Should you choose Scrum or Kanban as your preferred way of working? In a mature team they will look quite similar. It is not an obvious choice and different experts... read more →
I believe too much power to the teams is risky in large scale agile implementations. Some of the reasons I have describe in When to use SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework).... read more →
There is a huge debate in the agile community around the SAFe framework. A lot of agilists seem to pretty much hate it. Ken Schwaber for example: unSAFe at any... read more →
The organization does not have to be huge to have a need for scaled agile decision making. A while back (before SAFe existed) I was working in a small organization... read more →
Many companies have decided to keep the Project Manager role more or less intact while adding the new role of Scrum Master. Is this good? Is this what the founders... read more →
Jeff Patton has written an interesting post called Requirements considered harmful to spark a discussion on the use of the word "requirements" in the software industry. He argues that the... read more →
In teams that are still bit too specialized it can sometimes make sense to do something I call Soft Assign. Soft Assign (as I have defined it in this context... read more →
I recently met a fellow Agile Coach. He had invented an elaborate way of bidding on tasks in a sprint as a way of matching what people wanted to do... read more →
Many teams start out with Scrum and over the years they remove stuff - and add WIP limits - and come closer and closer to Kanban. Many teams start out... read more →
Many agile teams have discovered Planning Poker, which is a well known and proven practice. But there is an interesting alternative to Planning Poker that can work very well under... read more →