What do companies like Leap, Freitag, Patagonia and even Apple have in common? They came up with a different kind...
Scaling Agile can be a big challenge for companies as they have to make significant adjustments throughout the organization. However,...
We have already discussed the impacts of scaling Agile on architecture, infrastructure and the skill set in the previous videos....
As we have already seen in the previous episodes of this series, an agile environment is not only characterized by...
In the previous episode of this series about scaling Agile, we talked about the necessity of a decoupled architecture. In...
Scaling Agile can be a big challenge for organizations. As explained in the last video, six levels should be adapted...
Over the last couple of years, the agile community created lots of ideas how to scale agile teams. However, it...
“We don’t have the right people to implement Agile. They don’t want to change.” This attitude impedes the transformation of...
Since the first successful implementations of Scrum, Agile has run through an evolution. Today, it is more than Scrum. We...
In the agile community, many people believe that we would have to change the culture first, to be able to...
The fundamental objective of agile methods is to make teams more productive. However, is it the agile processes themselves that...
It may seem a bit ironic to cite Shakespeare in a post that outlines the difference between Scrum and Kanban....
What is No Estimates? Does it mean that we do not have to estimate at all? Basically, yes. This approach...
Most organizations have too many projects. They search for a better way to structure their workload and usually come up...
There is an old saying within the scrum scene: “A Product Owner should never show up in a Sprint Planning...
It has always been challenging to create new products that provide actual value. Traditionally, engineers used to ask the customer...
The Product Owner has often been considered a bottleneck when creating a Product Backlog, as he was deciding which items would be included. Nowadays, new practices...
The Product Owner is mostly known to be responsible for two major things: a healthy ROI and prioritizing the backlog. However, his tasks go way beyond that...
Scrum in its traditional form defined by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland consisted of only three parties: Scrum Master, Product Owner and...
There are many misconceptions about which key tasks are included in the role of a ScrumMaster. In this video, I illustrate the different functions...
The final meeting within the Scrum framework is called the Retrospective. The key is to review the last iteration and...
In its original version, Scrum has always been customer centric. However, the framework has evolved considerably over the last few years. In my next...
A very important meeting is the Daily, where teams come together for 15 minutes every day, to discuss next steps on how to...
Join me for my how-to video, in which I explain the basics of commitment. Why is it essential to define a goal, which we...
In this video I talk about the Sprint Planning #1 meeting, which is used to create a common understanding and a mutual agreement on what...
In this edition of my video series, I explain the need to use multidisciplinary teams in Scrum, rather than cross-functional. Teams should consist of members from all business areas...
In this episode of “The Agile How-To”, we explore the basics of Scrum and where it originated around 20 years ago. To the...
In the late 1990ies, a busy Silicon Valley pushed out one fancy start-up after another. The hype spread out in...
