Scrum.org

MAY 7, 2025

Introduction The relationship between Scrum and innovation has been a subject of considerable reflection within agile practice. Every Sprint represents a bounded opportunity to explore customer needs and technological possibilities, culminating in a potentially releasable increment.

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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. Without a regular cadence of delivery of working software any belief that you will get a usable increment is misguided at best. Updated to reflect the 2020 Scrum Guide!

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Scrum.org

MARCH 14, 2023

Agile Fluency® Model is a fantastic model. With this model, you start seeing your journey as a series of paradigm shifts and stages toward higher fluency in Agile: The Agile Fluency model has been as an inspiration for us, when we were designing Org Topologies. Without defining value, no agile transformation is possible.

Agile 225

Agile Cadence Technical Review Development Team Review 225

Henny Portman

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The book “ The Lean-Agile Way – Unleash Business Results in the Digital Era with Value Stream Management ” by Cecil ‘Gary’ Rupp, Richard Knaster, Steve Pereira, and Al Shalloway provides a comprehensive roadmap to optimize processes, improve products, and enhance service delivery.

Lean 52

Lean Technical Review Agile Sustainability 52

Scrum.org

MAY 27, 2021

. . How Agile Practices Enable Remote Working. And last summer’s 14th State of Agile report clearly demonstrated that Agile adoption is more important than ever in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a trend that is set to continue throughout 2021. We know Agile is not just for software teams. 4 – The Review.

Agile 191

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Scrum is the most popular Agile framework. According to the latest State of Agile survey from Digital.ai, 90% of teams who are using an Agile framework are using Scrum. For example, Scrum includes five events: the Sprint, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and the Sprint Retrospective.

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SCRUM Software Review Agile Software 207

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe™) is one of the most popular approaches to applying agile at scale out there. SAFe's perspective is that "Nothing beats an Agile Team" and it doesn't try to reinvent the wheel or even innovate too much when it comes to the Team level. SAFe's Scrum Master is more of an Agile Team Lead.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 24, 2019

Tech Infrastructure != Many organizations divide their technology stack between front-end and back-end systems and place an API boundary between the two. I’m including all IT resources “in front of” the API layer in the organization’s technical infrastructure. Half-Agile Transformations.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Agile Cadence Infrastructure 120

Scrum.org

JANUARY 30, 2023

TL; DR: Agile Transformation with ChatGPT or McBoston? This article is another excursion into this nascent yet fascinating new technology of generative AI and LLMs and the future of knowledge work. Or shall we embark on an agile transformation with ChatGPT providing some guidance? I am no longer sure about that.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The Product Owner theses also address the Product Owner’s part in Scrum events from Sprint Planning to Sprint Review to Sprint Retrospective, and the Daily Scrum. A Product Owner is an innovator at heart and thus a value creator for customers and organizations if given a chance to work in an agile manner. The Product Owner Theses.

Technical Review 248

Technical Review SCRUM Cadence 2020 248

Scrum.org

JANUARY 4, 2022

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. The duration of the Sprint is timeboxed to a maximum of one month, establishing a cadence within which the Scrum team works together to deliver value. Conclusion.

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SCRUM 2020 Cadence Technical Review 228

Kiron Bondale

AUGUST 6, 2017

For example, technology deliverables might be completed in an agile manner whereas change management deliverables such as training collateral get produced in a traditional manner. Are they all being produced internally, or is a vendor responsible for either the agile or the traditional deliverables?

Agile 136

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Scrum.org

APRIL 30, 2019

Organizations look to Agile to overcome challenges. Many organizations struggle in their implementation of Agile and/or their evolution of agile once they start their journey. They use practices, people, and technology to find a way to overcome their disability of delivering value to market too slowly.

Agile 158

Agile Cadence Technical Review Development Team Review 158

Redbooth

APRIL 26, 2018

If you work in tech or any industry where things change fast, you probably are familiar with agile project management. Agile methods are baked into productivity tech, from Trello to Airtable to Redbooth, and can improve any large body of work, from ad campaigns to app design. Agile vs. Waterfall.

Agile 128

Agile Technical Review Cadence Software Review 128

Scrum.org

MAY 24, 2022

The Sprint Planning meeting happens just once per Sprint, and the same goes for the Review and Retrospective events. I think of the Sprint as the heartbeat of Scrum because it sets the cadence and frequency for the other events. Sprint Review. How the Sprint Review event reduces the need for other meetings.

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SCRUM Cadence Technical Review 2020 221

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 6, 2019

In the world of tech, many industry giants such as Google choose to use a management framework known as Objectives and Key Results (OKR). Once about four or five key results are determined for each objective, it is the job of an OKR Champion (servant leader) to coach and guide the team in executing on a cadence towards the objectives.

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Technical Review Cadence Information Technology Defining 179

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe™) is one of the most popular approaches to applying agile at scale out there. SAFe's perspective is that "Nothing beats an Agile Team" and it doesn't try to reinvent the wheel or even innovate too much when it comes to the Team level. SAFe's Scrum Master is more of an Agile Team Lead.

SCRUM 123

SCRUM Development Team Review Technical Review Cadence 123

Leading Agile

JULY 28, 2022

The goal of adopting Agile is always about achieving the desired business outcome unique to the organization that is pursuing it. The Agile mindset can be adapted to fit many industries or businesses. In the end, this saves time in releasing the product and reduces the number of technical defects that could be present.

Agile 127

Agile Technical Review Cadence Software Review 127

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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Leading Agile

JULY 18, 2023

Agile needs to be tied to business-driven results. If not, then we start measuring things like people trained, teams doing Scrum, or the organization’s sentiment toward Agile to tell us if we’re succeeding. If your Agile isn’t helping you do that, then it’s not really Agile at all. First, how are we forming teams?

Agile 118

Agile Software Review Certification Technical Review 118

Agilemania

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Recognized as one of the world’s foremost authorities on Lean-Agile best practices, Dean Leffingwell took it on himself to do something about it. He introduced the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). SAFe is based on following 10 Lean-Agile principles-. Apply cadence and synchronize with cross-domain planning. What is SAFe?

Technical Review 98

Technical Review Agile Software Review Lean 98

Scrum.org

MAY 20, 2020

My fellow PST, Glaudia Califano, and I were sitting in a café (at a time prior to the current lockdown due to Covid-19), having agreed to meet up with a Business Analyst who had reached out to us to have a chat about Scrum and Agile. We are never too busy to pass on having coffee, so we agreed to meet and have a chat. .

Planning 185

Planning Cadence Technical Review SCRUM 185

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.

Software Review 194

Software Review Cadence Technical Review SCRUM 194

Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

When asked what an Agile organization is, most people tend to think it’s one that’s built around a certain mindset, or around Agile practices like Scrum or SAFe—or both. But if it were as simple as a mindset or process change, so many Agile Transformations wouldn’t fail. Base Patterns and Tools. Structure. ??Your

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Henny Portman

MARCH 15, 2019

ambler and Mark Lines are the creators of the Disciplined Agile Delivery framework and the authors of the book Introduction to Disciplined Agile Delivery – a small Agile Team’s journey from Scrum to Disciplined DevOps ( 2 nd edition). Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) is one of the four elements of Disciplined Agile (DA).

Technical Review 53

Technical Review Agile Lean Cadence 53

Scrum.org

JANUARY 14, 2021

The Nexus group of teams is very similar to the Agile Release Train (ART) construct. Lean/Agile Leadership. Empiricism via working integrated increments every Sprint - System Demo & Nexus Sprint Review meeting a common Definition of “Done”. Nexus Sprint Goal - Program PI Objectives - just at different cadence/frequency.

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Cadence Technical Review Development Team Review Lean 107

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! At its simplest, a marketing Kanban board can start with five columns: To Do, Create, Review, Test, and Done. Creating Your First Kanban Board.

Agile 110

Agile Technical Review Cadence Software Review 110

MPUG

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Then, we will dive into the topic of Agile PMO, its relevance, and a number of roles that can be played by such a PMO. With this background, let’s proceed towards the concept of Agile PMO. The first question that comes to mind in having a PMO coupled with an Agile approach is this: Is a PMO really needed at all in an Agile setting?

Agile 94

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Planview

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Santander UK, one of the world’s largest retail and commercial banks, has been on an Agile and digital transformation journey for some time. This included incorporating Agile processes and other work methodologies into its traditional project portfolio management (PPM) processes, to help speed delivery of new products and services.

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

In this article, we’re addressing a common question in modern project management: Do we need risk management in agile projects? Do agile projects have risks associated with them? So, yes, of course, we need risk management in agile projects. Why is Risk Management in Agile Projects Even a Question? Of course not.

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Risk Management Risk Agile Technical Review 98

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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Cadence Logistics Lean 2019 148

Agilemania

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Scaled Agile Framework has taken the corporate world by storm. 37% of the respondents reported that their organizations used SAFe to scale agile. 37% of the respondents reported that their organizations used SAFe to scale agile. Source: 15th State of Agile Survey. Scaled Agile Framework: What is it?

Agile 98

Agile Lean Software Review Technical Review 98

MPUG

MARCH 8, 2021

Many project managers utilize a Lean-Agile approach when there is high change or churn in project requirements, significant lack of clarity in scope, high complexity to their projects, and/or a larger number of risks associated with such. Two Lean-Agile Types. Iteration-based Lean-Agile. Flow-based Lean-Agile.

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Lean Software Review Technical Review Agile 65

Digite

MARCH 12, 2018

That is, does the question below, which I answered on a technical forum recently, describe a situation you might be facing or may have faced in the past? All code is reviewed by senior leads and only after that, Dev is considered complete. Is this you? The Dev board value stream follows a Test Driven Development flow.

Development Team Review 154

Development Team Review Software Review Cadence Technical Review 154

Inloox

JULY 1, 2021

Agility should no longer be a new term for most project managers. High flexibility, adaptability and increased communication are just a few of the benefits that have led to significant improvements through the introduction of agile work processes in organizations. So agility in itself is nothing new for many companies.

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Digite

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Continuing our theme of helping Agile teams understand the Kanban Method, so they can effectively adopt it for their improvement efforts, I am again honored to publish a guest article by another great friend of ours – Dave White. Scrum is primarily influenced by the Agile Manifesto which describes the “Agile” value system.

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Cadence SCRUM Lean Underperforming Technical Team 94

Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2021

Agile transformations are hard. People are starting to draw the conclusion that “Agile doesn’t work.” One common pitfall is assuming that the technological encapsulation of products by breaking dependencies (through a loosely coupled architecture and a mature CI/CD pipeline) is a prerequisite for the encapsulation of value streams.

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