Redefining Blameless Post-Mortem Terminology
Post-mortem: the practice of analysing and discussing an incident soon after it has occurred, especially in order to understand how the incident occurred and...
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A Facilitator’s Guide to The Ship Building Simulation
A step by step guide for facilitating the ship building simulation from the book “Pratical Kanban” by Klaus Leopold.
Scrum is a Cargo Cult
Beware: Scrum may harm your organisation. Be agile or be not, there is no “doing” agile.
Effective Team Retrospectives
In my experience team retrospectives are the single most powerful practice to enable Kaizen, i.e. a continual improvement process. In this article I describe...
You Ain’t Gonna Need It – YAGNI
All to often products get cluttered with features that someone believes might be useful, without the actual need for them being verified. Feature creep makes...
Zero Waste
Waste reduction is an effective way to increase profitability. Keeping technical debt low increases business agility an reduces the risk of unconsciously get...
Don’t Repeat Yourself – DRY
Applying the DRY principle substantially lowers the effort for maintenance and development of software systems, thus increasing agility and resulting in a mo...
Why Leaders Eat Last
Simon Sinek on why leaders make you feel safe.
How Great Leaders Inspire Action
TED talk from Simon Sinek on inspiration.
The Boy Scout Rule
Staying competitive by applying the „The Boy Scout Rule“.