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20 Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

Source : Scrum Guide, 2017. Too much estimating: The Development Team estimates sub-tasks. Irregular Sprint lengths: The Scrum Team has variable Sprint cadences. According to the Scrum Guide, the Sprint Planning answers two questions: “What can be delivered in the Increment resulting from the upcoming Sprint?”.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

These five principles of project success are stated as questions that need to be answered using units of measure meaningful to the decision makers, College of Performance Management , Measurable News, 2017. College of Performance Management , EVM World 2017. EVM World 2017. This uncertainty creates complexity. What is Risk?