Reading Time: 3 minutesAre 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 Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutesRecently 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 Read more

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 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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 Read more