Als een een probleem moet worden opgelost bedenkt men vaak zelf iets nieuws Leren van collega’s gebeurd te weinig. Waarom zijn nog steeds zoveel mensen bezig om het wiel opnieuw uit te vinden? Er zijn wielen zat, in alle soorten en maten, dus laten we ze (her)gebruiken om ermee te gaan rijden!
The 2nd blog in the series "Retrospective Benefits" explains how team benefit from retrospectives by finding those improvement actions that matter to them, and help them to do their work better. Agile retrospectives give the power to the team, where it belongs!
Together with Luis Gonçalves I am writing a pocket book about "Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives".We value your feedback, so please let us know what you think of our initiative, our previously published blogs and which topics you would like to have covered in the pocket book?
Organisaties willen de volwassenheid van hun IT of R&D software ontwikkeling verbeteren, en doen dat b.v. met het CMMI. Maar een doel stellen, "we moeten CMMI niveau 3 worden", werkt vaak niet. Het CMMI continuous met CMMI Roadmaps maakt verbetering van vakmanschap mogelijk, door medewerkers te helpen om meer capabel te worden.
Retrospectives bring benefits to Agile teams, they help them to improve and deliver value to their customers and the company. This first article in the series Retrospective Benefits explores how you can benefit from retrospectives, by getting improvement actions that will be done by the agile team.
At the start of the 21th century I did my first agile retrospectives. I started with retrospectives to help a project to improve along the way, so that we could reap the benefits during the project, and benefits. My aim then and now: To enable teams and the whole organization to improve continuously.
Wat kan Scrum doen voor de kwaliteit van producten en diensten, en hoe kan samenwerking met de gebruikers zorgen voor een betere kwaliteit?
The book Economics of Software Quality provides solutions to quantify Software Quality and manage software development and maintenance. It contains data usable to build a business case to improve quality, and decide upon improvements in your organization.
In deze gastblog laat Wendy Geurkink zien wat organisaties kunnen doen om klantgerichter te worden, en hoe co-creatie en samenwerking dmv the workimprovers connection daaraan bijdraagt.
IT is viewed by many people as being something technical. They have a vision of managers with lot's of plans, documents and spreadsheets, and nerds that are sitting behind their computer doing the "real work". It may be out there, but I don't see it that often. What I see are people working together to deliver software solutions that work, which help their customers in their daily work, and deliver business value to the company. Communication and collaboration are essential to make people and teams successful. So for me, soft skills really matter in IT!
A list of the success factors that helped organizations to get Scrum implemented and used, and to make a difference.
Having a "toolbox" of retrospectives helps you as a retrospective facilitator to deliver value to a team. You can plan a retrospective meeting, and think about the technique that you want to use, but be open to change it on the spot when needed.