Leading Agile

APRIL 20, 2023

Empowering your teams isn’t about allowing them to make decisions in a vacuum and giving them free rein to do whatever they want. The days of providing a little guidance here, some methodology there, and letting the teams self-organize their way to success are behind us. What does it mean to empower teams?

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International Institute for Learning

MAY 16, 2022

One of my favorite articles is from Bernard Marr, a leader in the 4IR discussion: What Is The 4th Industrial Revolution, And What Does It Mean For You? Another article written more from an Agile Practitioner’s perspective is RGP’s How Business Agility Helps You Thrive in the Age of Disruption.

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Leading Answers

JANUARY 16, 2021

This article explains what a risk-adjusted backlog is, why they are useful, how to create one and how teams work with them. ' In deciding which feature to develop first, those with the highest economic value are selected. I do not think the teams have been weak at threat avoidance.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 21, 2020

What I learned might be of value to others, so I combined my findings in a series of five articles, of which this is the last one. For references to all episodes of the series, refer to the endnote of this article). Imagine we observe a poorly functioning team. Some time ago I decided to dive a bit deeper into Systems Thinking.

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Project Management Essentials

AUGUST 3, 2019

Experienced agile coaches and practitioners develop a sixth-sense. They can quickly assess the health of an agile project or team just as doctors do with their patients. In 2013, Mike Cohn coined the term scrum smells to describe the signs that a scrum team is in trouble. What are the team dynamics? Outsourced Agile.

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Velociteach

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

We should not blame Agile for bad Agile. This article highlights some common issues I have encountered in my consulting and coaching practice. Agile teams are empowered and collaborative. They provide the structure and practices to guide the teams. Team members are empowered. These teams were magical.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 30, 2023

This article is another excursion into this nascent yet fascinating new technology of generative AI and LLMs and the future of knowledge work. Shall I notify you about articles like this one? Build a strong and diverse change management team to lead the effort. TL; DR: Agile Transformation with ChatGPT or McBoston?

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Herding Cats

MARCH 7, 2016

This is not to say those 5 developers sitting around the table with the Product Owner and the Scrum Master are not working on vitally important code. Cadence Release - when a fixed period ends, go with what is ready to go. Cadence Release - when a fixed period ends, go with what is ready to go. Release Plans come in two flavors.

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Resource Guru

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The result tells you the percentage of time that your team spends on projects that actually bring in money. A high utilization rate means your team is focused and efficient. Billable hours: These are the hours your team spends on client projects. Billable hours directly contribute to revenue.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 11, 2024

TL; DR: Sprint Anti-Patterns Holding Your Teams Back Welcome to Sprint anti-patterns! This article covers the three Scrum accountabilities (formerly roles) and addresses interferences of stakeholders and IT/line management with this crucial Scrum event. Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2023

We’re not talking about creating agile projects or agile teams. And then the idea is I’ve got my marketing team on the call with me right now. Without overcoming this, it is hard to make a case for Agile teams. A lot of agile folks want to ignore dependencies and believe the team will self-organize.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 25, 2022

Shall I notify you about articles like this one? Scrum’s Sprint Planning aims to align the Developers and the Product Owner on what to build next, delivering the highest possible value to customers. First, the Product Owner points to the team’s Product Goal and introduces the business objective of the upcoming Sprint.

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Digite

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Continuing our theme of helping Agile teams understand the Kanban Method, so they can effectively adopt it for their improvement efforts, I am again honored to publish a guest article by another great friend of ours – Dave White. You will enjoy this excellent article. Cheers, Mahesh Singh. People-centric.

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Leading Answers

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Demos  – Having the team demonstrate increments of functionality at the end of every iteration shows what the project has achieved to date. Instead, the team regularly surfaces from work to show where they are with progress and discuss what should come next. Information radiators can show any data the team wants to display.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 27, 2020

Do you want to get this article in your inbox? The purpose of the Sprint Planning is to align the Development Team and the Product Owner on what to build next, delivering the highest possible value to customers. The Development Team overestimates its capacity and takes on too many tasks. Diagram source: Scrum.org.

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MPUG

MAY 18, 2022

Melanie here with team MPUG. He has 30 years as a new product development project management professional. His current specialty is creating and improving project management offices and developing project management talent by coaching, mentoring and training. You can get on Excel with teams and some other collaboration package.

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Wrike

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

When it comes to managing teams and projects effectively, managers can choose from many project management frameworks and methodologies. The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is an Agile project management framework focused on flexibility, continuous iteration and improvement, and cross-functional collaboration between teams and stakeholders.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2020

You get super clear backlogs, you find out what the real cadences you’ve finished work that you start. And so like in some of the early I think it was maybe it was Merrifield book rework or maybe it came from your HBR article I can’t remember. How do you like fix it? – Yeah. – Mm hmm. – Yeah.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Today, some of the same principles seem to present impediments or unnecessary challenges for many teams and organizations. How can the same principle be a good idea in 2002 and a bad idea in 2019? Stable Team. Dedicated Team. Team Spaces. Survival is the best the teams can hope for. What has changed?

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Leading Agile

JUNE 29, 2023

In fact, at conferences, we often talk about how managers are bad and executives are foolish people who want to derail the company. Just trust the teams. How about we let the teams decide how to work? Here are some books you need to read, try this article, attend this conference, or go to this two-day course.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 5, 2017

For risks that are beyond the vision of the project team a properly implemented risk management process can also rapidly quantify the risks impact and provide sound plans for mitigating its effect. Hoping that the project will proceed as planned is naïve at best and poor management at worse. Hope is Not a Strategy.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

They asked a software developer what it would take, and he estimated something like 20,000 pounds over several months. It often happens that teams become disillusioned with the tools and (by association) the practices because they find themselves having to discard and re-write scripts over and over again. Requirements & validation.

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