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Overcoming Product Backlog Management Traps

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Overcoming Common Product Backlog Management Traps w/ David Pereira How teams manage their Product Backlog often makes or breaks their value creation chances. Poor backlog management leads to a feature factory trap, while a mindful strategy enables the team to drive value steadily. How to handle this? One backlog?

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Escaping the Feature Factory

Scrum.org

In many large organizations, Scrum teams fall into the ‘feature factory’ trap, focusing more on churning out features than creating real value. It’s too bad that this shift undermines Agile principles and hampers long-term success and innovation. Preorder the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now for delivery in January 2024! ?️

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Project Management Artifacts: Essential Tools to Enhance Project Management

Project Pulse Journal

These strategies enhance team dynamics and facilitate time and budget management as the project progresses, whether for leading small teams or managing large-scale projects. Among these resources are models, methods, and artifacts that each play a unique role in aiding project managers and their teams to achieve project goals.

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Shift-Left, Shift-Right, Keep Middle

Velociteach

For large and complex projects, engage them during the pre-initiation stage when the business case is being developed. The project team knows the expectations rather than having to make assumptions or guess. The definition of done establishes overall quality standards for each step in the development process.

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Could a Scrum GPT Challenge Scrum Masters?

Scrum.org

Standish Group data reveals a startling 58% of Agile teams struggle with delays, budget issues, and dissatisfied customers. Moreover, recent surveys indicate 88% of these teams use Scrum. ? Because of widespread misconceptions about Agile, leading to poor implementation. But don’t worry! I’m here to help turn the tide ?,

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What is Learning Agility & How to Assess It

Teamweek

Technology, specifically, is changing faster than most of us can keep up with, and the same set of skills that made a candidate a “superstar” in 2024 may not be relevant in 2025. So, here are some tips for assessing learning agility when hiring top talent in 2024 and beyond.

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25 Strategic Interview Questions to Ask Candidates

Teamweek

Or, you can look at a list of strategic interview questions to ask candidates and use those to get a better idea of who’s got the skills and qualities needed to become your next team member. TL;DR — Key Takeaways Poorly structured interviews waste time and ultimately result in bad hires or skills mismatches.