Blog-Archive

Thanks to WordPress for a good time!

After 13 months and a good time with WordPress we have moved our site and created our own domain http://www.y-o.blue. Hope to see you again there … cheers Mirko  

Veröffentlicht in scrum

Forecasting in agile Projects – Do you get your things done within time and budget?

Well, this sound like a question for classic approaches J. However, I often get asked how could we know in agile projects, or on product level if we get things done in time?   Agile projects are cool and simple,

Tagged with: , , , , , , , , ,
Veröffentlicht in field experience, scrum

My speech about „The future of …“ Collaboration – How agile cooperation models substitute classical client/vendor relationships

Last two days I was at conference ONE and „The future of..“ in Zurich while  I gave a speech about „The future of collaboration: How agile cooperation models substitute classical client/vendor relationships“.-There were several other very interesting speeches about newest trends in technology, biology, culture,

Tagged with: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Veröffentlicht in field experience, scrum

How Hierarchy prevents Agility

Big projects tend to setup a big project organization, but why?-And is this really supporting agility needed or is it create other risks, that slows down time-to-market?   In my previous blog entry I told you about alternatives how to handle very big

Tagged with: , , , , , ,
Veröffentlicht in scale, scrum

Will a centralizing of IT sourcing solve the image problem of Swiss government?

The IT departments in Swiss Government hit several times the headlines in the past few months. Some of there projects of importance were massive over budget, failed and big question marks  came up about processes for request for proposal and contracting. But what is the root cause of all that and

Veröffentlicht in scrum

How important is consideration of cultural differences in Scrum Teams?

One of most important thing in Scrum is forming a self organized team. Do you consider cultural differences while social integration of team members and how do you know them in advance? Especially in distributed Scrum Teams the local and

Tagged with: , , , ,
Veröffentlicht in scrum

Are Scrum Members compatible with line Organization?

Scrum changes working culture of the team members fundamental, or as Henrik Kniberg from Spotify.com said: „Scrum Teams are designed to feel like a mini-Startup“. But is this still compatible with traditional line Organization?   All companies I know, that run Scrum, still have

Tagged with: , , , , , , , ,
Veröffentlicht in scrum

Shared vs. dedicated Scrum Master in distributed Teams

No matter if you’re running a distributed Scrum or not you’ve to find balance of sharing most experienced Scrum Masters over multiple Teams and facilitating a scrum Team the best.   Each team has to have a Scrum Master in

Tagged with: , , , , , , ,
Veröffentlicht in scrum

Does Scrum generate a Project Overhead?

In project negotiations I’m sometimes getting told that Scrum is not an option at customer side as cooperation model. From Customer point of view Scrum generates a management overhead, by a lot of additional meetings and customer doesn’t have whether capacities, nor won’t pay

Tagged with: , , , , , ,
Veröffentlicht in scrum

Why Scrum is that successful – Another perspective

I recently talked with a Scrum Newby about why scrum is that successful and what makes the difference. I explained him that based at an instrument he knew, the task force. A task force is a temporary grouping of best

Tagged with: , , , , , , , , ,
Veröffentlicht in field experience, scrum
mirkokleiner

mirkokleiner

Mirko Kleiner is a Blogger, Agilist (Agile Evangelist), Vice President Delivery at youngculture AG, Twitterer, Father of 2 beautyful Sons and Partner of a lovely Wife.

Verifizierte Dienste

Vollständiges Profil anzeigen →