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

    The user story syntax asks 3 W questions, but it’s just an invitation to a conversation where we can get more knowledge about a topic and a user. The value is created “before the paper”. And product backlog entries can be written by anyone and brought to the product owner.

  • Improving your Scrum with Kanban? You can do it.

    Every 2 weeks we briefly talk about the Kanban system in the team – in one of the meetings that existed before. I occasionally call it Flow Review, but the invitation in the calendar is still called the same as before. The Kanban system is stable and the metrics provide good ideas for further improvements.And a few months later, I ask again about the sources of dissatisfaction.

  • SAFe 6.0 for Teams Training (SP)

    SAFe for Teams in 3 daysWe conduct the SAFe fort Teams training in three days. This gives us the space for the simulation that scaled agility makes it tangible. On this basis, we can respond to the individual contexts of the participants and answer practical questions. SAFe for Teams remote or in presence We offer our in-house events in two variants: On-site at your company or remote.

  • Introduction of SAFe® at SMA - Agility in the energy sector

    This increases customer satisfaction and, if necessary, strengthens the bond between the customer and the company, as a continuous exchange takes place.Efficient use of resources & better planning capabilityThanks to short planning cycles of 2 weeks (iterations) or 10 weeks (PI), SMA can deploy resources efficiently and in line with demand, thus minimizing waste.

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

    And then give them 1-2 years of time to go through several iterations loops to understand how this new job is working. And why would management not giving them the time? Malte: I think it is not the managers, in my opinion it is the teams who don’t give the managers the time because after some time, they might say about the Product Owner “he is doing a bad job”.