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Agile Compass
A growing collection of articles on agility, innovation, leadership, and product management. Practical insights to help you navigate change and build high-performing teams.
What makes or breaks an Agile Transformation?
Is it the framework you pick? Is it the tools you use? Is it how many teams dutifully exercise their sprints? I often see significant focus on choosing a scaling framework, tea...
From Explosions To Success: How Some Leaders' Approach To Failure Fuels Innovation
I know many leaders who wouldn’t have congratulated their people on the explosion of a big project on launch day. The quality of good leadership is to recognize your role and y...
Without a goal, Sprint Plannings are wasted time ?
Sprints need a goal! Just handing out unconnected stories to developers is NOT agile. Product Owners are not only responsible to create and have a product vision, they’re also ...
Almost done – how to ruin your agility with unfinished user stories at the end of a sprint in Scrum!
What to do with an almost finished story at the end of the sprint? Finish it? Carry it over? Put it back? Count 90% of the story points? 100%? 0%? We cannot predict the future....
Agile Team Rehearsals: Proven Tactics to Boost Efficiency and Collaboration
““An important success factor for bands are rehearsals and sound checks to deliver a good performance. How do agile project teams “rehearse”?”” This was a wonderful question fr...
The Surprising Benefits of Walking Meetings
Who said that meetings have to happen in a room or at a desk?Like with so many things in life we hardly ask about why we do meetings the way we do. And there is a lot to be said...
Agile Requirements Game (aka Draw the Requirements Game)
Update: In the meantime I created an entire Agile Game Collection, including this game (with downloadable images, a visual cheat sheet, as well as video and written instructions...
Top Reasons Agile Transformations Fail (and How to Avoid Them)
So many companies struggle with their move to agility – why is that? Chances are you know or are part of a company whose agile transformation got stuck half-way and failed to d...
Scrum vs Kanban
“Don‘t fret too much over the right agile framework for your company. Focus on an agile culture instead. Establishing an agile culture is the key to success. Without it, none of...
Is Scrum a too rigid framework?
Countless teams have moaned over Scrum being too rigid and not really suited for their particular domain. As an agile coach responsible for countless agile transitions I strongl...
"We tried Scrum and it didn't work"
I hear this statement a lot recently. Companies claiming they tried to do Scrum, but even after a year or more it didn’t work for them. I disagree – let me tell you why. Scrum ...
Understand Sprint Burn-Down Patterns
A Scrum team can learn a lot form sprint burn-down charts. I want to help you recognize typical patterns, understand what causes problems and how to resolve these issues. For co...
What is a Sprint Burn-Down Chart?
The burn-down chart is a tool in the agile Scrum framework to unearth inefficiencies in a team and improve towards greater agility. In an agile team or organization you should k...
Scrum will not make you agile!
Or: Would you trust a Geiger counter to save your life? Disclaimer: I love Scrum — it’s an awesome framework! But too many people believe that Scrum would make their company ag...