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Dear Lean Kanban Aficionado,
With any luck there’s a conference coming up later this year: Lean Kanban Australia/New Zealand, or LKANZ if you like, (pronounced el-cance, rimes with bell dance). It’s the southern hemisphere extension of the famous Lean Kanban conference series. This...

Scrum Australia 2013 in Sydney was my first Agile conference in Australia. And what a good event it was! Here are a few things I liked:
The sessions, especially the brilliant keynote by Kenny Rubin. He’s a funny and smart speaker, and it was very interesting to listen to what he had to say about economics in Scrum. Most quick-witted reply to a guy who mentioned a 48-months-project: ...

Assume a perfect Scrum implementation. All artefacts, all meetings, all roles, and all rules are in place. If you were changing only one of the essential elements of Scrum, would you still call the remainder Scrum?
No. We call the remainder ScrumBut.
While doing Scrum, practitioners come across problems which prevents them to implement a specific Scrum element. For example, …...

My Agile Onion (in a bottling jar)
Whenever I give an overview of Agile, e.g., in classes or to clients, I use an onion to describe it. My Agile Onion consists of a core, has two layers, and it rests in a bottling jar. The Agile Onion represents the Agile Developer Skills, Scrum, Kanban...