Don’t sub-optimise your development
Over the years I have heard different ways of expressing agility in an organisation. Some of the metrics look at how great your organisation is at adapting to change, some look at the process maturity…
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Stop talking about slices of cake and skate boards
Stop the production line! There is no need to cook slices of cake or build skate boards. The answer is here. I guess most of the readers have seen the various examples when trying to…
Strangled by SAFe?
In some cases SAFe will strangle the agility of your organisation. To ensure a “non-strangling” implementation we sought inspiration from LEGO, Arla and BEC to learn from their successes and failures with SAFe. This combined…
SAFe PI Planning
Tuesday and Wednesday the whole program working on “Optimisation of loan processes” was gathered at Silkeborg Stadium in Denmark to participate in SAFe PI Planning. During the two days teams focused on forecasting, uncovering dependencies…
All scaling frameworks are wrong
Scaling frameworks are all the craze in the enterprise software industry today. No matter what framework your expensive management consultants try to sell you, beware that there is no framework that auto-magically transform your enterprise…
Design your organisation for agility
Working agile and designing teams that can transform customer needs and demands into awesome features swiftly is a difficult task. In many cases Scrum and agile training is brought in to an existing organisation in…
Scrum as a process bus
Many organisations are rapidly taking Scrum as their core agile framework – this is positive in many ways. The framework is an industry standard that is taught at universities and IT colleges. But there is…
Heart of agile workshop with Alistair Cockburn
I attended a local workshop with Dr. Alistair Cockburn today on the topic “Heart of agile”. You can find my non-exhaustive notes here: https://www.slideshare.net/RasmusKaae/heart-of-agile-workshop-notes
Measurements to aid and guide the agile and Scrum journey
Working with agility in your team or organisation is an ongoing journey that never ends. There are always processes to tweak, impediments to remove or tools to experiment with. To help the journey one could…
Agile Leadership dogma
Agile Leadership is a mindset that applies to many roles in an organization e.g. Scrum Master, Department Manager, Agile Coach, Product Owner, etc. In the beginning of the year, I attended a workshop for Certified…