Agile versus Home office
It’s not news to anyone that the pandemic has caused many people to withdraw to their home offices, in one form or another. But what happens to teams using Agile methodologies, since agility puts a strong emphasis on personal presence and personal communication. Won’t they…
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Agile principles: Team
After the topics of customer satisfaction and change vs product design, we continue our series on interpreting Agile principles with the question of teams. When the Agile principles emerged, many product development teams were operating as much looser units and with much less autonomy than…
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Scrum versus individual development, career path
We continue the analysis of the article linked in the previous post with the following half-sentence: ‘Scrum practice of ignoring peoples’ career goals and their individual talents’. Unfortunately, the fact is that there are plenty of Scrum implementations where the above statement has become true….
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How does a group become a team
The confusion between the terms “team” and “group” is a common phenomenon. A few people get chosen, told that they are a team, maybe even are put in the same office, and then are expected to perform a miracle. The miracle doesn’t come. Because there…
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The future of Agility 2/2. – Product thinking
On 22 and 23 September the first Agile Get-Together glocal Agile conference took place in Budapest and thanks to online streaming worldwide, organised by Sprint Consulting and UST. The main sponsor of the event was Morgan Stanley. The conference keynote speakers Diana Larsen, Linda Rising…
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The future of agility 1/2 – Leadership soft skills
On 22 and 23 September the first Agile Get-Together glocal Agile conference took place in Budapest and thanks to online streaming worldwide, organised by Sprint Consulting and UST. The main sponsor of the event was Morgan Stanley. The conference keynote speakers Diana Larsen, Linda Rising…
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About Motivation 3.0
In a comment on our previous post “Team morale in agility“, we received criticism for mentioning the issue of salary increases when discussing morale.
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Team morale in agility
The sentence analysed in the previous post continues; the full sentence reads “If you carry this way of working on for months or years, you get a lot of technical debt and you get low morale”. The second part of the statement is particularly interesting…
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Eliminate technical debt, we can help!
“If you carry this way of working on for months or years, you get a lot of technical debt …” says the article analysed in our series on agile methodologies. A major shortcoming of the paper is that it only states, but does not justify;…
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Introduction to the BCG matrix
Although the agile movement is product-centric, for a long time it focused on a single product. This is also the case with the most widely used agile methodology, Scrum, which can be a great framework for a product development team, but its shortcomings can become…
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