Agile software development
It can easily be argued that agile grew out of the spirit of object orientation: its focus on change, on anthropomorphism, and on people. Alan Kay saw objects as a way for people to connect with their environments through their machines. As late as the 1980s people were still talking …
Stigmergy is a mechanism of indirect coordination between agents or actions. The principle is that the trace left in the environment by an action stimulates the performance of a next action, by the same or a different agent. In that way, subsequent actions tend to reinforce and build on each …
This talk is about how to do portfolio planning and prioritization at scale based on experiences within one of the largest banks in The Netherlands. I’ll elaborate on practices we developed, show examples and discuss how we plan for short term (< 3 months) and longer term.
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is able to coordinate the work of hundreds of agile teams. But can it also be useful on a smaller, more common scale or will it just slow things down? In this talk we will tell you about our journey from waterfall to agile for our …
When we think about self-organization the obvious context is a team. Everyone in the Agile and Scrum world have heard about self-organized teams. We expect a boost of engagement and productivity when people aren’t told how to organize themselves. Interestingly enough, despite all the benefits we see at a team …
Agile working and cross-functional teams have the ability to silo organizations into teams, programmes and functions. This leads to duplication or work, a reduction in sharing knowledge and worse cuts people off from their support network. At a time when organizations are scaling, structures are flattening and workforces are increasingly …
