June 1st, I will be starting a new, exciting part of my Agile journey by joining Prowareness. I am very excited about this, and you will probably hear more about it soon. However, a new employment often goes together with breaking up with a former employer. In my case, I see it as a friendly break up. […]
AKA Worrying interpretations of Scrum, pt.2 – This week I had the pleasure to facilitate two days of learning. One day was all about working towards the Scrum.org PSMI certification with a Dash of Scrum (master) practice. The other was more about Scrum & Agile basics. Then as I was skimming through linkedin today, I saw […]
John Ferguson puts it very neatly in his blog, and I agree that any habit that puts us at risk of taking on more than we can qualitatively deliver should be left out of our toolbox. I myself do from time to time ask the team whether they can absolutely commit to the forecast planned, […]
A good product owner is: Committed – success for the product, together with the team is their sole focus Responsible – skin in the game makes sure we take no bad risks and strengthens commitment Authorized – mandate is essential to enable learning and agility (light weight decision making) Collaborative – collaboration is essential for […]
Tom Cagley’s blog explaining his take on the difference between Agile Coaches & Scrum Masters is really clear and I do agree, although in practice the roles and responsibilities may blur & can overlap quite a bit from time to time. As he explains: “Agile coaches typically pursue the implementation of an organizational vision of Agile…” and […]
In his article “Why the C-suite isn’t interested in experimentation and how you could change it” @arjanharing discusses his experience talking to C-level execs about how running experiments could accelerate innovation. Go read it, it’s well written and gives some worthwhile insights. When I read it, I immediately started thinking about the touch points of Arjan’s ideas with […]
This quote speaks to me in volumes. As a self-proclaimed generalist and highly curious person (in multiple ways), this is what I do. Turn up the passion to eleven and be curious about all sorts of stuff. Although come to think about it, it does have a bit more focus than it used to have. […]
Thoughts on the linkedin pulse article: Open Letter to Employers on Behalf of Bootcamp Grads (and also to Bootcamp grads) In this ‘open letter’, Tom Goldenberg feels the need to respond to some denigrating comments on Bootcamps and their quality in the tech field. The takeaways I read however, apply to more than simply ‘Bootcamp grads’. It […]
Great quote from Lyssa Adkins’ book ‘Coaching Agile Teams’. Strengthens my belief that being fun & silly are professional traits. 🙂 2018 update: glad to have energy & craziness as one of the Prowarenss core values. 🙂
Traditional IT is focused on “doing IT right”, with a strong emphasis on efficiency and safety, approval-based governance and price-for-performance. Agile IT is focused on “doing IT fast”, supporting prototyping and iterative development, rapid delivery, continuous and process-based governance, and value to the business (being business-centric and close to the customer). http://blogs.gartner.com/lydia_leong/2014/08/25/bimodal-it-vmworld-and-the-future-of-vmware/ Really? Do we […]
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