Agile helps us deliver products in an iterative and incremental way. However – the concept of MVP, minimum viable product, is often misunderstood. How do we define our MVP, so that it actually delivers value and help us validate our assumptions. Starting small shouldn’t stop us from thinking big. How do we strike a balance? What should we watch out for? Here are 4 real world examples, including Spotify and LEGO, to help us define our MVP and avoid making common mistakes.
How do we turn the traditional “Leader-Follower” culture found in most organisations into “Leader-Leader” behaviuor? How do we begin to embed the capacity for greatness in the people and practices of an organisation? How can a leader enable this and decouple his own personality while doing so? Here are a few lessons from a US Navy Submarine Commander.
Should you provide negative feedback? How to help people understand change? What happens if you try to push change? Where should you focus your coaching energy? How do you really understand what sort of agendas people have? Here are 10 keys lessons you can apply as a coach and a Scrum Master.
People and their interactions are critical. However, at most places politics trump people. What can we do? How does Agile help? Collaboration is a key factor. But is collaboration and communication the same thing? An Agile team working within a rigid organisation would have as difficult a time as Agile individuals working within a rigid team. How to enable Agile at both levels? How to make Agile effective, both at a team and organisation level? Have a look.
Who should do the integration in a Scaled Scrum setup? Should it be a nominated team? Or is it more of a role performed by several people? Can all of the integration be tackled via Scrum of Scrums? What’s the role of tooling in all this? Here are 9 keys that can help you with integration in a Scaled Scrum environment. The article uses the term Nexus Integration Team, but concepts apply to any scale Scrum model.
Code reviews help us deliver higher quality products. How we can follow a solid end-to-end code review process with continuous monitoring in place and deliver high quality products? How would this help us in improving design, performance, make our code easier to maintain and help us catch problems early? Here’s an end to end process. The example uses Java based toolchain, but concepts apply to all other development environments.
Teams developing web applications have their hands full. They need to write code that fulfils customer requirements. It needs to be fast. They need to be able to lay out a useable interface, optimise a database, and often set up and maintain a delivery pipeline. But it does need to be secure as well. Here are come core web application security principles. These will help you build security in, rather than delay it till the security audit, or worse bad guys find holes in your app.
AGILE
What’s Wrong With Your MVP?
Agile helps us deliver products in an iterative and incremental way. However – the concept of MVP, minimum viable product, is often misunderstood. How do we define our MVP, so that it actually delivers value and help us validate our assumptions. Starting small shouldn’t stop us from thinking big. How do we strike a balance? What should we watch out for? Here are 4 real world examples, including Spotify and LEGO, to help us define our MVP and avoid making common mistakes.
blog.crisp.se
How to Turn the Ship Around?
How do we turn the traditional “Leader-Follower” culture found in most organisations into “Leader-Leader” behaviuor? How do we begin to embed the capacity for greatness in the people and practices of an organisation? How can a leader enable this and decouple his own personality while doing so? Here are a few lessons from a US Navy Submarine Commander.
agileforall.com
10 Key Lessons for Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters
Should you provide negative feedback? How to help people understand change? What happens if you try to push change? Where should you focus your coaching energy? How do you really understand what sort of agendas people have? Here are 10 keys lessons you can apply as a coach and a Scrum Master.
lmsgoncalves.com
The People Factor in Agile
People and their interactions are critical. However, at most places politics trump people. What can we do? How does Agile help? Collaboration is a key factor. But is collaboration and communication the same thing? An Agile team working within a rigid organisation would have as difficult a time as Agile individuals working within a rigid team. How to enable Agile at both levels? How to make Agile effective, both at a team and organisation level? Have a look.
alistair.cockburn.us
Integration Team in Scaled Scrum – 9 Keys
Who should do the integration in a Scaled Scrum setup? Should it be a nominated team? Or is it more of a role performed by several people? Can all of the integration be tackled via Scrum of Scrums? What’s the role of tooling in all this? Here are 9 keys that can help you with integration in a Scaled Scrum environment. The article uses the term Nexus Integration Team, but concepts apply to any scale Scrum model.
blog.scrum.org
Quality Releases Through Continuous Code Reviews
Code reviews help us deliver higher quality products. How we can follow a solid end-to-end code review process with continuous monitoring in place and deliver high quality products? How would this help us in improving design, performance, make our code easier to maintain and help us catch problems early? Here’s an end to end process. The example uses Java based toolchain, but concepts apply to all other development environments.
dzone.com
DEVELOPER
Web Application Security Fundamentals
Teams developing web applications have their hands full. They need to write code that fulfils customer requirements. It needs to be fast. They need to be able to lay out a useable interface, optimise a database, and often set up and maintain a delivery pipeline. But it does need to be secure as well. Here are come core web application security principles. These will help you build security in, rather than delay it till the security audit, or worse bad guys find holes in your app.
martinfowler.com
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