Reading Time: 5 minutes One of my favorite statements: Scrum Masters aren’t session facilitators. I love it. Because many people frown when I say this. “What do you mean Wim? In my team, the Scrum Master is always facilitating sessions.” Me: Why? “Well, it has always been like this. And to be honest, the Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Is management requesting planning sheets in which you give them insights on what you deliver and when? There are a couple of problems with classic planning approach. And there is an alternative which connects better with an Agile approach. Output Let’s briefly go over the issues with the classic approach Read more…
Reading Time: 5 minutes What makes a team? We all know, if you put a bunch of people together, it isn’t necessarily a team. It’s still a bunch of people. But many individuals expect from this group, that they perform to their highest level and commit to a certain outcome. In other words, act Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes In addition to my previous post about questions from the ‘more classical’ world regarding progress and the different methods of measuring progress, I’m now writing about another common and rather popular question: When is your product done? To be able to answer this question, let’s first try to define what Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Are you asked for your progress during product development? There are a number of ways you can answer this question. The most common one is where you inform your stakeholders by reporting the number of requirements you have built. I would like to propose a different approach. One where you Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Recently we visited NEMO Science Museum in Amsterdam. This a very nice museum full of all kinds of experiments. The visitors, mainly kids, can perform these experiments themselves, so they learn a lot about different topics, like space, electricity, water purifying, chemistry, technology, etc. Every hour there is a show Read more…
Reading Time: 7 minutes Estimates are still a painful subject in the world of software development. Some people hold on to techniques from the past, trying to predict the timeline of a software project. Others are in favour of changing these habits and are looking for better ways to become predictable. In this article, Read more…
Reading Time: 4 minutes If I were to give a definition of Kanban in one sentence, it would be: Kanban is a method for teams to visualise and enhance their existing daily process and enlarge their output by limiting the work in progress. Okay, but what does that mean? How does it compare with Scrum? And why do Read more…
Reading Time: 10 minutes Scaling Frameworks are used in organisations where a great number of teams are building a product. The number of teams is too big to be supported by the normal Scrum framework and therefor another type of framework is needed. Recently Jeff Sutherland released his Scrum@Scale. This is one of many scaling Read more…
Reading Time: 5 minutes I’ve seen Scrum teams in many forms and with different roles. Teams with or without Scrum Masters, Product Owners, developers, testers, deployment engineers, analysts, application managers, business consultants and designers. In this article I want to talk about the importance of the last role; designers. Because I’ve seen teams create Read more…