Strefa Praktyki

Event Storming. Design a Solution to Your Everyday Project Challenges

Why software development is not just about writing a code and how Event Storming might be of help for your future project? We should have known better... This is what comes to my mind whenever I see a huge gap in a system, which has so many walkarounds built around it to make it work, that a developer needs at least 2 MD to go through that jungle and understand the initial purpose of this whole idea.

Specifics of Project Delivery for non-IT Mature Enterprise Clients

Most successful software development companies sooner or later come to a challenging moment in their journey – the start of providing services for enterprise type of customers. In this brief, I’ll shed some light on why it’s challenging and what to pay attention to, to smoothen things up and increase chances for delivering expected outcomes.

Coaching (for Agility) as the Core Scrum Master Competence

Building a Scrum Team, which is agile, be comes a critical challenge to the Scrum Masters. We want the Team to support applying the framework, roles, and arti facts and think Agile. In this article, I’d like to share some experience and hints about how to use coaching to create resilient, curious, solution-focused conversations within the Teams and help them build an agile mindset.

SAFe, done properly

SAFe is increasing in popularity and more and more companies decide to go through an Agile transformation and decide they want to invest in the SAFe framework. We might consider various reasons for this. First of all the visuals of SAFe appeal to organisation structure with various levels of understanding scope and responsibilities, although it’s not – it’s not a hierarchy of organisation, but rather a set of tools. Second of all, SAFe with it’s Implementation Roadmap gives a recipe for Agile transformation – a set of steps to undergo, a path at the end of which you are suddenly Agile. Again this is not the right approach as it’s a journey and you need to prepare yourself for the troubles of it. Third of all, SAFe created a training capability like few others – a number of trainings, and once more – you do a training and suddenly you are Agile, or you are no longer a command and control manager, but rather a servant leader. After a three day learning? Really?

Facilitation for the Agile World

Facilitation appears to be the next big thing. But what are its roots and what are its best applications in the world that requires constant adaptability, adjustment and innovation? In this article we will look at the roots and developments of group facilitation as well as at several techniques that can be useful for all kinds of projects, teams and organisations,

Ciemna strona pracy Scrum Mastera

Zadowolony i zmotywowany zespół, dostarczanie na czas i większa przewidywalność, szybsze dostarczanie nowych funkcjonalności klientom, łatwiejsze dopasowywanie się do zmian, zwiększenie przejrzystości oraz poprawa współpracy między tzw. biznesem, a IT – to niektóre z korzyści, jakie wynikają z wdrożenia Scrum. Aby je jednak zacząć zauważać i mówić o sukcesie musimy odpowiednio rozpocząć taką transformację. Kluczowym w osiągnięciu wyżej wymienionych czynników będzie Scrum Master (SM) i jego właściwe podejście. Praca ta z pozoru wydaje się lekka i przyjemna, w końcu mamy wspierać zespół tam, gdzie nas potrzebuje. Ma jednak swoje ciemne strony i o pewnych aspektach, które się z tym wiążą, będzie ten artykuł.

Lodołamacze – dobre lekarstwo na problemy w zespole. Project Managera skrzynka z narzędziami, cz. VII

W pracy kierownika projektu czy też Scrum Mastera często prowadzimy spotkania. czasem dłuższe, czasem krótsze. każde z nich ma jakiś swój cel, zdarza się nam również szkolić z metodyki pracy albo umiejętności miękkich. to co dla wszystkich z nich jest wspólne, to fakt, że zawsze zależy nam na tym by osiągnąć postawiony cel i mieć pełne zaangażowanie zaproszonej grupy odbiorców. Nie zawsze łatwo nam takie spotkania prowadzić, często zwyczajnie ciężko nam zacząć, zwłaszcza jeśli dopiero zaczynamy nowy projekt i jeszcze dobrze się nie znamy. Z pomocą przychodzą nam wówczas tzw. icebreakery (z ang. lodo-łamacze).

Becoming a Strategic Partner for a Client – How not to End a Project, Build Long Term Relationships, and Make Your Client Successful

All managers who read any management-related books and/or have passed certifications are very well aware of the project stages – initiation -> execution -> monitoring and control -> closure. It may look like you are a great manager if you can handle all stages properly and at the end, all deliverables are finalized, all documentation is signed off, approved, and formally transferred to the client. Both sides are smiling, shaking hands, and say goodbye. In such a case, the last stage is closure, isn’t it? And what if I tell you that our goal is not to end the project?

A dedicated sprint only for Innovation and Planning – no way, that’s too expensive

Can you imagine that every 8-12 weeks your teams stops working on the MVP of deveoped product and spend another two weeks only on innovations and further planning? If you can’t at all or you believe this is way too expensive for your organization this is an article for you. Sit calmly and let us introduce you to the concept of IP Sprint, and its main benefits. We would like to share with you some best practices as well as tips and tricks from our own experience.

Otwarta roadmapa. Wisienka na torcie Produktu

Roadmapa to plan działania dotyczący tego, jak produkt (lub dane rozwiązanie) będzie ewoluować w czasie. Sama w sobie jest artefaktem żywym, co oznacza, że będzie zmieniała się w czasie, odpowiadając na potrzeby środowiska, czyli na potrzeby interesariuszy, użytkowników a także na działania rynku/konkurencji.