As an Agile Coach, one of the key principles I teach teams is how they can benefit from meeting up regularly to discuss the way they are working. This principle is often referred to as ‘short feedback loops’.
There are a number of different ways the team can do this, but the one I want to write about in this post, is arguably the most common one; the team Retrospective.
Going back a few years when I first read about Agile, I found plenty of content on a variety of topics online. Whilst I appreciated having such a volume of resources available, I can also remember it felt pretty overwhelming!
Last Summer I did something that I’d been thinking about for a while. I left my permanent job role, set up my own limited company and decided to go contracting…
At Monday’s drop-in session (January 19), HiveMind Expert and Director at VREF Consultants, Col Sweetman, discussed how a Lean / Agile approach can drastically accelerate product development and design the right product for your target market…
(N.B These notes correlate with the slides from David’s drop-in session which can be viewed below) A strategic wrap around tactical Sprints Sprints begin with Product Owners describing their requirements and prioritising what gets done next. MoSCoW (must, should, could, won’t do) selection of what they want and the order they want it in sets…
In the first part of this article, I provided some high level steps to get you from an idea to a user-centered Product Vision supported by personas. In this final part, I’ll touch on one of the tools you can use to build on those artifacts and get an initial version of the Product Backlog….
“The no-change approach to organisational change” was the focus of this week’s drop-in session (December 1) as HiveMinder Kenny Grant lead a discussion on the evolutionary, people-centric approach taken at Northern Gas Networks, in the context of Agile / Lean change.
So you think you have a brilliant idea that will become a hugely successful product or service. Congratulations!
“But how do you turn that idea into a well considered, structured game plan for how you will turn your concept into reality?”…
Epitomy (http://www.epitomy.com) were trying to bring a new product to market. They understood the importance of testing through the development process, but still wanted to adopt some Agile practices to improve productivity on a per sprint basis.
HiveMind Expert Mike Burrows recently released a new book, Kanban from the Inside – An in-depth look at how managers of organisations can shift towards a culture of business agility and optimum quality, all whilst encouraging seamless flow. InfoQ spoke to Mike about the release of his new book…
