Category Archives: Agile

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How do I measure delivery and progress? (Lead Time vs. Story Points)

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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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How do I perform priorisation of my business needs? (WSJF explained)

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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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What is business value? By Renatio

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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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Agile Explained for dummies by Renatio

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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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Renatio Hourglass approach: your solution in response to a crisis never seen before!

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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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Project estimates in agile by Renatio

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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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Difficult arguments against agile by RENATIO

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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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The need for agile craftsmanship (Pt 4 / 4)

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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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The need for agile craftsmanship – (Pt 1 / 4)

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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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The need for agile craftsmanship (Pt 2 / 4)

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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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The need for agile craftsmanship (Pt 3 / 4)

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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 3: The Melvin attitude First Melvin attitude : The others are hell – Increase the Barbarian factor of your meetings The employees of the retail company (of [...]

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