Leading Agile

MARCH 16, 2020

Becoming Agile isn’t simple. Although many think all that’s needed is a System of Delivery, like Scrum or SAFe, in large organizations, it’ll take much more than a new process, or culture shift to Transform. But without the right foundational ecosystem and systems in place to enable Agility, achieving it is nearly impossible.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Over the last years, I have spent some amount of time obtaining the highest of Agile Pokemon badges: the Professional Scrum Trainer. I already obtained my Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) certificate. The requirements for step one are as follows: 4+ years of experience as Scrum Master. Even if it was just a ripple.

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International Institute for Learning

APRIL 19, 2023

By Alan Zucker Disciplined Agile® (DA) and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) are two popular, second-generation agile methodologies. They build on lean-agile thinking, and standard Scrum, Kanban, and DevOps practices. They emerged about a decade after the Agile Manifesto.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 10, 2022

A Sprint is considered to be a mini-project within a Scrum project. However, many Agile practitioners do not follow this practice. In this article, we will take a scenario for Sprint in a Scrum project and follow the steps needed to close a Sprint Project. The Daily Scrum events are not all complete. Our Project Scenario.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

TL;DR: Agile Workspace Means Choice Among a Diversity of Spaces . If you want your organization to become agile, adding more whiteboards to the workspace will not suffice. The Agile Workspace: A Worthwhile Investment. Download the latest Gensler’s survey from 2019 for free. Agile Workspace Anti-Patterns.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

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. This post is part of our “in-depth” series.

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Online PM Courses

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

So, it’s time to refresh our list and put up a new one, in good time for 2019. So, here then is our list of the 52 best Project Management Blogs for 2019. So, it’s time to see my best project management blogs for 2019. Project Management Blogs about Agile and Agile Methods. And that’s great.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 6, 2020

For instance, in Scrum, a Sprint is a short cycle that should not exceed one calendar month. Ensuring “value” is defined, clearly understood by everyone, continuously measured and “Done” increments crafted by the developers deliver the highest value possible is the accountability of the product professionals. .

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nTask

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Agile project management is an iterative approach to delivering requirements throughout the project life cycle. Given below is a comprehensive guide for managers on how to lead their remote teams with Agile Project Management strategies for maximum productivity. . Agile Project Management for Distributed Teams.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

“We want to be more agile in our delivery.” “We How can we do Scrum well?” The good news is, agility has mechanisms, mindsets and ideals already built in to motivate team members and give them purpose in their everyday work. Before we dive in any further, let’s define our terms. Taking an Agile approach.

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nTask

AUGUST 4, 2019

Define Your Time: One of the biggest perks of remote work is the time schedule. As an agile project manager, I have had the pleasure of briefing many teams who had to work from home or a makeshift location whenever their respective management asked them to. Set yourself a 30-day challenge to define your work hours and commit to them.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 29, 2019

2018 was a big year for the Scrum Master with Glassdoor describing the importance of the role and LinkedIn listing Scrum Master as one of the most promising jobs of 2019. Slowly, the Scrum Master has moved out of the world of geek to mainstream acceptance. The guide to this change is the Scrum Master.

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International Institute for Learning

MAY 16, 2022

Another article written more from an Agile Practitioner’s perspective is RGP’s How Business Agility Helps You Thrive in the Age of Disruption. Brown, Director and Agile Coach at the Hartford Insurance. Business agility mindset begins with a mental shift. I recommend both pieces as must-reads.

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Henny Portman

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Friday September 13, I was one of the 40 participants of the second Agile NXT Future Friday conference organized by Xebia in Hilversum, the Netherlands. It was, similar as the first AGILE NXT Future Friday, perfectly organized, interesting topics, great food, and enough time to network. We started by defining (per table) autonomy.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 21, 2020

Like many Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches and Agile Managers, I am beginning to understand organizations are complex adaptive systems. This overview was created at the 2019 WPI systems academic seminar: “What is Systems Thinking?”. Let’s look at a Scrum example. Image by D. Image by R. Flemm and D.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 18, 2020

On November 22nd, 2019, I gave the closing keynote at Scrum Deutschland, a talk called ‘The Four Things You Do To Prevent Value Delivery.’ Such a study is holistic; it involves looking at the organizational design, technical capabilities, culture and knowledge, and type of control and metrics used to define success. Background.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Settle in, make yourself a brew and enjoy learning from people who actually live scrum day in day out. . This second post in the ‘Agile ADHD’ series from me, Sally Waters, and my husband Francis, is all about the details of how we implement Scrum at home. Nothing helped with this until we tried Scrum. Steve Trapps.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 7, 2019

Would you like to make 2019 a successful year for your projects? I asked people two questions: What should people managing projects be aware of as we go into 2019 to make 2019 their most successful year ever? What will you be doing in 2019 to have your most successful year ever? I’m sure you do. So I made you an ebook.

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Scrum.org

JULY 29, 2019

In my role as an Agile coach and Scrum trainer, I get the chance to talk to a lot of Scrum Masters and teams. Makes sense, many Scrum Masters learn about those topics in an introductory Scrum course. Did you know that velocity and story points are not even part of Scrum or found in the Scrum Guide?

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Henny Portman

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Since the first issue of this magazine appeared in 2017, I took the approximately 135 reviews that I posted on my blog in 2017-2019 as a starting point. In my Bird’s eye view on the agile forest article I already describe and position approximately 70 agile frameworks. It is about accepting agile values ??and

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The IIL Blog

AUGUST 8, 2023

As an example, some people experienced in the agile methodology for managing projects argue that breaking the work down into two-week sprints or mini projects will allow the project team to quickly discuss anything that went wrong on the mini project and take corrective action that will minimize stress and burnout.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Wikipedia , Oktober 2019 —. No great product has ever been built by a committee of stakeholders; Focus on short term results; Little to none focus on long term outcomes (TCO, ROI, P&L, etc); You are slowing the Scrum Team down; The Scrum Team isn’t learning and obtaining more business, domain, customer and product knowledge.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

They rarely (or never) miss a Daily Scrum, they’re involved during the Daily Scrum and it might just be that they’re asking individual team members what they’ve done, what they’re going to do and if there’s anything blocking them. Wikipedia , Oktober 2019 —. Want to learn more? Go experience the Stances of the Product Owner!

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nTask

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Agile Project Management. The project management technique that is the most famous and is quite outstanding in its application because it deals with projects in a way quite different from other traditional procedures is the Agile Project Management technique. Rational Unified Process (RUP). Organizing Workflow & Planning.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

TL; DR: Scrum Master Interview Questions on Scrum Anti-Patterns. Scrum has proven time and again to be the most popular framework for software development. Given that software is eating the world , a seasoned Scrum Master is nowadays in high demand. Which makes any Scrum Master interview a challenging task.

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International Institute for Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2019

For several decades, project managers were only responsible for traditional or operational projects that: Had a well-defined statement of work. Pillar #4: There will be a significant change in how we define the success (and failure) of a project.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Cambridge English Dictionary , Oktober 2019 —. Influencing the stakeholders and Scrum Team is a hard but very important job. The Influencer Product Owner and Agile. Of course, the Agile Manifesto has no principles and makes no notions about the art of influencing people their thoughts and behaviors.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 2, 2020

TL; DR: Scrum Stakeholder Anti-Patterns. Learn how individual incentives and outdated organizational structures — fostering personal agendas and local optimization efforts — manifest themselves in Scrum stakeholder anti-patterns which easily can impede any agile transition. Copyright notice : InfoQ, 2019.

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Workzone

MARCH 13, 2019

Here are great paid and free Basecamp alternatives you’ll want to check out in 2019 before making the change with your team. A strong alternative for agile teams and DevOps teams is JIRA, a project management tool from Atlassian. If you’re a DevOps team, VersionOne and its focus on agile workflow could be a game-changer for you.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2022

TL; DR: Scrum Master Interview Questions on How to Make Your Scrum Master Fail. Scrum has proven time and again to be the most popular framework for software development. Given that software is eating the world , a seasoned Scrum Master is nowadays in high demand. Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Defined broadly, a visionary is one who can envision the future. Some visionaries simply imagine what does not yet exist but might some day, as some forms of “visioning” (or gazing) provide a glimpse into the possible future. . — Wikipedia , Oktober 2019?—?. The Visionary Product Owner and Agile.

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The IIL Blog

JULY 19, 2023

2002) define work engagement as a positive, fulfilling, work-related state of mind characterized by vigor, dedication, and absorption. The focus was on traditional projects that began with well-defined requirements. Many of these projects began with just an idea rather than well-defined requirements accompanied by a business case.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

TL; DR: Demand Creates Supply and the Job Market for Scrum Masters Is no Exception. Scrum has proven time and again to be the most popular framework for software development. Given that software is eating the world , a seasoned Scrum Master is nowadays in high demand. Which makes any Scrum Master interview a challenging task.

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nTask

AUGUST 22, 2019

“Scrum” is a phenomenal subject – i.e. if you are familiar with it. As an Agile project manager, I have seen my fair share of so-called “Scrum Masters” and “Agile Experts” claiming to be masters of their craft. The truth, however, is that they don’t know a lot of things about Scrum and Agile.

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Gunther Verheyen

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In the summer of 2019 I got in touch with O’Reilly Media about their ambition to add a book about Scrum to their “97 Things” series. O’Reilly and I compiled and merged our lists of potential authors and in August 2019 I started contacting them as potential contributors.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 23, 2019

I was challenged to define organizational agility that would leave all people involved in no doubt about expectations. Here is my definition of organizational agility, and it keeps evolving: The ability to drive disruption in society , the industry & the marketplace, an adaptive way of being/learning/sensemaking, through ?

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

On November 22nd, 2019, I gave the closing keynote at Scrum Deutschland, a talk called ‘The Four Things You Do To Prevent Value Delivery.’ Such a study is holistic; it involves looking at the organizational design, technical capabilities, culture and knowledge, and type of control and metrics used to define success. Background

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