Scaling with Scrum and Shape Up
I was recently involved in a scaling exercise where the current setup of two experienced teams were to evolve into three. At the same time the goal was to increase autonomy and empower the development…
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Killing agile
The adoption rate for agility inside and outside the software industry is at an exponential growth. I observe that more and more corporate consultancies are gaining ground in the market and more and more enterprise…
Fixing the race condition of strategic initiatives
Since 2015 Bankdata has been subject to one of the largest agile transformations in the history of Danish software industry. Over a period of 1.5 years Bankdata adopted Scrum in over 100 teams and more…
Organizational retrospective
Once an organization have existed for a longer period (6-12 months) it may prove valuable to stop and perform an organizational retrospective, i.e. take a holistic approach to the good and bad things occurring daily….
From idea to prototype in 1 day?
What would be the best way to take a whole-team approach to creating a prototype, refining and planning a Sprint? I’d say a hackathon. Read on to learn more. Before we start, let’s define what…
Self-management versus employee management
Recently, Kristian Haugaard and I held a workshop for a group of HR leaders in Aarhus, Denmark. It inspired me to reflect on the topic: Which traditional HR or manager tasks could an agile team manage…
From vision to individual competencies
Most teams have been working on Product Visions, but many stop here not considering how the team its team members fit. Team objective: It can be a good idea to define and articulate a sentence…
Uncovering better ways of developing software
Over the years I have helped numerous teams in uncovering new ways of developing software and challenging them in their day-to-day collaboration patterns. One of best setups I have used is called mob-programming. Mob-programming is…
Agile coaching using simple measurements
Back in spring 2018 I wrote a note on my experience using Henrik Knibergs Scrum Checklist as a tool for agile coaching. Having empirical data of how a team progresses in its journey towards agility…
Using JIRA and Confluence for scaling Scrum
In these days of digitalisation, distributed teams and a general desire to persist information in “something that isn’t flipcharts and post-its”; more and more organisation migrate to JIRA and Confluence from Atlassian. However, JIRA does…