Remove The WIP Game
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Embrace a Scrum Revolution: Your New Year's Resolution Guide

Scrum.org

Focus on improving your Scrum game in 2024 with one of these five resolutions to enhance collaboration within your team and deliver value sooner to your customers. 1) Focus on Incremental Delivery What is it? Incremental delivery is the key to achieving tangible progress in small, manageable chunks. 3) Try Flow Metrics What is it?

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8 Critical Red Flags Your Kanban Adoption Is Incomplete

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In the context of agile teams and Kanban adoption, I'm reminded of 'The Princess Bride,' a classic film where Vizzini frequently exclaims 'Inconceivable!' Much like Vizzini's misuse of the word ' Inconceivable ,' many teams often misunderstand or misuse terms like 'Kanban,' 'Scrum,' and 'Agile.' Ignoring feedback hampers the process.

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Multi-Functional Learning is the Heart of Agility

Scrum.org

In this article, we shall investigate why the learning and development of multi-functional specialists in Scrum is the core of organizational Agility and value optimization. That leads to an ever-increasing number of explicit and implicit backlogs, "dependencies," extensive Work-In-Progress (WIP), queues, and unsatisfactory lead times.

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How to Use Flow Metrics to Optimize Product Delivery

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Timeliness & Customer Satisfaction are Key Product Measures Mastering Product Delivery Optimization with Flow Metrics Because timeliness and customer satisfaction can make or break a product, strategically using Flow Metrics in your Kanban system is a game-changer for product delivery. What Are Flow Metrics?

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Suitability Filters – Team Discussion Tools

Leading Answers

The Telephone Game and Tree Swing cartoon are classic examples of how even well-meaning interpretations can be distorted, leading to bad outcomes. Suitability filters are models that offer simplified views of a decision-making process. They help people identify and discuss the variables at play and make a recommendation.

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Agile Consulting

Leading Answers

April’s theme at ProjectManagement.com where I write a monthly column was “Consulting,” and in this article, I examine the world of Agile Consulting and coaching. Depending on where people are in their careers, their agile adoption and their corporate culture, some people want a consultant, others a coach and sometimes they want a blend.

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The Agile Cannon

Herding Cats

The paper Agile Base Patterns in the Agile Canon , Daniel R Greening, 2016 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences is an important contribution to the discussion of agile at scale in organizations beyond 5 developers at the table with their customer. The Agile Cannon is composed of 5 elements.

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