After a year of development and much learning, the JavaBrew team has completed their agile project for a new smart coffee maker. In this chapter, we review the results of their effort and conduct a post-mortem of their Modified Agile

It’s been ten weeks since the JavaBrew agile team started development on their new smart coffee maker and they are now competing sprint five. The team is nearing their product launch! Unfortunately, they have have a major design problem. It

It’s been ten weeks since the JavaBrew agile team started development on their new smart coffee maker and they are now competing sprint five. This also marks the completion of their first iteration — a major milestone. But the team only completed

After completing their MAHD On-ramp planning, in Step 6, the JavaBrew team has spent the last two weeks working on their first sprint. All is good, but the reality of execution has started to highlight some flaws in their agile

In step four, the team is now ready to develop their backlog — the prioritized list of work items that need to be done. Since the team is still engaged in On-ramp planning (and haven’t even started their first sprint),

The JavaBrew team has gathered to execute the next step toward developing their cutting edge Smart Coffee Maker. In the previous step, Lynda, the Product Owner and Jordan, the Agile Project Manager, kicked off their smart coffee maker agile project.

In our previous article, we shared step 1 of the Modified Agile for Hardware Development (MAHD) Framework. The first step focused on the product manager, Lynda, writing an Agile Product Brief and user stories to “define” JavaBrew’s next generation smart