Posted by Geert Chielens in Agile on 26/02/2021
Story Points are often seen as the obvious way to determine the complexity of a Product Backlog. Teams also use them to determine their velocity. Velocity as in the amount of story points that a team can finish within the Sprint (or 2-weekly development cycle). In often cases management dictates that story points MUST be [...]
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Posted by Geert Chielens in Agile on 03/02/2021
You know the story, long projects leads to long cycle times which makes people eager to get as much as possible in to the project and thus cycle time goes up, and more stuff goes in… The foot in the door problem is a common anti pattern in project based organization. "Lets cram this feature [...]
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Posted by Geert Chielens in Agile on 08/09/2020
In analogy with Charles Darwin's survival of the fittest, we can state that for companies it not the strongest that survives, nor the most intelligent. Agile methodologies such as Scrum are all about generating value for organizations. But few people are able to define 'value' into something that's actually meaningful in the context of a [...]
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Posted by Geert Chielens in Agile / Agile Management on 25/08/2020
You might have noticed, but lots of our posts are talking about Agile. While we emphasise all sorts of aspects, we realized we actually never really explained what agile is about. We’ll rectify that…. Many people believe agile to just be ‘the latest management fad’. Very often they scoff at the idea of [...]
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Posted by Geert Chielens in Agile on 03/07/2020
How to kick start digitalization in the last six months of 2020? The lockdown has accelerated digital transformation to an extend that exceeds even the digital capabilities of key players in the market. Questions you need to ask yourself: How do you pick up the pace and stay ahead? Is your IT able to deliver [...]
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Posted by Geert Chielens in Agile on 16/06/2020
Agile methodologies are aimed at delivering value as fast as possible. When transitioning towards business agility, we faced some (common) issues. In a series of episodes we are sharing our experiences in solving these obstacles. Featuring in this episode: "Delivery dates imposed by management" Previous publications Upcoming publication: [26.08.2020] "Agile explained for dummies"
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Posted by Geert Chielens in Agile Management on 06/05/2020
Lockdown measures are gradually getting loosened throughout Europe, each country at their own pace. The past months we've all been going through some cycles dealing with the present tsunami wave that hit us all by surprise: Initially we all denied this wave was building up and about to hit us in the most brutal way [...]
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Posted by Geert Chielens in Agile on 15/04/2020
Agile (with a capital “A”) has been gaining popularity, has been trending even. Many companies have done their explorative steps. Some at larger scale than others. It appeared that agile had won in global acceptance. In recent years, more and more Agile hate articles are appearing online, and it actually even seems to become a [...]
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Posted by Jan Bovend'aerde in Agile on 14/04/2020
The need for agile craftsmanship: Episode 1: The need for agile craftsmanship Episode 2: Agile groundwork Episode 3: The Melvin attitude Episode 4: The pleasant way Episode 4: The pleasant way CHANGE MANAGEMENT People go through 5 phases of resistance to change. In the first step of denial, our Melvin is in a meeting [...]
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Posted by Jan Bovend'aerde in Agile on 07/04/2020
The need for agile craftsmanship: Episode 1: The need for agile craftsmanship Episode 2: Agile groundwork Episode 3: The Melvin attitude Episode 4: The pleasant way EPISODE 1: THE AGILE CRAFTSMANSHIP When using “agile” in publications and discussions, it turns out to generate a lot of emotions. The audience seems to be divided into [...]
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Posted by Jan Bovend'aerde in Agile on 03/04/2020
The need for agile craftsmanship: Episode 1: The need for agile craftsmanship Episode 2: Agile groundwork Episode 3: The Melvin attitude Episode 4: The pleasant way Episode 2: Agile groundwork In the previous episode, we outlined the agile groundwork. Agile-on-speed teams do not go through this stage of groundwork. It requires boots on the [...]
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