Agile & Systemic Coaching
By Sigi Kaltenecker & Bent Myllerup Over the last few years coaching has become a prominent issue in the agile world. There is a growing number of agile practitioners who call themselves agile coaches - and the Scrum Alliance even h...
Have an Initial Conversation to Start an Agile Project: A CSP and CSM share how teams at Baker Hughes choose the solution delivery methodology that best suits the project.
Based on our experience, it is essential that stakeholders be involved in deciding the approach for solution delivery. Agile and Scrum require commitment and collaboration from various stakeholders for successful delivery and customer delight. While teams inspect and adapt their ways of working through multiple iterations, efforts of multiple stakeholders need to be coordinated. Without collaboration, sustainability is compromised. Commitment and collaboration cannot be achieved without setting the foundation early on in the project. At Baker Hughes Incorporated, our processes facilitate the initial conversation between multiple stakeholders to make the project successful. During the initial stage of projects at Baker Hughes, the teams have an opportunity to choose a solution delivery methodology – Waterfall, Rapid Application Deployment or Agile.
In this article, Rahul Sawhney and Prashant Patel present:
• The different aspects of this conversation - the parameters that we consider.
• Why these parameters are relevant in the context of Baker Hughes Inc.
• The impact of these parameters on solution delivery
Ba and Knowledge Creation in Scrum
Ba and Knowledge Creation in Scrum
By Heitor Roriz Filho, M.Sc., CSP Agile Coach AdaptWorks, Brazil hroriz@adaptworks.com.br
This article briefly discusses the creation of knowledge in Scrum and the importance of the environment that enables kno...
Are you ready for Agile?
A Checklist of Questions to Consider Before Starting a Large-Scale Agile Adoption
By Ramesh R. Donnipadu, Bala Kishore, Pete Deemer
Abstract
The ability to deliver business value earlier and more often, increase productivity, and improve employ...
Scrum and SVO-P
Scrum is unique in that the management method is consistently direct. All communication in authentic Scrum is concise, direct and clear. Scrum encourages responsibility. The daily stand-up meeting actively encourages personal responsibility to exe...
Challenging inertia through Scrum
Inertia is defined as a state of being lazy, sluggish or indifferent. Challenging inertia is about challenging status quo in an organization. It is about how things should be done differently compared to how they are done now. Organizations someti...
Scrum in old fashioned software environments?
The “normal” Scrum project.
When I look around in the Scrum community, I wonder whether Scrum is only suitable for modern software development. All these shiny, new ways of making really cute, web- based software, with modern source re...