Although relatively new in the Netherlands, Liberating Structures (LS) has proven to be very popular. With a Meetup group reaching over 800 members in only one year, monthly meetups have to be organized across the Netherlands to meet the demand. Despite the popularity, I have heard some of my peers saying that they are bored using LS. I used to defend LS because I know there are many structures you can use, and more are under development to make it interesting in every situation. Furthermore, I believe in the power of LS to engage a group of people with the use of simple structures.

Timelines and deadlines have always been tricky for software development. With the advent of Agile software development and Scrum, they may feel even trickier. In this post, I explore how you can move the conversation from time and deadlines to something that matters: delivering value to your customers faster.

Most organizations want to speed up their Agile transformation and embrace an Agile Scaling Framework to create standardization in processes and to be implemented as soon as possible. Be aware, this approach might harm your organizational agility!

“How to manage stakeholders” is one of the biggest challenges a Product Owner in an Agile environment faces when fulfilling her role. Especially as part of a scrum team, it is important to really engage both customers, and stakeholders to value. Communication and inspection during the sprint review and backlog management are vital to ensuring the engagement of the stakeholders and delivering value as desired by customers and stakeholders.

One of the many questions I get as an agile coach is “How to handle unplanned work in Sprints”. I really like this question coming from scrum teams. In an earlier post, I gave advice to the PO on how to create more insight into the Product Backlog. However, unplanned work is not always easy to […]