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Agile Transition

Reverse Retrospective — Aligning Scrum Team and Scrum Master

TL;DR: The Reverse Retrospective Are you—as a scrum master or agile coach—experiencing more communication kerfuffles with “your” team? Is its…

Agile Audit: How Is Your Agile Transition Progressing?

TL;DR: Agile Audit Supposedly, becoming agile is a journey, not a destination. This is a convenient narrative if the viability…

Use Burn-Down Charts to Discover Scrum Anti-Patterns

TL;DR: Use Burn-Down Charts to Discover Scrum Anti-Patterns A burn-down chart tracks the progress of a team toward a goal…

How to Measure Agility of Organizations and Teams—The Results of the Agile Maturity Survey

TL;DR: How to Measure Agility of Organizations and Teams Is every organization suited to become ‘agile?’ If so: How to…

Create Personas with the Help of the Engineers

TL; DR: Create Personas with the Help of the Engineers Creating valuable software requires knowing the customer—we all agree on…

The Overall Retrospective for Team and Stakeholders

TL;DR: The Overall Retrospective After rebuilding an existing application on a new tech stack within time and under budget our…

Survey Results: The Net Promoter Score® of SAFe® as a Scaling Framework is – 52

TL; DR: The Net Promoter Score® of SAFe® I ran a poll on the question “Would You Recommend SAFe® as…

Abusive Agile – Beyond the Cargo Cult

TL; DR: Abusive Agile – Beyond the Cargo Cult Here are some frighteningly abusive management practices, wrapped in an agile…

Poll: Would You Recommend SAFe® as a Scaling Framework?

Preliminary Results (May 11th, 2017) So far, 191 agile practitioners have participated in the ‘Would You Recommend SAFe® as a…

How to Align Scrum Teams

TL; DR: How to Align Scrum Teams Do you remember the good old days when the organization started with its…