The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Agile team A cross-functional group of individuals (e.g., Product Owner, Scrum Master, Development team members) who work collaboratively to deliver value in an Agile project. Benchmarking Identifying a project performance indicator or practice, then assessing it against industry standards or best practices.

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Teamweek

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Keep reading to discover the definition and responsibilities of a Product Owner and 30 product owner interview questions that will help you accurately assess candidates’ technical skills and personality traits. A Product Owner is a person who’s part of the scrum team. What does a Product Owner do?

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Stage 3 - Value Integration (Harvest): Once built and developed, it is time to review what worked and evaluate these values ??with Stage 4 - Completion & Satisfaction: After receiving feedback from stakeholders and users, the team together reviews/re-evaluate what was excellent and effective. with different stakeholders.

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Scrum.org

MAY 13, 2024

Think of verification as the technical quality check phase in software development. It involves various activities like testing, inspection, design analysis, and specification analysis to ensure the software is being built correctly according to the predefined agreements, standards and regulations. What is Verification?

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 27, 2020

Many teams and organizations struggle to get the most out of Scrum. In my previous post “Don’t blame “agile” for existing problems” I shared my analysis why agile or Scrum itself often gets the blame. Scrum roles and responsibilities. Development Team – Why your Scrum Doesn’t work (2/3).

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Scrum.org

MAY 19, 2020

This post is an excerpt from the book we’re writing, the ‘ Zombie Scrum Survival Guide ’. The thumbnail description of Zombie Scrum is that it looks like Scrum, but without a beating heart. The same goes for Zombie Scrum. With the Scrum Guide as a checklist, you’d say that the team is doing ‘Scrum by the book’.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 8, 2024

Improved Risk Management This component empowers teams to anticipate and mitigate potential risks by selecting a development approach tailored to the project's unique nature. Incorporating advanced risk assessment models enables a deeper understanding and identification of possible pitfalls.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 15, 2024

Exploring Agile methodologies provides teams with flexible, efficient, and collaborative approaches to software development and project management. Beyond Scrum , several Agile frameworks were developed to address the unique needs and challenges of projects and teams.

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LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In order to streamline workflows and create a more dynamic system that can improve upon itself, Scrum is used to help organize project management. In this piece, we’ll cover what Scrum is and how Scrum masters can use their skills to drive up productivity. What is a Scrum Master? When do You Need a Scrum Master?

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nTask

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Scrum meetings are an integral component of a work environment which adopts the Scrum methodology. They are considered to be an invaluable source of collecting information and feedback from the development team and help in keeping the team aligned with the Sprint goals. Types of Scrum Meetings.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 9, 2018

By now, most organisations are using Scrum, however, many of them feel like the agility of their organisation has degraded, and they might be right! Inclusive Scrum is about looking at the full value chain and organizing your Product development effort around that. Whereas low agility Scrum might actually hurt your agility.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

For people new to scrum, the training focuses sufficiently on the first 2 expectations of sprint planning, that they need to come up with the sprint goal, which is the ‘WHY’ we are doing this sprint and the ‘WHAT’ of the sprint, meaning the list of items that help us deliver that WHY. Code Review. Analysis of requirements and ACs.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 12, 2020

As per Scrum Guide – The Sprint Goal is an objective that will be met within the sprint by implementing the Product Backlog , and it guides the Development Team on why it is building the Increment. The scrum team discusses what can be done based on the definition of done and crafts the Sprint Goal and forecast their work.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 23, 2020

Conversation : Developers, exploring the card, communicate with the Product Owner, in order to gain knowledge about the business domain and to be able to offer valuable ideas for implementation. Many important aspects bypassed the developer’s attention turns into re-work of existing features. How to Fill a User Story Canvas.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 1, 2022

Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. You can observe implicit coordination in Scrum teams when you look at how work moves across a Scrum board, or on- and of the Sprint Backlog. This is also why the Scrum framework includes the Definition of Done.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 28, 2019

have been doing Scrum trainings for a long time. During the last years, I have stressed even more the importance of understanding the nature and purpose of the Scrum Framework just at the begginning of the classes. This is, by no means, accepting distorted or flaccid applications of Scrum.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 27, 2020

It is planned by the Product Owner that the increment that will be inspected tomorrow will be released at the end of the Sprint Review. The Scrum Master says, "The team stays until 9:00 p.m. Is this behavior really aligned with the sustainable pace advocated by the Agile Manifesto and Scrum's values ? . Are you certain?

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 30, 2020

Those meetings aren’t working sessions that are moving us forward and creating new insights as a team; instead they feel like a waste of time. This problem shows up in Scrum Teams, and it shows up well beyond Scrum Teams. But of course you can use the Scrum events well or poorly.

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Agilemania

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

To synchronize and coordinate the planning and feedback loops, the leadership team makes choices at a fixed cadence that is followed by both the operations (the tasks they carry out) and the governance (the reviews they conduct). In order to connect strategy to execution The leadership team evaluates these targets on a regular basis.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 14, 2023

After focusing, delivering goes – as a shift towards creating customer-facing self-managing teams. In Scrum terms, this is about improving upon the Definition of Done. And in the 21st century for software development teams, this means realizing the paradigm of Continuous Delivery. Not to get stuck in mediocrity.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 11, 2020

TL; DR: Development Team Anti-Patterns. After covering the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, this article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact. The Role of the Development Team in Scrum.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 21, 2024

Here are four prominent examples which you may also consider as agile methodologies and frameworks: Scrum Scrum is one of the most widely used agile frameworks. It divides projects into sprints, typically two to four weeks, where teams focus on delivering specific, prioritized work.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

TL; DR: Scrum Anti-Patterns GPT Can a Custom Scrum Anti-Patterns GPT align teams with Scrum principles? Dive into how leveraging custom GPTs might offer a novel path through Scrum’s common hurdles, focusing on creating actual customer value in the face of organizational and team-level challenges. ?

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Wrike

AUGUST 25, 2023

Understanding Product Management At its core, product management involves the planning, development, and execution of strategies to bring a product to market and oversee its success. The roadmap serves as a guide for the development team, providing them with a clear vision of the product’s future and the steps required to get there.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2021

Updated to reflect the 2020 Scrum Guide! If they don’t pass then do a full route-cause-analysis and bring that new information to your Sprint Retrospective and make sure you put measures in place to make sure it does not happen again. Staggered iterations lead to more technical debt and lower quality software. Martin Hinshelwood.

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Wrike

MAY 26, 2023

Each cycle involves planning, executing, and reviewing the work performed, with the goal of making continuous improvements to the project as a whole. Flexibility and adaptability: By breaking a project down into smaller cycles, teams are able to adjust their approach when project requirements shift.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

I am a software developer and Scrum Teacher. I have been in software development for 23+ years and have worked on various technologies and have played the role of a developer, analyst, project manager, delivery manager, scrum master, product owner, and coach. What is business analysis?

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 25, 2022

This has always been a huge struggle for us and most of the teams we’ve been part of. Unfortunately, many developers and development teams still burn more hours than are probably good for them. Burnout–depression overlap: A review. Clinical psychology review , 36 , 28–41. References. Bianchi, R.,

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nTask

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The Agile approach is basically crushing the big project steps into shorter sprints that help in a detailed analysis of the whole process during development stage. This detailed analysis helps in effective and adaptive planning according to the needs and changes required in the project as it gains a proper shape.

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Planio

OCTOBER 2, 2019

The SDLC: What is the software development lifecycle and why is it so important to have one? Analysis and Planning. Software Development. The 5 best Software Development Processes (and how to pick the right one for you). Agile and Scrum. Analysis and Planning. Agile and Scrum. Requirements.

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Redbooth

APRIL 9, 2018

Agile instead breaks goals down into several independent products that can be developed, released, and iterated upon quickly. The two main styles of Agile project management are Scrum and Kanban, which both utilize a board to visualize tasks in columns of to-do, in progress, and done. A Scrum team is small, lean, and results-driven.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 26, 2024

Real-Time Collaboration - Digital project management tools facilitate instant communication and information sharing among team members, even if they are across different time zones. The Project Manager of the Future: Developing digital-age project management skills to thrive in disruptive times*.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Business Analysis and Market Strategy Development After the concept has been validated, businesses need to conduct a thorough business analysis to assess the financial viability and market potential of the new product. Pricing strategies are developed based on market research and competitive analysis.

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nTask

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In other words, the agile iteration runs for a short period where teams take their customers’ most important user stories and build them as running-tested-software. Everything should happen within an iteration, from analysis to testing. Aid your Team to Learn and Develop. Team Coach (or Scrum Master).

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MPUG

JULY 15, 2019

This happens in the Iteration Planning meeting (or Sprint Planning meeting, if you are using Scrum). Supporting stories to these aspects don’t represent direct value to the end user, but represent value to the stakeholders, whether it be scrum master, product owner, team, project manager, other managers, and/or other stakeholders.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Ryan is a Scrum Master currently working with Agile teams in a multi-national insurance enterprise. Me : I know you have recently worked through a great challenge with your team. Me : As Scrum Master, what did you do to help your team? Perform root cause analysis. Enter Ryan. How they handle it? Analyze it!

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LiquidPlanner

MAY 15, 2018

IT and business teams speak entirely different languages and the recommendation is to introduce terms like scrum, product owner, sprints, backlog, user stories and story points? Adopting Agile practices introduces new terms and new ways to work as a team. Reviewing the sprint board in the daily stand up.

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