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A Simple Exercise To Define The Product Of Your Scrum Team

Scrum.org

It influences the Product Owner's role, determines the self-managing capabilities of the Scrum team, and the opportunities to ship fast and gather feedback from your stakeholders. What if the product is a feature, a platform, or a technical component? Because there’s not much to show, the Sprint Review has lost its value as well.

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Escaping the Feature Factory

Scrum.org

Overemphasis on Utilization : Prioritizing keeping teams busy with feature work over allowing time for creativity, exploration, and addressing technical debt also contributes to a feature factory environment. All of these reasons are reflective of systemic issues within large organizations.

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Overcoming bias in project management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Since good decision-making is critical for good leadership and guidance, project managers need to know how heuristics (mental disposition) and biases (personal inclinations) influence a project manager’s decisions. What are heuristics? The performance improvements will bring real benefits to the individual and the organization.

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10 Strategies for Successful Project Execution

ProjectManager.com

Let’s review strategies and tools you can use, and learn how they can help you close that gap to promote successful project execution. We’ll hear from experts and review key takeaways that project leaders can immediately put into practice in their programs and projects. Conduct Team-Building Exercises. Meet Regularly.

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How Often do Agile Teams Have to do Sprint Reviews?

NimbleWork

Are you wondering how often to hold a sprint review? Sprint reviews are an agile ceremony that can be formal (in a meeting room) or informal (gathered around someone’s desk). They are designed to showcase the work done during the sprint – as the name suggests, they are a review of the sprint. you might ask.

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Could a Scrum GPT Challenge Scrum Masters?

Scrum.org

Besides the exciting market opportunity for many people with specific knowledge, data, or content, the question is what implication this new technology will have on the job market for agile practitioners when their roles are partly based on “knowledge” now available from a machine? This requires upgrading to ChatGPT Plus.)

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Unlock the Power of ChatGPT for your Scrum Team

Scrum.org

Think twice if you still believe this technology is a fad or a toy. Your suggestions include surveys, talks, interviews, team meetings, games, exercises, or including other parties like stakeholders or line managers, and other useful practices. If you still believe that underlying technology is a toy or fad, think again.

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