Get ahead of the game with Kanban, the MVP of Agile Development. Learn how to measure dev team velocity and optimize your workflow with metrics.| CodeSmash
I have posted an article to my Linkedin blog. I had come across an article on medium, and so probably behind their paywall, called, “The Death of Agile: Why Tech Giants Are Abandoning Scrum and Wha…| davelevy.info
Why do we encourage problems to be discussed once an iteration? Imagine you could transmit your experience to all your teammates. Your failures, your success, your discovery; in an instant and you could have a constructive discussion in the process. Wouldn’t it be amazing? Let’s discover the D-Rex, then. Definition Why “D-Rex”? In French, we … Continue reading D-Rex, a quick and easy way to self-improve The post D-Rex, a quick and easy way to self-improve appeared first on Constanti...| Constantin Guay
Bien que l’ajout de tâches qui ne sont pas liées à l’objectif du sprint pendant le sprint n’est absolument pas conseillé, dans les faits les équipes y sont régulièrement confrontées. Dans ce cas comment accueillir ces tâches perturbatrices pour le sprint dans les meilleurs conditions ? Je connais deux écoles qui se confrontent sur la … Continue reading Remplir son sprint ou garder de la capa pour la prod ? The post Remplir son sprint ou garder de la capa pour la prod ? appea...| Constantin Guay
The retrospective is the most important Scrum artifact. In fact, you don't need anything else to succeed as a team.| Amir Rachum’s Blog
Let’s start with a simple question: Why do we get together for a short meeting each day? If you work on a Scrum team, you’ve probably heard of a daily scrum, sometimes called a daily stand-up. It’s one of the key events in scrum. The “daily” usually ...| freeCodeCamp.org
My team at work is moving to Scrum and other teams are starting to do test-driven development using unit tests and user acceptance tests. I like the UATs, but I'm not sold on unit testing for test-...| Software Engineering Stack Exchange
Flailing around with intent means treating agile methods as inspiration, not instruction. It's best we can do under new circumstances.| Pawel Brodzinski on Leadership in Technology
As a project manager, your success hinges on wielding the right methodology for the job. Agile, with its nimble, iterative flair, and Waterfall, with its structured, process-based workflow, are the two titans clashing for supremacy. But which one reigns supreme? Choosing between Agile and Waterfall is not a minor decision. It's like picking your weapon... [Read More]| ProjectEngineer
"Why", I love this word and it is probably my most favourite question to ask. It is also a curse at the same time, because if it is not followed by a satisfactory answer I can easily find myself in an unhappy situation.| Dusted Codes
Agile didn’t fail you. The process theater did. A blunt look at why your team hates standups, story points, and pretending it’s working.| The Cynical Developer
TL;DR Want to help editing a collaborative version of Definition Of Done checklist, driven by questions, rationales and “don’ts”? Click here and feel free to share your ideas! Long Some months ago my team and I had to define a Definition of Done for one of our projects. Each item of DoD should be an … Continue reading The Definition of Definition of Done→| Arialdo Martini
The Scrum Guide got you puzzled? Cut through the chaff and get to grips with the latest edition of this vital document.| isixsigma.com
Looking to transition your team from Waterfall to Scrum? Take a closer look at some practical strategies to guarantee overall success.| isixsigma.com
Looking at how you can achieve true success with your Scrum projects? Take a look at some practical tools and metrics to deliver results.| isixsigma.com
What are the best tools every Scrum team should use? Take a look at 5 of our favorites for making work a smoother affair.| isixsigma.com
Medium for some reason thinks I continue to want to read about the demise of Agile project management methodologies for making software. My daily email has headline after headline by Product Manage…| Ask The UXer
Sometimes you come across one of those very simple, yet amazingly effective tools that most people who have adopted it wonder how they ever did without. Today is one of those days. Kanban is a task scheduling method originally developed by the Toyota Production System in the 1960's to track inventory levels. Although it is being... [Read More]| ProjectEngineer
Do your retrospectives lack energy? Discover what's usually missing. Usually it's purpose. Includes one thing the Scrum Guide got right, and one it got wrong. The post Retrospectives need Purpose! appeared first on Saat Network GmbH.| Saat Network GmbH
Too many changes or too much work in the sprint? The root cause is often the Product Owner. Use this ‘Spotter’s Guide’ to see what kind of Product Owner you have, what the impact is, and whether your team needs an upgrade!| Saat Network GmbH
“Where have all the task decompositions gone?” I was talking to a very experienced Head of UX about the state of our vocation when she asked that. I had to agree I have not seen one in …| Ask The UXer
Learn about conditions under which pure Scrum thrives and the organizational DNA required to support it — Age-of-Product.com| Age-of-Product.com
Stick along long enough in software development, and you may have come along the ride for Agile software development practices, methodologies, and/or frameworks. Stick along long enough in that community – ok, that might be a reach too far, given that community only exists about 30 years or so. All of the above said, I … Continue reading My view on the current state of Agile→| Markus Gärtner
In 2001, nine years before the first version of the Scrum Guide, Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle published "Agile Software Development with Scrum". This version of Scrum has some remarkable differences f| Joep Schuurkes
I’ll be attending my second formal training this year, getting my Certified Scrum Master certification to match the Certified Product Manager certification that I picked up earlier this year. After 15 years in the business, you might wonder why I’m just now getting around to being “certified”, and I hate to say it but the […]| The Clever PM
There’s more to being Agile than just blindly following the rules and processes of any specific methodology. One of the core components of effective Agile practice is internalizing the concept of continuous improvement. As I’ve touched on in other articles, Agile is a direct descendant of the concepts originating in the lean manufacturing movements of […]| The Clever PM
The challenges of bringing a new team member onto an effective Scrum team, and tips to avoid losing the effectiveness of the Agile team dynamic.| Agile Pain Relief Consulting
The Scrum Guide Reordered is based on 95 percent of the 2020 Scrum Guide, enhancing its original structure by adding an extended categorization.| Age-of-Product.com
The 17th State of Agile report, which claims to be the longest-running survey on the topic, states that “Agile […]| DEVCLASS
The retrospective is the most important Scrum artifact. In fact, you don't need anything else to succeed as a team.| amir.rachum.com
Why do you do a Daily Scrum? If the answer is ‘to figure out what we are going to do today,’ you can skip this post! Otherwise, read on for some tips on bringing energy, focus, and purpose into your Daily Scrum.| Saat Network GmbH
How to improve your team with one picture and 16 questions. Your task board is a treasure trove of information about how your team works. Mine it for facts and insights in your next retrospective (or even sooner) to improve both the retro itself and its impact. I call this a fact-driven retrospective, and here’s how it works.| Saat Network GmbH
The Codist: Software Estimation Is A Crock| Daurnimator’s Hovel
Is learning by doing really enough?| The Blogging Terrier | Den bloggande terriern
I’ve seen some coaches and Scrum Master advocating for optimization of the value delivered by the team by applying a ratio of the value. I was never very comfortable with this approach. Here’s why and how I prefer a backlog to be optimized.| Constantin Guay
What to considere to hire a great scrum master for an existing team, or for a team to be built?| Constantin Guay
Many scrum projects fail, desipite the promess that scrum is agile, so scrum is the Answer to all problems and will fix the team's productivity. I give you five reasons I've witnessed to be the source of team failures (plus a bonus one).| Constantin Guay
Do you even know that Scrum, for example, never mention the concept of user story?| Constantin Guay
When do you iteration start? Is it when the development begins? When the design begins? And when does it end? Why should you care?| Constantin Guay
Annuler un sprint quand l’objectif de celui-ci est obsolète, c’est prévu par Scrum, mais ensuite, on fait quoi ? Je vous propose une réponse dans cette courte vidéo Scrum Life ! N’hésitez pas à commenter pour me dire ce que vous en pensez.| Constantin Guay
Comment travailler l'interface de façon incrémental afin de rester capable de réagir rapidement aux changements ?| Constantin Guay
Si personne n'est disponible pour lancer votre produit, qu'est-ce que ça dit sur l'intérêt de ce produit ?| Constantin Guay
“Le Scrum Master ? Il s’occupe de l’équipe technique” Vous avez déjà entendu cette phrase ? Moi oui, très souvent. C’est une vision qu’on retrouve souvent dans les entreprises et qui peut être amplifiée quand l’entreprise est habituée à plutôt voir ce que j’appelle des “Scrum Master Chronomètres” (j’en parlais dans un précédent article que … Continue reading Product Owner et Scrum Master : une relation privilégiée mais souvent négligée| Constantin Guay
“Pourquoi on doit faire cette fonctionnalité ou faire telle ou telle modification ?” “Qu’est-ce qu’on attend du sprint ?” “Est-ce qu’on a réussi ?” Ce sont des questions que devraient se poser n’importe quelle équipe et surtout, elle devrait savoir y répondre ! Dans cet article, nous allons voir comment l’impact permet à une équipe … Continue reading PO : Priorisez par la valeur grâce à l’impact produit| Constantin Guay
Often within a team, one focus on the immediate effect of a feature or a task: the famous User Story’s “so that…“ Note: If you’re not familiar with what a User Story is, you can read my article about it: Differences between epics, stories, themes and features This element of the User Story template, the … Continue reading Tips to write BETTER user stories| Constantin Guay
Le "afin de..." doit exprimer le gain que l'utilisateur va ressortir de la fonctionnalité, et non pas une suite séquentielle d'évènements.| Constantin Guay
Vous êtes graphiste dans une équipe produit Scrum et vous avez du mal à savoir comment vous intégrer dans le processus de développement du produit ?| Constantin Guay
Il y a un ordre bien précis des événements Scrum, mais pourquoi cet ordre ? Est-ce un fruit du hasard ou un acte réfléchit et logique ? Dans cette vidéo je vous parle d’une équipe qui a décidé de faire le planning du prochain sprint avant d’avoir Fait la revue du sprint en cours. Voyons … Continue reading| Constantin Guay
I think that saying that the Scrum Master role is restricted to the team, is a mistake and a lack of knowledge| Constantin Guay
If you have issues taking full advantage of your dailies, whatever your role is (dev, Scrum Master, PO…) you can suggest a plan for the team to appropriate and make it evolve. Here is an example of what I put in place with teams, hoping that it will help you doing yours. What is a … Continue reading How to do a better daily| Constantin Guay
Si vous avez un peu de mal à tirer le meilleur de vos daily, proposez une base de plan pour que l’équipe se l’approprie et la fasse évoluer.| Constantin Guay
Faites-vous des sprint zéro ? Parce que oui, le sprint zéro c’est faire du waterfall. Quelle place cela nous laisse pour changer, choisir ?| Constantin Guay
“je suis un expert avec 15 ans d’expérience, le Scrum Master s’en fiche et me considère au même niveau qu’un junior qui sort de l’école ! Bouh !”| Constantin Guay
Est-ce que vous pensez que pendant le sprint, le Product Owner a une influence sur le rythme de l’équipe de développement ? Chez vous, quand est-ce que le Product Owner regarde le produit et donne du feedback ? Et si la bonne cadence d’un sprint dépendait complètement du Product Owner ? Le Product Owner en … Continue reading L’équipe de dev au rythme du Product Owner| Constantin Guay
There is multiple ways to be a good Scrum Master and multiple ways to be a … less good Scrum Master. One of this less better posture I’ve seen many times often carried on by big consulting companies is reducing the Scrum Master role to A Time keeper, to be a clock. What do I … Continue reading The coveted role of Scrum-Clock-Master| Constantin Guay
Ça y est, vous êtes un Scrum Master ! Yeah! Ou alors vous l’étiez déjà et vous cherchez un nouveau poste pour continuer à apprendre. Vous ouvrez LinkedIn et là : Waw, plein d’offres d’emploi ! Trop d’offres, même. Est-ce que toutes ces offres se valent ? Y a t il tant de besoin de … Continue reading Trouver un boulot en tant que Scrum Master : mes conseils| Constantin Guay
Il existe plusieurs façons d’être un bon Scrum Master, et plusieurs façons d’être un ... moins bon Scrum Master. Une de ces moins bonnes postures, je l’ai vue mainte fois, souvent portée par de grands groupes de consultants : c’est la réduction du rôle de Scrum Master à celui de simple gardien du temps, ou chronomètre.| Constantin Guay
Il y a un vrai débat au sein de la communauté agile sur la pertinence des estimations et principalement de ce qu’il en est fait. Je vous donne ici un premier exemple d’analogie qui pousse à réfléchir à vos estimations et pourquoi pas, à remettre le principe en question.| Constantin Guay
Découvrez dans cette vidéo notre expérience d'application des principes et valeurs agiles pour faire pousser un produit en 8 sprints d'une semaine.| Constantin Guay
What can we learn about agility from a 70's US toy maker? Are we so incapable to evolute even when we see solutions in front of our eyes?| Constantin Guay
Le développement agile est une exploration. Le sprint est un temps d'exploration des solutions. Et si le résultat n’est pas utilisable ?| Constantin Guay
C’est un sujet qui déclenche des passions lorsque je demande à un PO de ne plus intervenir pendant les dailies. Incompréhension, déni et autres sentiments s’entrechoquent alors. Le PO au daily, est-ce vraiment un anti-pattern ?| Constantin Guay
Learn practical tips for developing the skills and qualities needed to be a successful Scrum Master.| Segue Technologies
Kundenorientierte Softwareproduktion braucht einen Fortschrittsindikator, der kundenrelevant ist. Das ist geschaffener Wert, nicht bewältigte Komplexität.| ralfw-de