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Author Archives: Gunther Verheyen
Scaling 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 Team has all skills to turn several Product Backlog items into Done per Sprint upon the definition of Done. The Development Team manages its work in the Sprint Backlog and has a daily inspection to safeguard direction …
Capgemini 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 speaker. Capgemini, as a leading global consulting services company, is proud and glad to contribute to the continuous growth of Agile via Scrum in the Netherlands and beyond. Capgemini, with its subsidiaries in the Netherlands, Belgium and …
To 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 practices is the Taylorist conviction that executable tasks, to be performed by workers, must be prepared, designed and planned by superior staff and must be overlooked by hierarchical supervisors during execution. Quality is assured by allowing good …
The customer-oriented enterprise: (3) Scrum in the Customer-Oriented Enterprise
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 style. I would expect the new mindset to be very Lean-like, as Agile and Lean are blending philosophies. But on top of that, expect the emergence of empirical management when founding product development and product management in Scrum, …
The customer-oriented enterprise: (2) Scrum in the land of Middle Management
Thoughts on empirical management, Business Agility and Enterprise Scrum (part 2/3) So, Scrum is to be applied for improving the relationship of an organization in a broad, business sense to markets, customers and competitors as part of Business Agility? Scrum is to be seen as more than a development process, as an enabler for business to take full advantage of the Power of the Possible Product? To adapt and survive in the land of …
The customer-oriented enterprise: (1) Scrum in the land of Extremistan
Thoughts on empirical management, Business Agility and Enterprise Scrum (part 1/3) The game of Scrum knows no more than 3 roles: Development Team, Product Owner and Scrum Master. These roles have proven to be sufficient for developing, maintaining and evolving great software products in the land of Extremistan°, the land in a constant state of statistical unpredictability. It’s where we live. The reason why Scrum is so great over there (here) is that Scrum …
Paving the path of Scrum Adoption: (2) Product People
8 years of playing the game of Scrum. Often injected with eXtreme Programming. A cobblestone path to reflect on. A previous reflection was on the absolute need for upstream adoption to drive and anchor Scrum and Agile in organizations. Next is about thinking beyond the walls of the IT department, on the expectation that real business people should drive development. For IT people, the empirical Scrum framework with its frequent ‘Inspect & Adapt’ cycles has …
Paving the path of Scrum Adoption: (1) going upstream
8 years of playing the game of Scrum. Often injected with eXtreme Programming. A cobblestone path to reflect on. In general, organizations have primarily used Scrum to add predictability via empirical control to the by nature uncertain IT and technology aspects of software development. Despite the great results, like Agile overtaking waterfall and the gorilla position of Scrum, there is room for improvement. One major improvement lies in better embedding Scrum in organizations, anchoring it, …
The Scrum Perspective to Agile
It can be important to read game instructions and understand how a game is played to fully enjoy the playing experience. It certainly is for… Scrum. Here are our game instructions that can help you judge whether it is a game suitable for you. The goal of the game is to optimize and control the delivery of Valuable Software in turbulent enterprise, business and market circumstances. Control is achieved via frequent Inspect & Adapt cycles …
The Blending Philosophies of Lean and Agile
Some management philosophies should not be mixed. Because the unique flavor of the ingredients will get lost in the mix. As well as the benefits. Lean is a powerful but typical mindset (see The Power of Lean Thinking). But does that automatically imply that it cannot be combined? I believe not. I believe that Agile thinking, principles and methods are more than just aligned with Lean. I am convinced that Lean and Agile are blending …
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