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. It is a lightweight framework suitable for small self-managed teams. For a long period, our idea of Agile was only Scrum. That’s when SAFe came to the party.

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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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Scrum.org

APRIL 21, 2020

Like many Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches and Agile Managers, I am beginning to understand organizations are complex adaptive systems. One of the powerful properties of Scrum is that it makes a very clear distinction in roles, events and artifacts. Let’s look at a Scrum example. Imagine we observe a poorly functioning team.

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Agilemania

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Teams can build products faster and more efficiently by utilizing agile methodologies from the Product Management perspective. Many agile teams can benefit from SAFe®’s alignment, collaboration, and delivery strategies. It enhances the product quality delivered by the team. Now the question arises “How does this happen?”.

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Velociteach

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

We should not blame Agile for bad Agile. Agile teams are empowered and collaborative. They provide the structure and practices to guide the teams. High-performing agile teams are characterized by the following: Psychological Safety. Team members are empowered. We developed our own lightweight practices.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

More often than not in kind of either the IT product development space or IT services space. We like to consider ourselves kind of a full stack consultancy in the sense that you know, obviously, you have to deal with the work surface levels and what the teams are doing but you know, how do you orchestrate teams across dependency boundaries?

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Digite

MARCH 2, 2018

My team is using Kanban board but they seem to prefer to collate a couple of tickets then ‘do a release’ as appose to releasing each ticket. This is absolutely true – and reflects the realities of business of different organizations or teams – and their customers, both internal and external. What is the business context?

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Herding Cats

MARCH 7, 2016

In our Software Intensive System of Systems world, we are not 5 people sitting around the table with the customer building a warehouse management application for our privately help gadget making company. Cadence Release - when a fixed period ends, go with what is ready to go. Cadence Release paradigm, is a flow-based approach.

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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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Digite

MARCH 2, 2018

My team is using Kanban board but they seem to prefer to collate a couple of tickets then ‘do a release’ as appose to releasing each ticket. This is absolutely true – and reflects the realities of the business of different organizations or teams – and their customers, both internal and external.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 29, 2023

It doesn’t mean they are bad. Agile is an incremental and iterative approach for developing software products. It’s typically best for small teams. The most common small team Agile methodologies are Scrum and XP, maybe Kanban, or a combination of the three. Scrum focuses more on management activities.

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Planio

JANUARY 11, 2021

It’s quickly becoming the ‘new normal’ for companies and teams to be split across cities, countries, and even time zones. And while there’s no denying the many benefits of working remotely , mismatched schedules, repetitive communication, and out-of-sync teams don’t make the list. Poor people management: Embrace your team’s nuances.

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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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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. A question that I often get while speaking with people is: What is the difference between Kanban and Scrum?

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Scrum.org

APRIL 11, 2019

Intended audience: Scrum masters, Product owners, Managers and Agile coaches. The PO’s are then unsure what needs to be developed. For instance, a lead developer or architect prepares the work for sprints ahead, acting as a proxy between the teams and the PO’s, splitting the requirements in tasks per team.

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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 I was working at version one at the time and so like I’m like all in like, not like team level scrum. And that was about the time that I was starting to develop the teams backlogs, working testing software.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 7, 2023

As a community, we have developed a handful of team-based Agile approaches over the years; some of which we would consider scaled. I wasn’t around when things like XP and Scrum were invented, but I have been lucky enough to spend time with many of the original signers of the Manifesto. But here we are. Why is it so difficult?

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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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MPUG

MAY 18, 2022

Melanie here with team MPUG. He has 30 years as a new product development project management professional. He has lead projects that introduce durable goods, create hardware and software, integrate hardware and software and he’s brought up manufacturing facilities globally. Melanie: Hello.

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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. Old ways of working won’t solve it, and simply implementing practices like Scrum, DevOps, FinOps, or ProOps are not sufficient to create the organizations we need for the changes we must make.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 17, 2021

And I was working for this VP that was like really super cool, is very into agile and we were coming up with really creative things for like team formation strategies and agile governance, all stuff. And then the process developed a point of view around kind of why companies were jacking it up. What do you organize those teams around?

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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? It’s time now to move forward to the next level of proficiency in software delivery; what we might call “post-Agile.”

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

The agile approach is usually used in software projects where the scope is not always known and adaptability is prioritized. A project team might also go through an audit to ensure that there are no lapses in project management. Projects might additional calendars as well to show resource availability, communication cadence, etc.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Here's a collection of presentations, briefings, papers, essays, book content used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've written and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems and other domains. Product Development (#ProdDev). Agile Software Development (#ASD).

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PM That Works

MAY 9, 2020

I had a chance to join a mastermind with several of the john Maxwell team members. In short, his mission is to help teams and organizations become better, better in the sense of increased teamwork, increased flow, increased learning and increased passion about their mission. Now, there's a dozen or more for most of these.

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