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Agile With Non-Software Teams

26 January 2012 OlafLewitz

It is quite interesting to note how little most software developers know about hardware development. Many of us take it for granted that hardware development cannot match the pace of software. While this might be true for the case of the best software teams, able to update a software system every few minutes using continuous integration, for the common pace of biweekly software delivery this is nothing more than a false assumption.

Olaf Lewitz
agile42 Coach. Idea Farmer and Linchpin. My motto is that of NannyMcPhee: "When you need me, but do not want me, I must stay. When you want me, but no longer need me, then I have to go."

On: 26 January 2012
In: Agile with a Purpose, Scrumtisch Berlin
Tags: agile, hardware

At today’s ScrumTisch, the first chosen topic by the crowd was how to do Agile with non-software teams. We started the discussion with a short list of questions:

What to show at the end of the timebox?
How to set the length of the timebox?

Interestingly, these questions, although raised by the audience, apparently were not hot enough to actually get discussed... (the topic Agile Beyond Software is much broader than this post, I’m just covering what was discussed tonight—a touch on the surface...)

Hardware

It turned out, that the person suggesting the topic actually had a ...

Financial Times Germany: Project Management can be agile

25 January 2012 marion

This article, published in the Financial Times Germany in December 2012, is about Landau Media, one of agile42s long time customer.  Unfortunately the article is only available in German, but maybe google translate will help :-) Marion        

Marion Eickmann
I am one of the founders of agile42. Even though I am not an engineer I consider myself almost a "Techi" as I have been working in the field of software development for 10 years now.

On: 25 January 2012
In: agile, General, Press

This article, published in the Financial Times Germany in December 2012, is about Landau Media, one of agile42s long time customer.

Unfortunately the article is only available in German, but maybe google translate will help :-)

Marion

Agile With a Purpose

12 January 2012 OlafLewitz

Agile might still be a small niche which apparently is not yet recognised by the “serious” business thinkers’ community. There seem to be people out there who are rethinking management and business for the 21st century, and we are not connected to them although collaboration between us could produce great results.

On: 12 January 2012
In: Agile with a Purpose
Tags: agile, anarchy, blast, community, purpose

“Happy New Year! 2012 won't know what's hit it”.

Dave Sharrock after the agile42 Internal Coach Camp

We want to make Dave’s prediction a reality with the Agile with a Purpose blast (projects don’t hit, right?). We want you to know why we’re doing it.

Prepare to be astonished!

Some Background

Stephen Parry (@leanvoices) said at the ALE2011 conference that he would like to see agile/lean practitioners joining forces, using their distributed open social network to amplify their knowledge of how Agile works and how it should not be used ("to do the wrong ...