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Agile on the Bench conference

Agile on the Bench goes Camping

Question: What could be better than a lunchtime mini-conference in the fresh air? Answer: A day long version followed by some fireside dining Scrum & Kanban is happy to be sponsoring the first Agile on the Bench one-day conference on 25 July 2015. Following a similar format to the lunchtime sessions that have… Read More »Agile on the Bench goes Camping

Health checks

There are lots of ‘health check models’ out there. Most of them attempt to summarise and visualise how teams are doing, and seek areas of improvements. They are sometimes run by managers, sometimes by coaches, sometimes by teams in workshops. Over the years, I have discarded approaches that ‘score’ teams… Read More »Health checks

Alignment a.k.a Collaboration

The principles behind the agile manifesto are clear in their message on collaboration: “Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.” Yet, there are still companies out there where the visions of the development teams and business teams do not align. They either have different targets or they simply haven’t taken… Read More »Alignment a.k.a Collaboration

Scrum & Kanban playlist

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It’s time to throw out that Christmas CD. Seriously, I don’t want to listen to Lennon’s So This Is Christmas ever again. The alternative? Our tongue-in-cheek agile and lean-related playlist. It was born during lunch at this year’s Kanban retreat in Lisbon. Even Flow by Pearl Jam was an early… Read More »Scrum & Kanban playlist

Fixed Everything Projects

To most of us, the problems with fixing cost, scope and time are obvious. How do we know we can deliver all of the scope, in the time we’ve been given, with the people we have to do it? The short answer, is that in most cases you can’t especially… Read More »Fixed Everything Projects

ITV agile card

Rating ITV

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I spent yesterday morning at ITV. It’s always interesting to see how another company works. Like most organisations it has some good and bad practices, with some teams being more developed than others. All usual stuff. What stood out was the overall belief in self-organisation. It was evident that team… Read More »Rating ITV