I uploaded a new presentation to slideshare. This time – some symptoms that tell you there is a lot of Technical Debt, and a bit on how to deal with it. Do you see this happening in your environment? What are you doing about it?
A while ago I wrote about Slack and FedEx Day and why I think its important to have slack in the system, and why a FedEx Day is a good way to to run an innovation day. A few days ago we had the first inaugural AgileSparks FedEx Day. Since we are, after all, a …
At Agilesparks we’ve recently been using the Kanban Board Game developed by Russell Heally (@getkanban) quite extensively. We use it as part of Kanban courses, sessions for Scrum teams that want to learn about Kanban, Kanban teams that are already working and want to raise their game, as well as in Kaizen sessions for project …
What is the basic role of the Product Owner? http://blog.crisp.se/2012/10/25/henrikkniberg/agile-product-ownership-in-a-nutshell (New) http://scalingsoftwareagility.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/ch-11-role-of-the-product-owner-rev-12.pdf http://www.agileproductdesign.com/downloads/patton_product_owner_role.ppt Starting with user stories: User stories are the most common way to handle requirements in the agile world. One of the first things you’ll need to do as a product owner is familiarize yourself with them, and start to provide them to …
I'm frequently asked "What do I need to learn in order to start being/doing X effectively?" In addition, when I go into organizations and want to drive an effective transition, I want to give the people in the organization some background material and reference materials, that can accompany training and coaching activities I'm doing. I …
The Lean Software and Systems Consortium US-based community conference will be May 3-6 next year, in Long Beach California. I'll be there, talking about "Using Kanban and CFD to effectively manage Agile Testing" For some initial ideas in that area you can checkout earlier blog posts as well as http://www.slideshare.net/yyeret/using-kanban-and-cfd-to-effectively-manage-agile-testing The Lean Software and Systems Conference is the Kanban conference …
I want to share a solution I came up with together with a team of performance / non-functional testing, working in a product group in a large enterprise. This solution deals with the challenge of bridging the principles of "Those who build the system test it", "Non functional testing is a collaboration role", and …
I recently have been working on an agile testing training. Why is it relevant here? Because one of the modules I’m most fond of (not surprisingly) introduces kanban and CFD as a way to deal with some common problems that occur around testing once you start to work feature-driven (agile). check it out. Any …
I recently worked on some measures/metrics that help answer the question "How effective is our product management process, and how is it contributing/affecting the overall performance of our product development line" Here are some slides from slideshare about the topic. I might write it up in a more elaborate form in the future. If there …
Our coaching team at agilesparks runs into this question a lot. Many of the teams we are working with are familiar with Scrum and using it. Other teams are just now going into Scrum. Since kanban is becoming a hot buzzword, we often get asked – so what is this kanban thing? How is …