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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 …
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Git Local Repositories for the Impatient
2017-05-17 in 2017
You shall put your source code and text documentation under a version management system. The actual industrial standard for version control systems is git, a distributed version control system - DVCS -. It tracks changes in any set of computer …
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What is Our Specialty as Agile Coaches at tangly?
2017-05-01 in 2017
You have more agile coaches on the market than sand-corns on a regular beach. They all promise the holly grail of agile product development, highly productive teams, and perfect applications for internal and external customers. Why should any sane …
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Agile Trends Switzerland 2017: We Won
2017-04-15 in 2017
It is time to throw a big party in Switzerland. More than 60% of all projects are now realized using an agile approach (to see Agile Trends in Switzerland 2017] by SwissQ [1]. Scrum being the most popular one, Kanban as the second one. What a change …
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Fun at Workplace
2017-04-05 in 2017
It is Spring in Switzerland. We often have time for small talk because it is cold or rainy outside. Quite a few of the discussions are about job opportunities and how interesting and motivating the current activities are. I selected two articles to …
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List of Agile and Lean Books for Software Engineers or Students
2017-03-05 in 2017
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
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
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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What you do NOT need to do in Scrum!
2016-12-02 in 2016
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 …