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Essays from 2015
9 essays from 2015
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Scan Agile 2016 call for sessions – announcement
It’s that time of the year. The Scan-Agile 2016 organizing team got together and put together the Call for Sessions for the 2016 edition of the conference. You can find the Call for Sessions at this link Help us out spread the word and tweet about it 🙂 See you all in Helsinki in March! …
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Agile incremental delivery visualized – how to explain Agile and Incremental delivery to anyone
If you are interested in Agile and if you want to read up on it (reading books, blogs or following discussions on twitter) you soon stumble upon the following picture to visualize incremental value. I believe it’s from Henrik Kniberg: I do understand where this picture is coming from. It is about focusing on value …
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ScanAgile 2016 – Help Shape The Conference
A few weeks ago I wrote a post about a possible Vision for the 2016 edition of ScanAgile. But that was only my Vision and I was looking for feedback. ScanAgile was, and has always been team work, so when we got together with some of the team members we decided that we needed your …
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A possible Vision for Scan Agile 2016: Work 3.0
As I’m writing this blog post, in the balcony of my apartment, enjoying the mild Finnish end of Summer (it is not snowing… yet), I am forced to acknowledge how the world of work has changed. It is not that far ago that we lived under a Feudal system, where the notion of fairness was …
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FREE Agile Retrospectives Program
Agile Retrospectives is all the rage right now for good reason: never before companies and teams had so much understanding how Agile Retrospectives can help companies. However, it’s easy to get sucked into the trend of Agile Retrospectives, run a few sessions, and literally wind up with nothing to show for it. Most Scrum Masters …
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Accidental complication: another reason why estimates don’t work
Accidental complication Another reason why estimations can’t work goes by the name of accidental complication. J.B. Rainsberger introduced this concept at Oredev 2013 . The gist of the argument is this: every feature or functionality added to an existing project has two cost elements (what you want to estimate): Essential complication or g(e): How hard …
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All the Conferences and talks about #NoEstimates in 2015
Are you talking about #NoEstimates at a local or global conference during 2015? Email me at [email protected]. I’ll collect all the #NoEstimates talks and conferences that include the topic right here! Agilia 2015, Brno, Czech Republic Speaker: Henri Karhatsu Topic: #NoEstimates – Going Beyond Estimates Date: March 23rd, 2015 Agile India 2015, Bangalore, India …
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A Scrum Master Podcast is born!
Me and Luis Gonçalves, my partner at Oikosofy, will be premiering our Scrum Master Toolbox podcast this month! This is a Scrum Master podcast, where we interview guests from all over the world, and they share what they have learned in their careers. Today you get a first sneakpeek at the show! 🙂 Below is …
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The Top 50 Agile Conferences of 2014, including Lean, Kanban or Scrum (and yes, also XP :)
Every year many Agile, Lean, Kanban or Scrum (and even XP!) conferences are organized throughout the world. So many that it is hard to choose from such a large number. That’s why I decided to create the list of the Top 50 Agile Conferences for us who work in the IT field. I’ve decided to …
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