Reading Time: 7 minutesEstimates 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 minutesIf 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 minutesScaling 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 minutesI’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…
Reading Time: 5 minutesTake 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 when it comes to the event in Scrum that should Read more…
Reading Time: 5 minutesThere 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 product directly. Some say you can put anything on your Read more…
Reading Time: 5 minutesFamily, 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, having fun and experimenting during the entire process, without losing Read more…
Reading Time: 5 minutesAgile 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 two principles of the Agile Manifesto. In this blogpost, I’ll Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutesUser 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 career. But over time the stories became better and better, Read more…