Kategorie: it-agile-blog-planet
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Incremental Platform Migration
In Scrum workshops participants often come up with platform migration as a task not suitable for Scrum. Examples are the migration from Rails 2 to Rails 3 or from one EJB version to a new one. For technological reasons it is often not feasible or even impossible to have both platforms in parallel in the…
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Understanding Sprints and Timeboxes
There was a lot of buzz and critics about Scrum-like Sprints around the last time. One of the merits of the discussions was that now only the how but also the why was discussed. I try to do a short wrap up of what I read and think. Forcing Hard Decisions A Sprint in Scrum…
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Lawless Agile
In march 2012 seven it-agile people (including me) formed the StartupMarch team. We decided to build a product to make online discussions more effective. In the end we had built http://www.discuss2decide.com and http://www.discumeter.com. This blog post is about the „process“ we used. We just started to build the product – without any discussion of the…
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Scrum in project business
Scrum is for product development. Check. There is the Product Owner, the Product Backlog and the Product Increment. Check. There is no project in the Scrum framework. Check. But… What does that mean for all the service providers that are in the project business? They develop whole software systems and single features for clients. Therefore…
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Scrum for Top Managers
„As a top manager I want to introduce Scrum.“ „Don’t!“ „What?“ „Ok, you are used to say people what to do. But Scrum is about not saying people what to do. You should not start the journey to self-organisation with command&control as the first step.“ „So I am not allowed to do anything? I just…
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StartupMarch@it-agile 2012
In March 2012 seven it-agile members formed a Startup team that tried to solve common problems with online discussions. We created two products (http://www.discuss2decide.com and http://www.discumeter.com), learned a lot and had a barrel of laughs. Me and my collegues will write and talk about our experiences with Lean Startup, customer development, agile to the extrem,…
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Buchtipp: Maverick
In letzter Zeit gibt es vermehrt Diskussionen darum, wie eine agile Organisation aussehen müsste. Radical Management, Management 3.0, STOOS etc. sind die aktuellen Schlagworte. Eine sehr frühe und sehr weitreichende Implementation dieser Ideen findet sich beim basilianischen Unternehmen SemCo. Der Besitzer Ricardo Semler beschreibt in „Maverick“, die SemCo-Geschichte. Und auch wenn das Buch bereits 1993…
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Artikel „Auf der Suche nach dem Qualitäter“ erschienen
Mein Bruder Arne und ich haben zusammen einen Artikel mit dem Titel „Auf der Suche nach dem Qualitäter“ im „Business Technology„-Magazin veröffentlicht, das in der Ausgabe 1.2012, Heft 8 ganz unter dem Titel „Qualität“ erschienen ist. In dem Artikel beschäftigen wir uns mit der Frage, was überhaupt Qualität ist und stellen die klassische Qualitätsdefinition („Qualität…
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it-agile: State of Play
We founded it-agile seven years ago. This is a good reason to reflect on what we have achieved regarding management and organization within it-agile. Some of the things listed below were already in place seven years ago, others are just a few days old. We believe that our employees are it-agile with the implication that the best…
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Vorträge „Innovation – das wahre Bottleneck?!“ auf der OOP 2012
Auf der OOP 2012 habe ich einen regulären Vortrag sowie ein Pecha-Kucha zum Thema „Innovation – das wahre Bottleneck?!“ gehalten. Die Folien für beide Vorträge finden sich inkl. Foliennotizen auf Slideshare: Folien zum regulären Vortrag Folien zum Pecha Kucha Video des Pecha Kucha Inhaltlich geht es darum, dass meiner Meinung nach viele Produkte / Systeme…
Stefan Roock 