The “Other” Standup Meeting
Today we want to tell you about a simple trick: a different kind of standup meeting. The daily standup is the most famous – the most notorious – element of Scrum; to this day, there are leaders who think that if a few people stand…
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“No need for a retrospective, we are so good at dealing with problems on the fly”
I get the above sentence in the face over and over again. And how true it is, isn’t it? Well, no! What? How could it not? Why not? No, because retrospective is not the way to solve problems. Now get your chin off the ground…
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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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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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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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SWOT analysis: concept, essence, preparation
A common mistake in agile transformations is that the organisation gets so caught up in making changes and changing that it fails to recognise the values it should be preserving as it changes. As a result, transformations will not only be more costly than necessary,…
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What does Scrum mean – What is Scrum?
Scrum has been the most widely used Agile framework since its inception and still is today. Its popularity is demonstrated by the fact that the word Scrum is sometimes used as a synonym for Agile, which unfortunately leads to many misunderstandings. It is therefore important…
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