Agile teams work in a widely self-organized way. This raises the question who actually takes descisions in such a context. Depending on several factors such as corporate culture the way decisions are taken can differ. To build trust and support for descisions amongst the team it can be helpful to understand the way a decisions . . . → Read More: Decision-making Poster
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In 2016 PLEUS Consulting supported Bank11 in the development of their brand new sales financing system VICTOR 3.0. Bank11 is a credit institution that specializes in sales financing. In 2016 the bank decided to replace their existing software with something new. To be able to meet the challenging requirements in terms of quality, customer satisfaction . . . → Read More: Bank11 Success Story Agile is successful, efficient and (often) fun. That’s why many companies are trying to be more agile these days. Basically it seems to be easy to apply agile practices and frameworks such as Scrum, Lean Startup or Design Thinking to get started with Agile. However in reality many, especially larger companies are having problems doing . . . → Read More: Agile Animals Traditionally the velocity (V) of agile teams is calculated as number of story points (SP) delivered per sprint. If our team is static, that means, it consists of the same or at least the same amount of people in each sprint we can get a velocity that really reflects the team performance. Although highly desireable, . . . → Read More: Capacity Based Velocity Calculation for Dynamic Agile Teams Most people would agree to say that an IT project is complex if it has to cope with difficult technology and a challenging business context. But it is not just technical complexity that threatens the success of a project. Team complexity is an important and often underestimated factor that highly affects the likelyness of success . . . → Read More: Team Complexity – The Underestimated Factor If you ever tried to create an execution environment to automate business- or integration processes based on Open Source products, you know that this is not an easy task. Although Open Source products like Activiti or Apache Camel are of high quality, they do not run with production grade quality out-of-the-box. For serious usage scenarios . . . → Read More: Integrated Process Management with Open Source What does collocation mean? The concept is very simple. It means bringing together the people who work on a software product in a physical environment. This seems to be natural. But in highly distributed work environments that we have today it is not anymore. I’ve been working on agile projects for many years and I . . . → Read More: Collocation Is Vital! The German IT magazine Computerwoche published my article about agility and management. The article describes ths difficulties when scaling out Scrum in larger organisations. You can read it online. Wann Scrum funktioniert: Das Management muss Agilität leben. Today I would like to share a success story of a project I accompanied as Scrum Coach and Solution Architect from analysis to production. Main success factors were: Scrum (Agile Development) Cross functional Team Service-oriented Design (SOA) Silverlight RIA You can read more in the case study Modernization of business partner management. . . . → Read More: Scrum and Silverlight in Reinsurance According to the second rule of the agile manifesto working software is more important than comprehensive documentation. This is definitely true! To be clear, this does not mean that software developed by agile teams is not documented. If comprehensive documentation brings value to the organisation, agile teams produce this as well. Specifications are written as . . . → Read More: Bug or Change – Cause of Conflict in Agile Projects |
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