As the Covid-19 Pandemic hit, lot of us moved to remote working conditions in the past years. This remote work has challenged Agile teams to adapt to the new environment with enforced distributed teams. With scrum teams largely working from home for the foreseeable future, we have to come up with solutions to communicate effectively …
The Agile Manifesto set forth a revolution in the software industry when it was introduced, until today. The use of Agile Methodology has grown well beyond software, however, the original focus of the Agile Manifesto was Software Development (The title of the Manifesto is, “Manifesto for Agile Software Development”). Not only has it grown beyond …
Principles of a good meeting culture Within this short article we would like to go into the principles of a good meeting culture again. You may already be familiar with the content of the article and many of the points will not be new to you, but it is certainly good to recall the principles …
We are currently experiencing it again, an agile transformation and its actually coordinated process sparks off discussions that endanger the whole character and the roll-out of the actual change. Where does this come from and what are the reasons for such a disruptive change? We want to get to the bottom of this thought with …
On 18 November 2020 a new version of the Scrum Guide was published. This article shows which changes have been made compared to the previous version from 2017. The new version of the Scrum Guide (PDF version) has been shortened from 19 to 14 pages, mainly because redundant statements have been removed from the Scrum …
Nowadays, more and more words are becoming buzzwords. These are often passed on unfiltered without the understanding of them always being clear. In this article we will explain the terms “agile” and “agility” and their relationship to each other. Both terms have gained massively in importance within software development in the last years. This is …
Kanban can be classified within the agile methods. Since Scrum and Kanban have many similarities but also many differences, we would like to focus on the Kanban method in this article in order to build up a basic understanding. In simple terms Kanban is a three-part workflow. It is visualized with the help of a …
Scrum of Scrum is first of all another meeting within the Scrum Framework. This is not an official ceremony according to the Scrumguide, but a constructive addition for a first pragmatic agile scaled organizational approach. The meeting is an inter-scrumteam meeting, in which one or more representatives of the respective Scrum Teams participate. The goal …
As already announced in the first article the second part of the Spotify model series follows. After we have discussed the naming and the basics of the Framework Scrum in the first part, the second part is about the structure, the roles, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of the Spotify model. The Spotify …
The Spotify Model This two-part series of articles is about the so-called Spotify Model. In the first part we briefly discuss the naming and the Scrum Framework used as a basis. The second part is about the concrete structure, the roles, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of the model. What is behind “Spotify”? …
