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 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 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 Read more…
Reading Time: 5 minutes Take a look at your calendar. Are you invited for a Sprint Demo? If so, this blogpost could perhaps be helpful for you and the Product Owner or Scrum Master who invited you. In many occasions I hear Sprint Demo Read more…
Reading Time: 5 minutes There are a lot of posts and opinions about types of Product Backlog Item’s (PBI’s) and what you can or can’t consider an item on the backlog. Some say the backlog can only contain items that deliver value to the Read more…
Reading Time: 5 minutes Family, friends, even colleagues ask me what agile is. To answer this question and to explain it in an easy to comprehend way, I use a metaphor. I tell them about preparing a product development project, learning on the job, Read more…
Reading Time: 5 minutes Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely. At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly. These are Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes User stories… in the agile environment everybody is talking about them. And almost everybody is writing them, or at least trying to. I’ve written hundreds, maybe thousands of user stories. They weren’t all great, especially in the beginning of my Read more…