In a previous post, we looked at a few differences between the Agile Scrum Master and Product Owner roles. We noted that the Scrum Master serves as a facilitator (sometimes called a “servant leader”) whose job it is to clear obstacles for the project team so everyone can do their best work. We noted that […]
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Sep
Enable creation or facilitate execution? Since you’re reading this post, you’re probably already familiar with the main benefits of Agile & Scrum: high productivity, clear insights into the status of deliverables, and the ability to address changing priorities on the fly without getting thrown off course. With plus points like these, it’s no wonder that […]
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Oct
Oct
It’s been almost 20 years since the Agile Manifesto for software development was written and Agile practices are still growing in popularity across organizations. Terms such as “business agility” or “Agile business” that were initially branded as buzzwords are now being viewed more seriously. To learn more about the adoption of Agile practices in businesses, Harvard Business Review researched […]
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Sep
Sep
Practical Agile: Flexibility, Directedness, and Human Interests – Reading time: 15 minutes Introduction: “vague theory, concrete practice”? This blog is a follow-up to another we published not long ago, “(Even) More Rules, or Back to Basics?” (hereinafter “Getting the Most out of Agile” or just “blog 1”). In a nutshell, blog 1 argued that, given […]
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Aug
Aug
You’ve probably searched Google for ‘agile vs. scrum’ because you’ve heard both terms and want to find out more. Maybe you heard about agile or scrum at work and decided to indulge your curiosity. Perhaps you knew about one of the two already but aren’t sure how they relate to each other. Luckily, this short […]
Agile, Agile Principles & Culture
Getting the Most out of Agile. (Even) More Rules, or Back to Basics?
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Jul
Jul
The Agile movement is not anti-methodology, in fact, many of us want to restore credibility to the word methodology. We want to restore a balance. We embrace modeling, but not in order to file some diagram in a dusty corporate repository. We embrace documentation, but not hundreds of pages of never-maintained and rarely-used tomes. We […]
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May
May
Scrum is the most widely used agile framework worldwide. When asked which Agile frameworks, methodologies or practices they use, almost three quarters (72%) of the companies that took part in the 13th Annual State of the Agile survey, stated that Scrum is their framework of choice. Over half (54%) of the respondents said that they […]
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Oct
Delivering value to customers with high-quality products and quick services is an incredibly important requirement for project teams. Methodologies like Agile, Lean, and DevOps were created to help organizations accomplish this. All three work toward this common goal, but each of them is unique. What are the differences and how can they be implemented together? […]
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