Getting business value out of Agile Retrospectives
Agile retrospectives are a great way to continuously improve your way of working. Getting actions out of a retrospective that are doable, and getting them done helps teams to learn and improve. An...
View ArticleLean Software Ontwikkeling: Introductie, en Verminderen van Verspillingen
Wat is Lean, en hoe kun je daarmee sneller software ontwikkelen, met hogere kwaliteit tegen lagere kosten? Een overzicht van de principes van Lean, en de toepassing met een praktijkervaring: Minder...
View ArticleManaging Projects with Agile Teams
What kind of benefits can Agile teams bring for their projects, and how can you introduce agile teams into an existing project management organization? Continue reading →
View ArticleAgile Werkt, maar is daar bewijs van?
Is er bewijs waaruit blijkt dat Agile beter werkt? Een boekverslag van "Agile Werkt", over meten, analyseren en benchmarken van IT-projecten, en andere onderzoeken naar de resultaten van Agile werken....
View ArticleDe Mens Centraal in Agile: Teamworking en Samenwerking
Bij het invoeren van Agile is aandacht voor menselijke factoren belangrijk om Agile succesvol toe te passen. Bijvoorbeeld om tot teams te komen, waarin professionals effectief samenwerken. Continue...
View ArticleLet the Scrum Master Come From The Team
What do you think: Should the scrum master come from the team, or should it be (former) project managers? Continue reading →
View ArticleEen “Self-Organizing Organization”, hoe werkt dat?
Hoe ziet organisatie eruit zonder hierarchie en managers, waarin iedere medewerker vrij kan beslissen wat hij/zij wel of niet doet. Een kijkje in de keuken van een Self-Organizing Organization, en de...
View ArticleSuccess Factors for Using Scrum and Getting Benefits
A list of the success factors that helped organizations to get Scrum implemented and used, and to make a difference. Continue reading →
View ArticleEstablishing and maintaining stable teams
Teams are more and more becoming the core of organizations. Wether project teams, agile teams or any other form of collaboration that is chosen in a company, the setting in which people collaborate is...
View ArticleMeasuring and Controlling Product Quality
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could have more insight into the quality of a product, while it is developed, instead of afterwards? If you could measure the quality of your product, and take action when...
View ArticleHoera: We gaan veranderen! Maar hoe doe je dat?
Eindelijk is het dan zover. Na allerlei onderzoeken en rapporten, lobbyen, en vele vergaderingen is er een beslissing genomen dat we gaan veranderen. Er is steun en draagvlak in de organisatie voor de...
View ArticleWhat Drives Quality: Coding
This is already the 4th posting on “What Drives Quality”, focusing on coding. Previous posting covered the factors that drive requirements quality and that drive architecture and design quality....
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Improving Collaboration in Agile Projects with the Retrospective of...
Retrospectives are a great way for agile teams to learn and improve themselves. Many projects have multiple teams who work on the same product. Each team can of course do their own retrospectives. But...
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What’s an Agile Retrospective and Why Would You Do It?
The agile manifesto proposes that a “team reflects on how to become more effective”. Agile retrospectives can be used to inspect and adapt the way of working. But sometimes teams struggle to figure out...
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The Way I Develop my Agile Coaching Skills
Good coaching addresses the challenges many organizations face when adopting Agile ways of working, including Scrum implementation. You have to make sure that your organization has the capability to do...
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Getting Feedback with the Perfection Game
The Perfection Game can be used to get feedback on a product or service that has been provided. It is also a retrospective exercise usable to discover strengths and define effective improvement...
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Success Factors for Root Cause Analysis in Software Development
Root Cause Analysis can be used in software development to build a shared understanding of a problem to determine the first or “root” causes. Knowing these causes helps to identify effective...
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Self-assessing How Agile You Are
Do your teams want to know how agile they are? And what could be the possible next steps for them to become more agile and lean? In an open space session about Agile Self-Assessments organized by...
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Guest blog: Making Retrospectives Interesting
This guest blog by Madhavi Ledalla provides some great ideas to make agile retrospectives more interesting and hence more valuable for teams. The key Scrum ceremony that helps the team reflect on its...
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Dealing With Negative Issues in Retrospectives
Agile Retrospectives help teams to continuously improve to become better in what they do. As they are a learning experience for the team the atmosphere in a retrospective meeting is usually positive....
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