Scrum.org

JANUARY 5, 2021

In December 2020, my friend Adrian Galarza and I delivered a Scrum.org Scrum Pulse Webinar - A Cycle Time Journey: 164 to 8 Days in 6 Months that summarized the journey of Adrian’s Scrum Team. STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT: How did the scrum masters engage stakeholders outside the team to show up and collaborate more? BACKGROUND.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The teams at his company had well established cadences for their Scrum events; well-oiled Daily Scrums that are done within 15 minutes and result in transparency of what the team will do for the next 24-hours. They are releasing software after every 2-week sprint. Get the basics in place and yes, you are doing Scrum.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

SAFe includes Scrum - so how come many Scrum practitioners and thought leaders consider it unsafe? It takes advantage of established frameworks and techniques that work well - Scrum being the first and foremost of those. SAFe's Scrum Master is more of an Agile Team Lead. I hear a lot of questions and claims.

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Develop on Cadence; Release on Demand. In SAFe®, this is known as Develop on Cadence, a coordinated set of practices that support Agile Teams by providing a reliable series of events and activities that occur on a regular, predictable schedule. Agile Team and Agile Release Train Cadences. Scrum Master. PSM) Training.

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Digite

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

In this article, he outlines the similarities of the two as WIP Limiting, Pull-based systems – with cadences and a focus on learning – while also explaining their differences. A question that I often get while speaking with people is: What is the difference between Kanban and Scrum? You will enjoy this excellent article.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 11, 2019

Intended audience: Scrum masters, Product owners, Managers and Agile coaches. Delivering working software is perceived as an IT responsibility instead of a Business-IT collaboration. I was successful with optimising for feature size that could be delivered in a two-sprint cadence. By consequence non-Scrum meetings will die out.

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NimbleWork

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

A retrospective meeting is an opportunity for the team to reflect on what went well during the sprint (if we’re using Scrum terminology), what could have been done better and to discuss any actions that fall out of that discussion which would improve and iterate for next time. In-person retros tend to generate notes to type up afterward.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2021

In my last post about Professional software teams creating working software David Corbin made a good point. Updated to reflect the 2020 Scrum Guide! TL;DR; Your Developers are ultimately responsible for creating done increments of working software. The 2020 Scrum Guide. Done Increments.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

SAFe includes Scrum - so how come many Scrum practitioners and thought leaders consider it unsafe? It takes advantage of established frameworks and techniques that work well - Scrum being the first and foremost of those. SAFe's Scrum Master is more of an Agile Team Lead. I hear a lot of questions and claims.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Right-sizing in Agile refers to the practice of customizing the size of work items in your backlog to match their inherent complexity and effort required to the time interval of your cadence. Real-World Example of Right Sizing: Take a software development project.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 22, 2020

Scrum, in its more general definition, is a simple framework to help us address complex challenges. Product development is the subset of complex problem domains where Scrum took root first; by explicitly acknowledging software and new product development to be complex work, serving to deliver complex products in complex circumstances.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Safe Scrum is a framework that has gained significant popularity in recent years for enhancing team performance in an agile development methodology. By providing clear guidelines and principles, Safe Scrum enables teams to collaborate more effectively, communicate transparently, and ultimately deliver higher-quality projects.

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LiquidPlanner

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In addition, an agile methodology reduces technical debt for software teams. Choose software tools like LiquidPlanner that support your project managers and teams to use whatever methodology they choose while they collaborate in the same platform.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 8, 2024

This domain facilitates strategic alignment, optimized delivery cadence, methodology customization, increased flexibility, and improved risk management. The desire for a project management framework that sustains deliverability, supports the required cadence, and remains faithful to an adaptable methodology is now within reach.

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Velociteach

MAY 10, 2023

Everything from putting people back on the moon, developing new therapeutics and software, or planning a wedding. The Agile Manifesto The Agile Manifesto is a set of 4 value statements and 12 principles created for software. Pioneering software development thought leaders collaborated to create the Manifesto (2001).

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Kiron Bondale

JULY 25, 2021

Whether a team uses a scheduled cadence for reviewing their WoW such as the use of retrospectives in Scrum, or they use a just-in-time approach they will come up with improvement ideas. Let’s say a software development team recognizes that they need to improve their code quality and to do this there are many options available.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Many teams grapple with the intricacies of Scrum, and one of the most pivotal components is the Sprint Goal. Thanks to our reviewers: Ralph Jocham | Scrum.org TLDR; The Sprint Goal is the heart of Scrum, representing the team's commitment to the value derived from the Sprint's outcome. Sprint Goal videos!

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Recently, I connected with Evan Cook, the founder of Head Down Heart Up (HDHU), a fitness and nutrition organization that has “The Perfect Fitness Framework,” which is a program based on Scrum, designed to simplify food and fitness. When did you start using Scrum, and why did you choose it as the model for the Perfect Fitness Framework?

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Scrum.org

MAY 4, 2023

By Lavaneesh Gautam , Professional Scrum Trainer Effective Stakeholder Engagement is key to the success of the product and one of the essential skills all product people should have. By Lavaneesh Gautam , Professional Scrum Trainer Question 1: What Message Do We Want To Provide? A regular cadence of 1:1 meetings will be needed.

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Velociteach

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Even well-meaning scrum masters and managers of agile organizations ask me, “My agile team is struggling. Since only a third of the features in enterprise software are commonly used, delivering incrementally reduces waste. Inadequate Agile Training The Scrum Guide states, “Scrum is easy to learn but hard to master.”

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 2, 2018

If you’re a veteran of the software industry, you probably remember those days where we released to production/GA every couple of months. If you’re also an experienced Scrum practitioner, you probably associate the time you started to use Scrum with the time you started to release more frequently. Scrum Theory helps us out here.

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Digite

MAY 15, 2018

This article is the fourth in a series of “Kanban and Scrum – Stronger Together”. In the most recent post in Steve Porter’s series, Yuval Yuret presents Scrum in a manner that is intended to educate Kanban teams. Values shouldn’t be expressed as goals like they are in the Scrum Guide. Disclaimer.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 2, 2018

If you’re a veteran of the software industry, you probably remember those days where we released to production/GA every couple of months. If you’re also an experienced Scrum practitioner, you probably associate the time you started to use Scrum with the time you started to release more frequently. Scrum Theory helps us out here.

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Cadence Development Team Review Software Review Technical Review 130

Scrum.org

MAY 14, 2020

In an effort to curb productivity leakage, some managers are turning to software to monitor their people. People and Interactions over tools and software. Agile has been around for a while now, but many firms still see agility as a software development solution. We are Scrum practitioners. Agile isn’t just for software.

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MPUG

JANUARY 22, 2024

The most well-known framework for iteration-based Agile is Scrum , while Kanban represents flow-based Agile. The delivery is based on a cadence. Now, the MS Project Agile software allows both Scrum and Kanban. In my earlier webinar series, we have discussed various aspects of Scrum using MS Project.

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Agilemania

MARCH 19, 2021

Scrum vs. Kanban is one of the most trending comparisons in the world of agile methodology! However, while Scrum and Kanban both have differences, their principles are the same. Both Kanban and Scrum will help you to build high-quality products and provide better services with less hassle. Scrum vs. Kanban: The Definitions.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 14, 2023

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. This is because the goal of such a transformation is to design an organization that discovers and delivers customer & business value continuously.

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International Institute for Learning

APRIL 19, 2023

They build on lean-agile thinking, and standard Scrum, Kanban, and DevOps practices. DA was developed in 2011 by Scott Ambler and Mark Lines and is based on Scott’s work at Rational Software and IBM. To coordinate the teams, SAFe applies cadence and synchronization. They emerged about a decade after the Agile Manifesto.

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Leading Agile

JULY 28, 2022

They depend on the software or product they produce and their audience or market. Improved Quality of Software or Product. And whether you are producing software or some other product, the process can be applied to many different contexts. Desired business outcomes are unique to each organization or business. Cost Savings.

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Teamweek

APRIL 29, 2020

Right now, project managers are falling in love with Scrum and Kanban boards. If you are interested in using these systems, it’s worth spending time learning more about Kanban boards vs. If you are interested in using these systems, it’s worth spending time learning more about Kanban boards vs. Scrum boards. What Is Scrum?

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2021

Updated to reflect the 2020 Scrum Guide! TL;DR; Without working software, you can’t build trust and you don’t know when you will get the next piece of working software. Once you accept this, and quality becomes non-negotiable, your Dev e lopers can focus on creating usable increments of working software.

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Leading Agile

JULY 18, 2023

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. Third, how are we reproducing working tests in software? What is the acceptance criteria for Scrum? Agile needs to be tied to business-driven results.

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Leading Agile

JULY 3, 2023

As more and more companies scramble to untangle the code of their monolithic legacy software and get it into the cloud, strategic priorities are shifting. 10 years ago, it seemed that a little Scrum here and some coaching there would suffice. I used to run a company that developed unit testing software.

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Scrum.org

MAY 27, 2021

The following five simple events derived from Scrum offer leaders and managers a way of regularly checking-in with their teams, always being present for them without falling into the pitfalls of micro-management. We know Agile is not just for software teams. 1 – Planning. But at the same time, they are not onerous.

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Digite

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

The questioner asked – “I have recently joined a company and to one of the projects that I’m engaged we have this Scrum team that has a mixed backlog (USs and Bugs). Software teams frequently manage products – and that means they are expected to build new features for the product as well as fix defects reported in the product.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 18, 2019

I have been hiring Scrum Masters lately. So far, I hired 2 Scrum Masters whose answer to the question didn’t have any of those metrics. Rarely do you hear Scrum practitioners bringing up Cycle Time, Lead Time, Throughput, Work Item Age. The software uses example data to show its capabilities – nice touch. Entering PSK.

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Agilemania

MARCH 23, 2021

Most of us started our Agile journey with one framework, and that is Scrum. Scrum is simple to understand with some immutable principles & guidelines. For a long period, our idea of Agile was only Scrum. The foundational unit in SAFe is the Agile team, with the option to use Scrum, XP, or Kanban. Let us dig deeper.

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