As more and more companies are implementing Agile, a perceived need for adopting Agile in large scale environment is growing rapidly. This is the first in a series addressing large scale agile. Here I will summarize the challenges and list the most well known approaches to scaling Agile that have emerged lately. In following posts …
At the end of my Certified Scrum Product Owner classes I often ask the participants to summarize their learnings from the class by writing down advice to someone starting up as a Product Owner in Scrum. The collected advice is often good. The insights shown by the participants are impressive. You can find the top …
At the end of all my Scrum classes I tell participants that I offer life time support of my classes. I encourage people to stay in touch and ask questions also after the classes. Today a participant took me up on my offer. I received the following: ”Our team has been asked to change from …
Faster, more efficient and better; there is almost no end to the promises attributed to Agile and Lean product development. Dispite all the promises many teams and organisations are not able to gain the possible benefits. Those of our customers who are most successful in their implementation of Agile or Lean are able to give …
Many of us try to avoid failure. When doing so we often forget that we can learn from failure. I recommend learning from small failures in order to avoid the big epic FAIL. Of course, it’s easier said than done. It takes a lot of practice to feel comfortable to fail. I did some practicing …
I offer Scrum Trainings in both Europe and Asia. When telling people this fact I am often asked about the differences in culture and how class participants may behave differently in Europe compared to Asia. Yes, I have noticed some differences. I have also noticed similarities. The most encouraging similarity is the habit of asking …
When traveling I have made it a habit to always count the pieces of luggage I carry. Instead of trying to remember all the time which specific pieces I carry, I just remember the number. To me it’s a safety and backup thing. I know other people do similar things. My father in law once …
I’m speaking at the Scrum Gathering in Paris, September 23-25, 2013. Session: Scrum meets Management 3.0 – how to apply the latest management ideas to strengthen Scrum Track: Empower Agile Culture with others cultures, domains and approaches Duration: 90 Minutes Timeslot: Tuesday, September 24, 13:30 – 15:00 Room: Auteuil Session Type: Workshop Level: ♥♥
I will speak at the Lean Tribe Gathering 15 in Malmö, Sweden on April 24. The title of my talk is “What Managers say about Scrum – before and after”. The talk will be in Swedish and the Swedish title is “Vad chefer säger om Scrum – ett före och efter perspektiv”.
Last year I did an inhouse Scrum training at a small company, let’s call them SmallCo. SmallCo have had a small team working according to Scrum and they are looking for possibilities to expand the use of Scrum. As many companies SmallCo are facing challenges int their implementation of Scrum. One of the obvious ones …