Tag Archives: agile

Is Jira trapped in your IT and development teams? (Part 1)

31. January 2019 mseibert

Technical teams in many companies work happily and successfully with Jira – but software that has a reputation for being a development system is not normally something which the Average Joe can also use for their work. When such a person starts working with Jira for the first time, they may be a little overwhelmed by the depth of the system’s many features and functions. Nevertheless, we and many of our customers use Jira with completely different teams and company departments. The advantages of Jira are not limited to just our technical teams. You can clearly see the advantages that Jira brings to all sorts of teams when you focus on its ability to be transparent, its visualizations and how it inspires collaboration rather than technical integration.

Agile Hive, scaling agile methods, SAFe software integration and more – Interview with Brandon Huff (cPrime)

29. October 2018 mseibert

Collaboration with partners is an important factor in the continuous development and improvement of our products. Here is a video interview with Brandon Huff from one such partner company, cPrime – a leading Atlassian expert. We talk about our software solution for the implementation of SAFe with Atlassian tools – Agile Hive – its potential from the viewpoint of a US partner, regional differences in scaling agile methods, the importance of comprehensive software integration, among other things.

Our road to Hangouts Chat with Jira Server integration

18. October 2018 kwiesmueller

Now that the era of Hipchat and Stride is at an end, we can reflect upon our transition from these Atlassian solutions to Google Hangouts Chat for group chat and messaging in organizations.

Agile remote transition III: how?

8. October 2018 ppasler

In the previous two posts, I’ve covered the question of why remote work may be a good thing for your company, and who is suited to remote work. Now I want to look at what you need to do to make the introduction of a remote work environment a success.

Agile remote transition II: who?

27. September 2018 ppasler

What does an agile organization with remote teams and only one location need to do to support their teams? What are the hurdles and how can they be overcome effectively? And who is actually suited to be a remote employer or employee? Here are some experiences and my thoughts.

My remote sprint – part two

20. September 2018 ppasler

The blog post series considers the everyday obstacles of working in a Scrum team as a remote employee. It provides solutions as well as best practices based on an “ideal” sprint. The second part considers backlog refinement, code reviews, and retrospectives.

The Tools4AgileTeams 2018 conference program is now available

19. September 2018 pherwarth

The Tools4AgileTeams 2018 conference is just around the corner on the 29-30 November in Wiesbaden, Germany. Thanks to a great selection of presenters, we have now released the session program. We hope you are anticipating a rich, varied T4AT with excellent presentations, great speakers and many ideas for your own teams and companies -it’s going to be a great one!

My remote sprint – part one

13. September 2018 ppasler

The blog post series considers the everyday obstacles of working in a Scrum team as a remote employee. It provides solutions as well as best practices based on an “ideal” sprint. The first part looks at sprint planning, stand-ups, and pair programming.

Agile remote transition I: why?

3. September 2018 ppasler

How should an agile organization with remote teams and just one site approach the facilitation of distributed work and integration of distributed team members? Here we consider why it is a good idea to take a closer look at this topic, which obstacles can come up along the way and how can you overcome them effectively.

Easy Agile interview: the Atlassian ecosystem, Agile scaling, online marketing and more

30. August 2018 mseibert

We were delighted to have the opportunity to interview Nick Muldoon and Teagan Harbridge from Easy Agile about two very useful Jira apps, as well as the GDPR and other very topical issues in the technology sector.