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How to Teach Agile Those With No (Bad) Waterfall Experience
Recently, I had an opportunity to give a series of agile development lectures to students. Since the differences between agile and waterfall was my main driver during my first agile days, I started...
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8 Monkeys in a Cage – a Mura Learning Game
Last time when I was teaching Lean, I found myself in trouble. The topic was to teach students about 3M principles: Muri, Mura and Muda. As always, I planned to do some practical learning games. There...
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“We have no time” Consequences by Example
I think that everyone of us who did some serious software development at least once heard that “we have no time, so we have to take some compromises”. In these cases, almost always quality is the one...
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What is the right recipe for spicing up your Scrum?
I noticed that a lot of people miss hearing that Scrum is a framework, not a method. It means that within Scrum you can (must) employ some other processes and techniques. So, what are the gaps that we...
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“Dear management, we’re already agile”
“Agile is good, but we need management support for it“. “Agile adoption should start from management“. “Our agile adoption failed because management didn’t support it“. You hear it all the time,...
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Football “Theater of the Absurd” feat. Defined Process
Defined process is one of two major models to control any process. It implies that everything is known from the beginning and nothing will change along the way. A waterfall project management model is...
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How IKEA and Ben Franklin Can Help Agile Coach
Recently I came across one of those things that we „know“ and „are natural“, but still it’s full effectiveness stays hidden for us until we read some systematic explanation about it. This thing that...
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Ball Point Game Info Graphics
Whenever I’m doing an agile training with some larger group, I always use fantastic learning game invented by Boris Gloger – Ball Point Game. I created this infographics to explain it easier to a...
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Here is Why Football and Software Development are Similar
I’m really impressed how much similarities are between sport and software development. Here are a couple of it in case of football: 11 Messi would lose most of games. Also, our project would suffer in...
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How Starbucks Implemented Lean
This article was inspired by a fantastic “What Starbucks can teach us about software scalability” blog post by Weronika Łabaj. It is a very good reading and I’m not going to repeat the things about...
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