In Lean thinking, waste is anything that does not contribute to creating customer value. When I was recently asked to temporarily step into the ScrumMaster role for my team, I was able to see the power of the impediment process to eliminate waste.

crum requires that at the end of each sprint that you deliver a potentially shippable product increment. To maximize the ability of the team to deliver this functionality, it is important to break this functionality into managable chunks.

This is the first in series of articles about Object Relational Mapping. Lately, I have seen many agile projects choosing code generation tools to implement a persistence mapping layer, using Hibernate as their ORM of choice. In most cases, the relational schema has already been defined by the customer and the team is developing the [...]

I see a lot of confusion between the nature of emergent, complex problems (as opposed to simple or complicated problems) and the agile practices used to address complex problems.