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Scrum is not an excuse to ignore emergencies

Scrum.org

In Scrum, the Product Owner is accountable for maximizing product value for the customer. That’s the focus of the entire Scrum framework, where value is delivered frequently and incrementally. But sometimes, the customer can jeopardize the value the Scrum Team is set to deliver. Sometimes, there’s a middle ground.

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Disciplined Agile & SAFe

International Institute for Learning

They build on lean-agile thinking, and standard Scrum, Kanban, and DevOps practices. To coordinate the teams, SAFe applies cadence and synchronization. Cadence means all teams are aligned to a standard, two-week delivery cycle. The release train engineer serves as the scrum master for the program.

Agile 59
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Adopting Agile Practices Isn’t Agile Transformation

Leading Agile

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. The caller will say something like, “We’ve adopted Scrum, SAFe, or LeSS, but we’re not getting the desired business benefits from it.”

Agile 118
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Building Trust via Trustworthiness

Leading Agile

I walked into the conference room to meet with the VP of enterprise Agile Transformation. Instead of firing us, six months after I walked into that conference room, the VP hired 5 additional coaches to stand up more Agile portfolios! . Teams don’t keep a regular cadence of collaboration and review.

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Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling

Leading Agile

What do you do with planning cadences? But what they’re really doing was like scrum with technical practices and things like that, I ever more aligned, it felt like to me was Scrum. And the cool thing about Version One is like, any talk, any conference I can get accepted to, they let me go speak and I was off speaking.

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Mastering the (new) Agile Coaching Mindset for the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR)

International Institute for Learning

Larkland is participating in the panel on Agile at Large Organizations at IIL’s 2022 Agile & Scrum Online Conference. Given the importance of innovation, as Agile Coaches and Change Agents, our mission is to advocate for dedicated cadence and timebox for promoting innovation and a continuous learning culture.

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Size work to support incremental delivery

Scrum.org

I once worked with a Scrum team that deliberately underestimated the size of Product Backlog items during refinement to enable them to pull oversized items into the Sprint, bypassing the team agreement that restricted larger items from being pulled into the Sprint. The Scrum team doesn't 'disappear into a dark room' for months.

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