by Christian Herbst | May 13, 2022 | Project Management
Transitioning to Agile means using different measurements. Using status reporting such as traffic lights can be very misleading. Sometimes a project is 90% done but then the team tries to integrate the pieces into a product and finds that the requirements need to be...
by Christian Herbst | May 13, 2022 | Project Management
When we think we know something to be objective truth, our immediate reaction to news indicating the opposite is to jump to the conclusion that there must be something wrong with the source. “The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion draws all things...
by Christian Herbst | May 13, 2022 | Project Management
Tools of management are not only ineffective, but they actively get in the way of transformational leadership intended to inspire deep change. Neither the sincerity of intentions, nor the soundness of the ideas can guarantee that the leader’s behavior will be...
by Christian Herbst | May 13, 2022 | Project Management
Culture will always influence the use of agile approaches. Organizational culture is a continuum that reaches from highly predictive plans to lean startup where everything is an experiment. Agile approaches might fit well with lean startup culture, but highly...
by Christian Herbst | May 13, 2022 | Project Management
Scrum in a Nutshell 1. Create small, cross-functional, self-organizing teams. 2. Split your work into a list of small, concrete deliverables. Prioritize the items in the list and estimate their relative effort. 3. Split time into short fixed-length iteraions (max. one...
by Christian Herbst | Apr 1, 2022 | Project Management
This approach from project management was implemented as a technique to scale individual Scrum teams at company level. In this approach, each product line has its own Scrum of Scrums, and some products may even contain multiple Scrums of Scrums. The Scrum of Scrums...
