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Category: agile

A tricky slide about Story Points and Capacity in SAFe® – and how to get it right.

In the SAFe® training courses, there is a slide on Story Points and Capacity that is quite tricky. This slide […]

Agile Estimation in SAFe: Debunking Myths and Clarifying Practices

The Agile world is rife with misconceptions about SAFe®, particularly around estimating with Story Points. That leads to bad practices […]

Improving your Scrum with Kanban? You can do it.

Existing Scrum or Scrumban teams can benefit from Kanban. A customer report outside of IT shows how individual aspects of […]

If you understand Kanban, your SAFe will be better.

We believe that SAFe and Kanban can learn from each other. The idea was initiated by SAFe 6.0 with “Flow” as a new, essential aspect.

SAFe 6.0: Improved Flow and Business Agility in the Scaled Agile Framework

The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) has consistently been in a pioneering role of innovation. It provides solutions that enhance business […]

10 ways to crash your Kanban system

As a coach, trainer and consultant, I frequently come across teams that are having challenges getting their Kanban system up […]

What does management mean in the agile world? Malte’s thoughts.

At this year’s GOTO Conference in Copenhagen, Malte talked about the topic of management. What is management? How can we […]

Kanban in a nutshell: impulses to frequently asked questions

Whether you have just started your own team, just finished your Scrum training or have been doing it for a […]

SAFe is not the Problem

I read a lot of SAFe bashings lately. But SAFe is not the problem, it isn’t. Let us see why – and what we could do better.

Change along the adoption curve: 5 groups for sustainable change

In organizations, changes are always on the horizon. As humans, we generally adapt to minor changes almost automatically. For larger […]

Scrum visualization – How to get started with sketchnoting as a Scrum Master

Visualization is an important tool for Scrum teams to talk about the same, make decisions, show processes, explain Scrum to […]

Prioritize and Say No Properly – A First-Hand Report

In one of our last articles, we went into more detail about the success story of our service team. Today, […]