February 2019 – Page 3 – Agile Archive

February 11, 2019April 17, 2019

Agile Retrospective Smells Cards

During one of nlScrum meetups I heard about The Retrospective Smells Cards. A tool for Scrum masters, agile coaches, and anyone who facilitates agile retrospectives to recognize smells and solve problems or mitigate the impact.

You can find it – and other tools/games – here: https://www.benlinders.com/shop/agile-retrospective-smells-cards/

There are also a couple of interesting articles about smells like: blaming, passiveness and actions. You can find them here: https://www.benlinders.com/portfolio/retrospective-smells/

February 11, 2019February 11, 2019

Patterns for Splitting User Stories

Good user stories follow Bill Wake’s INVEST model. They’re Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Small, and Testable. The small requirement drives us to split large stories. But the stories after splitting still have to follow the model.

Read the complete article here: https://agileforall.com/patterns-for-splitting-user-stories/

February 7, 2019February 7, 2019

How to create a Value Stream Map

Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is a -very- useful tool to gain insight in the workflow of a process and can be used to identify both Value Adding Activities and Non Value Adding Activities in a process stream while providing handles for optimizing the process chain. Read this blog-post on how to create a VSM: https://xebia.com/blog/how-to-create-a-value-stream-map/

February 7, 2019February 7, 2019

Going from a Value Stream Map to Value Stream Optimisation

Read this blog if you already have a Value Stream Map (VSM) and you are wondering how to reap its benefits using a structured process: https://xebia.com/blog/going-from-a-value-stream-map-to-value-stream-optimisation/

February 5, 2019February 5, 2019

The Product Management @Scale game: How can Product Owners scale their role?

Now that many organisations are scaling their agile process one way or the other, Product Owners are faced with the challenge of scaling their already busy role. Kai Stevens created The agile product management @scale game that helps Product Owners identify how to focus on the essential product management activities while making sure that other product management activities will be handed over to other members of their team.

Read about it here: https://medium.com/the-liberators/the-product-management-scale-game-a-simple-way-to-figure-out-what-a-product-owner-should-do-cc143cb85ecd