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Navigating Agile: Principles Over Tools for Effective Practices

Scrum.org

Many professionals in the Agile space today seem to be fixated on tools and techniques. While these are undoubtedly important, I believe there's something more essential that's often overlooked: the underlying principles that drive Agile practices. Remember, you don't just need agility; you need Naked Agility.

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Adopting Agile Practices Isn’t Agile Transformation

Leading Agile

Agile needs to be tied to business-driven results. If not, then we start measuring things like people trained, teams doing Scrum, or the organization’s sentiment toward Agile to tell us if we’re succeeding. If your Agile isn’t helping you do that, then it’s not really Agile at all. First, how are we forming teams?

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The Pitfalls of Envy in Agile Practices: 7 Deadly Sins of Agile

Scrum.org

Envy is one of the seven deadly sins in agile. Like and subscribe to our channel: [link] Using examples from the tech industry, Martin sheds light on the pitfalls of adopting practices or tools without aligning them with your organisation's unique needs. Because you don't just need agility, you need Naked Agility.

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Agile Transformation Requires More Than Agile Practices

Leading Agile

Many people believe that the practices associated with Scrum and SAFe will reveal what’s getting in the way. Agile begins to break down because these impediments are outside the teams’ span of control. You’re going to need a plan to deal with the things that are getting in the way of Business Agility.

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What is Scrum? An Introduction to the Scrum Framework

Speaker: Eric Naiburg, Chief Operating Officer at Scrum.org

In this session, we provide an overview of the Scrum framework, discuss how Scrum enables agility and ways that empiricism can empower the teams that use it. How Scrum can be used with other practices like Kanban, DevOps, Continuous Delivery, and more. Although Scrum has been around for more than 25 years, it is still new to many.

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Agile Adaptation: Perfecting Scrum Practices Without Tailoring (From PM to PSM 09)

Scrum.org

Scrum thrives on the collective intelligence and creativity of the team, encouraging the integration of practices that suit the context of the initiative, while keeping the framework as-is. Misunderstanding this can lead to chaotic or ineffective practices that don't align with Scrum Values and concepts.

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Everyday Agile Practices

The IIL Blog

By Alan Zucker Agile seems like a mystery to many. It has an unfamiliar vocabulary and practices. However, when we step back and inspect agile, we see that it follows common, recognizable patterns from our daily lives. Let’s explore how agile practices can be applied to this common predicament.

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