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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.

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 […]

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 […]

How to masterfully screw up your SAFe implementation

At one customer, a saying has taken on a life of its own that speaks volumes about the difficulty of […]

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 […]

Map of Change – Orientation Aid for Change Management

What do I need for a successful change? What do I need to think about? With this Map of Change […]

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, […]

Descaling instead of scaling: Why scaled agility should simplify the organization.

More cheese, more holes More holes, less cheese More cheese, less cheese Is this paradox cheese? Possibly. And is […]

Agile Myths: User Stories – a mandatory format for Scrum Teams?!?

The User Story format is often used by Scrum teams to document requirements. It’s a short syntax that sounds totally […]

Agile myth: Writing user stories is Product Owner work

Again and again I am confronted with the statement that only the product owner writes and prioritizes user stories. The […]