Scrum doesn’t mandate technical practices explicitly. Neither does kanban. Agile is a set of principles and practices, and it’s often hard to choose which one are useful. There’s a reason to that. Scrum is not a process but a framework that you adapt to your context. Kanban is about introducing change, and it’s up to […]
Agile Challenge: Adopting Technical Practices Read More »
Let’s say you start an agile project. You identify the requirements, write them down as user stories, define your releases, setup the infrastructure. Are you ready to start sprinting? Before we can answer, let’s try adding in more context. I see two different situations: 1. You have one team that will build an application starting
Do We Need Architecture when Doing Agile or Lean? Read More »
A supermarket is a large form of the traditional grocery store, a self-service shop offering a wide variety of food and household products, organized into aisles. The good thing about it is that I find a large variety of products. Supermarkets don’t look like an interesting organization; I was surprised to find out that they were the basis of one of the prevalent
How to reduce waste – a supermarket model Read More »
ALE2013 finished with the most fantastic day. It started with some minutes of wakeup gymnastics. After the speakers introduced their talks, attendees chose between talks on lean startup, continuous improvement, offers and pricing or software design. The offer was very attractive and again we had to choose one talk out of three going on at a
ALE2013, the last day Read More »
What a day…what a night! So many activities and so intensive that I didn’t realize when the time flied. So, I am writing now about the day before. I will tell you shortly what happened yesterday. Flavius Stef and Claudia Rosu opened the day with the intro. They surprised us inviting the ALE kids (participants‘
ALE2013, the second day Read More »
The first magic day started with the open intro made by the organizers. Jurgen Appelo had the opening keynote about the new organizational structure of the 21st century: the network, not the hierarchy. I realized from his talk that learning through experiments and remembered is the way to improve. After the speakers introduced their talk, it was challenging
First day of the unconference ALE2013 Read More »
We are ready for ALE. Are you? I was at Radisson Blu Hotel this evening for the last day of ALE2013 preparations. The venue is ready to receive all the ALE2013 attendees. The organizers, including the Mozaic Work team and the volunteers prepared the unconference rooms with logistic and materials. Everything is in place for
The very last day before ALE2013 Read More »
Last year, the ALE network voted the city for the 3rd edition of the unconference We discussed in the team and decided that we can help and that the Romanian community deserves to have this event in the country. We based our claim on the thriving agile and lean communities from 5 cities and on
ALE2013 – international unconference starts in few days Read More »
This is the story of the first 4 days of an ongoing 6 months Kanban adoption that we started with a small company from Cluj-Napoca. The company develops its own web-based product with a good commercial success. It started with the founder and General Manager of the company contacting us for a discussion about their
Adopting Kanban: The Beginning Read More »
