Today’s market demands for increasingly rapid change. Government organizations are expected to cope with constant change in regulations with fewer resources and in the commercial market, changing client needs and rapidly changing market conditions...
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Capgemini thrilled about the Scrum Day Europe
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
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 moreWhat could the Dutch football learn from agile?
After a series of very disappointing games the Dutch national football team was eliminated during the preliminary rounds of the European Championships. Comments weren’t mild. The most heard comments largely focused on the lack of team spirit and...
Read moreWe are in crisis, get your game on!
Who of you think this economic crisis is similar to what we’ve experienced the last couple of decades? Who of you think this is going to go away anytime soon?I don’t. I think this the end of an era. The era which we will probably refer to...
Read moreTransition to Agile, How does it work (part 3)
Being an agile coach it is not always that easy. Sometimes you have to defend why you are needed. Agile is a lightweight framework with a small set of practices to teach, which makes it quick and easy to get teams up and running with it. So what is...
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
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 moreTransition to Agile, how does it work? (Part 2)
The ambition of the IT-management is “We want all projects using the Agile way of working, no exceptions”. In a way I’m happy with this ambition, because I understand what lies behind it, but I think that a lot of project members don’t agree...
Read moreInformation driven Process Management
One defining shift that marks our society today is the rate of change and its democratization. Information flows in real time through ordinary people using simple channels like social media or mobile. The Jasmine Revolution in the Middle East showed...
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