Justyna Wykowska

How Agile is your Product?

Articles, Free handouts / By Justyna Wykowska

Agile engineering practices is a misleading name. It suggests that only engineers should pay attention to them. Of course, there are many practices that are primarily aimed at engineers, but improving the process and paying off technical debt, requires approval from ‘those at the top’. The problem is that the decision-makers do not always see the value in refactoring and paying off technical debt. Rather, what matters to them is money, budgets, ROI, and delivering value to stakeholders.

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Scrum Principles

Articles, Free handouts, Talks / By Justyna Wykowska

Learn the fundamental principles of Scrum that will help you manage projects effectively. Learn how iterative work processes, transparency and continuous improvement can contribute to your team’s success.

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Richard Sheridan – A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Agility

Articles / By Justyna Wykowska

We agile veterans know that simply transforming a company’s IT team to agility without affecting the rest of the business is the equivalent of putting a high performance engine and steering system inside of a freight train. You’ll likely get where you are going faster, but you’ll still go to the same places, hauling pretty much the same cargo. (Maybe just more of the cargo at the same speed).

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Building Agile Structures Workshop

Talks / By Justyna Wykowska

Fun and Interactive Simulation on How Different Organizational Designs Affect Product Delivery

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ABE Light 17 | Greg Hutchings | Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) case study in Poland

Talks / By Justyna Wykowska

Greg share how LeSS can serve as a very adaptable scaling framework, and one that requires courage and leadership, and which encourages experimentation, learning and evolution over time.

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Scrum Master as a Coach

Articles / By Justyna Wykowska

You can hear that Scrum Master is a team coach. But not many people asks what it means to be a coach. What’s the difference between coach and mentor, trainer, manager or other people who are influencing our grow? And what’s the difference between Agile and Personal coaching.

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Agile Warsaw | Gojko Adzic | Impact Mapping with Innovation Games

Talks / By Justyna Wykowska

Gojko will talk about how to avoid common pitfalls and present two innovation games that can help you facilitate impact mapping easily, support innovative ideas and divergent thinking, and help your teams and clients make a big impact through software delivery.

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ABE 2016 Krzysztof Niewiński Delivering Value Agility

ABE 16 | Krzysztof Niewiński | Delivering value agility in a large company

Talks / By Justyna Wykowska

K. Niewiński and M. Srebrny share a five-step method to drive value agility in large companies, emphasizing the importance of understanding the “why” behind change

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ABE 15 | Tomasz Wykowski | No time for Planning Poker? Try Silent Sort Estimating instead

Talks / By Justyna Wykowska

Planning Poker is one of the most popular Agile practices. It’s fast, it’s accurate, and it’s a lot of fun. But sometimes it takes too much time, especially when you’re estimating the initial backlog with a new team. If your client isn’t happy with the ‘No Estimates’ approach, it’s time to look for an alternative. Something that will give you estimates for the entire project in an hour or less.

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