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Agile ain’t dead it just smells funny
Agile er ikke dødt – det lugter bare lidt underligt.
Agile blev mainstream – og mistede sin sjæl. Certificeringer og rammeværker overtog pladsen for reelt samarbejde, læring og teknisk dygtighed. Nu, med AI som katalysator, kan vi genopdage agilitetens kerne: Fokus på mennesker, produkter og kontinuerlig forbedring.
AI som individuel hjælp eller som en del af teamet
Hos BestBrains har vi eksperimenteret med at lade AI indgå som en aktiv del af teamet – Resultatet? Mere overskud. Bedre samtaler. Og en følelse af, at teknologien faktisk styrker vores relationer og refleksioner – i stedet for at erstatte dem.
Kom i gang med relativ estimering og PlanningPoker
Velkommen til en introduktion til relative estimering og læs om hvordan dit team kommer hurtigt i gang. Download gratis BestBrains Academys PlanningPoker sæt til dit team.
Hvordan siger man ‘NEJ’ som Agile Product Owner, uden at bruge ordet…
Bliv bedre til at sige nej. Få her 12 forslag til hvordan man som Agile Product Owner eller Product Manager kan afvise features uden blot at falde i Nej-fælden.
Agile kontrakter
Agile kontrakter giver kunde og leverandør et økonomisk incitament til at samarbejde og nå effektivt i mål, og de stiller en række krav til begge parter.
Agil innovation – sæt brugeren i fokus
Agil innovation – sæt brugeren i fokus BestBrains afholdt i november 2016 et spændende seminar om agil innovation med John Stoddard som oplægsholder. John har et imponerende CV fra bl.a. Stanford(?) og IDEOs afdelinger i San Francisco og London og har tidligere været...
Vis mig dit burndown, og jeg skal sige dig, hvem du er
Burndown-diagrammer på både sprint og release niveau er almindelige visualiseringsværktøjer for Scrum teams. Få her en hurtig guide til hvordan de kan bruges i dette skriv.
Den gode Product Owner – Nøglen til succes
Evnen til at prioritere og kommunikere er afgørende egenskaber for en god Product Owner, der skal sikre, at udviklingen passer til forretningens behov.
Scaled Agile Framework® – Introduktion til SAFe
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) er det rammeværk, som i de seneste år har vundet den største udbredelse Man behøver ikke længere kigge misundeligt på kollegerne i de små adrætte opstartsvirksomheder. Alle kan anvende agil udvikling, til gavn for både medarbejdere og virksomheder. Få en introduktion til SAFe her.
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The Agile Manifesto – 20 years later
In February 2001, the Agile Manifesto was published. In this post, we look at where the agile mindset actually changed the world and where we are today.
Videocast Pilot Episode – Broken Meetings
How to make meetings more joyfull, shorter and more productive.
BBA Partner, Bent Jensen and House catonist, Yuri Malishenko discuss the concept of broken meetings in this podcast with visual explanation.
How to improve your meetings as a Scrum Master
People don’t hate meetings. They hate bad meetings.
If you have an influence on your meetings, maybe if you are even responsible for some of them, read on and get some advice on how to make your next meeting more productive.
How to say “No” without using the word – 12 ways to challenge value
Have you experienced that it is sometimes hard as a Product Owner or Product Manager to say “No” to new ideas.
Quickly uncover if you need to spend more time on a new business request with 12 ways to challenge the value and start a dialogue about what is important.
Play a new role as Enterprise Architect
The Enterprise Architect must be able to inspire people to join the Quest for Right Solutions. Tell us the Why instead of the How. What are the principles and underlying assumptions that are most important? Get Bo Vincent Thomsen’s take on how you could play a new role as Enterprise Architect.
What does an Enterprise Architect do in SAFe?
In this blog post Bo Vincent Thomsen, who is teaching SAFe for Architects at BestBrains Academy, give his interpretation of the role as an Enterprise Architect in the Scaled Agile Framework®. This read is for you who would like to improve collaboration and alignment in a SAFe® Lean-Agile enterprise.
Don and I
If you are currently working with Agile and Lean methods and maybe aren’t getting exactly the results you had hoped for, Don Reinertsen’s book “The Principles of Product Development Flow” will help you understand why, and how to improve results.
SAFe – An introduction to Scaled Agile Framework
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) has made its victory around the world. SAFe provides a well-defined set of values, principles and practices which can be adopted enterprise-wide to better address scaling agile in big enterprises. Get your introduction to SAFe with this blogpost.
Don Reinertsen, batch sizes & WIP limits
During October we will at Bestrains Academy be hosting the Don Reinertsen two-day masterclass called “Achieving Product Development Flow” in Stockholm and Copenhagen. The workshop covers the ideas contained in his bestselling book, “The Principles of Product Development Flow”.
The big deal about small stuff ?
Waterfall and agile look at the economics of batch sizes from two conflicting paradigms and come to very different conclusions. In this blog post. Tomas Eilsø explores why some struggles with the agile paradigm of small batches.
Video Series w/ Bent Jensen and Yuri Malishenko – Relative Estimates
Learn with Bent Jensen and Yuri Malishenko’s Agile Video Series. In this episode, you learn why the traditional absolute estimates do not work and how to quickly start using relative estimates.
Podcast with Dean Leffingwell
Dean Leffingwell is the man behind SAFe and has formulated, practised and implemented the framework more than anyone else. Bent Jensen, a partner in BestBrains Academy, interviews Dean about SAFe version 4.5.
Free poster: How to Split a User Story
This poster is inspired by Richard Lawrence and outlines 9 kinds of functional complexity in large stories and approaches to split through each one.
Free poster: 12 Agile Principles
Wouldn’t it be cool to have the 12 Agile Principles as a poster and visible for you and your team all the time? 12 Agile Principles for free download.
