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...
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...
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...
Imagine playing a video game 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 ...
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...
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...