretly automate a lot of his job -- including to automatically email his wife and make himself a latte.. Source: A programmer wrote scripts to secretly automate a lot of his job -- including to…
On December 1st, the Agile Consortium Belgium will host an Inner Circle to share knowledge on different models and proven approaches to do requirements gathering, from ideation, decision-making, going toward a usable product backlog, to start building product. Agenda 18:00…
A question I’ve been getting a lot lately is how to in corporate UI Design in Scrum. Whether UI designers should be part of the Scrum team and whether they should do their work as part of an agile sprint.…
Agile teams are told to “embrace change,” which is the subtitle to Kent Beck’s wonderful Extreme Programming Explained book. Although an agile team can embrace change, the stakeholders in an organization must understand that change is not always free. Most…
It’s quite common for a team to have a bit of unfinished work left at the end of a sprint or iteration. Ideally, a team would finish every item on its sprint backlog every sprint. But, for a variety of…
Every Sprint in Scaled Professional Scrum requires a completed, ready to ship increment of functionality. The ubiquitous “definition of done” spells out the characteristics of such an increment. The end result should include software that has: Presence of valuable functionality for…
As agile has grown in popularity, so have the misconceptions about it. In a recent introduction to agile webinar we asked our audience which of these common myths they’d encountered — here’s what they said: Do any of these look familiar to…
By changing the inner workings from a project perspective to a product perspective Agfa Healthcare established a less complicated process using a single backlog for the entire organisation. Main advice is to try to avoid setting up silos where they…