In a previous article, I wrote about how Scrum with Kanban can help deal with complex problems. Scrum with Kanban helps people discover and deliver outcomes faster, whether related to the customer, organization or reducing risk. Adding Lean UX techniques to Scrum with Kanban allows teams to discover and…

How do we balance UX with shipping fast in scrum? It’s a loaded question really because it’s suggesting that we need to ship, that we need to build anything. a lot of ideas should never be built. Ellen Gottesdeiner has a book by the title, discover to deliver and it’s…

Kanban is a strategy for optimizing the flow of value through a process that uses a visual, pull-based system. It’s suited to complex problems because it helps deal with uncertainty, a central feature of complex professional knowledge work. Let’s explore the Kanban practices and its other aspects and how…

The words “commit” and “commitment” feature prominently in the 2020 Scrum Guide, and it’s not just about the artifacts. “The Scrum Team commits to achieving its goals and to supporting each other… when the Scrum Team and the people they work with embody these values, the empirical Scrum pillars of…

Who writes acceptance criteria?. Should you even have acceptance criteria? It’s a loaded question, because it’s assuming that we’re using user stories. …

When we don’t know what we don’t know, it’s kind of silly to come up with a Gantt chart saying, we’ll all be done by Christmas, but this is exactly what people do. …

Supporting agilewithUkraine. Today I wanna tell you a little bit of a story about a festival in England. You know what the English summertime is like. We went to a thing called Pub in the Park in Marlow, and it was raining. It rained really heavily. And we were wondering…

How do I measure value for a major IT infrastructure piece of work? How do I measure value? Before I even get into, how do I measure value? What is value? A lot of people struggle with this. I wrote an article about this here, what is value really? I…

Why is our definition of done so long? I don’t like to call the definition of done the checklist for how we do things around here. I used to say that because you might be including every single little thing in your process when you do that, but does it have the essential elements of how do we…