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20 Years is Enough! It’s Time to Update the Agile Principles and Values

Agile originated, in part, as a reaction to twentieth century bureaucratic excesses. The Agile principles and values were created when Agile was in its infancy; they were more aspiration-based than […]

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Benefits and Challenges of Adopting SAFe – An Empirical Survey

During the last two decades, turbulent business environments tempted firms to adopt agile methods to cope with the ever-changing customer demands. The success of agile methods in small and co-located […]

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Challenges of Adopting SAFe in the Banking Industry – A Study Two Years after its Introduction

The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is a framework for scaling agile methods in large organizations. We have found several experience reports and white papers describing SAFe adoptions in different banks, […]

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Prioritizing user stories remotely – a framework to help an agile team

Prioritizing the stories in the backlog of a project with a large team, where the Product Owner does not have much experience in product management is already a big task […]

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Agile Sustainability: What if the World is our Customer?

Agile Sustainability: What if the world is our customer? In agile development, we often talk about that our highest priority is to satisfy the customer or that we welcome change […]

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How to write ethical user stories

The growing importance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems as a part of software services, and the failures of these systems, have emphasized the importance of ethical consideration in engineering AI […]

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Cross functional understanding and empathy continuous improvement

Do your teams continuously improve their cross functional understanding and empathy? A practice recently employed by our teams has created a mutual understanding that I did not think possible before. […]

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Measuring Software Delivery Performance using the Four Key Metrics of DevOps

While many organizations embark on agile transformations, they lack insight into the actual impact of these transformations across organisational layers. In this paper, we collect new and study existing evidence […]

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Pacts to the rescue! How to escape integration testing hell

Microservices and APIs have become mainstream now. We’re able to respond to changing requirements and ship code to production more quickly than ever. Or, we are for our first few […]

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6 Must-Haves for Maximizing Virtual Dojo Engagement

Immersive Learning Dojos are an Agile staple that consistently yield longstanding success in terms of skill building and habit development. A major contributing factor to Dojo success is collocation. Think […]

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Codefest, a Celebration of Getting Things Done

Codefest is two tremendously productive days of focus, teamwork and coding in an enterprise environment, resulting in a significant development leap – without compromising work-life balance. Codefest might be just […]

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Against All Odds

This experience report recounts a part of my work as a consultant in the fields of organisation development and management methods. It is dedicated to consultants as well as coaches […]

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Agile Transformation at Acuity = Products by the customers and for the customers

When you have demand for building products around automation for 10 business verticals in your organization, how do you go about it? The situation becomes more complex when your company […]

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Setting the Scope for a New Agile Assessment Model: Results of an Empirical Study

Agile software development methods have been increasingly adopted by many organizations at different organizational levels. Whether named agile adoption, agile transition, agile transformation, digital transformation or new ways of working, […]

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Accelerating Innovation and Collaboration through Shared Learning

This experience report outlines five tech transfer strategies that I developed over a period of 25 years at four Global 1000 companies (HP, Cisco, Qualcomm, and Nortel) to mitigate R&D […]

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Velocity Without Direction is Speed

In physics, there’s a difference between “Speed” and “Velocity”. While the first is a scalar quantity (the quantity itself plus the unit of measurement), the second is a vectorial quantity […]

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Onboarding to Agile Team Remotely

As an Agile Coach at a fast growing startup, I faced the challenge to structure and drive the onboarding process remotely. Onboarding has proven to be an extremely demanding and […]

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Driving digital transformation in a traditional bank: A four pillar approach

I work for ThoughtWorks, a leading global technology consulting firm . Since June 2019, I have been leading an engagement with one of Thailand’s largest banks for an organisation wide […]

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