Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

TL; DR: Agile Management Anti-Patterns. Learn more about agile management anti-patterns the aspiring servant leader should avoid during the organization’s transition: From applying the Stage-Gate® approach through the back door to the ‘where is my report’ attitude to other beloved signs of applied Taylorism.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 12, 2020

Regular readers will know that I’m not an expert in Agile, by any means. I facilitate daily standup meetings for our support team. If you work with Agile methods , you will likely be attending standup meetings every day. There are plenty of benefits to agile meetings , including that this one is over and done with quickly!

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Scrum.org

MAY 4, 2020

TL; DR: A Remote Daily Scrum with a Distributed Team. We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools; we explored virtual Liberating Structures, and how to master Zoom. This eighth article now looks into supporting a distributed Development Team organizing a remote Daily Scrum.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 22, 2021

If you are looking to fill a position for a Scrum Master (or agile coach) in your organization, you may find the following 47 interview questions useful to identify the right candidate. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 30,000-plus other subscribers. Agile Metrics.

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Techno-PM

MARCH 15, 2022

The agile scrum master certification provides a way for people to get trained in the latest project management techniques. The training includes everything from hands-on exercises to lectures to prepare participants well when they take the exam at the end of the course. Learn More About the Course ! What is scrum?

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2022

This is challenging but satisfying (TIP: Slicing outcomes is similar to identifying a Minimum Viable Product, Minimally marketable features, and Slicing Stories… so your Product leaders and Agile practitioners can help out on this front). After identifying the few real OKRs, assess who’s needed to work towards each of them.

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Leading Agile

JULY 3, 2023

Today, Agilists must have a plan for incorporating DevOps practices into the early stages of Agile Transformation. But what if we told you there’s a whole class of DevOps considerations that no one is talking about that’s secretly killing your ability to unleash the potential of Agile? We’ll also discuss the lack of automation.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Scrum.org says "PSM II is an advanced course helping students to understand the stances that characterise an effective Scrum Master and servant-leader while diving deep into how they serve the Development Team, Product Owner and organisation. How a Scrum Master services: The Development Team. Who Should Attend?

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International Institute for Learning

JANUARY 25, 2023

Instead, you rely on the contributions and the support of the key stakeholders, the development team members, and possibly other product people who help you manage a large product. For example, the marketer has to create the marketing strategy, and the development teams have to design and build the product.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 15, 2023

Companies that adopt Agile never do it just for the sake of adopting Agile. They do know that Waterfall wasn’t working, so Agile will fix those problems, right? They think if they do the “Agile stuff,” they will make quicker progress to achieve their goals.

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NimbleWork

MAY 1, 2024

In a software development project, email notifications, team meetings, and code reviews can be represented using symbols to visualize the communication and collaboration process. In this example, we will consider a software development team working on a web application for an e-commerce platform. Source: Medium 2.

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Planio

MAY 18, 2021

Agile product development has a chicken and egg problem. While many teams start by building an MVP (minimum viable product) to get feedback, there’s another option. Agile planning is a process for reconciling your long-term product vision with the inevitable near-term iterations that will influence its development.

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nTask

DECEMBER 2, 2020

With agile teams, this is usually done through retrospectives. In other words, with agile retrospectives, you can focus on how your work is going and take things that are learned from success & failure for further implementation. Such agile retrospectives help to improve processes, methods, and teamwork.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 1, 2023

Validation: Regular assessment with stakeholders to ensure alignment. Diagram from Scrum.org PSPO course Visualizing the Dilemma: A Product Owner's Scenario Consider a bank scenario - A customer applies for a mortgage, and the bank provides various services like KYC verification, Credit Assessment, Loan Underwriters, etc.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

No matter the frequency of your retrospectives you should always watch out for the following Sprint Retrospective anti-patterns from the Scrum Team, the Development Team, the Scrum Master, as well as the organization: Sprint Retrospective Anti-Patterns of the Scrum Team. Instead, make it worth their time.

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MPUG

JULY 15, 2019

Also, in software development, requirement change is the rule, rather than the exception. Stories in Agile Development replace requirements. The remaining work happens when the story is developed. This leads to the concept of epics in Agile development. Exercise on Stories. Representation of Stories.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 17, 2020

If you are looking to fill a position for a Scrum Master (or agile coach) in your organization, you may find the following 47 Scrum Master interview questions useful to identify the right candidate. Then sign up for the Food for Agile Thought newsletter and join 26k other subscribers. Question 02: Success Factors of “Agile”.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 11, 2020

TL; DR: Development Team Anti-Patterns. After covering the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, this article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact. The Role of the Development Team in Scrum. Do you want to get this article in your inbox?

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Agilemania

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The POPM Training is a two-day course that focuses on the role of the SAFe® Product Owner and how it fits into Agile teams. SAFe® for Lean Enterprises is a knowledge base of proven, integrated principles, practices, and competencies for achieving business agility using Lean, Agile, and DevOps.

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LiquidPlanner

MAY 15, 2018

Related: Adopting Agile is an Exercise in Change Management. Given these challenges, how does applying Agile practices improve the relationship? IT and business teams speak entirely different languages and the recommendation is to introduce terms like scrum, product owner, sprints, backlog, user stories and story points?

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nTask

DECEMBER 21, 2021

This backlog contains many different elements like enhancements, bug fixes that the development team has to perform, new features that have to be introduced, and the technology upgrades that are needed in the current product. Let’s take a look at the core principles of the product backlog management process. Product Backlog Grooming.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 25, 2022

This has always been a huge struggle for us and most of the teams we’ve been part of. Unfortunately, many developers and development teams still burn more hours than are probably good for them. It is also the reason why the principles of the Agile Manifesto can create such motivating environments. References.

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Planio

MAY 27, 2020

Without a clear definition of done , your development team doesn’t know what they’re working towards, your stakeholders are free to increase the scope, and your users most likely end up with a product that’s cluttered, confusing, and unusable. When can the development team change the definition of done (and how should they do it?).

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Leading Answers

MARCH 7, 2019

It would be easy (and wrong) to classify all construction projects as candidates for traditional approaches, and all IT projects as needing an agile approach. Designing something is typically a consensus-gathering and problem-solving exercise. The custom software development was easy to plan (but not easy to do).

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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Keep reading to find out more about this essential role in your company’s software development team. A Scrum Master is a facilitator who helps a Scrum team to self-organize, collaborate, and continuously improve. Facilitating daily stand-up meetings with the team. Providing feedback to the team. Agile fundamentals.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 8, 2018

As a Scrum Master you can use every PSM-II exercise with your own Scrum Team and organization. Using plenty of Liberating Structures and serious-and-fun exercises, we wanted to build and structure what the group already knew. After the class, you will be eligible for the PSM II assessment certification. In a Nutshell.

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nTask

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

They are considered to be an invaluable source of collecting information and feedback from the development team and help in keeping the team aligned with the Sprint goals. Sprint Review Meeting. Usually, the entire team is expected to be present during this meeting, including the product owner and the Scrum master.

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International Institute for Learning

JUNE 22, 2022

Transforming organizations to become Lean and Agile while maintaining high levels of performance within its teams requires a strong focus on people. After all, these high-performing teams are the ones that deliver change and growth. Transforming an organization and having high-performing teams goes hand in hand.

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Planio

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Sprints are the backbone of any good Agile development team. But maybe more than that, sprint planning aligns the development team with the product owner. Like any relationship, the one between you and your team requires communication and clarity. Step 1: Review your product roadmap.

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Leading Answers

JUNE 14, 2018

Instead, we launch agile transformations, digital transformations and productization transformations.   Agile Transformations. The goal:  Agile transformations move organizations from working with traditional project management approaches to using agile approaches. Transformations are flavor of the month.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 42,000-plus subscribers. ? The Idea of a Scrum GPT Exploring Scrum in the real world often uncovers a tangle of anti-patterns—those practices that, despite best intentions, stray from agile principles and hinder progress.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Agile is an umbrella term encompassing a variety of frameworks and approaches to value delivery in complex environments. The word agile came into widespread use following the creation of the Agile Manifesto in 2001. The Agile Manifesto includes four values and 12 principles that describe a better way to approach complex work.

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Teamweek

MAY 13, 2021

Without a website project plan, you’ll have a website that yields poor results, disappoints clients, and frustrates the development team. Or, perhaps website planning feels like a pointless exercise as things change anyway. Here’s what happens when you fail to plan: Your design and development team is forced to make assumptions.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

If you are looking to fill a position for a Scrum Master (or agile coach) in your organization, you may find the following 54 interview questions useful to identify the right candidate. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 33,000-plus subscribers. ?? Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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Leading Answers

JUNE 14, 2018

Instead, we launch agile transformations, digital transformations and productization transformations.   Agile Transformations. The goal:  Agile transformations move organizations from working with traditional project management approaches to using agile approaches. Transformations are flavor of the month.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 9, 2023

Can a large language model, not specializing in anything “agile,” pass a screening interview for a Scrum Master position? You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 36,000-plus other subscribers. ? ? ?? Follow-up question : Why is it beneficial that the team adheres to the values and practices of Scrum?

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 6, 2019

Organizations use Scrum because they hope it can help them become more Agile. Think of delivering value to customers sooner by releasing early & often, decreasing cycle time and lead time, improving team morale, lowering the number of defects, optimizing return on investment and increasing innovation rate. Getting started (9:00–9:30).

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