Scrum is not a methodology. Scrum is a process, but of a non-repeatable kind. Scrum is a framework of rules, roles and principles that helps people and organizations emerge their real process, specific and fitting to their time and context. Scrum is...
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Pair Programming Is A Good Software Development Practice
By gverheye
3CommentsAgile is not only about the ‘process’ we follow to build software products. Agility is not just achieved by following a method. Agile is also about the behavior we show while creating software products. But agile is certainly also about the...
Read moreYes, we do Scrum. And...
By gverheye
Scrum is simple, yet not easy. Scrum Binary test The Scrum Guide describes the basic rules of the game of Scrum. You can easily detect whether you are doing Scrum. It takes no more than 9 questions. If you can answer every question with a...
Read moreAgility via Scrum (Contribution to 'Shaping Apps Capgemini Germany')
By gverheye
I recently contributed to the future vision and ambitions of Capgemini Germany with following text on the topic of Agile: Agility via Scrum Agility is a state, a way of being; of people and of organizations. It is not a process, it is not a method....
Read moreCapgemini thrilled about the Scrum Day Europe
By gverheye
Early 2012 Scrum.org asked 3 partners to join in organizing a Scrum Day Europe in the Netherlands; Capgemini, CodeCentric and Prowareness. As did the other partners, Capgemini decided to co-organize and sponsor this. The first edition of this event...
Read moreScrum Coaching for Business Results and People Satisfaction
By gverheye
A new program at one of the largest Dutch banks focused on lowering ‘Total Cost of Ownership’ (TCO) and decreasing complexity in the CRM landscape. The program had been running for 9+ months without too much working results when the bank decided...
Read moreScaling Scrum
A Serial Scrum Team The simplest situation of doing product development with Scrum is to have one Product Backlog capturing the desirements for that Product, and having one Scrum Team implementing that Product Backlog in Sprints. The Development...
Read moreCapgemini sponsors the Scrum Day Europe
By gverheye
Capgemini is co-organizing the first Scrum Day Europe. This one-day event takes place on 11 July 2012 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Exact location is "Pakhuis De Zwijger", Piet Heinkade 179, 1019 HC Amsterdam. Ken Schwaber of Scrum.org is keynote...
Read moreTo shift or not to shift (the software industry paradigm)
The software industry has for a long time been dominated by industrial views and beliefs. The universally accepted paradigm was in fact a copy-paste of old industrial routines and theories. Essential in this landscape of knowledge, views and...
Read moreThe customer-oriented enterprise: (3) Scrum in the Customer-Oriented Enterprise
By gverheye
Thoughts on empirical management, Business Agility and Enterprise Scrum (part 3/3) Although Scrum does not have prescribed roles for middle and other forms of management, needn’t have, there will obviously be a shift in management...
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