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Horroristic Home Office?

Index.hu, 18 June 2022

As the pandemic winds down, employers are asking more frequently whether they should continue to provide work-from-home opportunities or whether they should return to the pre-pandemic situation. Although the majority of managers eventually decide to keep the home office as an option, some managers still do not support this form of working.
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Agile Transformation Online – What are the Biggest Challenges?

ITBusiness.hu, 15 November 2021

Even before the pandemic, there was a trend to move into the online space, and not just in the IT industry. But at the start of the pandemic, almost everyone who did intellectual work was forced to continue working and collaborating virtually. On the banner of agility, on the other hand, personal cooperation has been adorned from the beginning as the most effective form of communication. How can these two seemingly opposite directions be reconciled?
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Online vs. classroom – Advantages and Challenges on the Training and Consulting Market

ITBusiness.hu, 27 September 2021

Until the start of the pandemic, in-person or classroom courses were preferred both by clients and training companies. But COVID made these actors change their ways, therefore the so far neglected online courses gained a new forced spotlight.  Can we expect a reversal after the end of the coronavirus, or the online training stays with us and changes the IT training and consulting market?
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Back to the Office, or is Hybrid the New Agile?

ITBusiness.hu, 19 July 2021

December of 2019. The first pieces of news started to come out from a remote Chinese town where a new mysterious disease spred quickly. Has it changed everything forever or have we just switched temporarily from our daily routines to a new one, only to arrive back to the point where we started after the danger?
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Agile Transformation in the Hungarian Bank Sector – Where Are We Now?

Portfolio.hu, 3 April 2021

Agile methodology is a key of quick reaction to changes, and it is already appeared in large, strictly regulated corporations, financial institutions, banks and insurance companies in Hungary.
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Traps of an Agile Transformation

Jobsora blog, 24 March 2021

When walking on the road leading to successfull agile, one usually lacks safety and the ability to avoid dangers, because this path is paved with natural traps.
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Reason of Failed Agile Transformations in the Private Sector

Computerworld, 17 October 2019

Creating an agile organisation is an expensive maneuver, and if done wrongly, it only means more additional and higher costs for the companies.
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Does the Agile Transformation Help?

Computerworld, 15 October 2019

The need for agile training and transformation projects has grown exponentially in the past years.
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Retrospective Prime Directive in Hungarian

BenLinders,10 July 2018

The retrospective prime directive is a sentence that is used by facilitators to establish safety in a retrospective meeting. Our team helped translate this important directive to Hungary.
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Agile Development Methods Training Feedback

Arobs, 17 May 2018

Even successful companies sometimes deal with issues or identify aspects that can be improved. At the beginning of November, our trainer, Istvan Margetin, held a 3-day training on the Agile Development Methods for Arobs.
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What Kind of Excuses Do Companies and Managers Find In Order to Avoid Being Agile?

Millásreggeli, Piros pirula, 17 October 2017

What kind of excuses do companies and managers find in order to avoid being agile? Árpád Zsolt Bodó Phd., founder of Sprint Consulting discussed the topic in Millásreggeli, Piros pirula.


The Relationship Between Agile and C-level Leadership

IT-Business, 17 May 2017

In order establish an agile mindset, it is needed to train all involved parties of an organisation (management, delivery, business).
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Agile and Lean Management – Coming From the Same Root

IT Behaviour, 16 June 2015

As agile development in IT, lean methodologies have been on the top in manufacturing and logistics for a while. However, their principles can be much more widely used, for example in general corporate management.
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How to Achieve a More Satisfied Client With Less Work?

HVG Online, 1 June 2015

Behold, the recipe to minimize losses and increase customer satisfaction in the same time!
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Cross-Functional Teams

Unify blog, 27 May 2015

What do we mean by cross-functionality? What is it for and when is it worth to think in this organisational form? This was the topic of our latest meetup.
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Accelerated Business Growth

Computerworld, 24 April 2015

There are more and more tenders in Hungary demanding agile delivery, however, the understanding of agile is not perfect yet.
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Agility and Placebo Effect

Computerworld, 16 March 2015

Interview with the independent consultant Linda Rising, who is an expert of patterns, agile processes and retrospectives.
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„Military Solved the Problem of Scaling a Hundred Years Ago…”

Computerworld, 11 February 2015

Interview with Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck, authors of the award winning book: Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit.
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“Every business has costs. Waste is optional.”

Computerworld, 15 January 2015

Stephen Parry – one of the most well-known Lean Leadership expert, founder of Lloyd Parry Consulting – will deliver the opening presentation of Optional Conference 2015 organised by IIR Magyarország and Sprint Consulting.
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Agilie Management Conference

Index.hu, 17 March 2014

With the motto “You don’t have to change, survival is optional” (Edward W. Deming), the international Optional Conference on Agile Management will be held in April 2014.
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Agile Management Not Just for Managers

Computerworld, 12 February 2014

Sprint Consulting and IRR organises an international conference on agile in Budapest, on 8-9 April. The initiative is pioneering, because there has not been such a huge event in Hungary with so many well-known foreign experts.
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Ingatlan.com: Agile Doubled the Efficiency of Development

IT Café, 19 November 2012

Being a successful corporation – like the Hungarian-owned Arkon Zrt, owner of ingatlan.com – does not mean that it has not got any problems and it could not work more effective – said Szabolcs Emich, IT Lead of the company.
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TJ Ewing: Hungarian-Hungarian Cooperation Can Be a World-wide Success

NOL.hu, 19 November 2012

Estimating precisely the time between an idea and a product is a key problem of software development. It depends on the accuracy of the goal description and the estimation itself.
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It is Worth Developing Software With Agile

Bitport, 12th November 2012

Time has passed over traditional software development methodologies – says László Sándor, System Integration  Lead of T-Systems Hungary based on his experiences.
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“They Understand and Live Their Work” – on the Scrum Methodology (Part 1)

Webisztán, 17 May 2010

It is not trivial and easy to lead a project to success, organise the work, managing tasks. Software development usually brings rapid decision-making and requires flexible project approach.
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“It’s a Big Step If a Company Realises Having Problems” – on the Scrum Methodology (Part 2)

Webisztán, 18 May 2010

We’ll continue with agile practices, usual mistakes, specialities of Hungarian companies, agile startups and fast-responding teams.
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Self-managing Teams and Trust in Enterprise Development

Consultation Magazin, November 2011

The paradigm change of work organisation and management of work processes brought a dramatical development for mainly software development companies, but companies in the trade and service sector were also able to show results and growth using this methodology.
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Labor Market: Waiting for Scrum

InfoVilág, 4 July 2011

Scrum, the agile work organisation methodology can increase the effectiveness of software development companies up to 50%. Considered the most up-to-date in the world, agile development is a framework of more methodologies. Some of these are software development methodologies, others are management methodologies, and almost all of them include employee activity.
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Agile Software Development Can Bring a Breakthrough on the Labor Market

MTI, 24 June 2011

Scrum, the agile work organisation methodology can increase the effectiveness of IT companies up to 50%.
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Agile Software Development Can Bring a Significant Breakthrough on the Labor Market

MTI, 27 June 2011

Scrum, the agile work organisation methodology can increase the effectiveness of IT companies up to 50%. Considered the most up-to-date in the world, agile development is a framework of more methodologies. Some of these are software development methodologies, others are management methodologies, and almost all of them include creative employee attitude. The world’s leading software development companies can come to Hungary.

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Agilie Software Development Association Presentation

info@, 14 January 2010

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