Retrospective meeting – Why is it important to look back?
“Progress is inevitable: in a world on the move, what does not evolve will decline.” This saying by Argentine writer, poet and philosopher Jorge Ángel Livraga became a cliché by now, but it remains valid. Our world being in constant motion, business is of course…
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New Certified Agile Leadership Training: We bring you the details
The Scrum Alliance programme for Agile leaders – so far known as CAL I – is now divided into three sub-courses: CAL-Essentials, CAL-Teams, and CAL-Organizations. The aim was to innovate in order to provide a more flexible, customizable training path for leaders looking to learn.
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Certified or Advanced? Which training should I choose?
“I’d like to attend a Scrum Master or Product Owner training, which one should I select? What is the difference between the Advanced, Certified and the Advanced Certified course?”
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A short guide on delegation
Delegation is a quite important task in the life of a leader. In this article, we will present how to carry out delegation and which levels it has.
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What are metrics and how do you use them?
There are a lot of misconceptions about metrics inside and outside of the agile world. Metrics are tools providing feedback about one single aspect of an area under surveillance, and nothing more. They are not goals. It is dangerous to derive conclusions based on a…
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Agile & Lean
It’s a known fact, that agility is rooted in Lean. Unfortunately Lean principles are only present implicitly in the methodology, their original form is not apparent. This can be one of the main reasons why we often have the impression during an agile transformation that…
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What is technical debt?
“If you carry this way of working on for months or years, you get a lot of technical debt …” states the blogpost we have been covering recently. Unfortunately, it is only a declaration, lacking any kind of explanation. Therefore it is impossible to argue…
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Scrum vs. Individual Development and Career Goals
We continue analyzing the blogpost that we have been covering in the previous posts by taking a look at the next phrase: “Scrum practice of ignoring peoples’ career goals and their individual talents”.
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What requirement changes are bad?
There is a blogpost on quora.com dealing with the topic of why some developers in prominent companies think of agile methodology as nonsense. The post concludes that the agile model is only usable for time-critical, short term projects lasting a maximum of six weeks. It…
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Entrepreneurs guide for successful business operation
Opening a business is tough, even if we have a great product idea. How do we become successful on the market? How will our product create revenue? What expenses are to be expected?
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