Posts in 2017
  • List of Agile and Lean Books for Software Engineers or Students

    2017-03-05 in 2017

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    I am regularly asked by practitioners and technical universities, which books I shall recommend learning more about agile developers, agile projects, and agile companies. Reading is a great way to learn and to get new ideas. Below, a selection of …

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  • Agile Trends Switzerland 2016

    2017-02-09 in 2017

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    What are the main hurdles to introducing agile approaches in Swiss companies? The last five years learn us that: Introducing agile company-wide is a cultural change process. Such a change takes time and sometimes hurts. Without the commitment of …

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  • Seven Pitfalls with Agile or Scrum Methods

    2017-01-07 in 2017

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    The post describes a presentation I gave at a company internal technical day. It reflects situations we have seen in a lot of agile projects over the last years. I assume that the Scrum approach is well introduced in your company. You are already …

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Posts in 2016
  • What you do NOT need to do in Scrum!

    2016-12-02 in 2016

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    I often hear discussions asking who is performing the traditional product leader tasks in Scrum. This is in general an excuse to state that Scrum alone cannot work and classical product leaders are still necessary. I encourage you to classify these …

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  • Found a Limited Liability Company in Switzerland

    2016-11-15 in 2016

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    I left the company I founded 20 years ago and needed a new home to work and have access to social insurance. The best legal construct in Switzerland and in Europe is to establish a limited liability company. You need such a construct in Switzerland …

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  • What is an Agile Company?

    2016-11-13 in 2016

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    Lately, people often ask me what is an agile company. They have an understanding of agile software development techniques such as Scrum, Lean Software Development, Kanban, eXtreme Programming but no clue how a company could be agile. What does it …

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  • Agile Trends Switzerland 2013

    2016-10-12 in 2016

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    What are the main hurdles to introducing agile approaches in Swiss companies? Introducing agile company-wide is a cultural change process. Such a change takes time and sometimes hurts. Without the commitment of senior management, the initiative will …

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  • Agile Trends Switzerland 2012

    2016-09-07 in 2016

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    What are the main hurdles to introducing agile approaches in Swiss companies? Introducing agile company-wide is a cultural change process. Such a change takes time and sometimes hurts. Without the commitment of senior management, the initiative will …

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  • PMI-ACP Certification

    2016-08-18 in 2016

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    Unknown reference: lean-agile-software-develpment I learnt quite a few new acronyms and techniques when studying for the PMI-ACP certification program. In this post, I collected these acronyms, some definition and the bibliography you should know …

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  • Git Branches for the Impatient

    2016-07-21 in 2016

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    You are working in a small mostly collocated development team. Sometimes a team member works from a remote location. You have one git repository accessible to all team members. This repository is used to share source code and documentation …

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