Sources: XP 2021

Winning the Concept to Cash Game with Feature Teams

Transforming a large organization to Agile is messy work and requires changes in organizational structure as well as mindset. On one hand we argue for a “bottom’s up“ approach requiring […]

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Coaching Exploratory Testing

Coaching agile teams comes with many challenges – often centered around delivery. Agile doesn’t have room for manual testing – or at least you’re going to hear that from some […]

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Engineering Agility Enablers for IT Enterprise Transformation

Engineering Agility Enablers for IT enterprise transformation – An approach to improving organizational performance in order to achieve business objectives. In this paper we share our experiences working as an […]

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Towards a standardized questionnaire for measuring agility at team level

Context: 20 years after the publication of the agile manifesto, agility is still becoming more and more popular in different contexts. Agile values are changing the way people work together […]

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Measuring Software Delivery Performance using the Four Key Metrics of DevOps

The Four Key Metrics of DevOps (FKM) have become very popular for measuring IT-performance and DevOps adoption. However, the measurement of the four metrics deployment frequency, lead time for change, […]

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One Year of Remote Mob Programming

Mob programming is an extremely effective way to develop software, not only in-person, but also remotely. Over the past year, my team and I have been exploring ways to collaborate […]

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Feature Toggles & Trunk Based Development – How To, and more Importantly, How NOT to

Feature Toggles are mainly known for and used as an enabler for Trunk based Development which promotes and enables continuous integration(CI). In recent times, Trunk based Development has gained immense […]

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From pyramid to communities: How pharma company reinvented themselves using Scrum

A pharmaceutical company (Roche Pharma Finland Oy) decided to transform their Operating model in late 2018. The implementation phase of the new Operating Model started in November 2019. The CEO […]

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An Identity Crisis Averted

As an Enterprise Transformation Coach, one of the greatest challenges tends to be bringing teams along a journey that appears to be top-down, even when support exists at a team […]

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Using a Low Code Development Environment to Teach the Agile Methodology

The Agile development methodology is soaring in popularity in the business world. Companies are turning to Agile to develop products quickly and to achieve digital transformation of their organization. Because […]

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The Changing Role of the Agile Coach – Business Agility Requires Different Coaching

Striving for business agility requires a different approach from the agile coaches. When organizations proceed on their agile journey their needs shift. I’ll share my experience of how this insight […]

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A tale of slicing and imagination

In this session I will share the story of a team trying to incrementally replace a legacy application. I will describe my journey with the team while adopting practices to […]

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Example Mapping – From the Outside In

User stories are supposed to be refined collaboratively, from vague ideas into detailed specifications. If you’re stuck in the rut of tedious grooming sessions that treat user stories as requirements […]

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UX work in software start-ups: challenges from the current state of practice

Software start-ups develop innovative software products working with disruptive technologies in time pressure and market-driven environment. Recently, User eXperience (UX) has become a hot topic that interests software teams of […]

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The Evolving Role of Manager in Agile Environment

As organizations adopt Agile, they are faced with few challenges. One of the issues that they face early on, is re-defining some of the traditional roles, like that of a […]

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Sources: XP 2021

Winning the Concept to Cash Game with Feature Teams

Coaching Exploratory Testing

Engineering Agility Enablers for IT Enterprise Transformation

Towards a standardized questionnaire for measuring agility at team level

Measuring Software Delivery Performance using the Four Key Metrics of DevOps

One Year of Remote Mob Programming

Feature Toggles & Trunk Based Development – How To, and more Importantly, How NOT to

From pyramid to communities: How pharma company reinvented themselves using Scrum

An Identity Crisis Averted

Using a Low Code Development Environment to Teach the Agile Methodology

The Changing Role of the Agile Coach – Business Agility Requires Different Coaching

A tale of slicing and imagination

Example Mapping – From the Outside In

UX work in software start-ups: challenges from the current state of practice

The Evolving Role of Manager in Agile Environment

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