Xavier Quesada-Allué
Xavier Quesada-Allué is an industry veteran Certified Scrum Trainer, Certified Enterprise Coach, founding partner of Agilar, former president of Agile Spain and author of the Visual Management Blog.
The agile method for business teams and personal productivity
Key Points
- Vima is an Agile method (or framework) designed to support business & operations teams and personal productivity. Vima's three key patterns are calendar integration, multi-backlog support and catalyst team leadership.
- Primary target audience are business and operations teams in the context of an Agile transformation. These teams have unique characteristics that distinguish them from product development teams and standardized work teams.
- Vima combines Visual Management with good ideas from Scrum and GTD to create an innovative approach. It scales down to personal level and all the way up to enterprise agility.
- You can use Vima with any team where Scrum and Kanban are not a great fit — environments with multiple products or projects, different types of work streams, date-constrained work such as recurring tasks and deadlines, and multiple dependencies.
- Example teams include most internal departments (admin, marketing, sales, procurement, finance, legal, compliance, HR), most core business processes and operations across industries, leadership teams, small companies, non-profits, and personal productivity and family management.
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Who is behind this?
Joke Vandemaele
Joke Vandemaele is an industry veteran Certified Scrum Trainer, ICF PCC Coach, an experienced Product Owner with an MBA in Marketing Management and an expert in personal productivity.
Frequently asked questions
How can I learn Vima?
If you are an Agile Coach the best ways to learn Vima are: follow the authors on social media, subscribe to our newsletter, join the Vima community on Slack, read the materials we publish on this site, attend a conference where we are speaking, or watch an online video. You can also reach out privately to Joke and Xavier via LinkedIn for punctual questions. There is no official Vima training or certification. All Vima content is free to read and use.
Do I need to know Scrum first?
For the broader audience, it is important to master Scrum and Agile fundamentals before focusing on Vima. Vima is heavily inspired by Scrum and there is a large overlap between the two. You cannot fully embrace Vima without understanding Scrum first.
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