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Meaningful Agile
ScrumImpulz 2019: Marcus Hamrin, Spotify
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 made music available for free in the basic Spotify edition. But it is not [...]
ScrumImpulz 2019: Martin Kubik
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 personal. No kidding. The first thing was to sit down, look eyes to eyes [...]
ScrumImpulz 2019: Andrea Provaglio
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 always filled by wisdom, experience and entertaining. And it is not a coincidence that [...]
ScrumImpulz 2019: Peter Benkovič
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, I have been invited to speak at Maxmann Consultants University about Agile. A pretty [...]
ScrumImpulz 2019: Silvana Wasitova
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 to know and talk to many great speakers. One was special because of her [...]
ScrumImpulz 2019: Jorgen Hesselberg
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 a couple of teams developing software and services for NAVTEQ Europe centers. Only after [...]
ScrumImpulz conference about Agile practices on May 30th in Bratislava
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 management tool. But, for more than 10 years, ScrumDesk Consultancy group also helps companies introduce Agile [...]
ScrumDesk 6.36.1: Project Status Overview
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 and percentage of them in particular status. The distribution of the effort (based on [...]
ScrumDesk 6.35.2: Project Control Lead Time Chart
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 business. When it will be done? Read What is The Lead Time. The lead [...]
ScrumDesk 6.34: Treemap and Analysis Reports for Product Owners
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 value vs. risk, or business value vs. effort, or effort estimation in story points [...]
Certified ScrumMaster course, December 11-12, 2018, Bratislava
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 workshop where through a variety of exercises and moderated discussions you can really feel [...]
Write User Story correctly
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 is very simple. As a someone I want something so I can have a [...]
19 ideas to help improve agile KPI
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 annual interview with the subordinates next year as well. Huh? Well, obviously, I am [...]
Progress Measurement in Agile Product Management
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 release.’ Product Owner: ‘Hmm what if you, therefore, had nothing as well? A real [...]
Manager and Agile
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 lot different when you come across the management that goes into it, even though [...]