Agile Toolkits
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Titansoft published a book! "A Roaming Whale's Tale - Titaner's Quest to the way of Agile" invites you to explore the story of organizational transformation.
Agile Skill Management Skill Communication Skill One page paperHow can businesses embrace change ? Titansoft invites you to explore our story of Agile transformation from 0 to 1! We have written down every bit and piece of our journey from founding to the present, spanning over 15 years, in the book "A Roaming Whale's Tale". Through the chapters of this book, we invite you to step-by-step understand the significant events of Titansoft's establishment and transformation.
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【Agile】A mindset that adjust the following action through early feedback collection
Agile SkillAgile is a mindset for quick responses and flexible planning. The way is to take small steps forward and adjust the following action through early feedback collection.
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【Scrum】An Agile framework for continuous development of products through cycyles of fixed duration
Agile SkillIn the rapidly changing market, it's not easy for software development to align with the market demand fully. Developers can reduce the uncertainty to avoid risks with Agile. In practice, Titansoft uses Scrum.
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【Kanban】A workflow method that visualizes the status and numbers of the to-do items to identify bottlenecks for improvement
Agile SkillKanban is a method that visualizes workflow and facilitates continuous improvement. By visualizing the status and numbers of the to-do items, team members can see all the information at a glance, be aware of the current situation, and identify bottlenecks for improvement.
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【Daily Scrum】We face new changes daily and emphasize more readiness for changes than following schedules
Agile SkillDaily Scrum is a daily team meeting with a 15-minute limit. On every Sprint working day, the meeting is held at the same time and place. By taking turns to share and review their individual to-do items, team members can improve communication, identify obstacles, and adjust plans accordingly.
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【Sprint Planning】The short meetings for team members to reach a common understanding of the assigned goals and the vision of achieving them through dialogues
Agile SkillAt the beginning of each Sprint, a Sprint Planning meeting is held with the Product Owner, ScrumMaster, and development team to discuss what to deliver to market for the next Sprint and what the team should commit together.
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【Sprint Review】Consistent delivery of values is the objective of Sprints
Agile SkillAt the end of each Sprint, the team will conduct a Sprint Review to present the results to stakeholders, collect feedback, share market reactions, and discuss the next steps together.
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【Sprint Retrospective】We celebrate and review together to make the products and teams even better
Agile SkillSprint Retrospective sessions are often abbreviated to "Retros" in Titansoft. Upon completion of a Sprint, the Scrum team reviews the events of the Sprint in this meeting to acknowledge the members' contributions and plan for improvements aiming at the next Sprint.
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【Self-organizing teams】The best structures,requirements,and designs all come from teams that can organize themselves
Agile SkillOne of the essential characteristics of a self-organizing team is that the team members can collaborate without a dedicated commander. Titansoft has eliminated the Team Leader role In its development teams, emphasizing "from 'Me' to 'We'" so that the members are not subordinates to their supervisors.
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【User Story Cards】Describe the purpose or value the users want to achieve from the user's point of view
Agile SkillUser stories are written from the user's point of view to describe the purpose or value the user wants to achieve and the desired user behavior.
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【MVP / MMP】Allowing users to try the early product in exchange for feedback to reduce the risk of the final product not meeting market demand
Agile SkillMinimum Viable Product (MVP) is an early product available to the target users that help the product team to solicit user feedback and learn from it.
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【Sociocracy】A set of governance tools that allow an organization to manage itself in a decentralized manner as its systems develop naturally
Communication SkillSociocracy is a way to build productive organizations in a harmonious social environment. The ideal scenario is that an organization can "work for a purpose" without external control.
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【Consent-based Decision Making】A voting method emphasizing “no one objects,” where all participants in a meeting can put forward their views and take turns to speak
Communication SkillTitansoft learned that sociocracy and Consent-based Decision Making facilitates groups to make decisions and adopted this approach in daily operations. Have you heard about these decision-making methods?
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【Open Space Technology】 is a meeting method with which everyone is free to choose the topics of interest to join a discussion.
Communication SkillOST is a way of holding meetings. It creating a platform for discussions, allowing everyone to express their goal or topic of interest, listen to and understand the ideas of others, and then work together to develop action plans. In this way, it offers a great opportunity for people to provoke and collide their thoughts.
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【Facilitation】Each participant should connect with and learn from each other through two-way dialogues
Communication SkillUnlike a host or speaker who delivers content unilaterally to the audience, facilitation emphasizes that everyone should connect and learn from each other through dialogues.