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The life of an agile coach in a corporate culture. My name is Rasmus, born in Denmark in 1980, spend my working hours at Danske Bank

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Stop Being Agile and Focus on Benefits for Real Results

Stop Being Agile and Focus on Benefits for Real Results

The rate of growth and adoption of Agile frameworks both outside and within the software industry has increased exponentially. Corporate bodies and enterprise organizations have been steadily gaining ground in the market while switching from plan-driven techniques into incremental and iterative methodologies. This speed is undoubtedly impressive, but the integration of Agile frameworks has not…

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Visualizing spikes

How do you visualize spikes to enable transparency? Here's my take

One of the key elements of working with agile frameworks is the ability to create transparency by visualizing the work taken on by the team. In well-known settings the team refines work to a state where it is ready to be worked on. This is typically done by taking a reasonable sized improvement request to the product and demystifying the scope while figuring out what work needs to be done in the…

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The agile leader in all of us

Agile leadership is a mindset that applies to many roles in an organization e.g. Scrum Master, Department Manager, Agile Coach, Product Owner, etc. All of us could benefit from taking a stand on how we want to impact our surroundings!

Agile leadership is a mindset that applies to many roles in an organization e.g. Scrum Master, Department Manager, Agile Coach, Product Owner, etc. All of us could benefit from taking a stand on how we want to impact our surroundings and become anti fragile. Nowadays, business in this world is, on a constant and consistent basis, getting hit with disorder and change that cannot be predicted or…

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Relationship Between Agile and Scrum

Many falsely assume that they are Agile simply since they perform Scrum in their daily work. It’s a basic assumption, which may have consequences to the success of the team. Let’s take a dive into the details.

Did you know that it is possible to perform Scrum without being Agile – and being Agile is not about following Scrum?  Many falsely assume that they are Agile simply since they perform Scrum in their daily work. It’s a basic assumption, which may have consequences to the success of the team. Let’s take a dive into the details. Agile Mindset Agile mindset is about product development that takes…

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Agile frameworks offers 3 kinds of services

Agile frameworks offers 3 kinds of services

Fixed ScopeFixed Cost Fixed Deadline But you can pick only two Fixed scope and fixed cost won’t give you a fixed deadlineFixed cost and fixed Deadlines won’t give you fixed scopeFixed deadlines and fixed scope won’t give you fixed cost Fixed Scope and Fixed Cost Locking the scope early by pre-determining the entire product backlog while also agreeing on the number of teams will in nature make…

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Sikkerhedsbriller og SAFe

Uanset hvilket rammeværk – eller intet rammeværk – der vælges, er det vigtigt, at forstå de bagvedliggende mekanismer. Det kræver både stor erfaring i metoderne, kendskab til organisationen samt evne til at implementere og facilitere.

Mange eksperter har tidligere udtrykt deres holdning til de store anerkendte rammeværk for skalering. Her beskriver de nogle af de udfordringer, der opleves i markedet med skalering ved hjælp af skaleringsrammeværk. Ved en simpel søgning på jobindex ser man en stigning i antallet af jobopslag med agile roller, f.eks. Scrum Master og Product Owner, men også de mere diskutable roller som Release…

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Story points – a tool for better planning

Story points – a tool for better planning. Does relative estimation and story point work? Here are some cases of applying it in the real world!

Traditional exhaustive estimation sessions are on the rebound within development teams. They have started adopting relative measures, known as Story Points, in order to become more effective in the estimation session and more precise in planning their releases. Story points are a relative measure that can be used for agile estimation of size. The team decides how big a point is, and based on…

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SAFety goggles

Agile scaling frameworks are like fireworks: The result can be festive and colorful like fireworks, but without safety goggles and proper handling it is easy to get into trouble. Read all about it right here!

Many experts have previously written about the challenges seen in the market when scaling agile using official frameworks. Doing a simple job search online, I find a steady increase in the number of postings for agile jobs as Scrum Master and Product Owner but also for some of the more debatable titles as Release Train Engineer, SAFe Program Consultant and Product Manager. This trend underlines…

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Transparent operation and service management

Kanban has proven to be a valuable tool for introducing and performing operations management in self-organizing service, development and maintenance teams throughout many organizations

Kanban has proven to be a valuable tool for introducing and performing operations management in self-organizing service, development and maintenance teams throughout many organizations The history of operations management started over 7,000 years ago. In 5,000 B.C. the priests of Sumer (today southern part of Iraq) invented a system for recording inventory and business transactions. This system…

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Work smarter, not faster

Work smarter, not faster

Transforming an organisation from taylorism into teams is always an exciting challenge. As an agile coach you might have a mental blue print or model of where you want to end up and how you are going to get there. In some cases the organisation is ready and able to act on your input and in other cases it’s a stepwise movement over time. Some of the challenge that you might identify up front might…

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Design for stable teams, ok?!

Design for stable teams, ok?!

Introducing the concept of stable delivery teams in an organisation can be hard. Especially if the concept is new to both employees and management. Creating the team structure and getting buyin for the change might be challenging. However, if there is something that the past 20+ years has proven, then it’s that modern leadership focuses on empowering stable teams over maximizing the utilization…

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Scaling with Scrum and Shape Up

Scaling with Scrum and Shape Up

I was recently involved in a scaling exercise where the current setup of two experienced teams were to evolve into three. At the same time the goal was to increase autonomy and empower the development teams.

Earlier exercises involved frameworks such as SAFe, Nexus and LeSS. None of the frameworks proved to be the right answer for the specific organisation and instead we tried to seek…

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Killing agile

The adoption rate for agility inside and outside the software industry is at an exponential growth. I observe that more and more corporate consultancies are gaining ground in the market and more and more enterprise organisations change from plan driven into iterative and incremental ways of working. This is pretty awesome! I think. But is it really as awesome as it appears?

As a consequence of…

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Teams kan aldrig bliver mere agile end sine omgivelser

Teams kan aldrig bliver mere agile end sine omgivelser

Til at varme lidt op vil jeg bruge en metafor om en container havn. Forestil dig at du er en fabrik der producerer dimser som skal sendes med container til slutbrugeren. Når dimserne er færdige og klar til at blive sendt til brugeren, så pakkes de i en container der fragtes til havnen. Det er et potentielt releasebart produkt. Fabrikken og medarbejderne behøver ikke længere bekymre sig om at…

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Teams kan aldrig bliver mere agile end sine omgivelser

Teams kan aldrig bliver mere agile end sine omgivelser

Til at varme lidt op vil jeg bruge en metafor om en container havn. Forestil dig at du er en fabrik der producerer dimser som skal sendes med container til slutbrugeren. Når dimserne er færdige og klar til at blive sendt til brugeren, så pakkes de i en container der fragtes til havnen. Det er et potentielt releasebart produkt. Fabrikken og medarbejderne behøver ikke længere bekymre sig om at…

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Fixing the race condition of strategic initiatives

Fixing the race condition of strategic initiatives

Big room planning with Bankdata management

Since 2015 Bankdata has been subject to one of the largest agile transformations in the history of Danish software industry. Over a period of 1.5 years we have adopted Scrum in over 100 teams and more than 650 employees have begun the journey towards an agile mindset. As the company name implies, Bankdata work with financial software supporting a wide…

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Organizational retrospective

Once an organization have existed for a longer period (6-12 months) it may prove valuable to stop and perform an organizational retrospective, i.e. take a holistic approach to the good and bad things occurring daily.

Once an organization have existed for a longer period (6-12 months) it may prove valuable to stop and perform an organizational retrospective, i.e. take a holistic approach to the good and bad things occurring daily. As a manager, you may wonder if the teams are balanced correctly whereas a team member may wonder if others are facing the same issues as them.

To unveil good and bad things…

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