Zoltán Šipkai Zoltan is a passionate Agilist and tireless seeker of knowledge who believes that the best way to create great software is to nurture a safe, positive and inspiring environment. In his opinion, the central component of the software are people who largely determine the product’s success. Currently, he works as [...]
Did you know that Agile can help students to learn in a more fun, collaborative and results-oriented way? How? More than 100 schools in Slovakia apply eduScrum already in the learning process. That definitely help grow our future colleagues ready for future innovative products that have to be built in a highly collaborative environment [...]
Does the education system prepare our children and young generation for future needs? A lot of people have a feeling that there must be a different way how to educate. Of course we are not teachers and therefore we do not want to state how it should be. But everybody observes that the world [...]
Four years ago, I spent a couple of months in Prague, a beautiful city in Czechia. We supported the agile transition of the big insurance company for a few months so I had a lot of time to spend there. What is natural behaviour for agile enthusiasts? To look for some other agile enthusiasts [...]
Spotify. Well know the name of the company that has changed our behavior how we do listen to music. Not so many years ago we were used to listening to CD, later to MP3 or Internet radio. We were buying albums. Of course, this movement has started to be popular by Apple, but Spotify [...]
The first time I met Martin Kubik, I was a little bit curious about how he is going to react to the agile transformation program he wanted to talk about. I expected a formal speech, questions that will make him feel comfortable and questions regarding our experience. Well, the meeting went differently. It was [...]
The first time I saw Andrea Provaglio, I was quite new in Agile. Andrea shared of kinds of stuff that were pretty 'high-soft-system-level' for me at that time. But man, one year later I realized what he talked about. It is not usual to see a speaker whose speech is different every time but [...]
ScrumImpulz conference is not just about speakers from abroad. Since the first year of the conference, we offered an opportunity to speak to local people who experienced Agile some way and had stories to share so we, who still fight with agile mindset and transformations, can learn from their mistakes and successes. In 2014, [...]
It has been ages since we, from ScrumDesk, attended and sponsored the first year of Agile Prague conference. Dozens of speakers, hundred plus people and a lot of knowledge and energy. The day before the conference sponsors went out for dinner with speakers. In a very friendly atmosphere, I had an opportunity to get [...]
Eight years ago I had a super great opportunity to help NAVTEQ (today is known as HERE) company go through Agile Transformation. Well, it didn't start with BigBen approach. In the beginning, it was more driven in guerilla tactic in Europe without formal approval. Starting in Kosice, on vendor's (Ness Technologies Kosice Development Center) side, with [...]
We would like to invite you to attend the 7th year of ScrumImpulz conference, the only conference about Agile practices in Slovakia. The conference is going to happen on May 30, 2019, in the Hotel Vienna House Easy in Bratislava city. ScrumDesk company is, outside of Slovakia, known as the company delivering scrum project [...]
Project Status Overview Charts Product owners need to have an understanding of the overall status of the product backlog from multiple perspectives. Especially when it needs to be discussed with stakeholders and sponsors. With Project Status Overview chart, ScrumDesk now allows to see: The status of backlog items as a total number of items [...]
Project Lead time (control) chart The Project Lead Time chart (also known as Control chart in other tools) is helpful to Scrum Masters who take care of one of the most important metrics for an agile company - the lead time. Measuring it, an agile team can answer the question so expected by the [...]
New reports Backlog Treemap The most important job of the product owner is to understand the product backlog at any point in time. The product owner needs to know what to plan as the next, what was delivered and when, what is blocking backlog items, and who. You will probably need to understand business [...]
Course Certified Scrum Master, Bratislava, 11-12.12.2018 Scrum training with a practical approach. Develops necessary knowledge and experience to deal with the most common challenges. The most popular of Agile training. This two-day training prepares for performing the role of a Scrum Master and the Scrum team mentor. It is conducted in a form of a [...]
A few years ago, Mike Cohn promoted a user-story format of requirements. Since then, every requirement has become accustomed to being a user story in Scrum. Even then, when it is not considered to be a good one and even if it is not written in this format. User Story The User Story format [...]
At the turning point of the year, it’s time for the interviews in companies. Favorite review of last year’s work and proposal of new goals. Plus, their KPI. Key Performance Indicators. At the given time, it was a topic of the week for me. I saw interesting KPI: Your goal is to make an [...]
Oh, that's a great idea once again. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%. Apparently, the feature is 79% done. Round of applause, that’s a nice number. Nicer than 78%. Masturpercentobation. But what Jeff has to do with that, yes, that user Jeff. Team: ‘Ugh nothing we can do now, we have to wait 3 weeks for the next sprint [...]
A story about a leader and management motivated to actively support Agile. Just the title sounds like an oxymoron to those of us, who apply Agile principles. Yes, I have to affirm that Agile is often perceived by management as another toy for the developers. That’s why the implication of Agile is a whole [...]
The Definition of Ready helps save a lot of money on development for little effort. Or, why define requirements properly. The Punkers team The Punkers have been the worse team for a client and their management for several years now. Their requirements are constantly stretched, and even if they can be completed, the client [...]
Lots of requirements. Lots and lots and lots A story about what will your ‘Yes’ answer cause in the long run. Lots of work. If it was about fire being once here and once there. But the fire burns always, everywhere and every single day. We develop a number of system customizations and our app [...]
Yet another week of mentoring is over; the next team is ready, and another one is prepared. This time, it was, as always, quite unique and exciting. As I always say. We met a new team of people, working in a successful company, and even though they’ve been sitting in the same room for [...]
This time we published a few fixes and minor changes improving the usability of the ScrumDesk application to help you manage your projects easier: Dialoge Unfinished backlog items displayed when is not necessary. Work by task type, time perspective, numbers on X-axis divided by 60. Projects are still displayed in the list immediately after [...]
Finish sprint faster. Decide on incomplete items at once. It is an end of the sprint and Product Owner needs to complete the current sprint, but there are still incompleted items. It is necessary to go over the Kanban board and find all of them, click all of them and either update them, move [...]
New features in ScrumDesk v. 6.32 Objectives and Key Results Dependencies tracking Faster time tracking Filter improvements Billable work Change hierarchy in the STORY MAP Measure spent time vs. capacity planned Recurring payments Objectives and Key Results (OKR) — track goals with ScrumDesk Agile is a great tool for the company to execute its [...]
The keynote on Agile Transformations by Timofey Yevgrashyn at ScrumImpulz 2018 conference on Agile.
Stanislava Pendziviaterova is Certified System Information Auditor (ISACA), Certified in Risk and Information Systems Controls (ISACA), an organizational agile coach, and a global speaker. She has over 10 years of business risk management and coaching experience across domains such as IT service delivery, business controls, internal audit, and organization transformation in an international environment. [...]
An experienced Agile thinker with project management, consulting, coaching and training expertise. His personal experience in IT industry is since 1997, from which more than 12 years he had been managing effective software teams with Agile methods. Over the decade, he is sharing the knowledge and experience as a Trainer, Agile Coach, and Consultant. [...]
https://www.scrumimpulz.sk Tonda is a creative person who is happy when facing new challenges. Having worked in various roles, he has always been guided by the same question: “How can we make things better?” He is eager to help others to find a solution for tough problems or answer tricky questions. We often hear stories [...]
https://www.scrumimpulz.sk Fernando helps globally distributed teams to become more Agile and deliver value to customers. Senior Project Manager with 13+ years of experience working with Information Technology and Services. Proven demonstration of client relationship building as well as leading global teams from all around the world. He is a pro-active professional with a positive/can-do [...]
