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Sjoerd Nijland

Agile Coach

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Empiricism: Adaptation cover image

Enterprise Adaptability

Empiricism: Adaptation

The commitments required as foundation for proper team adaptation.

Sjoerd Nijland

Sep 22, 2020 • 7 min read

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The Development Team cover image

Facilitating Collaboration

The Development Team

Everything in the Scrum Framework enables and empowers the Development Team.

Sjoerd Nijland

Aug 22, 2018 • 7 min read

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Delivery Management

The Daily Scrum

The Daily Scrum serves to create transparency over the progress towards the Sprint Goal and provides the development team an opportunity to inspect and adapt.

Sjoerd Nijland

Nov 15, 2018 • 7 min read

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Delivery Management

The Sprint Review

Optimizing value and creating transparency between team and stakeholders over the product increment.

Sjoerd Nijland

Nov 22, 2018 • 10 min read

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Product Management

Technical Debt

Managing the unpredictable overhead that contributes to the total cost of ownership.

Sjoerd Nijland

Aug 23, 2019 • 8 min read

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Delivery Management

The Definition of Done

Defining when the Product Increment is considered “Done”, what to look for and the typical patterns used to measure it.

Sjoerd Nijland

Jul 16, 2020 • 8 min read

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Delivery Management

The Sprint Retrospective

A deeper understanding on an opportunity for the team to develop transparency and inspect and adapt.

Sjoerd Nijland

Dec 08, 2018 • 12 min read

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Delivery Management

The Scrum Events

The steady routine of actions - centred around continuous improvement - that reduce complexity, promotes predictability and controls risk.

Sjoerd Nijland

Oct 23, 2018 • 6 min read

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Delivery Management

The Sprint Length

The Sprint length is of major influence to a team’s agility, with shorter Sprints having less risk that the definition of what is being built may change.

Sjoerd Nijland

Apr 28, 2019 • 9 min read

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Jenny liberates her Scrum Team from Scrum cover image

Delivery Management

Jenny liberates her Scrum Team from Scrum

A cunning critique of the Scrum Guide and why you shouldn’t care about the immutability rule present in the Scrum Guide.

Sjoerd Nijland

Mar 18, 2021 • 6 min read

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SAFe, get real with Scrum or get out! cover image

Venture Acceleration

SAFe, get real with Scrum or get out!

How SAFe (a Trojan Horse that is successfully supplanting Agile) dilutes Scrum and Agile through ‘Agile Terminology Hacking’.

Sjoerd Nijland

Dec 05, 2021 • 20 min read

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