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Nine Questions for a Good Scrum Team Structure

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In his book “Succeeding with Agile”, Mike Cohn present nine questions that you should ask for a current or proposed team. Questions should be asked iteratively… until you answer “yes” to each. share share share share 

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Scaling Agility in Customer Experience at Ford Motor Company
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Scaling Agility in Customer Experience at Ford Motor Company

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Benjamin Igna worked with Ford Motor Company and lead the transformation within the launch of the new Ford Explorer (EV). In this presentation, he shares his learnings and approaches during the change towards agility of the CX organization across 5 different Markets and cultures affecting multiple hundred people in sales and marketing.

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  • Scrum Values and Principles: Why They Matter for Team Success

    April 1, 2026 0
    Many teams adopt Scrum after hearing its benefits. They organize sprints, standups, boards, and wait for improvements. It happens occasionally. Often, something is off. Though meetings occur, little changes. share share share share 

  • The Cone of Uncertainty in Scrum

    March 30, 2026 0
    Uncertainty in the Product Backlog is a big risk for the schedule of a Scrum project. How clever your estimations might be, Agile has to consider them using the notion of “cone of uncertainty”. share share share share 

  • How Software Testers Help with Requirements in Scrum

    March 10, 2026 3
    As many testers have, I struggled in my first year on a Scrum team. How do I write tests without a spec? How do I know when I am done with software testing when there is no test plan? This article shows the important contributions that software testers on Agile [...]

Tools

  • Open Source Kanban Tools

    October 8, 2025 3
    There are still many open source kanban tools available, contrary to open source projects for Scrum tools that have mostly ended being transformed in a limited offer that supports a main commercial product. The simplicity of the Kanban approach has allowed open source software developers to create and maintain Kanban [...]

  • Free Online Scrum Tools

    August 21, 2025 12
    Agile approaches like Scrum recommend a “just enough” attitude in software development and this is also the case when you discuss tools. Ideally, you would work with a small team that is collocated, but this is not always possible and you might be running your project virtually with a distributed [...]

  • Scrum & Kanban Open Source Tools for Bugzilla

    July 21, 2025 0
    Bugzilla is a popular open source bug tracker created originally by the Mozilla Foundation. It has an open architecture that allows extending its basic functionalities. This article lists the Bugzilla plugins, called add-on in Bugzilla, that allows integrating an Agile project management approach like Scrum or Kanban around the bug [...]

Videos

  • AI as the Future of Agile & Coaching

    AI as the Future of Agile & Coaching

    January 30, 2026 1
    This presentation allows you to understand how artificial intelligence (AI) can transform Agile and coaching practices, enabling more effective, personalized and scalable solutions. share share share share 

  • AI Assistance for Software Teams: an Overview

    January 12, 2026 0
    After almost two years of high attention on coding assistants, many software engineering managers are disappointed by the measurable results. Software developers are suffering from hype fatigue, even the ones who have learned to love [...]

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