Scrum have five values. Isn’t that enough? To many it may be enough and even a little too much. To me, there is a value missing. And that is Trust. Once, in the middle of a presentation about Agile values and principles, I was told by an executive: ”We do not need to hear about …
On Wednesday, October 13, I talked about Building Blocks for Self Organization at Agile By Example. In this post you will be able to find links and references mentioned in the talk. My main point is that when moving from one way of organizing work to self organization three things need to happen: The individual …
Note: This is a guest post by Lasse Koskela originally published on his late blog. Thanks to Lasse for letting me re-post it here. I’m sitting in the hallway in Limerick, Ireland, attending the XP2008 conference, downloading something from the company server to my laptop, eavesdropping on an open space session hosted by J.B.. He’s talking about user …
When delivering Scrum classes I get a lot of questions. In some countries I get questions about how individual performance appraisals are delt with in Scrum. My short answer is: They are not! Scrum is team based and that does not fit very well with individual performance appraisals. The long and detailed answer is: How to …
When working according to Scrum you face to choose between physical tools or software tools. There are situations when software tools are required, i.e. distributed development. However, physical tools have the benefit of letting all information necessary to be accessible in one place. Team members, ScrumMaster, Product Owner and stakeholders can easily get access to the gathered …
We are pleased to announce that Esther Derby and Don Gray will be offering their 2-day Coaching Beyond the Team workshop in Malmö in May, 2016. Esther and Don are well knowned within the Agile community, having helped and coached many organizations, authored books and articles and presented at numerous conferences. Date: May 10-11 2016 Venue: Central Malmö. …
At the Scrum Gathering in Prague last week, many participants were active during the Open Space sessions of the last day. I suggested the topic “Definition of Done in different settings“. Thirteen of us found the topic interesting enough to spend 45 minutes together. Here is my write up of the discussion as I remember it. …
We have had a unique chance to get Tom and Kai Gilb to the Greater Copenhagen area. Come and learn from one of the old giants in the Lean and Agile worlds and his son. Tom Gilb is really the granddaddy of Agile. Tom Gilb has since the 70ies worked on driving value out of …
AqquNews February 2015 Hi, You are one of 265! This is the first issue of AqquNews, the newsletter from Aqqurite. 265 have signed up to recieve it. Thanks to all of you. I will create a new issue of AqquNews 4-8 times a year. AqquNews will contain information about the latest within Agile, Lean, Leadership and …
In todays Agile world we often see the need of new approaches to management. Since the nineties Agile has changed software product development. Today the need to change management approaches is emerging. The last couple of years I have noticed Radical Management, Management 3.0, Tribal Leadership, Leadership Agility, Servant Leadership, Leadership and the New Science, …