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Celebrating one year of Scrum Boosters!

Xebia

History In 2014 I started at Xebia in the business unit Agile Consultancy and Training (ACT). Colleague Nicole Belilos took me under her wings and helped me develop and grow within this group of Agile coaches. Together with Laurens Bonnema we formed a group who had experienced a lot of bad Scrum, fake Scrum, Scrum […].

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What is the Recommended Scrum Team Size?

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

The Scrum Guide offers very limited guidance, suggesting 3-9 people per team (exclusive of ScrumMaster and Product Owner), without giving reasons or context for those numbers. While this is primarily about Scrum, the lessons are applicable for any work that is collaborative and knowledge-based. Evidence from Agile Projects.

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Transforming to an Agile Mindset, Part 3

Accenture

In Part One of this series, I wrote about how Agile represents not merely practices like Scrum and Kanban but is rather built on a foundational set of values. Now, in Part Three, we look at how behaviors support and reinforce Agile principles and values. Why is Microsoft even a member of this Agile Learning Consortium?

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Meet the Coach: Giuseppe De Simone

Agile42

How did you start as an Agile coach and how many times did you cross path with agile42? I attended my first Scrum training is 2009 and encountering Scrum has been a life-changing experience for me. The trainer of that class was a guy called Andrea Tomasini , so you can understand what was my imprinting into the agile world!

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Apiumhub is hiring software developers! Join us!

Apiumhub

We are agile and we believe that our software developers should use TDD & CI to deliver projects to be proud of. A little bit about us… Apiumhub was 2014 when the company was founded by Evgeny Predein & Christian Ciceri. All of us are huge fans of Agile methodologies and we share the same thirst for learning.

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Agile Bonuses – The Damage They Do

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

From working with Scrum and Kanban teams, I know that bonuses are counter-productive anywhere team members are doing knowledge work and their work is interdependent. Of course, from our experience in the agile world, we know that most targets are either outright dangerous (e.g. defects as a proxy for quality). Individual Bonuses.

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5 Tales of Leadership from India

Accenture

Back in 2014, I had an interesting conversation over dinner with the CEO of a large office supply organization based out of United States. He had come on a ten-day trip to India to select an Indian offshore company to be his Agile provider for software development services. It’s not magic: it’s Agile.