Most teams that do agile development start with Scrum. And why not? Scrum is a proven method for focusing your team, ensuring that work adds value, and minimizing the risk with release. Then, after awhile, Scrum becomes stagnant. There are no more speed increases, and the team focuses more on ceremonies than delivery. At this point, Extreme Programming (XP), and Lean XP in particular, is the next step in agile maturity. Lean XP means developing software at the last possible moment ("just-in-time development") using one-week sprints, test driven development, pairing at all levels,...
Amanda Palovcsik
CUNA Mutual Group
Amanda Palovcsik is a Certified Scrum Master, Professional Scrum Master, and certified Scaled Agilist. With more than 15 years of project management experience in the broadcast, medical, and financial industries, including an overlap of seven years on Scrum and SAFe implementations in parallel to waterfall, Amanda has a diverse background of experience managing projects and teams of all sizes. Throughout her career, Amanda has focused on team member development and coaching in agile and PM practices, expanding the Scrum Master and Epic Owner roles in her current company, and improving reporting and communication methods while using Agile.