INSIGHTS
Agility & product growth in practice
Illusions about team performance and fragmented focus
Fragmented focus – this problem appears in almost every of the large companies that start with agility. The team has too many requests in progress than it can handle with the current number of people. Sometimes people in the team just slip into opening more and more requests. Elsewhere, part of the company culture is […]
How to give feedback correctly
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 […]
Product Owner and company inspiration resources
In companies where we focus on agile transformations, customers often deal with how to fill the roles of product owners. The most common way to recruit future product owners is from within your own organisation. The role from which the product owner applies is different. Sometimes they are product or project managers, sometimes analysts, sometimes […]
Value Stream Mapping – step by step to greater team efficiency
Is our team working efficiently? And how much time do we spend on activities that don’t add value?If you are asking yourself these questions and are not just looking for a one-time change, then today’s article is just for you. To assess whether your team is efficient, you’ll need to look at the activities you use […]
10 tips to earn trust with your team as a scrum master
One of the first tasks of any good Scrum Master is to get to know the team and earn trust with the team. It is actually a prerequisite for you to be able to change anything in the team in the long term. TTherefore, every experienced Scrum Master has a portfolio of ideas and techniques. These approaches […]
Are your agile teams product or project teams?
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 […]
Teamwork vs. individual specialists: Impact on company performance
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, all members are experts […]
When to go with mentoring?
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. And where the […]
Setting up a Kanban board: a practical approach for effective workflow
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 is when you […]
How the availability of a testing environment affects agile delivery vs. traditional development
As I mentioned in a previous article, one of the areas to consider in an agile transformation is the testing environment. The following image shows the availability of a test environment over time for traditional development and the need for test environment availability in Agile development. Traditional development Traditional software development usually takes place in phases. After […]