Agile is about courage, trust, and discipline. This approach replaces status meetings with time spent working together. The focus of an agile team is people, results, collaboration, and flexibility over processes, contracts, documentation, or plans.
We are ready to help you streamline your product development. With more than a decade of industry experience, we can show you ways to build products that best suit your customers' needs. No matter whether you want to write a book, release software, deploy an app or website, or build a car—the underlying principles are always the same.
Dive into a comprehensive guide on agile transformation, understanding the role of an agile coach, and the steps to transition your company to agile methodologies within 3-6 months.
Explore the nuanced relationship between Agile methodologies and project speed. Does Agile always outpace Waterfall? Uncover the factors that influence speed, cost, and efficiency.
Hierarchies can help you to organize your company, but they also come with problems. Here, I explain the necessary leadership style for efficient projects.
As an exercise, try to completely eliminate your project's backlog and think about what effects this would have on your team. Could this be a way to improve?
How to prepare to be able to write without interruption. First step: Never stop. Insert placeholders when you would have to stop for research or editing.
Reader of non-fiction books have a specific problem, need, or interest, and you are trying to solve it by providing instructions or information.
For an Agile coach, having a team with such background knowledge can help to speed up the acceptance and learning process of self-management.
This article discusses the malpractice of changing proven agile principles to fit your existing management processes instead of focusing on core agile values.
This article examines the parallels between the challenges for a player of real time strategy games and agile coaches that want to help to transform a company.
This article discusses the malpractice of many companies to use Scrum while still living and breathing a compartmentalized company structure.
When implementing Agile methodology, some things are often overlooked: the organizational structure, the culture of the organization, and the people involved.
Using examples from the real time strategy game StarCraft, this article explains why idling resources might even speed up your production process.
When introducing agile methods, small improvements might lead to better results than a revolution. The advantage is the constant feedback you get at each step.
Usually, the Scrum process is employed by using little stickers, and moving them around on a physical board. Jira makes that easier, but it comes at a cost.
Kanban accepts a non-optimal situation: teams are not 100 percent dedicated to a project, and project work is done in phases outside the core team.
With this Plugin, you can automate your definition of done (DoD) by creating templates and having them added to each new task in JIRA automatically.
Knowing how to deal with a "fog of war" in real time strategy games like StarCraft can help understanding and teaching the principles of marketing.
Team-building exercises involving computer games can help participants to train soft-skills like dealing with frustration as well as communication skills.
This article discusses how “ownership” describes how a knowledge worker needs to be part of the whole process and not just be a specialist in a department.
Taking no breaks is a local optimization which might ultimately slow down your project. Instead, try to distribute workload in the team or try XP instead.
A better indicator how well your project goes along is how much value you produce for your customers throughout the time of your project, not just at the end.
This article discusses how the idea of delivering products at the end of sprints contradicts agilty. Agility is about delivering working software frequently.
Applying the principles of Scrum in a larger organization with multiple teams can be challenging. This article discusses a number of improvement ideas.
This article gives you a 7 small ideas of how to improve your daily standups. Maybe try NOT using JIRA next time and try using stickers instead?
Hire us to teach you to work iteratively and collaboratively
Turn your business into a diagram
How Strategy Games can be used to Teach Agility
Need Ideas to improve your JIRA for agility?
Streamline Your Writing Process
Reach out, we'd love to hear from you! Schedule a video chat or message us by e-mail or WhatsApp!
Let's talk! Set up a free call with Clemens. Use Calendly to schedule the call.
