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Lack of Education is a Root Cause of Poor Agile Performance

Scrum.org

Last week I was invited to give a lecture at the Free University of Amsterdam at the faculty for Digital Business Innovation. The lecture triggered many thoughts about the relevance of teaching Agile/Scrum. It confirmed my preconception that regular education struggles to keep up with developments in our field.

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

Scrum.org

Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. Edmondson (2012) argues that dynamic teaming is important to share and encourage learning. This is also what inspired Edmondson (2012) in her academic work on “teaming”. This post is my attempt to do this. A., & Mesmer-Magnus, J.

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How do you implement SAFe agile in your organization?

Agilemania

The groundwork for SAFe was formed in 4 knowledge areas – agile software development, lean product development, systems thinking, and DevOps. SAFe contains a combination of principles, processes, and best practices that help large organizations in easy adoption of agile frameworks including Lean, Kanban, and Scrum.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

And the same process is applied to the Scrum development processes on those projects. . Believing is Seeing: Confirmation Bias Studies in Software Engineering, “Magne Jørgensen and Efi Papatheocharous, 41st Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA). Better Sure than Safe?

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

Effort Distribution to Estimate Cost in Small to Medium Software Development Project with Use Case Points,” Putu Linda Primandari and Sholiq, The Third Information Systems International Conference, Procedia Computer Science, 72, pp. Software Development Effort Estimation using Fuzzy Bayesian Belief Network with COCOMO II,” B.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Project risk management: lessons learned from software development environment,” Young Hoon Kwak and Jim Stoddard,” Technovation , 24(11), pp. Overcoming Barriers in Assessing Risk Probabilities,” Tom Kendrick , 2012 PMI Global Congress Proceedings , 2012. Claude Bocquet, Reliability Engineering and System Safety , 2012.

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The Agile Cannon

Herding Cats

Quest for control (in manufacturing sense) makes innovation harder [2]. Innovation causes variability. Establish a Zero backlog approach to planning - Scrum creates Sprint Backlog. Highly effective Scrum teams have seven items in Sprint Backlog. Non-creative work is easier. Uncertainty creates confusion.

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