In one of the latest updates of the Scrum Guide, the five values of Scrum – commitment, focus, openness, respect, and courage were officially added to the guide. Values are something that I consider very important as they define behaviors in the team, but they are also something that I find very hard to explain to people who are new…
How to Handle Maintenance in Agile Projects
Scrum is a great way to manage a project when the team is fully focused on that single product. Many teams, however, are very often stretched between delivering a new product or a new release of a product, and maintenance activities for older releases and existing customers. Since Scrum prescribes at least a dose of predictability and planning for the…
The Difference between Product and Service Organizations
In the past few years, I have been engaging with more and more technology organizations that started as pure service providers and are now evolving to offer their own products on the marketplace. Typically, these products have been started based on needs these organizations have identified through their experience in service-based projects with different customers. While this is a good…
Free Webinar: Why Product Management Skills Are Key to Organization Success? (in Bulgarian)
In this webinar we talk about the role of a Product Manager and why PM skills are key to the organization success. We also discuss our motivation to create the Product Academy and what participants will experience during the sessions.
Expand Your Horizon 2017
Leanify participated at a great event – Expand Your Horizon 2017, where we discussed how innovations can be seen as a process and how this process can be managed with Agile methodologies. We tried a Scrum simulation, where the participants learned basic framework concepts like roles, how they collaborate, what is an iteration, how to prioritize the requirements. Thanks a…