Scrum.org

OCTOBER 19, 2022

What is the business case for Agile teams? We think we do well to base our beliefs about Agile more on evidence. This post is our attempt to bring an evidence-based perspective to the business case of Agile teams. Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams.

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NimbleWork

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

When the Agile methodology was first introduced, it was embraced as a welcome replacement to the rigid Waterfall approach. The community largely accepted Agile and Waterfall as mutually exclusive project management paradigms. Critics of Agile believed that Agile simply translates into fast failure.

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Scrum.org

JULY 7, 2020

TL; DR: Agile Laws and Remote Agile. On many occasions in the recent past, working with distributed agile teams has amplified existing organizational, technical, and cultural challenges in many organizations. In that respect, the current issues that many distributed teams face may also act as accelerants to become more agile.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 19, 2022

When it comes to Agile Transformation, every organization has to find a way to overcome whatever is blocking the organization’s ability to be Agile. Agile Impediments exist at many levels, but most large scale Transformations now require that technical practices are more sound than ever. . Agile Impediment 1: Packaged Software.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Project managers who are yet to take a professional certificate but don’t meet the requirements for the course they are looking at, for example, not meeting the eligibility criteria for the Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam. For example, in the Intro to Agile Development and Scrum course. What’s the honors content?

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

There are dozens of high-quality academic works to draw from, there are dozens of academic journals dedicated to (agile) software development (ASD) and change management. I quickly found hundreds of academic papers that investigated Scrum and Agile teams. So where do you find it? How to assess the quality of scientific research.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 15, 2024

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM The quest for methodologies that offer efficiency and agility has never been rockier. Agile methodologies stand at the forefront of this quest, providing the blueprint for rapid, responsive, and customer-centric project execution. Agile methodologies offer a path to mastering these challenges.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 31, 2023

However, the Introduction to Agile Development and Scrum course does recommend that you are comfortable using a computer and that you’ve had some involvement in software development or IT project management, perhaps as a team member or stakeholder in development projects. You don’t need any prior experience.

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Teamweek

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

And choosing from the many different project management software types can be quite a challenge. To make it simpler for you, we’ve compiled this list of 21 different types of project management software and example tools for each type. Types of project management software based on the use case. Example: Toggl Plan.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 10, 2020

Learn more about typical anti-patterns and signs that an organization is causing a toxic team culture, impeding its efforts to become agile. ?? Join the 25th Hands-on Agile meetup on August 20, 2020, to explore the virtual Ecocycle Planning. Then sign up for the Food for Agile Thought newsletter and join 26k other subscribers.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 30, 2021

In fact, in my first job, at Hewlett Packard, I was a Software Engineer. You have to locate a team that is new to the Agile framework and try out few things such as: . Showing the stakeholders the functionalities and attributes of working software and getting their feedback. Introducing the fundamental ideas of Sprint .

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 12, 2022

That’s obviously geared to certified professionals, but with potential topics ranging from agile, DevOps and hybrid approaches to new project management tools and solutions the conference should have something for everyone tasked with managing projects. Agile & Beyond. Agile is not new. Agile 2022. When: May 24-25.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Whenever I would find myself as the only Agile person in an organization, I would feel very alone. That is why I found working in organizations where we had a team of Scrum Masters or other Agile professionals a much more rewarding experience. However, you might find yourself as the only Agile person in your organization.

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Teamweek

OCTOBER 20, 2022

“We’re an Agile agency ??.”. You probably already know—Agile isn’t just for software developers anymore. Increasingly agencies, consultancies, and other knowledge-based project teams are adopting Agile as their preferred method to deliver projects. What is an Agile agency? What is Agile methodology?

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Scrum.org

JULY 10, 2021

In my view, leaders are expected to have coaching skills to build competent and agile organisations that are fully resilient. For example, it would help focus on your team’s needs when holding a conversation. Venkatesh Rajamani has more than 17 years of experience delivering working software in short, feedback-driven cycles.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 25, 2021

Read on and learn how to employ search-engines, LinkedIn’s people search, reaching out to peers in the agile community, and analyzing the event markets in the quest for your next Scrum Master job. ?? You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 29k other subscribers. Job advertisement.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 13, 2019

I answer questions around the meaning of story points, how they should be understood, tracked and used in multi-team Agile project. With a few examples, I show how easy it can be to get from your electronic Agile tracking system (Ex: Jira) or on your physical Kanban board.

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Teamweek

AUGUST 22, 2023

Examples of cognitive abilities at work include customer support managers using linguistic skills and reasoning, financial controllers using perception and problem-solving, and software engineers using critical thinking and pattern recognition. It’s not only the cognitive skill but also the level of skills that matters.

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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. Welcome to Use Agile Project Management with MS Project. He also goes by Jim and he is super excited to be with him, our Agile expert for the session. He’s our Agile certified expert today.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2021

There is a better way than staggered iterations for delivery that will keep you on the path to agility. Staggered iterations lead to more technical debt and lower quality software. I have seen many companies that are trying to move towards greater agility get trapped in the past by creating artificial silos based on skills.

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Teamweek

AUGUST 7, 2023

What’s the problem with recruiting software developers? The demand for software developers far outweighs the available supply, making it a real challenge to find the right candidates. To make matters worse, top-notch software engineers know their worth and often expect handsome salaries.

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Scrum.org

JULY 14, 2021

Daniel is a Professor at the University of Aalborg and is specialized in empirical software engineering. How can Scrum Masters and Agile coaches support this through exercises and workshops? Daniel Russo to write an academic paper that has been submitted to the academic journal “T ransactions of Software Engineering ”.

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Scrum.org

MAY 17, 2022

Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. The authors systematically interviewed 47 agile practitioners about the typical activities of Scrum Masters. I recently had the opportunity to analyze anonymized survey data from 67 Agile practitioners.

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The IIL Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

Take, for example, all the changes within the last few decades. LEAN processes emerged in 1991, with the Agile Manifesto launched by a group of software engineers in 2001. Along with this, our approaches to work are also rapidly transforming. ITIL v2 followed this in 2001, ITIL v3 in 2007, and ITIL 4 in 2019.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 13, 2019

I answer questions around the meaning of story points, how they should be understood, tracked and used in multi-team Agile project. With a few examples, I show how easy it can be to get from your electronic Agile tracking system (Ex: Jira) or on your physical Kanban board.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Scrum and agility create frameworks for diversity. Digitization and software development are firmly in the hands of men. As a software engineer, I am happy that more and more women are finding their way into this future industry. I am glad we have an online conference on 23 November 2020 on "Women in Agile".

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Scrum.org

JULY 11, 2022

It’s about collaboration and openness, and speaking of collaboration, I am pleased to inform you that this article was written in cooperation with Stefano Milanesi ; a fantastic Agile Coach and consultant whom I was lucky to meet on my professional journey. . Let’s pick an example from the IT world. Our story begins here. . (It

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Scrum.org

MARCH 11, 2020

Finally, the term Development Team seems to limit the role to technical people, for example, software engineers. There will be less time to support teammates or to do pair programming, for example. For example, the team might also consider who will be pairing with whom on what task. Sprint Anti-patterns.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Today I’m going to introduce you to leading Agile’s new Chief Operating Officer, a gentleman by the name of Philippe Bonneton. So what we’re going to talk about a little bit over the last leading Agile’s been around for about 13 years and really what we’re known for is Agile. Philippe, say hi.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Today I’m going to introduce you to leading Agile’s new Chief Operating Officer, a gentleman by the name of Philippe Bonneton. So what we’re going to talk about a little bit over the last leading Agile’s been around for about 13 years and really what we’re known for is Agile. Philippe, say hi.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 13, 2022

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 35,000-plus subscribers. ?? The term “Developer” seems to limit the role to technical people, for example, software engineers. Hence you may notice tickets queueing in the code-review-column, for example. What technical debt?

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 17, 2024

This concept is vital across methodologies like Agile and Waterfall , where its application significantly influences project outcomes. Due to their different approaches to project management, this definition varies significantly between Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

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Planio

JUNE 8, 2022

They’re often expected to help establish software engineering tools, standards, and processes like code reviews and testing strategies. If you’ve looked for jobs in the past, you’ve probably seen all sorts of titles, from Agile Project Manager to Program Manager, Technical Program Manager, and more.

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Teamweek

JUNE 13, 2023

For example, knowledge of certain applications, processes, problem-solving abilities, and technical know-how. For example, a salesperson will have different motivations to an NGO project lead. For example, ethics will be an important quality for the top candidate of a security company, doctor, or legal professional.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 27, 2018

” Some of the less-courteous examples ran to several times the length of the original post, and if you’ve read any of my writing you know that can be rather long. That’s only one small example of the difficulty of communication between the two communities. None of the responses was positive. That’s all.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Keeping code clean at all times really ought to be considered baseline job performance for a software engineer. The fact people had to coin a special buzzword to describe it, and that software engineers today argue against doing it, is a shame. We just do it. The Scout Rule. High quality is assumed to be part of our job.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Scrum/Agile) are more suitable to deal with complex problems because they are more attuned to our cognitive abilities. Why our brain is not built for software engineering. Examples of these heuristics are ‘what do other people think?’, ‘what is my gut estimate?’ This is a great example of situated cognition.

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