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Re-Defining Refining (Let’s make Backlog Refinement Meetings Engaging and Successful)

Scrum.org

Scrum has grown up and what was formally casually called “Backlog Grooming” is now called “Backlog Refinement”. Many Scrum teams have a regular meeting scheduled on everyone’s calendar, even though it is not an official Scrum event. Register here for the event scheduled for August 13th at 10am Eastern. .

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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

Scrum.org

Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. From our own quantitative research with 1.200 Scrum Teams , we know that teams are more effective when they are more aware of the needs of their stakeholders. The Scrum Guide seems pretty clear about what Product Owners are accountable for.

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In-Depth: The Evidence-Based Business Case For Agile

Scrum.org

And we share results from our own analyses based on actual data from stakeholders and Scrum teams that we collected through the Scrum Team Survey. Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. The second term I’d like to define is Agile or agility.

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Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Leading to Failure

Scrum.org

Scrum has proven to be an effective product delivery framework for all sorts of products. However, Scrum is equally well suited to build the wrong product efficiently as its Achilles heel has always been the product discovery part. How that is supposed to happen is nowhere described in the Scrum Guide.

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Key Components of the DevOps Pipeline?

Agilemania

Concerns were voiced in the IT operations and software development sectors from 2007 to 2008 about the old software development paradigm that split operations from developers regarding how code was distributed and supported. Continuous Exploration: It is the stage to visualize the pain and gain, develop a hypothesis, and define measurement.

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3 Roles but 1 Team

Scrum.org

How common misunderstandings about the Scrum Roles prevent Scrum Teams to become effective. For an effective Scrum team that statement makes perfect sense. On the flip-side, Scrum defines 3 distinct roles with very specific responsibilities and accountabilities.

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The Agile Cannon

Herding Cats

Economics - actions that be participants without well-defined economic guidance, wander aimlessly. Establish a Zero backlog approach to planning - Scrum creates Sprint Backlog. Highly effective Scrum teams have seven items in Sprint Backlog. Forces on economic progress. They don't know what they value.

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