One Pager on coaching skills
Our colleagues Louise Kold-Taylor and Steffan Surdek seek to create a space and an atmosphere where important conversations can occur and where all voices can be heard to inspire and engage people to work more collaboratively towards achieving common and emerging goals. They support managers, Scrum Masters and team leaders who wish to …
Conflicts serving your success
Our conversations are sometimes bland and conflict does not happen where it should, if at all. It is important for people and organizations to develop their ability to truly understand the essence of their conflicts before they explode and demand drastic intervention. Conflicts exist between people and between different divisions of …
Meet our authors
Behind Agile Know-How, there is a team of passionate authors who share their vision and experience on a variety of Agile topics. We wish to emphasize their excellent work. 2017 has been an extraordinary year for Agile Know-How, which has seen a sharp rise in traffic. For 2018, we want …
Is there a PO in the room?
Within the context of product development, the fact that Agile planning is based on business value emphasizes the essentiality of the role of the Product Owner (PO). In this regard, we wish to present considerations that can be useful when choosing the person who will play this key role. …
Is your work environment Agile?
In 2008, we have inaugurated Pyxis’ second office. This office was meant to be different from workspaces that were out there back then. I remember, our clients were coming to visit our offices, to see our furniture on wheels and our whiteboard walls. Since then, Agility has spread more and …
RESULTS: Survey on the state of Agility in 2016
In a continuous effort to improve our ways to do things and to give an accurate picture of the current state of Agility in businesses, Pyxis Technologies conducted a survey with our network. We are pleased to present the results. Number of years being Agile Although Agile approaches have been …
A Product Owner diary
Meet Maria, Product Owner Maria is known for promoting collaboration with her clients and for being aligned to their needs. She masters the changes and risks during deliveries and fosters good energy in teams. A few months ago, senior management of the company in which she works, decided to carry …
Agile is dead—the opinion of 2 Agile coaches
Matthew Kern recently published a controversial post: Agile is dead. We asked two of our coaches what they thought about it. Is it really the end of Agility? Here is the opinion of Steffan Surdek and Marc-André Langlais. Steffan Personally, I believe there is a certain degree of truth in …
Video of the “Test strategically, not accidentally” webinar
On December 9th, Erik LeBel conducted a webinar called “Test strategically, not accidentally”. Learn how to prepare test strategies that are adapted to project requirements and risks. Here is what Erik has to say about it: Automated developer testing is part of the foundation of Agile software development projects, but …
Meet Simon
Meet Simon. He’s a developer having trouble delivering the application he’s working on. His boss has high expectations and hopes that the application will be ready soon. With Pyxis /studio , Simon and his boss will work to develop a software application that delights them.