Author: Pavel from SimpleAgile
We Are Tired of Meetings
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This is the second part of the story about the role of meetings in agile approaches. In the previous part, we mainly talked with management about value delivery and its prevalence over utilization. We discussed the importance of self-assessment by regularly asking the question, “Is the thing we are currently…
Two Useful Things to Balance the Team’s Focus
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This short note – a summary of long discussion on whether an Agile leader should focus on continuous improvement all the time or whether it is sometimes important to stop and maintain stability and predictability.
Why We Should Shift from Writing Code to Value Delivery Process
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Unlocking Productivity: Embracing Agile Principles for Efficient Development As an Agile coach, I frequently come across a common complaint from development teams: “I don’t have time to write code because of these endless meetings!” I’m sure many of you have faced similar situations. Concurrently, management raises their concerns: “We implemented…
One Important Question to Diagnose Your Scrum Implementation.
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“We have a Scrum team (or several teams), and we would like to understand how effectively these people are working.” We often come across such requests. Agile practices often emerge within companies from a grassroots initiative and develop over time based on their own understanding. In such situations, the desire…
We Need More Teams! Is It True?
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We are often approached with requests to help create cross-functional self-organized development teams. When dealing with such requests, it is important to understand the underlying problem the client truly wants to solve.
Breaking Through Barriers Successfully: How Teams Progress from Level 0 to Level 3 of Awareness Development
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A significant part of the diagnostic process is the audit of selected teams. And unfortunately at this stage it sometimes turns out that teams as meant in Agile approaches don’t really exist. People brought together won’t become a team just by being brought together. In our methodology we distinguish four…
Does a Self-Organized Team Really Need a Team Lead Role?
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The role of a team lead in software development has been a topic of focus for me lately. I have been exploring the purpose, goals, and responsibilities associated with this position. Additionally, I have been pondering the value that a team lead brings to a team and whether this value…
