Blended Working and Agile

GSB Team, Trends

Some realities are part of our time: Constant innovation and change that increasingly require collaboration between disciplines and geographically distributed experts. Relocation of work teams Collaborative work applications on mobile and fixed devices On-line communication facilities (synchronous and asynchronous) Climate change that invites us to reduce travel and paper Flexibility and autonomy in the management…

I want a team … Agile

Articles, GSB Team, Trends

I want an autonomous, self-organized and multidisciplinary team, with the capabilities it needs to fulfill its objective optimally and independently. I want a team that works with the customer on the vision they have for the product, and breaks down the scope into small goals that the team will deliver iteratively and incrementally, without time…

Agile Kanban: Beyond a Visual Dashboard

Articles, Trends

Kanban is a method based on the use of visual dashboards to manage workflows, which emerged at Toyota in the late 1940s. Agile incorporates within its practices several frameworks, where the most used are Scrum and Kanban, which in any case focus on the same agile principles: maximize value delivery, minimize lead times, be as…

Continuous Improvement: A Key Success Factor in Agility

Articles, GSB Team, Trends

Continuous Improvement can be defined as a philosophy to improve the processes, services and products of an organization, through techniques and tools, together with the development of a general attitude, which forms the basis for constant inspection, adaptation and continuous improvement. Regarding continuous improvement, the Agile Manifesto reads, “At regular intervals, the team reflects on…

Non-contact smart thermometer for mobile devices

Technology, Trends

Easily measure the temperature of a person, object or environment with Temon. Easy to use with any Android smartphone. The level of accuracy is as high as that of medically rated devices and data logging can be managed via the easily downloaded mobile app. Temon is available as a USB Type-C connector accessory for smartphones.…

We are agile

Articles, GSB Team, Trends

We live in very complex times of uncertainty, fear, physical, economic, social and emotional risk. Each of us is responding to the crisis in different ways that have been changing. Some of us have gone through stages of denial, anger, bargaining, depression, sadness, nostalgia. These are the stages of grief, because we have certainly lost…

How to raise my team’s morale

Articles, GSB Team, Trends

We are experiencing a collective crisis that unites us in similar circumstances. There are work teams with people on sick leave, with family or friends in critical situations, with economic problems, with uncertainty and fear, in short, it is time to show solidarity and support each other. Scrum teams share 5 values: Commitment, Focus, Openness,…