The State of Agile Survey - 2005 till 2014+

Now look at these surveys, how far has agile came from 2006 till now. Interesting.

Our history shows in reports: I have put together some interesting surveys about state of agile that gauge the value of Agile Development practices, methodology adoption, tools, state of adoption and more from 2005 till now.  

How to identify the Maturity of your Kanban Implementations?

How exactly do you tell how mature an adoption of a specific Kanban practice is? How far are we on a scale from 0 to 5 with visualization? Why? What about subjective issues, how can we tell? So here is how:

Scrum basic Roles and responsibilities checklist

Please find a Typical theoretical checklists describes the roles of the PO, SM, Team and scrum manager . 

Now, Build your own!

The Kanban Values Exercise by Mike Burrows

Map the 4 foundational principles & 6 core practices to the 9 values.

The Role of the Functional Managers in Agile

Managers are absolutely, 100% necessary in agile, but as an organization transforms to an agile way of working, functional managers can feel lost. Many of their traditional responsibilities move to other roles or disappear altogether.

So what does a 'good' agile practitioner manager do?

I think that if we really look at what a good manager does, it becomes clear how they work in a Scrum environment.

Let's look at this issue deeply and examine the various angels of a functional manager role in scrum.

Give a proper attention to the cultural differences in Scrum Teams.

Do you consider cultural differences while implementing scrum in your company? Whether it is in offshore solutions, distributed team, organization culture, industry culture or just team culture, You should. .  The role of culture in agile methods and techniques is yet to be discovered and understood. Personally I believe that we can overcome almost everything applying the best approach to agility – after all , agile is a ‘suit we tailor and not a suit we buy’, and  culture is something we need to take under consideration. Here’s what experts thinks about about the subject...

When Scrum is not a Good Fit...

When is Scrum not appropriate and can cause more harm than good (generally speaking)?

I have been asked this question from time to time during first scrum tarring sessions. So I have decided to collect some answers from experts around the web. Not all of those answers are really a good fit to the question.  Some of them are just a good indicator to a wrong implementation of scrum or misunderstanding of agile mindset. But just so you can relate to those pitfalls out there… here are certain situations where it doesn't seem like Scrum works well.

What shell be a "good" sprint lenght? why and how?

If you search Google for the "ideal sprint length" you will get varying results. Many people have different opinions on this and I truly believe that you should find the right balance for your organization or project. Traditionally you would try to reach some kind of happy medium for sprint length and that sprint would become the heartbeat of iterations for your software. So what is a good length? When to shorten it, how and why? Should it stay constant and more… all and more explained by the experts in this Roojoom.