Scrum guide doesn’t implicitly describe how releases should be performed and doesn’t define the interaction between scrum events and release planning. Actually, the latest update contains more references to the release for instance: explicitly referring to CI: the purpose of each Sprint is to deliver Increments of potentially releasable features. This Increment is usable, so a Product …
The whole development team, the whole QA team, Product Owner and an external consultant (coach) has been sent to one the best Scrum courses; to the PSM (Professional Scrum Master) Course arranged by Scrum.org. I was very skeptic about the 2-day course but we learned how to use Scrum to optimize value, productivity and the total cost …
Once you have a plan for making company-wide changes, you can find yourself quickly in a hard situation by trying to find out what’s next; hiring an experienced external consultant or coach would be a reasonable decision. They have usually worked with many different companies and with teams on all levels of development. In fact, the most …
What is working for a startup with 15-20 employees won’t work for a medium one. Once it has been identified that the company won’t be able to grow without working in a more structured way the decision has made; let’s try to improve the processes. Well, great but how to start it? Since it is …
The team has received work from many different sources; from almost all of the departments across the company. Sales team wanted us to support sales activities by performing demos, ops team wanted us to fix monitoring tools, product team wanted us to develop new features, deploy team wanted us to support them and the list just …
Given a company in the middle of a transition from a startup to a mid-level multinational company. Dev teams in three locations: half of them in London other half in Budapest and one guy in Prague. It has been decided to merge the teams and start using Scrum instead of Kanban. Let’s see how it …
I would like to share my thoughts with you on anything related to software development. I was so lucky that I had the chance to work for many different sized companies playing different roles with one common goal – to deliver, build and support enterprise software solutions. Developing any kind of software can be really challenging; …