Category Archives: Scaling Agile

End-to-end testing in agile projects

Posted on July 13, 2016 by

  Together with colleague Kelvin Geerlings I wrote a (dutch) blogpost in which we shared our experiences we had with End-to-End testing in larger agile projects.  The end-t0-end integration is a difficult challenge for agile teams that are good development teams, … Continue reading →

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Big Room Scrum battle (serious game with 400 participants)

Posted on March 17, 2016 by

January this year Valori organized a serious game for over 400 people. During the Scrum Battle participants experience the agile way of working. This video gives a impression of the simulation game that was held for over 400 people. They … Continue reading →

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Scaling Agile using subway mapping

Posted on February 18, 2016 by

Informatie Magazine is a Dutch magazine on Information technology describing the latest developments in IT. The first issue of 2016 has just been released and deals with DevOps and related trends. I’m proud to announce that we, Valori, contributed with an interesting … Continue reading →

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Join the Product Owner Game on 7 March

Posted on January 25, 2016 by

On 7 March 2016 Valori will once more organise the Product Owner Game. This serious game provides an interactive learning experience for Product Owners, Stakeholders, Business managers and Developers. During the training they will experience the ins and outs of … Continue reading →

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Do not become a bottleneck for the agile project

Posted on January 20, 2016 by

Last November, during the EuroSTAR conference, I was asked to give a soapbox speech in the grand hall. During this “lightning strikes the keynotes” session I stated that if we testers don’t make haste with our test improvements we’ll become the … Continue reading →

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SSTC – Coming soon

Posted on September 15, 2015 by

This October I’ll be flying towards Seoul for the Seoul Software Testing Conference. I found the online billboard with the speaker line-up. Mette Bruhn-Pedersen, Kelvin Ross, Debra Friedenberg, Wonil Kwon are with me on the program. I’ll take on the … Continue reading →

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AgileHubNoord: Session on scaling agile with Anko Tijman

Posted on September 3, 2015 by

On 1 september the AgileHubNoord organised a session on Scaling Agile. During the meeting Anko Tijman gave the presentation that we (Anko, Cesario Ramos and I) did during the testnet event last spring. Reading the comments on the event page  the … Continue reading →

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Scaling Agile: Frameworks compared

Posted on July 15, 2015 by

Implementing SCRUM in a team is a nice challenge. Based on the amounts of discussion on SCRUMButt and SINO (SCRUM In Name Only), it is not really easy to get the process, the artefacts and the mind-set right within each … Continue reading →

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Scaling Agile using the Subwaymap

Posted on May 1, 2015 by

On 30 April I gave a workshop with Anko and Cesario on the Testnet event. The workshop was about Scaling Agile. We discussed the axis along which we can scale agile, the reasons to scale and some of the pitfalls. … Continue reading →

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