Tag Archives: SCRUM

15th State Of Agile is out now

Posted on August 31, 2021 by derkjandegrood

I love benchmark reports. They provide a nice overview of the developments and trends in the domain. The State of Agile report shows how Agile is perceived in the worlds and this years edition tells for instance that 66% of … Continue reading →

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Speaking on Agile at the corporation expo (CorporatiePlein 2020)

Posted on September 25, 2020 by derkjandegrood

On 24 september the CorporatiePlein was held. With more than 500 registrations from employees of housing corporations, its the largest and most visited online event for housing corporations in the Netherlands. I gave a presentation about agile. In my talk I explain … Continue reading →

Posted in Agile, Conferences, SCRUM, Video | Tagged 3 waves of agile, AGILE, Corporatieplein, SCRUM, Squerist | Leave a comment

Speaking on Agile at the housing corporation expo (CorporatiePlein 2020)

Posted on September 24, 2020 by derkjandegrood

Today the CorporatiePlein will be held. It’s the trade fair for professionals in the housing corporation business. With more than 500 registrations from employees of housing corporations, the tenth edition of CorporatiePlein will immediately become the largest and most visited … Continue reading →

Posted in Agile, Conferences, SCRUM | Tagged AGILE, Corporatieplein, Customer needs, Innovation & ICT, Robotica, SCRUM, Squerist, Tromp | Leave a comment

Impression of the online STAREast Tutorial on Test Management in Agile

Posted on May 6, 2020 by derkjandegrood

Monday 4th of May I gave a full day tutorial on Test Management in Agile. This year STAREast went virtual, so I had to rebuild the tutorial to make it suitable for online participation. I think we (the 30+ participants … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Test management, Video | Tagged Activities, Added value, agile test strategy, agile testing, distributed teams, Jan Jaap Cannegieter, Orlando, Roles of the Test Manager, SAFe 4.6, Scaling Agile, SCRUM, Squerist, STAREast, test management, Virtual Conference | Leave a comment

Cake to celebrate the impact of Agile Adoption DPD

Posted on August 16, 2018 by derkjandegrood

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 | Leave a comment

Scaling Agile Interactive Session

Posted on February 21, 2018 by derkjandegrood

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 | Leave a comment

My new book is out! Agile in the Real World

Posted on October 31, 2016 by derkjandegrood

This week the first copies of my new book were delivered at the Valori office. I was really proud when I browsed though the 120+ full color pages. the book looks inviting and the illustrations are a nice addition to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Agile, Agile in de Echte Wereld, Books, SCRUM | Tagged AGILE, Agile in de echte wereld, implementation strategy, implementing agile, SCRUM, techwatch | 1 Comment

New Book on Scrum: Manuscript is sent to the Editor

Posted on September 15, 2016 by derkjandegrood

Last year Valori published the e-book “Agile in the real world, starting with Scrum“. Together with the Bits & Chips magazine I produced a practical guide for organizations that want to make the most of their Scrum implementation! This e-book … Continue reading →

Posted in Agile, Agile in de Echte Wereld, Books, SCRUM | Tagged AGILE, Bits & Chips, Book, Book launch, Business Agility, in de echte wereld, operating model, publisch, Scaling Agile, SCRUM, Starten met SCRUM, Valori | Leave a comment

The Agile Organization Epic @ Valori Office

Posted on August 26, 2016 by derkjandegrood

Today I sat down with Marja van Solkema to prepare the Agile Holland meet-up of 5 september. Marja and her colleagues of the scrum coach school will challenge us to discover the characteristics of the ideal agile organisation. We will sit down … Continue reading →

Posted in Agile, SCRUM | Tagged AGILE, Agile Holland, Epic, Marja van Solkema, Meet-up, SCRUM, Scrumcoachschool | Leave a comment

The Refinement process; Thinking ahead increases adaptively and the quality of the solution

Posted on June 14, 2016 by derkjandegrood

Refinement is an important element of Scrum. It’s the process where the product backlog items for future sprints are prepared. Experience learns that when development teams get up to steam, the refinement process becomes a new bottleneck. The development team … Continue reading →

Posted in Agile, Agile in de Echte Wereld, Bits & Chips, SCRUM, Testing | Tagged AGILE, Epic, Marcel Schaar, Preparing your sprint, refinement, SCRUM, Valori | Leave a comment

Successful testing in waterfall projects? Agile goes undercover

Posted on June 10, 2016 by derkjandegrood

Agile goes undercover on the EuroSTAR community pages. [image: www.reverbnation.com] With Eric van de Mark, I was having a discussion on how we can improve testing when we are working in a traditional waterfall context. Often we can benefit a lot from … Continue reading →

Posted in Agile, EuroSTAR, G(r)ood testing, SCRUM, Testing, Video | Tagged AGILE, SCRUM, ScrumBut, SINO, Valori, Waterfall method, WINO Testing | Leave a comment

Big Room Scrum battle (serious game with 400 participants)

Posted on March 17, 2016 by derkjandegrood

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 →

Posted in Agile, Scaling Agile, SCRUM, Training, Video | Tagged AGILE, Collaboration, Honig, PO Game, SCRUM, SCRUM battle, Serious Game, training, Valori | Leave a comment

Applying Agile beyond Software development

Posted on March 10, 2016 by derkjandegrood

My latest issue of G(r)ood Testing is inspired by a blog of Mike Cohn from Mountain Goat Software. In his blog Mike investigates the application of agile outside the world of the software development. I like to contribute with two examples of my own. … Continue reading →

Posted in Agile, Agile in de Echte Wereld, G(r)ood testing, SCRUM, Video | Tagged AGILE, Collaboration, EuroSTAR, Exploratory Testing, Mike Cohn, Mountain Goat, SCRUM, software development, Valori | Leave a comment

Big Room Scrum Battle

Posted on February 5, 2016 by derkjandegrood

Early January Valori hosted a big room serious game. This time we organised our Scrum Battle, agile simulation game with 44 teams. Altogether we played the game with 450+ participants. The mood was great, the participants enthusiastic and I love the … Continue reading →

Posted in Agile, SCRUM, Training | Tagged AGILE, Big Room, Game simulation, PSM, SCRUM, SCRUM battle, Serious Game, Valori | 1 Comment

Do not become a bottleneck for the agile project

Posted on January 20, 2016 by derkjandegrood

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 →

Posted in Column, EuroSTAR, G(r)ood testing, Scaling Agile, SCRUM, Testing, Video | Tagged AGILE, Bottleneck, esconfs, EuroSTAR, G(r)ood testing, Improving, Project success, Scaling Agile, SCRUM, Soapbox, software development, Testing, tmmi, TPI, Valori | Leave a comment