The Scandinavian Agile Conference is an event organized by Agile Finland and focused on Agile software development and Scrum project management. It takes place in Helsinki and discusses Agile organizations, state of the art in programming practices and Agile coaching.
The Definition of Done (DoD) is a common understanding within the Scrum team on what it takes to make your software ready to be released. In their book “Managing the Unmanageable”, Mickey Mantle and Ron Lichty propose an extensive list of what a Definition of Done should include.
Every business needs effective project management to fulfill its mission and goals, whether a small-town bakery or a tech giant at the forefront of innovation. Seamless project execution and the capacity to pivot quickly in response to market needs have become the foundation of long-term success.
In the context of software development, Kanban is an approach based on Lean that tries to limit waste and work in progress to the actual capacity of the software development team. The aim of Kanban is to create a context that balances capacity and demand through a value stream and promote visual project management.
Agile has lost its shine, “corporate agile” has stripped away all the fun, passion, excitement and learning. Adding Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) just makes it worse: a reinvention of top-down management by objective with added metrics to mislead and distort reality.
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