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09.09.2022 By Stefan Mönk
#5 Agile software development – progress requires empirical knowledge
In previous blog posts in this series, we found out about agility in software development. Empirical knowledge also plays a key role here, too. I will explain why in my blog post.
Read more05.08.2022 By Stefan Mönk
#4 Agile software development – agile principles for everyone
In my last blog post, I introduced you to six of the twelve agile principles. These should help us not only to implement agility, but to live it, too. In this blog post, I’ll introduce you to the remaining six principles in more detail.
Read more21.07.2022 By Stefan Mönk
#3 Agile software development – agile in principle
It’s important to live the Agile Manifesto. Twelve principles, which can be understood as codes of behaviour or rules of the game, were established for this very purpose. In this blog post, I’ll introduce you to the first six principles in more detail.
Read more06.07.2022 By Stefan Mönk
#2 Agile software development – the Agile Manifesto in practice
In my first blog post, I primarily focused on the historical background of agility in software development and explained what the term means in basic terms.
Read more01.07.2022 By Stefan Mönk
#1 Agile software development – we work in an agile way! Really?
I would like to dedicate a series of blogs on agility to the term ‘agility’ itself. This will cover topics such as agile software development, agile frameworks, agile mindsets and agile methods. My goal is that everyone – from the classic waterfall manager to the full-blooded agilist – will find something to take away. The first part is all about the question of whether we really work in an agile way.
Read more20.06.2022 By Andreas Honert, Stefan Hilmer and Florian Petermann
Approaches for avoiding agile regression
Since agile regression develops gradually, the indicators are very difficult to recognise in everyday life or can only be recognised at a late stage. To counteract this, we’ll describe direct, point-by-point approaches for mitigating agile regression here in our latest blog post.
Read more04.04.2022 By Steffen Albrecht
Projections for (large) agile projects
Interim and completion forecasts are just as important in large agile projects as they are in traditional projects. Unfortunately, the Scrum Guide is no help at all here and classic methods are inadequate in most cases due to the complexity of the requirements. However, simple statistics and a transparent estimation method can be used to arrive at a reliable forecast. I will explain how this works in my blog post.
Read more29.03.2022 By Stefan Hilmer, Andreas Honert and Florian Petermann
The agile regression trap
Sometimes people, organisations or companies that have gone through a long agile transition fall back into old habits. In our blog post, we will first define the term ‘agile regression’, identify the causes and triggers that can set off agile regression and then outline the signs that point to regression being imminent.
Read moreAgile approaches are now very widely accepted. Scrum is often used as a framework and fixed events (meetings) are specified, among other things. Projects in the insurance industry often employ an agile approach, too. Despite that, employees and stakeholders sometimes harbour prejudices. I used to be project controller in a previous life, during which time I was involved in an agile project and was confronted with prejudices at the beginning. In my blog post, I would like to talk about prejudices and my own practical experiences regarding agile approaches based on Scrum.
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