Jan Schaefer
Freelance Author
Articles by Jan Schaefer
User Stories in Scrum: The All-You-Need-to-Know Guide
The goal is clear: You want to develop a product that delivers a high added value to customers. You want to achieve a result with which team members and stakeholders are satisfied. But how do you d...
How to measure agile maturity - incl. Agile Maturity Survey
Agile is like a coach for the Champions League. Once you've integrated agile at all levels of your organization, you're at the top of your game. You are closer to your customers, you spot mistakes...
Timebox Sprint Retrospective: A 5-Phases Template
Agile companies are always trying their hand at different project management methods to develop products as efficiently as possible. Therefore, it is surprising that many of them still hold meeting...
Agile at Scale: Comparing the 5 most popular frameworks
Agile frameworks help companies deliver to customers faster and more reliably. In doing so, it's fairly easy to implement Agile in individual teams. The challenge is to implement Agile working acro...
Scrum Master Salary: A brief overview of the Numbers
As a servant leader, the Scrum Master is one of the leading figures in agile ways of working. He or she bears the great responsibility of guiding a project through the myriad forks and tangles of s...
Which agile principles are the most important? A Ranking
Many projects are not completed on time or do not meet their budget - these 4 agile principles are designed to support smart teams.
Team Health Check Agile: 4 Proven Templates as KPIs
KPIs, ROVs, NPS: Companies are increasingly using ways to measure the progress of their projects. Because: Only those who recognize errors and problems in time can eliminate them. A team health che...
Scaling Agile Training: The 7 Best Providers
Agile at Scale embeds agile principles, mindsets, values and practices at all levels of your organization. This way, not only employees, but also portfolios, programs, IT and culture are agile. The...
Agile Transformation: How Many Agile Coaches Do I Need?
To develop products faster, more and more companies are introducing agile ways of working. As part of this, they need to fill several key positions. Agile coaches play a crucial role in this proces...
What is Value Stream Mapping? An Ice Cream Parlor Example
Product development is like a labyrinth. You know there is one exit – that is the end product. But you only know roughly how to get there. Because you have no idea which way is the fastest. This is...
Release Train Engineer in SAFe®: Tasks, Roles & Skills
<InternalLink page="safe-scaled-agile"SAFe®</InternalLink is an agile framework that combines proven methods and techniques with new cultural elements and leadership concepts. A central element of...
Agile for Leadership - Everything you need to know
Agile Leadership means that a company is able to adapt to changes quickly. The main focus lies on the collaboration of teams.
