Agile Mindset

Sometimes it is right there before us and all we need to do is to reach out and take it. Improvement opportunities are there – all we need to do is learn how to identify them and invest the [...]

  Written by Michal Epstein and Yaki Koren At the beginning of a Scrum implementation you usually find two main types of team behaviors. Those who embrace the scrum events (Planning, daily [...]

Lately I had the opportunity and pleasure to facilitate a process of designing cross-functional feature teams in a self-selection process. Self-selection is a facilitated way to let people choose [...]

As  coach I’ve had several opportunities to be involved in the process of big organizations moving from waterfall to agile. You usually start with frowning faces, people coming to meetings [...]

There is this thing. It’s coming up again and again. I would say it is the root of all evil. At least some of it. I am referring to the need of many software development managers to make [...]

By Erez Tatcher & Yaki Koren Every summer my uncle Josh and his wife Nancy go on a big trip to see a famous waterfall. They love waterfalls. Sometimes it seems to me my uncle even loves [...]

We need good metaphors to better understand software development. Good metaphors from our day to day can help us better understand this elusive domain. Some time ago I wrote about traffic and not [...]

You can find a lot of praise for the Marshmallow Challenge. It is a good warm-up for workshops and training sessions and you can learn a lot from it. Usually the learning people talk about is [...]

One of the major topics that intimidate test engineers is the No-QA question or approach (depends on your view of it). I heard such responses after the session of “Fiverr delivering [...]

A fundamental aspect of Agility is incremental and iterative development. It’s so basic that when introducing Agile you usually mention this idea in the first 5 minutes. The core [...]