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One Way to Improve Your Scrum Approach
2018-01-03 in 2018
You work using agile and lean approaches. Your collaborators are trained how to use agile principles. Techniques such as test-driven development, continuous integration, DevOps or clean code are regularly practiced. Your teams reduce their technical …
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Why is it so Cool to Develop with Java?
2018-01-02 in 2018
Why is it so cool to develop software using Java, a modern IDE and agile tools? Because the environment empowers you and incredibly speed-up your development outcomes. In seconds, you know if the next code increment adds value to your product. Test …
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Why Use Current Software Components?
2017-12-22 in 2017
Often, teams discuss if their digital product should upgrade to the current version of open-source or commercial used components. The same discussion arises for development tools and programming language versions. I have a strong opinion about …
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Clean Your Desk and Define New Year Improvements
2017-12-06 in 2017
It is Christmastime. Clean your desk and the content of your workstation. Upgrade your tools and your development environment to the actual version. It is time to add automated build pipelines, TDD, ATDD, and Docker to your toolbox. Embrace agile …
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Impediment List is of Tremendous Importance
2017-11-23 in 2017
An impediment is any aspect hindering the team or a company to deliver value and higher quality to the customers. An agile organization continuously removes impediments. It is one of her major activities. This activity is ongoing and can never be …
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Agile Approaches and Fix Price Contracts
2017-10-02 in 2017
The difficulty with contracts is that it is about trust. Here lays the roots for success or disaster. If no trust exists, the henceforth dreaded process is established. After tough negotiations, the development team starts but does not collaborate …
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Your Management Job in an Agile Environment
2017-09-02 in 2017
You develop your software products using agile approaches. You are doing Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, Lean Software Development, or LeSS. Your collaborators start asking questions about their organization, management roles, and critique the internal …
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Scrum Masters are not Administrators
2017-08-06 in 2017
Readers know I am an early adopter of agile and Scrum approaches. I experienced how much more effective and fun it is to work in an agile team developing digital products. Lately I was asked if I was interested in working as a Scrum master [1, 2, …
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What does a Scrum Master?
2017-07-03 in 2017
What does a Scrum master the whole day? Are you just a fancy administrator or are you actively removing impediments? Do you coach your teams toward mastery? Too often, Scrum masters become Scrum administrators. They schedule meetings, moderate …
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So Called Agile and Scrum Failures
2017-06-08 in 2017
Agile will never guarantee product success. All projects, especially application development, entail risk. If a product was risk-free, it is unlikely to provide significant benefits or competitive advantages. There are a number of ways in which …