Have you ever wondered how much agile transformation costs? Let’s take a look at what might appear on your receipt when you get started. The goal of today’s article is not to discourage you, nor to provide a detailed price budget. Rather, we want to give you information on what you may need to focus
If you’ve ever wondered how to set up a Kanban board for your team, you might find this article useful with a little bit of our experience. Before we start explaining the Kanban board, it is good to realize that Kanban should not be limited to a dashboard in your team. The real valuable thing
Mentoring It is said that the best way to start something is to throw a person into the water and start swimming. But how to help not to drown, not to have bad habits and learn to swim effectively? Sometimes you just need a handbook, sometimes the experience of a more senior colleague is needed.
One of the expectations associated with the adoption of agility may be that all members of an agile team consider their team’s business goals to be their own. And because team members own these goals, they also proactively participate in achieving them. You might think, “Nice idea, but this is hardly going to work for
When I finished my private pilot course a few years ago, I started flying a small plane to visit the surrounding airports. And it didn’t take long for me to start bringing my friends and colleagues with me. My confidence grew and after about a year I had the feeling, like many other novice pilots,
Many companies use the OKR (Objectives and Key Results) framework to set the goals of agile teams, and the popularity of this approach is constantly growing. The benefits are indisputable, but what about the readiness of agile teams to start using OKR? Take a look at the 3 most common issues that agile teams can
In a number of companies, we can meet teams that would be more accurate to call a group of individually working specialists. They differ greatly in the way they operate from the team, risk and their effectiveness. Let’s take a look at what the Group of Individually Working Specialists looks like. In such a group,
What should a good scrum master be able to do? Although Scrum is clearly associated with one particular framework, in many companies Kanban is represented in tens of percent of teams, elsewhere they also use Lean Startup or parts of it, for this people learn to coach, mentor, facilitate, talk to the company management and
One of the basic skills of members of agile teams is the ability to give feedback to their colleagues. However, basic agile approach training usually does not provide any guidance on how to provide feedback. And so it happens that the transmission of feedback sometimes ends in the emotions of both participants or, in the
Anyone who has ever dealt with Lean has probably encountered seven types of waste (Muda). And since Lean was originally created for industrial production, at first it was more difficult for me to find out how these 7 types of waste would be transferred to software production. Personally, an article on the kanbanize.com website helped
