“For purpose-creating systems, everything has a purpose.“ (N. Luhmann) Meaning: Even apparent nonsense has some meaningful purpose. I recently read an article in the knowledge magazine SZ Magazin of the South German Newspaper („Dem Amateur ist nichts zu schwör“, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, Number 24/ 20120615), which discussed amateurs in the fields of politics, economy and … weiterlesen →
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The Purpose behind Amateurism in the World of Agile Product Development
“For purpose-creating systems, everything has a purpose.“ (N. Luhmann) Meaning: Even apparent nonsense has some meaningful purpose. I recently read an article in the knowledge magazine SZ Magazin of the South German Newspaper („Dem Amateur ist nichts zu schwör“, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, Number 24/ 20120615), which discussed amateurs in the fields of politics, economy and … weiterlesen →
The Retrospective in Scrum
Bearing in mind Hofstede’s Dimensions. The Retrospective is one of those personal meetings where I feel that my duty as a ScrumMaster is to enable each one of my Team members to freely voice his or her opinion. Another one of my tasks is – as always – to facilitate the smooth running of the … weiterlesen →
Product Backlog and Taskboard Evaluation – JIRA
JIRA is everywhere. Everyone talks about it, everybody wants it, but not everybody can have it – why is that? In my first article, I announced that a series of articles will follow in which Scrum tools will be reviewed. This blog entry is the first of many in which I will evaluate currently available … weiterlesen →
Communities are Communication Bridges
In my last post I made my case for describing organizations in terms of communication structures. Persons that are interacting much with each other should be in one cluster within the organization. Bridges between clusters are needed and are created by communication paths between at least one member of each cluster. By crossing multiple bridges … weiterlesen →
Agile Architecture can be changed!
Whoever wants to develop in an iterative manner has a basic problem: he doesn’t know if he will be required to do something which requires throwing out basic assumptions. In the most extreme case this can lead to large parts of a product having to later be changed. This knowledge leads many software developers to … weiterlesen →
There is no “I” in team – with Marshallow, Spaghetti and Creativity a step towards Team Building
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