The seventh year of our Tools4AgileTeams conference in Wiesbaden is starting to take shape! It’s scheduled for the 29 and 30 November and we’ve now opened the Call for Sessions! We are looking forward to receiving your proposals around the topic: Does culture eat your agile scaling strategy for breakfast?!
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Scaling Agile with Portfolio and Easy Agile Roadmaps for Jira: From teams to portfolio management
Easy Agile Roadmaps for Jira addresses the needs of product managers, their teams and stakeholders by providing a clear shared product vision & direction, keeping everyone updated at all times, allowing distributed teams to collaborate more effectively and clearly visualizing the goals the teams and managers need to meet.
Planning in SAFe® – always a talking point
When 15 teams in a large organization develop a product together, the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®) is right around the corner. The Program Increment Planning, or more commonly PI Planning, is carried out four to five times a year. Scaled Agile underlines the importance of PI Planning in SAFe®.
Scrum meetings: Goals, team activities, and customer benefits
In order to avoid misunderstandings, I’d like to explain what happens in Scrum meetings, why they are important for the project, and what the customer gets out of them.
Is my company large enough for SAFe®?
Is SAFe® suitable for the mythical German ‘family’ companies, or Mittelstand, that make up the core of the German economy?
Contemporary collaboration: Conflict resolution online
We have all dealt with conflicts and their solutions in person – but what about conflicts that arise online? Can we solve these conflicts with our existing behavioral patterns or do we need new strategies?
The beginning of success: Initial requirements workshop for a successful project
Before employer and employee begin the task of developing new software, it is important that both parties have a clear understanding of the end goal. A “requirements workshop” provides the opportunity to define the project’s goals, as well as the individual steps necessary for their completion.
The differences between Scrum and Agile
Agile methodologies encourage teamwork, accountability, and open communication. They motivate business stakeholders and developers to work together to align the product with customer requirements and company expectations. But what really is Agile, and how does Scrum fit into the picture?
An Introduction to Testing Web Services with Karate and JUnit
Karate is a new test framework based on the well-known Cucumber library. It allows you to quickly write meaningful tests for web services using a domain-based language (DSL). Here is an example to help you get started with Karate.
Agile Coaches at //SEIBERT/MEDIA – Company Level Tasks Part III: Corporate Development
The third major sphere of responsibilities assigned to our Agile Coaches at the company level, is corporate development. This includes many activities which aim to enable //SEIBERT/MEDIA to continue to grow, to continue developing and, above all, to react to changing conditions.