Do you Know Your Personal Values?

Personal values are the general expression of what is most important for us and the essence of who we are. 
Our values help guide us in our daily decisions, Choice, Behavior and motivate us. When you'll get them right you'll be swift and focused, with clear direction. Get them wrong or leave them ambiguous and you'll constantly wonder how you got into this mess. Though when we are not true to our values we tend to feel uncomfortable and unfulfilled.

User stories Business Value

Although it may look easy user story business value might be really hard to measure. Where do we need to start, do we need to assign value to tons of small user stories ending up with lots of waste? What are the problems with assigning business value? How do we know the business value? And how do we assign it?

User Stories: How to write an effective user story? @BAEXPERTS

Medici Effect - Diversity drives innovation

The Medici Effect is an idea developed by Frans Johansson that promotes diversity (of cultures, backgrounds, industries etc.) as the best way to produce groundbreaking innovation.

Adjacent Possible - Piecing together innovation

.And ending with ideas that you never have thought to invent. "The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself. The strange and beautiful truth about the adjacent possible is that its boundaries grow as you explore them. Each new combination opens up the possibility of other new combinations. "Steven Johnson

Story Points

In simple terms its a number that tells the team how hard the story is. Hard could be related to complexity, Unknowns and effort. this roojoom explains this concept and, do we do it? whats the relation between time estimate and user stories sizing? and how do we scale?

Sprint Forecasting vs. Sprint Commitment

There has been much debate about whether a team, at the start of a sprint, commits to a sprint , to a goal, or merely forecasts what they currently understand will be completed by the end of a sprint. What is it then? Is commitment long gone (2011 scrum guide)? Is it such really a bad idea to commit? What do we commit to then? To a goal? To improve? To learn? Here is how it works.  

Measure Throughput ? ! - It focuses on delivered value.

Throughput what is it? And how and why use it in agile project? 

Throughput focuses on delivered value. It measures how effectively the system moves the Investment value through the system . It seeks to maximize the efficiency of the flow. Throughput is not commonly used in software development, but is becoming more reverent with the introduction of lean concepts.

This is how it works: