IT companies are leaders in Agile implementation. The pioneer in this field within SEE region is Puzzle Software and its brand Agile Serbia.

Hiring people who are able to thrive in such an environment can significantly influence the success of agile adoption in your company. If employees do not get agile, the business will most definitely not be agile.

There are a few enablers we gained experience with, such as "Domain Knowledge as a Catalyst", "Skills instead of Roles"and "Communication Promises , yes, but…!" In this blog focus is on the role of Domain Knowledge as an enabler in distributed teams.

When we talk about Scrum team and the way it works, we usually focus on the framework, meetings and the flow. Rarely are we focused on energy and communication between the people, missing out a huge part of our possibility to succeed.

The Product Owner and the product development team are rarely left alone to build a product without different levels of interest from the invested sides. Usually, they’re part of the company as well as the market. They are just one of the components in this system that defines, creates, markets and sells the product.

In one meeting, the career coach gave me one of the best pieces of advice that I have ever heard. He said that I should evaluate my career path frequently as to whether I was happy, how much I was progressing and whether I still wanted to carry on.

Scrum is not just about the meetings and schedule. It's not about Sprints, meetings and having different roles named to fit Scrum roles. It’s not about just being able to say Scrum, ‘cause it’s not a magic word to be used when you need it. Scrum is belonging, trust, commitment, lots of hard and high-quality work... The biggest challenge for a Scrum Master is having others understand the true nature and culture of Agile, and accept it as the most natural thing in the world!

As Certified Scrum Master, with more than 6 years in practicing Scrum/Agile, and helping organizational transformations I asked myself "how to set up my Agile knowledge to a new level" in my busy schedule. It 's always hard to find time for further learning and enhancement. In a meanwhile, I joined 6-week online A-CSM course, led by Miljan Bajić. The main takeaways is a continual learning session of a month and a larger set of topics, compared to standard 2-day course. Also, there were people from the USA, West Europe, Balkans, making the whole thing more valuable by promoting the sharing of experiences.

Agile is a process designed to help teams provide quick and unpredictable responses to the feedback they receive on their project(s). It’s also the term used to describe approaches to software development emphasizing incremental delivery, collaboration and continuous learning. It creates opportunities to assess a project's direction during the development cycle and it’s people oriented.

Last month Agile Serbia organized  Introduction to Scrum Framework training in Banja Luka, together with Innovation Centre Banja Luka. This was our first event in Bosnia and Herzegovina. We proudly can say we are very satisfied with interest for our training, as well as with feedback we received from our attendees. This is a significant incentive for us to focus more on the trainings for all those who are not able to set aside time for traveling out of the country, but still they want to improve themselves and their skills.