What if you could reduce time to market while delivering quality products? What about increase employee engagement while improving team productivity?Adopting an agile approach comes with many benefits...
According to Theory of Needs by David McClelland, there are three main motivation drives: need for achievement, need for affiliation and need for power. Let’s see what are these needs about and how to...
Once upon a time I had to work with a project team that was supposed to use Scrum. The very first thing I discovered was their motivation, or rather their lack of it. Some developers left the project ...
For some time now I’ve been a part of the scrum.org organization, which provides high-quality Scrum education and helps development teams and customers to maximize value by using the Scrum framework. ...
As you know, in Agile it is very important to inspect and adopt your process, and metrics can give you the necessary information to track your way and approach to the necessary destination. There not ...
We all know that there are 3 roles defined in Scrum: Development Team Member, Product Owner, and Scrum Master. There is no doubt that Development Team Member is a full time job, and that Product Owner...
If we look at the storming team, we think things are falling apart because the team is no longer getting along as they used to, but rather disagreeing on both petty and important issues. Meetings are ...
Tired from participating in "agile rocket science" webinars? Looking for fresh ideas? Want to present new approaches for leading agile teams? We want to present you a space to discuss experi...
Does the customer want to get project estimates quickly and with minimal investment in writing detailed requirements? We ask for rough estimates almost everywhere – when we order custom furniture, whe...
The Lean Kanban Russia conference highlights new ways to manage 21st century creative and knowledge-based businesses. The conference is for anyone who has to make decisions and manage risks, especiall...
Scrum is founded on empirical process control theory, or empiricism. Empiricism asserts that knowledge comes from experience and making decisions based on what is known. Scrum employs an iterative, in...
One day you find out that you have to start a new team. It’s exciting, because you have a chance to begin from scratch and make a new start. However, it is not as easy as it looks upon first glance.Ac...
In the first part of this article you learned some specific terminology including: Sprint, Scrum Master, Product Owner, Definition of Done, and so on. This terminology is related to the Scrum framewor...
The post describes an exercise that can be proposed for meetings participants to perform in order to make the meeting more effective.Before conducting official business at a meeting, it is usually hel...
I'm happy to announce that Luxoft Agile Practice has successfully passed accreditation for a new Agile training, “Agile Team Facilitation.” Now this training is available to Luxoft employees intereste...
Imagine playing a videogame with such incredible graphics and inspiring dynamics that before you knew it, hours had passed. You know that at the end of the game your hero will meet a final foe, who yo...
A famous quote of Derek Bok says: “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”We at Luxoft appreciate the role of continuous education in raising the bar of quality of our services. This is w...
Some time ago we met a person from our client’s management team. She wanted to run a new initiative in her program and she asked us to help with Scrum adoption, because she liked certain principles of...
A couple of weeks ago I was asked about tools that can help to setup and/or enhance collaboration between distributed team members. I wish to share a summary list of these instruments with you since d...
This is a review on the team facilitation training that was conducted by Agile Practice in December. The post provides general information about this event and tips on facilitation techniques. Several...
The Kanban method is becoming very popular in software development. Luxoft is trying to follow this trend and establish the use of Kanban process in teams where Scrum or other Agile methods are proble...
Agile is all about simplicity. Those who practice Agile methods long enough are guided by one of the twelve principles of Agile: "Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - ...
Phase 0 (optional)This phase mostly concerns the assessment of the project’s current processes and roles. The Scrum Master can assist a coach in the audit by providing relevant and detailed informatio...
Luxoft was recently accredited as an MTO (member training organization) of International Consortium for Agile. ICAgile develops education tracks and learning objectives for its members' training class...
Sprint Zero is becoming a very popular practice in the organizations where Agile and Scrum are used. Sprint Zero is not a part of the official Scrum framework, where it is mandatory to have a working ...
There is now, the first Professional Scrum Trainer at Luxoft accredited by Scrum.org. Luxoft now offers Professional Scrum Master training to organizations and individual students.Luxoft is proud to a...
The "Success Well" idea is based on two main underlying principles, both of which are essential for leadership & management and explain why Agile has become such a powerful idea. Agile as an...
Main topic of this post is the mechanics of the one-day Agile process simulation, in continuation to the previous article, where I tried to advertise a value of Agile simulation workshops. However, fo...
(image credits: Kenny Louie)Does your team work in a cubical world? Do you want to improve its effectiveness and make team members life happier? Then take a sit. This blog post will tell you how to ma...