The Four Day Work Week
About a year ago, we made a fairly major decision at Growing Agile. We realised we were too busy, so we decided to work less. We… Read More »The Four Day Work Week
About a year ago, we made a fairly major decision at Growing Agile. We realised we were too busy, so we decided to work less. We… Read More »The Four Day Work Week
We often see agile teams that have adopted the ceremonies and language of Scrum, but in reality they do waterfall in 2 week increments. One… Read More »Assessment – How agile is your testing?
We recently worked with a client who do outsourced software development. They were looking to start using Scrum with a bit more discipline than they… Read More »Invoicing without timesheets
Most teams starting out with Scrum understand their backlog and what we called planned work. This is work that everyone grooms together and fully understands.… Read More »Interuptions, Support, Business as usual – how do these work in scrum
We hold a retrospective each month, to see how we are doing. We started with the standard retrospective template, but over time we’ve added some… Read More »Monthly Retrospective Plan
This is a continuation from my previous post on ‘Why measuring productivity is bad for business‘ inspired by Dan North’s Accelerated Agile course. Note: This post… Read More »The only software metric you need…
I recently attended Dan North’s Accelerate Agile course. One of the things he talked about was why measuring productivity is such a terrible idea in… Read More »Why measuring productivity is bad for business
I gave a talk on Agile Performance Reviews at the South African Scrum Gathering. You can find my slides here: Agile Performance Appraisals: SGZA13 Talk… Read More »Agile Performance Reviews
I’ve been thinking about metrics recently. Most people who use Scrum understand velocity. It’s pretty simple. How many points do you complete each sprint on… Read More »Lean Breakfast
For some reason in the last two weeks, we’ve been asked by several people about agile performance appraisals. I guess it’s that time of the… Read More »Agile Performance Appraisals