Author archives: andreat
5 March 2013
Author:
Andrea Tomasini
Write up from Agile Development Practices conference in Berlin The fact that many new to Agile focus a lot of energy in doing Agile right, brings them to end often in situation where many Agile Practices stop to make sense as such, and get adapted... unfortunately in not-really-agile ways. With ...
Write up from the Keynote at the Agile Development Practices conference in Berlin
The fact that many new to Agile focus a lot of energy in doing Agile right, brings them to end often in
situation where many Agile Practices stop to make sense as such, and get adapted... unfortunately in not-really-agile ways.
With the keynote today, I tried to pass across that "doing" Agile, requires at least a bit of understanding about why most of the Agile practices are made the way they are made. Starting out by trying something without having understood why it has been created in ...
16 November 2012
Authors:
Andrea Tomasini
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Olaf Lewitz
Notes from last night's ScrumTisch in Berlin
Andrea Tomasini
I am one of those... which those? Those who built all this, including the wonderful tool Agilo for Scrum. What do you think about it?
Olaf Lewitz
agile42 Coach.
Visiting Business Influencer 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."
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Scrumtisch Berlin
At last night's ScrumTisch, a number of interesting challenges was discussed:
- Do we re-estimate a story that wasn't finished in one sprint? How are the story points calculated into the velocity?
- How can a service business sell agile to their clients? How to inspire them to participate and engage in discovering the best product?
- How much preparation (UX/UI-definition) is needed to have stories ready for a sprint?
- Who is using Lean Architecture? How do we change our system's design to enable our teams to go faster?
- How do we spread knowledge (for instance about new components ...
16 November 2012
Author:
Andrea Tomasini
It seems that even if more than a century passed by since the invention of the Corporate structure and the ...
It seems that even if more than a century passed by since the invention of the Corporate structure and the hierarchical management, they are still the most adopted form of structure used today. How can this be? Are Corporate and Management outlasting any other technology and organisational evolution happened over the last 100 years? Or are we just having to deal with very resilient structures, which are hard to dismantle? Or did we ever even thought about challenging them? This presentation is focusing in particular on those aspects which are related to transforming a corporate into an agile company, and ...
4 September 2012
Authors:
Thomas Bradford
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Andrea Tomasini
Scrumtisch - BerlinAugust 29, 2012 This time the Scrumtish was kindly hosted by Andrea Tomasini (follow @tumma72) Questions Collected 1) How to teach non-developers to formulate acceptance criteria 2) How to work with external developers in a Scrum environment 3) What are the characteristics of who can work in an ...
Scrumtisch - BerlinAugust 29, 2012
This time the Scrumtish was kindly hosted by Andrea Tomasini (follow @tumma72)
Questions Collected
1) How to teach non-developers to formulate acceptance criteria
2) How to work with external developers in a Scrum environment
3) What are the characteristics of who can work in an Agile team?
4) How to keep the Sprint Size constant and deal with release deadlines?
5) How to deal with fixed price offers
Discussion
Following a short summary about the main point of discussion for each of the Top three voted topics.
Topic 1 - How to work with external developers in ...
16 August 2012
Author:
Andrea Tomasini
At the Agile2012 Conference in Dallas, Hendrik Esser of Ericsson and Andrea Tomasini of agile42 yesterday presented “Down The Pub—How did that transition you were working on go?”
While we're waiting for the video to be edited, we publish the slides and some information here.
At the Agile2012 Conference in Dallas, Hendrik Esser of Ericsson and Andrea Tomasini of agile42 yesterday presented “Down The Pub—How did that transition you were working on go?”
Slides
The session has been recorded, and while we're waiting for the video to be edited, download the slides:
Download pdf
Booklet
To learn more about this story, enjoy this PDF booklet called “Tales of Agile Change”:
6 August 2012
Authors:
Andrea Tomasini
,
Martin Kearns
Agile42 Having worked with a lot of amazing people at agile42 over the recent 5 years, I have fallen in love with the diversity of thoughts we share. We published our first paper "Agile Transition - What you need to know before starting" and we are looking forward for your feedback
Andrea Tomasini
I am one of those... which those? Those who built all this, including the wonderful tool Agilo for Scrum. What do you think about it?
Martin Kearns
I am an irish guy living in Australia with his wife and six children (a family of the size of a Scrum Team). How he can manage to be a Scrum Coach travelling all over the world and at the same time be part of such a huge family?
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agile,
transition
Agile42
Having worked with a lot of amazing people at agile42 over the recent 5 years, I have fallen in love with the diversity of thoughts we share. The problem is that nobody else really got to appreciate such insights, as we fail to publish many of them. To address that issue we have been working throughout the year creating a series of internal initiatives which work on a common aim: to share knowledge with a broader community. You may notice more blogs at agile42.com.
The next step
From my perspective the blog posts are a great starting point ...
25 December 2011
Author:
Andrea Tomasini
A game to let you experience four of the five domains of Dave Snowden’s Cynefin framework.
Context
The Cynefin Lego Game is part of agile42’s management training for the Agile Management Framework.
It is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany License.
What It Is
A game to let you experience four of the five domains of Dave Snowden’s Cynefin framework.
Using Lego, you go through four exercises where the problem to solve and the context you work in is designed to create a simple, complicated, complex and chaotic system. While it does not introduce you to the full potential of the sense-making framework, it is well suited to get a ...
15 September 2010
Author:
Andrea Tomasini
At the peak of sprint planning the team pledges "We commit to achieve these stories, no matter what it takes". ...
At the peak of sprint planning the team pledges "We commit to achieve these stories, no matter what it takes". It's a deal with the Product Owner (PO) and the team.
So why do teams commit?
The commitment is only valuable if the team thinks it can actually achieve it. Since the team is invited to pull the right amount of stories from the backlog, the PO trusts that the team makes reliable commitments based on their current capabilities and expected flow. This way the self-organizing team is challenged to constantly improve estimates, deliver value, as well as contribute ...
6 July 2009
Author:
Andrea Tomasini
How to get a reasonable Sprint commitment without having to spend too much time in breaking down tasks at the Sprint Planning meeting, while being quite sure that you are going to make it
Never had the problem that the Sprint Planning Meeting often is at risk of going out of the time-box, and eventually the Development Teams didn't manage to fill up the Sprint Backlog with all the needed tasks?
I want to share with you a way - for sure no rocket science, but "Common Sense" as Ken would say - in which you can have a team committed to the deliverables, without having to struggle with the tasks breakdown, and at the same time having a "good enough" understanding about the commitment given to move forward... interesting? Than read forward :-)
The idea ...
7 May 2009
Author:
Andrea Tomasini
Introducing Scrum in large organization is often a big challenge, it may take a lot of time to have all the parties in-line and able to start the adoption of Scrum. Moreover having a v...
Abstract
Introducing Scrum in large organization is often a big challenge, it may take a lot of time to have all the parties in-line and able to start the adoption of Scrum. Moreover having a very dynamic and constantly growing organization, requires to adopt special attention to dependencies between products. You need to have a plan, build a transition backlog, and define your strategy to phase out Scrum into the organization. Agile42 is helping Nokia (Berlin) to make this transition.
Here you can download the Presentation:
Best & Thanks for attending!
ANdreaT
