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Increasingly, more areas of human activity today are characterized by Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity (VUCA) – we live in a so-called VUCA world. In the context of the Cynefin Framework (https://thecynefin.co/about-us/about-cynefin-framework/), our challenges and […]

In recent years, I’ve noticed a conflicting perception of the role of Scrum Master (SM) or Agile Coach (AC, for simplicity, I won’t differentiate between these roles further in this article) in companies and the agile community. On the one hand, it says that it is a necessary role for operating in an agile/lean way, for pushing change and directing the company culture. On the other hand, there are business ungraspability of the role, the difficulty of defining its meaning, benefits, goals and their measurability, and the related fact that it is one of the first roles to go when “saving” is needed. I understand both sides and in this article I will try to offer a view on how to grasp this role so that the benefits stand out and at the same time it makes sense from a business perspective.

When done right, 1on1s help people improve, build trust, solve problems and help maintain a good company culture. Basically, it’s the ultimate package that every leader needs to have in their toolbox. The million-dollar question, however, is how to do it right.

It is one of the key questions for a leader – how to ensure that what we do has the impact we really want. That we are investing the capacity of people and teams in […]

The discipline of Change Management has existed for a long time in traditional project management, but how do things work in the Agile world when managing changes?

In the first part of our series, we covered why you should be interested in Agile maturity in your teams or organizations and how to look at it. In the next installment of our series, we’ll focus on “measuring Agile mechanics”.

Do you have agility? And could I see it? How agile are we? Does agility help us? Questions like these come up quite often during Agile Transformation. The company needs to know where it stands with Agile, but how to do it?

It is true that the work of an SM/AC is not as easy to see at first glance as that of a developer or tester, but the good news is that the success of these roles can definitely be measured. Let’s take a look at how to do it together!

For more than two years, on and off, we have been guiding the people of ComAp through the Agile Transformation. We’d like to bring you this transformation from different perspectives, so we decided to create […]

We’d like to bring you the Agile transformation of ComAp from different perspectives, so we decided to create a series of articles interviewing people in key positions. Second in the series we interviewed Blanka Chladova, HR business partner.

We’d like to bring you the Agile transformation of ComAp from different perspectives, so we decided to create a series of articles interviewing people in key positions. First up was Marek Novotny, head of R&D.

Have you ever experienced a situation where you have a huge thing in front of you and you don’t know which side to start from? Are you struggling with how to grasp the breakdown of […]

It’s happening every single day and you still feel like there’s room for improvement. We’re talking about the Daily Standup, one of the most crucial Scrum ceremonies. We have prepared our best practices for you, which […]

Very often in agile transformations, we work with agile coaches. Either they already exist in the company, or we help to draft them, or we raise them ourselves from the ranks of employees. And we […]

In companies, we very often see a situation where feedback is not happening at all or there is a middleman in the form of a manager or an Agile coach who takes feedback from all […]

OKRs or Objectives and Key Results are everywhere these days. A lot of the companies jump onto this trendy bandwagon but do not have the right base for their OKRs. For it to work, it […]

During the course of Agile transformations, we often encounter a situation where the role of Agile coach was not present in a company and so it’s needed to fill the position. Companies are looking for […]

The term “safe environment” got a lot of traction in recent years, whether it’s conferences, books, TED talks, or blog posts. The thing is, that it’s very hard to understand it correctly and bring it […]

Agility has become popular across many industries. In IT where it has originated it is de facto standard. However, we also experience many Banks claiming they run more or less successfully an Agile transformation. Let’s […]

Have you reached a state where your retrospectives are like a copycat? Are you wondering how to revitalize them and give your team a new impetus? If you haven’t already read our article Mastery in […]

Previous article defined Agile leadership. Now we ask the following questions: how to naturally and unobtrusively integrate everything described earlier into the  real life of the team and eventually build the culture level 4? For […]

We defined different culture levels and link to our inner beliefs we all carry with us in the previous article. Now we deal with a question: what is the role of the leader in the […]

Following up Jarek’s brilliant article (in Czech), we would take a closer look at one of the key areas of scaling Agile — the role of the leader and how to build the Agile culture. […]

Frequent migraines in my childhood made me use other sources than reading books. And the eye-to-eye meetings have always been the first in the line. I need to see and hear things with my own […]

What is DevOps? How to explain benefits to the entire organization? How to deal with company culture? It’s Friday, May 19th. We are sitting at the Rome – Ciampino airport with Jan waiting for our […]

Have you ever noticed that we seek for complex solutions and yet simple things work incredible well? This short article describes one such a practice we call Show & Tell. I guess you heard of Show […]

We at RainFellows have strong IT background. We started as excited Java Developers, later became Software Architects, Scrum Masters, Project Managers. We applied Agile and Lean thinking since our first days in IT. And the […]

You know how it goes. There is a group of coworkers round the table and they report one after another project status to their manager. Everyone should be interested in work of others but the […]

Sometimes, no matter how exceptionally you do, a development project fails. And even if you apply the best practices in this area. Whether you are customer or supplier, a fixed-price contract most likely sends you […]

For every team, in order to fulfill their mission – to satisfy their customers and stakeholders – it is important to stay focused on the value and continually improve the way of working. Having a Mentor can […]