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Agile Estimation in SAFe: Debunking Myths and Clarifying Practices

The Agile world is rife with misconceptions about SAFe®, particularly around estimating with Story Points. That leads to bad practices […]

Improving your Scrum with Kanban? You can do it.

Existing Scrum or Scrumban teams can benefit from Kanban. A customer report outside of IT shows how individual aspects of […]

Scrum visualization – How to get started with sketchnoting as a Scrum Master

Visualization is an important tool for Scrum teams to talk about the same, make decisions, show processes, explain Scrum to […]

Descaling instead of scaling: Why scaled agility should simplify the organization.

More cheese, more holes More holes, less cheese More cheese, less cheese Is this paradox cheese? Possibly. And is […]

SMART Goals in Scrum

The recommendation to formulate ‘SMART’ goals can be found everywhere in the literature. The SMART criteria are regarded as the […]

Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM)? An honest comparison.

CSM and PSM are the two recognized Scrum Master certifications. What’s the difference? There are many one-sided “comparisons” out there. […]

Agile Myths: User Stories – a mandatory format for Scrum Teams?!?

The User Story format is often used by Scrum teams to document requirements. It’s a short syntax that sounds totally […]

Agile Myths: Agile Solves all my Problems

Agility – the solution to all problems: We no longer run over project time and budget, our clients are always […]

Agile myth: Writing user stories is Product Owner work

Again and again I am confronted with the statement that only the product owner writes and prioritizes user stories. The […]

Agile Myths: Agility equals Scrum?!?

As is commonly known, there are many myths surrounding the definition of agility. Today: Agile equals Scrum.

“Promoting Agile inside Organisations: Talk & Workshop” at the Agile Munich user group

“Agile Munich” is a Scrum Alliance user group aimed at international and English-speaking Scrum practitioners in the Munich area and […]