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

    With an agile approach to agile organization. The larger the “agile projects” become, the more we are driven by the idea of escalation. The art is to design the organization in such a way that organizations are simplified, that the focus is on value creation. SAFe has aptly added a tenth principle to the current version 5.0: “Organize around Value“.

  • 10 ways to crash your Kanban system

    Optimize wild back-and-forth movements of your work by using the board’s columns as status mappings. It’s best to regularly reassign the work packages you’re working on, as well as those of others.

  • Jetzt neu: Unser CMMI Poster als Download

    Das übersichtliche CMMI Poster für Entwicklung Version 1.3 in der deutschen Übersetzung. Dieses können Sie hier herunterladen. Sie wollen das Poster lieber in der englischen Version herunterladen? Kein Problem, das finden Sie hier.

  • Agile Mythen: Teams dokumentieren nicht

    Und immer daran denken: Die rechte Seite des agilen Manifests ist auch wichtig! 🙂

  • Kanban in a nutshell: impulses to frequently asked questions

    I know Scrum a little better now, since I introduced agile working with my team. But how does Kanban fit into the picture? So, are Kanban and Scrum enemies? Daniel: Very good question! And on the Scrum point, we can tie in directly to discuss Kanban. Especially when it comes to Kanban in knowledge work (i.e. outside of production companies).

  • Prioritize and Say No Properly – A First-Hand Report

    With this foundation, each team member knows how to respond when employees approach the team with requests. The person representing the team also knows whether or not help should be requested in the cross-team Daily. Red: Not all classes of service can be met. Yellow: The Classes of Service are just about to be covered.

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

    As Scrum Teams, we can validate the question that who wants to have it, using it: Is this user really in our target group? Or do we produce potential unnecessary functionality and thus generate waste (for this target group)? Or we can use these conversations with our users as input to create personas.

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

    How can we approach it in an agile way and if we want to approach it in an agile way – what do we have to change in a way that it would succeed? Here you will find Maltes thoughts about this complex topic, which he talked about in an interview. Management in General What is management for you? Malte: In my opinion, management is setting the stage for work.

  • What is agility, anyway?

    Today, we set ourselves the goal of developing a product that, when it is ready, will be state of the art. A laudable goal. However, today we have no idea in which direction the technology for implementation or the interest of our target group will evolve. Under these circumstances, it has been possible to build successful products in recent years by using agile frameworks.

  • Agile Myths: Agility equals Scrum?!?

    However, it is often neglected that agile also requires a change in the individual value system or in the value system of organizations. As already mentioned, these are long-term change processes that cannot take place overnight. Agile approaches, frameworks and techniques are therefore applied to an organization that has not internalized the underlying values for itself.