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In-Depth: How To Create Better Work Agreements For Your Team

Scrum.org

It may suffice to move an item on the Scrum Board or Kanban Board to “Done” or “Ready for Review”, although a verbal statement is probably clearer for teams where the Scrum Board isn’t visible all the time. This ties closely into research on team cognition and cross-functionality. Closing words.

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In-Depth: Stable Or Fluid Teams? What Does The Science Say?

Scrum.org

Team cognition is similar in the sense that the entire team can be thought of as a body, where each member (the limbs) has to learn how to coordinate their work effectively to move forward. This shared understanding is captured in the “team mental models” that drive team cognition. It takes time to develop teams.

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5 Agile Methodologies for Project Managers that are not Scrum Framework

Project Pulse Journal

Limit Work in Progress (WIP) – By limiting WIP, Kanban encourages teams to complete current tasks before taking on new ones, thus reducing multitasking and focusing on quality and efficiency. Feedback Loops – Incorporate regular meetings to review and adapt your workflow based on feedback. What Makes XP Agile?

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Can We Still be Agile?

Leading Answers

They do not say teams have to work together to be agile or effective. Instead, they say, " The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation " and " Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

The following material comes from conferences, workshop, materials developed for clients. The overarching theme is focused on defining what Done looks like, assessing progress toward Done in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers. Project Success Assessment - A checklist for assessing the processes for project success.

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

Herding Cats

This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. We were one of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . Is this normal?

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Webinar Recap: Agile Series Part 3 – Best Practices & Real World Use of Agile with MS Project / Project PPM

MPUG

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. We’re going to take a quick review of Agile options and approaches. ” And if you look closely on my screen, you’ll see a Planner icon.

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