The Dark Side of Scrum
Today Scrum is the dominant framework for managing projects in the software industry. While some of us are glad that it isn’t Waterfall (talk about low standards & picking the lesser poison) I deeply believe this is crazy. I seriously believe it is about time to freak out about it.
Introduction to scrum
A quick overview of Scrum. This e-learning module covers the rationale for Agile/Scrum, along with an overview of roles, meetings, and artifacts. The module ends with a challenging quiz which has been shown to increase scores on Scrum certification tests (such as Certified Scrum Master).
How to combine Design Thinking and Agile in practice
Many of the people and companies I talk to about Design are grappling with applying design at scale. They want to hire designers like crazy, and they are open to change, or as open as you can be before culture change really takes place. What’s holding most of them up is lack of familiarity with how to apply theory to practice.
Agile, the best way we ever worked
Over the last few years we adopted agile methods for our daily work at Edenspiekermann, including our clients in the process. Currently we work on all our big projects with multidisciplinary teams in an agile way. We mostly employ Scrum since we have found this particular method to be highly effective and a reliable way to get great results.
Agile Methodology
Agile methodology is an alternative to traditional project management, typically used in software development. It helps teams respond to unpredictability through incremental, iterative work cadences, known as sprints. Agile methodologies are an alternative to waterfall, or traditional sequential development.
Agile is the new waterfall
Agile promised us engineer driven development. It was a shining deliverance from the dystopia of Waterfall where every important decision was being made immutable outside the hands of engineers. If you read the Agile manifesto it says as much. It values individuals, working software, collaboration, and rolling with the punches.