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Role agreement in scaled multiple team organizations
For the Agile Alliance I wrote an experience report about how to overcome the struggling many organisation have in getting the various roles in place. In this experience report I will share my approach with striving for role agreements. The … Continue reading
The 3 waves of Agile
In januari we published two articles on the Bits & Chips website. This month the two parts are published in the hardcopy magazine as one integrated story. I think it looks great! In the article I describe how I see … Continue reading
Posted in Agile, Bits & Chips, Scaling Agile, SCRUM, Testing
Tagged 3rd wave, Agile Adoption, Agile coaching, agile journey, Bits & Chips, business analysis, challenges, Councillor, counseler, delivery coach
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Scaling Agile with SAFe – An experience story by Randy Soet
Yesterday we organised a Squerist Agile Knowledge Session at our office in Veenendaal. With 25+ colleagues we gathered for diner and a story on the agile journey of Randy Soet from Achmea. Randy is MT member and manager of three … Continue reading
Posted in Agile in de Echte Wereld, Scaling Agile, SCRUM
Tagged Achmea, ART, challenges, Knowledge session, Randy Soet, Release train, safe, Scaling Agile, Squerist
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18 Questions to Ask for Better Backlog Refinement
Refinement is time spent during the current sprint discussing and elaborating product backlog items so that they are ready for future sprints. Unfortunately, many teams do not unlock the full potential of refinement. Backlog items should be sliced, and a … Continue reading
Posted in Agile, SCRUM
Tagged Backlog itmes, distributed teams, questions, refinement, refinement discussions, Slicing, Techwell
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The role of the Agile Coach in the 3rd wave of agile – part 2
Two weeks ago Bits & Chips published the first part of my new article on agile transformations: The role of the agile coach in the 3rd wave of agile – part 1. I am pleased to share the second part … Continue reading
The role of the agile coach in the 3rd wave of Agile
Bits & Chips published the first part of my new article on agile transformations. Analysing the various organizations I’ve worked with, I distinguish three separate waves, each with its own challenges and scope. Understand the three waves of agile enables … Continue reading
The Relevance of Built in Quality
With Valori we published a new eBook in the series on Digital transformation. This publication is a follow up on the trend report that was released earlier this year. In this previous ebook we described disruptive trends and explained why … Continue reading
Posted in Agile, Books, Built-In quality, DevOps, Scaling Agile, SCRUM
Tagged AGILE, built in quality circle, Built-In quality, Business Agility, CI / CD, DevOps, Digital transformation, ebook, free download, SAFe 4.6
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A Game Called Scaling
Scaling agile is becoming a hot topic. Furthermore organizations more and more start to understand that business agility and responsiveness is a key factor to survive and stay ahead of their competitors. In order to yield value, the work of single … Continue reading
Posted in Agile, Scaling Agile, SCRUM, testnet, Video
Tagged Lego, less, Nexus, safe, Scaling Agile, Serious Game, Simulation, testnet, Valori
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Cake to celebrate the impact of Agile Adoption DPD
DPD has embraced agile as development method in order to respond better and faster to the demand of the (internal) customers. Together with colleague agile coach and a Scrum master from Valori we have assisted the organisation in starting-up and … Continue reading
Posted in Agile, SCRUM
Tagged Agile Adoption, Agile coaching, Cake, Impact, Project success, SCRUM
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Verankering in organisatie cruciaal voor welslagen Agile
For Bits&Chips magazine I wrote an article about successful agile adoptions. In the article I state that embedding the agile processes and mind-set in the rest of the organization is crucial for its success. I refer to Jeff Sutherland’s Aggressive … Continue reading
Scaling Agile Interactive Session
I am proud to announce that we will host an interactive session at Valori. On Monday 9 April we’ll compare three scaling agile frameworks. Together we’ll discuss the challenges that we encounter when we scale up our agile. What problems are … Continue reading
Posted in Agile, Agile in de Echte Wereld, Scaling Agile, SCRUM
Tagged interactive session, Nexus, safe, SCRUM, thema avond, Valori, Video
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Refinement as a quality enabler-lessons learned in an agile sales environment
I currently work as an Agile coach in a sales environment. A commercial environment differs from a general IT setting and applying agile in this volatile environment brings its own challenges. Fortunately, when you start translating these challenges to the … Continue reading
Posted in Agile in de Echte Wereld, Bits & Chips, SCRUM
Tagged Agile coaching, Agile in Sales, agile testing, Bits&Chips, Quality, refinement, Validation
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Practitest Webinar – When a Test Manager Makes a Difference
Yesterday I gave a Tutorial. The Tutorial was hosted by PractiTest and dealt with the changing role of the Test Manager. A lively topic, judging by the large number of participants. One advantage of a virtual presentation is that all 700 … Continue reading
Great blog by Mellissa Perri: Product Owner vs. Product Manager
I recently had a few discussions about the role of the Product Owner, whether this is different from that of the Product Manager. I often explain that the PO has two faces, one looking towards the business and one towards … Continue reading
Posted in Agile, SCRUM
Tagged Mellissa Perri, PO, Product manager, Product Owner, Product Owner Game, Product vision
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