Just a site where I archive interesting reads I've encountered online
Timelines and deadlines have always been tricky for software development. With the advent of Agile software development and Scrum, the may feel even trickier. In this post, Ziryan Salayi explores how you can move the conversation from time and deadlines to something that matters: delivering value to your customers faster.
Read the complete article here: https://medium.com/the-liberators/timelines-and-deadlines-how-to-handle-them-in-an-agile-environment-79f5946072ee
In this episode of Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer, PST Martijn van Asseldonk answered the pressing Scrum questions from the audience. Some of these questions included.
Hoe herken je een goed Agile team? Dat is de vraag die we aan onze Agile experts @Ron Eringa, Jef Cumps, Inge Gorgon, Astrid Claessen, Jürgen De Smet, Yves Hanoulle en Nicole Belilos stellen.
One of the biggest challenges for a Scrum Team is to switch from a technical to a functional perspective on their work. Christiaan Verwijs has developed a set of helpful questions that often trigger teams into a functional frame of mind.
Read the original article here: https://medium.com/the-liberators/asking-the-right-questions-how-to-help-a-scrum-team-switch-from-a-technical-to-a-functional-bee6c1598487
Liberating Strategy begins and ends with Liberating Structures (LS). They are simple rules that make it possible to include and engage every voice in shaping the future and strategy. LS can be used to not only create a different kind of strategy but also to transform the whole process of strategy-making.
Read the complete article by Keith McCandless and Johannes Schartau here: https://medium.com/@keithmccandless/liberating-strategy-6fda41f6c1
The core idea of lean manufacturing is actually quite simple…relentlessly work on eliminating waste from the manufacturing process.
So, what is waste? It can take many forms, but the basic idea is to eliminate anything and everything that does not add value from the perspective of your customer.
Another way to look at lean manufacturing is as a collection of tips, tools, and techniques (i.e. best practices) that have been proven effective for driving waste out of the manufacturing process.
Read the complete article here: https://www.leanproduction.com/intro-to-lean.html
One of the most valuable tools has been the Agile Coaching Competency Framework [PDF], created by Michael Spayd and Lyssa Adkins.
Based on this, Jordann Gross created the Change Agent Map, read all about it here: http://agileety.com/change-agent-map
Irene Francés likes to share a board that she has been working on during the last couple of weeks. It is meant to capture the main agile resources she came across and found useful. https://loom.ly/7-gQgjs
In this blog post, Barry Overeem will share the most common question that gets asked during the Scrum.org Professional Scrum Master courses. He’ll focus on the Scrum Master role and will provide an answer based on his personal experience as a Scrum Master. This for sure isn’t the ultimate answer, it’s how he has fulfilled or experienced the situation himself; https://medium.com/the-liberators/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-scrum-master-1f0c31bc07c5
In this blog post, Jimmy Janlén wants to share a powerful tool, the Leadership Health Check. It will help you become stronger as a management team and reveal improvement opportunities for how you, as a team of active servant leaders, better can enable the agile teams you support.
You can find the blog post here: https://blog.crisp.se/2019/03/11/jimmyjanlen/health-checks-for-teams-and-leadership