Backlog prioritization is one of the most difficult parts of Agile adoption for many companies. So, what is the right way to do it? Are there any recommendations or methods, or is it just enough to let Product Owners decide? These and similar questions are often raised. When it comes to backlog prioritization, the most
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And finally, to finish the agile adoption story, even though the team is after all able to find their way to communicate, share knowhow, learn from each other, and cooperate, there is another obstacle. Surprisingly it’s not outside the company but in the business unit internally. Company doesn’t need to change The company doesn’t need any change.
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So what happened next in the agile adoption story? John starts to be really frustrated. Is all agile just a rumor? Or did we make any fundamental mistake? It’s just a process, follow it! So he went to the team, be really strong and say “It’s just a process so follow it”. They were weak
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Agile /ˈædʒaɪl/ adj. able to move quickly and easily [My internal retrospective of the recent XP2012 conference] Why there are so many consultants, coaches and mentors, who seem to have forgotten what agile really means. I call them the “agile purists”, people who fly around the conferences and talk a lot about following the guidelines
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During the various workshops and trainings somebody asks: “how do you know that story is well written and ready?”. The first reaction from other attendees in the room is usually something in the following lines: it depends on the team, their familiarity with the product, the work needed to be done as well as maturity
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But John still feels we should continue with agile adoption process started in previews articles of agile adoption story. It’s not going well so far, however, we just spent some money on training so we should give it a try. The project manager even if he is now called Scrum Master is keeping the common
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To continue with my agile adoption story… The company started to realize that Scrum is not any silver bullet. It’s much more complex than that. But John is really upset. He did all what he could to make it better. But maybe the people inside his company are not good enough to make it. And it’s
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To continue with the agile adoption story… John is sitting in his office, waiting for the measurements and results and looking forward to the great results of the new process called Scrum. We can use just a few practices But what happen in the team meanwhile. They started to read all the books and blogs, get
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Companies have different reasons to move to agile, some are good enough, and some will never work. Some believe that agile is a silver bullet so they start without understanding; with high expectation all their problems will be solved by using for example Scrum. It’s not always any idealistic dreamers, they are well educated managers,
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For already some time I’m struggling about the definition of agile. What is it really about? What are the key parameters and how do you recognize you are agile? I spent in agile environment more than 7 years, and had met hundreds of team. But surprisingly, that doesn’t make it any easy. Every team was
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