If you offer web development services then you are aware of the challenges faced when trying to keep a project in scope. Here’s a guest blog with lots of ideas on how to estimate a web application project by Thanh Pham, CEO of a Vietnamese software development outsourcing company.
Making a business case for agile starts by understanding what agile is about and considering how agile can help you. You have to define your own metrics and track them to see if agile is bringing you business value, and reflect on your agile journey to learn, and adopt.
In conjunction with Agile Greece I'm giving in-house workshops in Athens on Getting More out of Agile and Lean in the week when the summit takes place.
XP Days is a two day conference on agile software development for and by practitioners. I have submitted a session about the Agile Self-assessment game.
The full version of the Czech edition of my Agile Retrospectives book has been released on Leanpub.
The Agile Consortium Netherlands organizes a full day conference on November 2. 2017 theme: is "The Power of Paradox as a driver for organizational change".
The second version of the Greek edition of our Agile Retrospectives book has been published. Two chapters and three retrospective exercises have been added.
The first World Retrospectives Day is coming, and we need your help to make it great. Please join the Survey on World Retrospectives Day to sign up and let us know what you'd expect from a World Retrospectives Day.
In this mini-workshop you will experience how using different exercises can help you to spice up your agile retrospectives and get more value out of them.
If you have played the Agile Self-assessment Game then please give me feedback with this survey, and get the updated version of the game for free.
Adopting agile ways of working often impacts the organizational structure. In this guest blog post Shibabrata Mondal explores the impact and provides suggestions for changing the organizational structure to accommodate for agile. He also touches on the role of the functional manager in agile.
I played the Agile Self-assessment game with two teams in a session at the Retrospectives Facilitators Gathering 2017 and discussed the game with several attendees. Here are the ideas that came up for playing the game and for improving it.