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Agile Risk Management – can we reduce risk by going agile?!??

There are several ways of reducing risk by introducing an agile project method. On of the key areas that you should focus on, is to reduce vaste in your productionline – software development as well! – Vaste is a general saying for funktionality that becomes obsolete during the projects lifecycle or when funktionality simply aren’t being [...]

March 3rd, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Agile, Projects in general | One comment

Scrumbutt – and so what?

At the last Scrum Gathering in Stockholm there was alot of attention towards Ken Schwabers session on “Its not Scrum if…” http://www.scrumalliance.org/resource_download/441 and Jeff Sutherlands “Scrumbutt Test – the Nokia Test” http://jeffsutherland.com/scrum/scrumbutttest.pdf . So what is Scrumbutts, and how do I react, if my company is identified as a Scrumbutt organisation?
Scrumbutt is a word for the organisations [...]

March 3rd, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Scrum | 2 comments

A Few Thoughts on the Economics of Software Product Development

Some of you probably already get this… some of you might even disagree… but unless you are building software as a hobby… chances are, you building software for money. In other words, someone is paying you to write software for them. Why would someone pay you money to show up and write software? They are [...]

Podcast with IT Kanban

Kevin Ryan at IT Kanban just released a podcast with me. Check it out
Cheers
Mattias

Lean from the Trenches – Managing Large-Scale Projects with Kanban

I’ve published another book! This one’s called “Lean from the Trenches“. It is about how we scaled a 60-person project by combing techniques from Kanban, Scrum, and XP. I chose this title because it really it illustrates how to put Lean principles into practice in a software project, especially the notion of an end-to-end Kanban read more »

Coming to Brazil

Hi Brazil! I’m happy to say that I’ll be visiting you in a few weeks. I’ll be involved in two public events together with Samuel Crescêncio: Feb 10: Public seminar about Lean & Agile (in Florianopolis). More info coming soon. Feb 13-14:  Certified ScrumMaster course in São Paulo. The course will be in English, but Samuel read more »

AgileExams.com Controversy Resolved…Sort Of

Well it turns out the “controversy” about AgileExams turned out to be the biggest of misunderstandings. The Testimonials Were Authentic: Several of AgileExams customers contacted me and revealed the root cause of this confusion is the fussiness of PMI.org’s online … Continue reading →