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On the 31th of March we had a great (small) gathering!
We discussed the following topics:
Next Lean Coffee will be on 28th of April!
Today the fourth Lean Coffee Alkmaar is a fact! Because two of the participants had their birthday yesterday we ate carrot cake with our coffee. After that we had good discussions about different subjects.
The main take aways:
Next meetup will be 24 february 2014! Please join us at Meetup.com
The next Lean Coffee will be the 27th of january!
This because of Christmas and New Year. Happy holidays and hope to see you on the 27th of january.
The 25th of November the third LeanCoffee Alkmaar was held at Doppio Espresso Alkmaar. A small group of 5 people came together for some great coffee and good conversations.
We discussed four interesting topics:
– Should we start DevOps bottom-up? Or do we need management commitment before we start ?
– Can the success of Agile be a problem for the business? (as a result of the frequency at which systems are changed )
– How to organize the world of product owner ?
– The new way of work (HNW) and Agile : experiences so far
Of course we had a few take-aways:
– Allow the product owner to be visible and to change direction with complete transparency.
– Introduce a chief product owner who’s dealing with epics and themes (vision). Leave the details (features, stories) to the ‘normal’ product owners.
– Exposure to the outside means rapid and frequent delivery. Stability on the inside means some stable release moments. Try to find a good mix.
– If you think in projects you’re talking about costs, when you think of products you talking about value!
– Make the choice together, not only from IT!
Under heavy weather conditions we held our second Lean Coffee Alkmaar. Again Doppio was host of this Lean Coffee and while enjoying our delicious coffee we had good conversations about these different topics.
Continuous Improvement and leadership within teams are often a difficult subject. Some take aways:
Some teams, when starting Kanban, drop process policies. The use of explicit policies is important for all kind of reasons. We discussed about how it can help to make sure you deliver quality with your team. Take aways:
We also discussed the Agile Manifesto. Some people are miss-using it. For example a team did not produce any kind of documentation. It did create lots of problems later on. Also the term “pull” is often miss-used. It doesn’t mean the team can pull (pick) anything they like from the Product Backlog. It does mean when they take on new work.
Take away: be sure to learn the team how to interpret the Manifesto.
Today the first LeanCoffee Alkmaar (also in the Netherlands?) is a fact!
A total of 10 people came together for some great coffee and a good conversation at Doppio Espresso Alkmaar.
Some takeaways from our session
I tried to translate it to English:
Welcome to Lean Coffee Alkmaar (The Netherlands).
Our first Lean Coffee Alkmaar will be on 30 september 2013 from 09:30 till 11:00 at Doppio Espresso Alkmaar. Please join us!
