- Debrecen Tech and Startup Meetup - What Scrum, Kanban, and Lean Have Ever Done for Us? I gave my last talk at the Debrecen Tech and Startup Meetup for a local community about how Scrum, Kanban, and Lean can help small or startup companies achieve their success. Scrum, Kanban, and Lean are very good at improving processes, which we need for fast delivery, and Agile/Lean UX to find the right product to deliver, so I put emphasis on these parts.
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- Two Ideas for Stand-up Meetings I overheard two great ideas about stand-up meetings. The first one is from Dave Snowden. He observed that certain sessions weren't going as effectively as they could. The participants were talking about irrelevant things, and the very important what needs to be really done.
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- Make the Customer Try Out Your Product I've been participating in demo meetings with customers and product owners for years now, but we seldom talked about interesting things or rarely made significant decisions during these meetings. There can be several explanations to that, but I'm pretty convinced that we were doing these meetings wrong.
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- Introducing the Expectation Line in Scrum Several weeks ago my colleague Tamás made an interesting point about our planning meetings.
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- Physical and Electronic Boards Several weeks ago, I went to a team leader event with @csapoz and Krisz, where - besides other interesting topics - we talked about the usage of physical and electronic Kanban and Scrum boards. At that time I thought that electronic boards were evil - kill communication and collaboration -, but I decided to give a try to their suggestion: use the physical board for tracking and collaboration, and use the electronic board for administration.
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- Guest Blogger: The Time-box Issue This is the first time in the history of my blog that I share the thoughts of a guest blogger. I introduced Kanban to my friend Peter (@keksz_i on twitter), who is very exited about Kanban and eager to learn more about it. Unfortunately, he had to participate in a less successful planning meeting.
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- Kanban on Organisational Level A couple of days ago, I talked to the head of an organisation, who was having a hard time to get an overview of the current work of her organisation, and struggling to have enough manpower in order to deliver products in time. This is a common problem, I had talked to other leaders who had the same issue, and in fact I was in a similar situation before myself.
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- Weekly - CW16 It was a quite calm week, had several very good discussions and ideas, but before going further, here is the collection for calendar week 16, 2011.
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- Weekly - CW13 It's been a quite busy week, but here come the links for calendar week 13, 2011.
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- Pimp my Team ## AbstractFrom the middle of January 2011, our organization has been working in a new structure. There were different outcomes of this change, one of them was that my former firefighting team has been dismissed, and so has the team introduced in my Kanban Nightmares article.
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- XP with Kanban instead of Scrum ## AbstractI'm going to step into a minefield, because in this post, I'm going to share my subjective experiences with Scrum, and I'm going to share the reasons why moved from Scrum to XP + Kanban. I'm using the minefield metaphor, because every single sentence I'm going to share can be exploded with good explanations, mostly from advanced scrum practitioners.
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- Daily Stand-up Variations During the last few years I did different kinds of stand-up meetings in Scrum and in Kanban teams. In this post, I'm going summarize the pros and cons I found in them. The most common stand-up meeting style is the daily scrum. In this meeting, the ball or a stick goes around round-robin style.
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- Measuring TDD I was cleaning up my old files and came across an old whiteboard shot, which reminded me an old small technique on measuring the amount of done Test Driven Development (TDD) work. In case of a less advance agile team, a usual discussion topic during a retrospective is TDD.
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- In Pursuit of the Cross-Functional Team During agile transition, it is common that large organizations take the books and advices word by word. In scrum, it is advised to have cross-functional teams. This advice is unfortunately sometimes interpreted in the wrong way. For some people, cross-functional team means that everyone on the team shares the same technical and business knowledge about the tasks that the team is supposed to work on.
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