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Agile, inner source, open development, open source development

May 7, 2017
Hacking people
agile, lean, inner source, open development, apache way, open source development

Agile, inner source, open development, open source development # Last week I had the honour of giving a keynote at Adobe’s Open Source Summit EU in Basel. Among many interesting talks they hosted a panel to answer questions around all things open source, strategy, inner source, open development. One of the questions I found intersting is how inner source/ open development and agile are related. To get everyone on the same page, what do I mean when talking about inner source/ open development? ...

Design Thinking @ Scrumtisch Berlin

September 26, 2011
agile, Scrum, lean, scrumtisch

Design Thinking @ Scrumtisch Berlin # This evening Mary Poppendieck gave a presentation on Design Thinking in Berlin. “What does the US Military have in common with Apple?” In her talk Mary went into more detail about how increasing complexity calls for a need to rethink design. Slides are available online. Thanks for sharing them. Mary started with a question for the audience on who in your company decides what is to be developed: Is it the PO? ...

Berlin Scrumtisch - February 2011

February 24, 2011
agile, coaching, Scrum, lean

Berlin Scrumtisch - February 2011 # The February Scrumtisch Berlin featured a talk by Lyssa Adkins, famously known for her publications on Coaching Agile teams. A mixture of fifty developers, scrum masters, coaches and product owner as well as one project manager followed Marion Eikmann’s invitation. Thanks for organising the event, as well as thank you to Hypoport for providing the venue. In her one-hour presentation she mainly focussed on two core topics: On the roles agile coaches have to fullfill as well as on the skill set needed by agile coaches. ...

Scrumtisch with Mary and Tom Poppendiek

October 12, 2009
Scrum, lean

Scrumtisch with Mary and Tom Poppendiek # Yesterday evening the Scrumtisch Berlin hosted a talk by Mary Poppendiek on Lean Development. Mary started the session with a talk on what lean development is all about and why it goes further than Scrum ever did. Some of the core principles she explained: The first goal of every lean project should be to strive for customer satisfaction. The low hanging fruit is to do exactly what the customer wanted to have. ...