Posts in Agile
The Future of Women in Agile

Virtual Panel Discussion – The Role of Women in Agile in different Times and Cultures
In March 2021, I had the privilege of cohosting a panel discussion with Ellen Grove. The discuss…
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An Anniversary Panel by AgileTD & the Agile Alliance
In February 2021, the Agile Manifesto celebrated its 20th year of existence. To commemorate these two decades of the Agile Manifest…
read moreAre You Ready to Rock?

“Are you ready to roooooock ... ?” - This was the 2019 motto of the AgileTD Award Night. We celebrated an 80s Glam Party in a relaxed atmosphere, paired with delicious food and an enterta…
read moreWhy Are the Agile Testing Days the Place to Go for Agile Software Professionals?

Coming up with a statement of difference
All the best software testing conferences bring to their role something more, something different. At first sight, the Agile Testing Days seem to blend in …
read moreCall for Papers Submission Pitfalls & How to Do it Better! Tales from a Conference Organizer

In 2018 my colleague Sabine wrote the blog post “It always starts with an idea…”. In this blog post, she gave some great hints on how to write better proposals for conference sessi…
read moreTeam Education - 5 Key Reasons Why You Should Educate the Whole Team

Bringing change, new structures, new workflows, or even new tools into a team can be a hard, tricky and a never ending process.
I made this experience on my own. In early 2017 I at…
read more5 Main Benefits of Agile Project Management

Agile is an iterative and incremental set of practices of management. It helps teams in an evolving landscape while keeping a focus on the rapid delivery of business value. All the methodologies of A…
read moreThe Agile Chef - Cooking with SCRUM

It all started with a Scrum Master course in March 2017. I joined that course as an event manager & conference organizer. I was the only one in that course without a tech background. I initially …
read moreYour Automation is Making You Less Agile

Most agile practitioners will tell you that you need to have automation. We need those rapidly running safety checks in place so that we can move quickly and not be slowed down by testing. I think fe…
read moreReflections on an Agile Testing Manifesto

In 2013 we did a talk on Agile Testing at a conference. We wanted a memorable way to summarize the key learnings of the talk. Inspired by the agile manifesto we decided to try an agile testing manife…
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