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Lean Startup and Scrum

Scrum.org

Lean Startup and Scrum Reis and Blank talk about using these ideas to build and scale a business, but the ideas hold true at the product or even feature level. Earlier Sprints validate the ultimate assumptions of the feature around value, usage, and risk. Ultimately, Scrum can be the overall execution engine driving toward a goal.

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Product Discovery for Scrum Teams

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Product Discovery for Scrum Teams While Scrum excels at building and releasing Increments, it does not guarantee that those are valuable—garbage in, garbage out. Scrum teams can equally make things no one is interested in using at all. Get notified when the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book is available !

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Managing Project Assumptions and Risks

The IIL Blog

By Alan Zucker We make hundreds of assumptions and take small risks daily. Recovering from these risks may be inconvenient but not horribly impactful. Project assumptions and risks are not as casual. Project assumptions and risks are not as casual. Our risks were identified, but a response strategy was never created.

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The Zombie Scrum Survival Guide

Scrum.org

An article by Johannes Schartau , co-author of the Zombie Scrum Survival Guide. This concerning dynamic seemed to drain all life from his Scrum Team’s members. We have a strong reason to believe, however, that he found himself in the middle of the first large-scale Zombie Scrum outbreak.”. The Zombie Scrum Survival Guide.

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

Scrum.org

Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. You can observe implicit coordination in Scrum teams when you look at how work moves across a Scrum board, or on- and of the Sprint Backlog. This is also why the Scrum framework includes the Definition of Done.

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Agile Beyond IT: Lean Thinking

The IIL Blog

Agile teams use information radiators to produce radical visibility into backlogs, risks, and status through Kanban boards. In 2016, Alan founded Project Management Essentials to share his passion for and experience in project management, leadership, and Agile. These relationships allow us to focus our attention on delivering value.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Risk issues that can be identified early in the program, which will potentially impact the program later, termed Known Unknowns and can be alleviated with good risk management. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.