”It’s all about promoting an efficient way of working where focus on headcount is dropped to the benefit of flexibility in the working teams.” For several years, Softhouse has been promoting the ideas around payment for actual deliverables rather than spent hours. About a year ago – in the summer […]
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Getting flow into your product development
As an expert on the management of product development for more than two decades, Don Reinertsen is famous for bringing ”fresh perspectives and quantitative rigour” to the subject. Here, he shares some of his thoughts on product development with Softhouse’s Ingemar Andreasson. The title of Don Reinertsens latest book is […]
Making the product backlog lean
“We have 12,000 stories in our product backlog. How can we best groom it?”, I was recently asked. Trying to deal with a huge product backlog is more common than we would like to think. Many product backlogs are too long, detailed and complex. This is in stark contrast to […]
THIS WILL HURT! – Interview with Henrik Kniberg
Henrik Kniberg, author of the popular book “Scrum and XP from the Trenches,” shares some experience on how to implement Scrum. The bad news: There will always be some pain. The good news: There is potential for immense improvement. What are the general things to think about when implementing Scrum? […]
Dealing with the product backlog
How to use the Product Backlog to increase communication and become productive early on in the project. As a Scrum Coach I sometimes come across projects that simply aren’t working out. Most of those have a problem with the communication between the Product Owner and the Team. Here I present […]