A strong business case for Scrum I’ve seen Scrum succeed in numerous projects and products across different industries. One particular case, however, stands out as an exceptional demonstration of Scrum’s effectiveness. Let’s take a look at the remarkable success story of Scrum implementation at Swiss Post. The challenge At Swiss...
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When did you know that Scrum was an effective answer to complexity?
When did you know that Scrum was an effective answer to complexity? Let’s start by describing the difference between complicated and complex environments. It’s so important to know the difference between the two that I always start an Agile consulting or Agile coaching engagement by asking my clients whether they...
When did you know that Agile was a great answer to complex engineering?
When did you know that Agile was a great answer to complex engineering? As I’ve spoken about before, my journey to agile started with a quest for excellence in the software development space and evolved through a series of agile experiences and agile frameworks before I found my home in...
What is Scrum?
What is Scrum? Scrum is a framework that enables product development teams to solve complex problems and build complex solutions. Origin of the word Scrum in Scrum product development. If you search for Scrum on Google, you will often find the Scrum framework process images, but the inspiration for the...
How did you come to be the first Professional Scrum Trainer in Europe?
How did you come to be the first Professional Scrum Trainer in Europe? That journey begins a very long time ago. It started with my work as a programmer – software engineering – when I began to realise that the way in which you work is just as important, if...
In Scrum, what is the Increment?
We have a Product Owner, a Product Goal, and a Product Backlog in Scrum. Why don’t we have a Product but an Increment? The answer is both historical and essential. Scrum started as an iterative and incremental approach for software product development. OOPSLA 1995 Scrum Paper: SCRUM is an enhancement of...
Product Owners, You do NOT Accept the Work in the Sprint Review
In 2001 Ron Jeffries coined the 3Cs acronym[1]. 22 years later it is still more then current and relevant, especially in a Scrum context, even though it originated originally in eXtreme Programming. Card, Conversation, Confirmation Card The card can be either a physical card or a ticket in an electronic...
Agile Done Right eliminates the need for classical Requirements engineering.
Requirements engineering is the process of eliciting stakeholder needs and desires and developing them into an agreed-upon set of detailed requirements that can serve as a basis for all subsequent development activities. The purpose of requirements engineering methodologies is to make the problem that is being stated clear and complete,...
Scrumday Germany – Product Management at Scale – The 5Ts
Title: Product Management at Scale - The 5Ts Year: 2022 Location: Stuttgart Abstract: With all the different scaling options that exist today, it may seem like there is very little agreement on how to scale the Product Owner role. Ralph, (and Don not at the conferee though) authors of the...
Using Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) in Scrum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEMBYXbLFq4 Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) act as goal-setting framework for defining and tracking objectives and their outcomes. OKRs are often misunderstood and are a powerful practice to create razor sharp organisational focus. Isn’t Scrum about goals and focus as well? There is the Vision, the Product Goal, the Sprint...