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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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

46% of the organizations reported inconsistencies in practices and processes as their main challenge with agile transformation. Source: 15th State of Agile Report. There sure is an Agile framework called SAFe. SAFe is a scaling agile framework, so referring to it as just an agile framework may not be appropriate.

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NimbleWork

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The Place for Retrospectives Retros happen regularly during the project management lifecycle for agile and iterative projects. So we want to include agile retros in the general cadence of the project lifecycle for iterative projects, whether you meet in person or virtually – but that regular cadence brings its own challenges.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 24, 2019

If those worlds are not connected, then there’s a limit to the level of business agility the IT department can support. Business agility is what organizations are looking for; agile software development may be one enabling factor in achieving it, but it isn’t the point of a transformation.

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MPUG

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Two frequently and widely used charts in projects using Agile frameworks are the Burndown and Burnup Charts. These charts are important because, in Agile approaches, emphasis is on getting the work done and having working increments in every iteration or a timebox as much as possible. Building a Sprint Burndown Chart.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 4, 2022

So, there are no directions about HOW to run your Scrum team. It is a container event, which means that it contains all other events, including Sprint Planning, the Daily Scrum, the Sprint Retrospective, and the Sprint Review. Wouldn’t you want to meet with stakeholders more often at the Sprint Review to get feedback?

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Planio

JULY 4, 2022

Agile ceremonies are the fuel that keeps your development team moving forward. But what if you’re not entirely comfortable managing and running Agile ceremonies? Agile ceremonies get abandoned when teams stop seeing the value in them. What are Agile ceremonies? A ‘quick-start’ guide to the 5 Agile ceremonies.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 20, 2023

(Muscial Interlude) The Challenges of Empowring Agile Teams I’m Dennis Stevens, Chief Methodologist at a company called LeadingAgile. I think there’s an interesting challenge in our industry, too, that the Agile community has been fighting for a long time to be allowed to be empowered. What does it mean to empower teams?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 18, 2019

The topic of Agile Metrics inevitably comes up in many situations and conversations. I cannot tell you how many candidates mention Velocity, Burndown and Burnup charts. Those numbers that matter, the Agile Metrics. Dan graciously granted fellow Professional Scrum Trainers permission to use the software for educational purposes.

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Planio

AUGUST 9, 2021

How to write a project schedule in 9 steps. How do Agile teams create a project schedule? What is the best project scheduling software to use? Planio: Best for teams of all sizes (Agile and traditional). How can you optimize your entire team so people aren’t waiting for other tasks to finish? Leadership.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2021

Agile transformations are hard. People are starting to draw the conclusion that “Agile doesn’t work.” While this kind of “Agile laboratory” environment stems from good intentions (we certainly don’t want to set a team up for failure), it is not very useful from a hypothesis testing standpoint. What happened?

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Digite

JUNE 13, 2018

We’re honored to republish this blog post ‘Beginner’s Guide to Kanban for Agile Marketing’ by Andrea Fryrear which was originally published in the Agile Sherpas blog! She also shows you how to design your first Kanban Board, with examples. Compared to Scrum, Kanban is a young work-management method.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 18, 2019

The topic of Agile Metrics inevitably comes up in many situations and conversations. I cannot tell you how many candidates mention Velocity, Burndown and Burnup charts. Those numbers that matter, the Agile Metrics. Dan graciously granted fellow Professional Scrum Trainers permission to use the software for educational purposes.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 2, 2018

If you’re a veteran of the software industry, you probably remember those days where we released to production/GA every couple of months. When we say “Working Software” in the Agile Manifesto, we don’t mean just “It is working and we tested it meets our acceptance criteria and our definition of Done”. The Increment Got Us Here.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 2, 2018

If you’re a veteran of the software industry, you probably remember those days where we released to production/GA every couple of months. When we say “Working Software” in the Agile Manifesto, we don’t mean just “It is working and we tested it meets our acceptance criteria and our definition of Done”.

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Planview

JUNE 1, 2021

It can be challenging to expand Agile practices beyond IT and development teams. Planview is committed to helping our customers with this transition and to that end, Chief Product Officer Patrick Tickle and I recently presented a webinar on “ Leading an Agile Transformation.”. First, why scale Agile in the first place?

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

SAFe includes Scrum - so how come many Scrum practitioners and thought leaders consider it unsafe? The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe™) is one of the most popular approaches to applying agile at scale out there. In SAFe's Program Level, a key piece is the Agile Release Train which is considered a team of Agile teams.

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Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2023

If you could magically create a new world where large organizations had overcome the barriers to Business Agility and Agile came naturally, what would have to be true about that world, the organizations, and the people working there? And how would we know that this new Agile world was any good?

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 30,000-plus other subscribers. In the attempt to fill Scrum’s product discovery void, product delivery organizations regularly turn to other agile frameworks like lean UX, jobs-to-be-done, lean startup, design thinking, design sprint—just to name a few.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 19, 2020

Agile isn’t ever really about Agile. In our Business Drivers of Agility webinar series hosted by LeadingAgile CEO, Mike Cottmeyer, Mike dives deep into six key business drivers to uncover how Agile can enable organizations to connect these drivers to better business outcomes. That was kind of the hypothesis.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Safe Scrum is a framework that has gained significant popularity in recent years for enhancing team performance in an agile development methodology. It is built upon the foundation of Agile principles and values, providing a set of guidelines, roles, and ceremonies that enable teams to work together seamlessly.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

SAFe includes Scrum - so how come many Scrum practitioners and thought leaders consider it unsafe? The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe™) is one of the most popular approaches to applying agile at scale out there. In SAFe's Program Level, a key piece is the Agile Release Train which is considered a team of Agile teams.

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Leading Agile

JANUARY 21, 2021

Mike Cottmeyer explores the key attributes in each of the three systems necessary for making a success out of the otherwise complex tax of large scale Agile Transformation. And what we are is we’re a consultancy that’s focused on doing Agile Transformation specifically. Transcript. Like what are the networks of teams?

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

In addition to Fitness and Nutrition Coaching, I’m fortunate to serve two incredible teams as their Scrum Master and Agile Coach at a Fortune 100 company. The more I dove into learning about Scrum and its practices while I prepared for the Scrum Master role, the more I noticed similarities to how I approached my coaching practice.

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Leading Answers

JANUARY 16, 2021

This article explains what a risk-adjusted backlog is, why they are useful, how to create one and how teams work with them. Agile projects typically prioritize the backlog based on business value or perceived needs. During retrospectives, we review the effectiveness of the risk management process as we would any other process.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 13, 2018

Technical teams who are building or supporting application software usually work from a prioritized list of improvements, new features, and ideas to try out. People leave and are replaced with new team members who don’t know the code base or the organization’s internal procedures. Scrum calls the list the Product Backlog.)

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Resource Guru

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Below, our expert-led guide with real-world insights goes deeper into what agency utilization rates are, how they’re calculated, why they matter, and how to optimize them to help drive agency growth. Agency utilization rate measures how effectively your agency’s resources are being used.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2020

Listen to the Agile Unplugged Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to Agile Unplugged on: Apple Podcasts. Remember to subscribe and listen to Agile Unplugged on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Podbean—and watch each and every episode on YouTube , IGTV , and Facebook. . How do you like fix it? Soundcloud.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 7, 2023

As a community, we have developed a handful of team-based Agile approaches over the years; some of which we would consider scaled. Implementing Agile, especially in larger, more complex organizations, still seems to be a black art. All the things we consider hallmarks of a small team, Agile methodology. But here we are.

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Wrike

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Today’s project managers must learn how to use systems that overcome the challenges of working from home. Embracing Agile as a means to combine strategy with output. In 2022, companies will need to ensure that their teams are Agile and fast-moving. This means having the necessary tools and expertise to work remotely.

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Digite

MARCH 2, 2018

From the questioner’s post, it is not clear if their team is doing production support or software/ app dev. Based on these, there certainly are guidelines for you to follow about how to model your Kanban board so it matches your current business processes and helps you improve. What is the business context?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 11, 2024

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 42,000-plus subscribers. ? Every activity required to achieve the Product Goal, such as Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective, occurs within Sprints. Maybe, someone knows how to save the Sprint Goal, provided it is still useful?

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Digite

MARCH 2, 2018

From the questioner’s post, it is not clear if their team is doing production support or software/ app dev. Based on these, there certainly are guidelines for you to follow about how to model your Kanban board so it matches your current business processes and helps you improve. What is the business context?

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2021

Many organisations wrestle with the seeming incompatibility between agile and release management, and they struggle with release planning and predictable delivery. TL;DR; Without working software, you can’t build trust and you don’t know when you will get the next piece of working software. Why is software so unpredictable.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 29, 2023

What do we have to do to make Agile tangible for our executives? How do we get our executives to have more confidence than fear in the changes we’re trying to make? Are Executives Getting in the Way of Agile? At seven years old, I learned how to program on a PDP-8. That’s what the Agile Manifesto says, right?

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Planio

JANUARY 11, 2021

In this guide, we’re going to cover the tools, processes, and cultural shifts you need to make to successfully collaborate from wherever you are, Jump to a section: How to reverse Remote Sprawl: 10 reasons teams spread across time zones fall apart (and how to avoid them). Teams (or teammates) who don’t know how to work remotely.

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MPUG

MAY 18, 2022

s webinar, Use Agile Project Management with MS Project, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. He’s our Agile certified expert today.

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