What do you mean by Minimum Viable Product?

What do you mean by Minimum Viable Product?

Being a freelancer, in the last couple of years I have switched frequently between companies and teams. After each change there has been a period of adaptation when I learned how the team worked, including their naming convention. Especially around Agile and Lean methodologies, in different places the same thing has different names; to make it more confusing the same name is used for different things as well. Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is one of those terms for which I…

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How to combine Agile with Gamification: write better User Stories

How to combine Agile with Gamification: write better User Stories

Agile is about being fast and flexible at delivering value, but that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t care too much about writing User Stories. The description you’ll add to them should not only enable communication and constructive feedback but also motivate your team. Within this article, I describe what are the common pitfalls while writing a User Story and how game designers have understood this better than companies so that you can apply these gamification techniques to it.

Getting quick feedback from meetings

Getting quick feedback from meetings

The meeting problems Most of the companies need meetings, no matter if they’re following Agile or any other methodology. If you’re on the meeting wave you can quickly recognize these issues: All your team member’s agendas are flooded with meetings, people struggle to find uninterrupted time slots to do their actual jobs. The team is stuck with an ineffective meeting inertia and doesn’t know how to get out of there. Meeting participants constantly feel that they would be more productive…

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