Scrum.org

APRIL 9, 2024

As a manager, tackling team and project challenges effectively can often seem like navigating a complex labyrinth. Unclear Priorities Challenge : Teams often struggle with prioritizing tasks effectively. Lack of Accountability Challenge : Team members are unclear about their responsibilities.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In many large organizations, Scrum teams fall into the ‘feature factory’ trap, focusing more on churning out features than creating real value. It’s too bad that this shift undermines Agile principles and hampers long-term success and innovation.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

It’s a lot to read, so here are some spoilers drawn from common themes I heard time and time again in the interviews: Agile : if you don’t know enough about it, you need to start learning. And in no particular order we start with: Mark Phillips Mark Phillips High performing teams are motivated by an exceptional vision.

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Velociteach

JULY 6, 2023

Large enterprises and government agencies increasingly turn to Agile for their software projects. This is a difficult shift, with many struggling to fit their new round agile pegs into their existing square waterfall holes. Cultural, structural, and procedural impediments make “being agile” a challenge.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 29, 2022

Do you start a new Scrum team by explaining the roles, artifacts, and events? Our Agile profession is filled with frameworks. And not because frameworks are categorically bad (they aren’t). A framework is a blueprint for a process. The hidden assumptions of Agile frameworks. I think this is problematic.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Join the Mastering Agility Discord community! Photo by Alessandra Verre on Unsplash Meet Team Sauron. Sauron is a Scrum Team working at Magnum Opus, a company that creates biometric security machines. This team specifically is creating facial recognition software with highly sophisticated cameras.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Exclusively on my Substack Newsletter : The Importance of Quality for Agility — An Excerpt from the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide (7). ? You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 49,000-plus subscribers. ? Preorder the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now for delivery in January 2024! ?️

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

This post is for anyone who wants to inspire, change or influence others through their efforts as professionals, with emphasis on the latter. What is the optimal size of a team? Should teams be stable over at least several years, or is it a good idea they change at will? How should leadership interact with autonomous teams?

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Project Bliss

JULY 26, 2020

A scrum master servant leader can lead his team to greatness with this advice from Geoff Watts’s wonderful book Scrum Mastery. Scrum is the most commonly used agile delivery method in the world. It’s a lightweight framework that empowers teams to build quickly through iterative design.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 17, 2023

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 36,000-plus other subscribers. ? ? ?? The sales team sells unauthorized features to meet its quota. I will describe a conflict situation in a Scrum team. Shortly into this Sprint’s Retrospective, the team members start arguing loudly and passing blame.

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Inloox

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In addition, risk management in the project should not be a one-time task, but rather an iterative process must be established to continuously identify and appropriately handle emerging risks. This type of risk is easier to control, since the project team can exert a direct influence on the project environment.

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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

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Stick with me, and we’ll explore what project requirements are, why they’re important, and some tips for developing good ones. First, they provide the project team with a shared understanding of the project’s goals and objectives. Stick with what you can influence: you know broadly what the objectives and goals are.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 19, 2021

O verview of Agile Estimating. A traditional or Waterfall software development lifecycle includes a long and detailed planning period to define requirements before beginning development. I have little experience or high time pressure; therefore, the estimate is influenced. The anecdote to ambiguity is agility.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 20, 2023

Empowering your teams isn’t about allowing them to make decisions in a vacuum and giving them free rein to do whatever they want. The days of providing a little guidance here, some methodology there, and letting the teams self-organize their way to success are behind us. What does it mean to empower teams?

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The IIL Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

However, the project manager, resource managers, and team members would still be required to review and validate the plan. Imagine a tool that takes requirements, develops test conditions, and automatically execute the tests. Collaboration tools with self-reporting capabilities could free the project manager from the process.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 7, 2022

Recently, the concept of “fluid teams”, “dynamic reteaming” or “ad-hoc teaming” has gained traction in the Agile community. Although the concept has many different definitions, a characteristic they share is that members move in and out of a team during its lifetime. The need for fluid teams.

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Whether you are just starting out, developing your project manager resume, or a seasoned professional, mastering the Project Management Buzzwords is non-negotiable. Agile A flexible and dynamic approach to project management that allows for iterative updates during defined time blocks, which allows for incremental value.

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Teamweek

JANUARY 22, 2024

With a 9 box grid, that’s basically what you’re doing, as it provides hiring managers and talent management teams with a simple and efficient way to map out existing employees and their skill sets, as well as plan for the future. Or perhaps, you can find out if there is a skills mismatch for a particular team member.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 18, 2022

Typical Scrum Master anti-patterns run from ill-suited personal traits to complacency to pursuing individual agendas to frustration with the team itself. Read on and learn in this post on Scrum anti-patterns how you can identify if your Scrum Master needs support from the team. ???? Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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Leading Answers

DECEMBER 21, 2017

My first opportunity to create and run a large agile team did not start well. Having had good successes with small to medium sized agile teams I was keen to unleash the benefits on a bigger scale. A clean-sheet development opportunity with a smart team and engaged business group – what could go wrong?

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 16, 2019

It must positively influence all aspects of a business, including revenue, cost and risk. Without one or the other, a business will struggle with weak performance. An integrated management system is a framework of processes and standards. Focus on process. Also, operational excellence is systemic. Lead with humility.

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Velociteach

AUGUST 14, 2023

How can agile project managers create conditions for self-organizing teams to thrive? In the agile world of a self-organizing team, the trend is to empower the team so the individuals doing the work can make decisions. His book “Behavior-Driven Development with Cucumber” was published in 2019.

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Leading Answers

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Using our own skills, insights and decision-making process is more rewarding than blindly following instructions. If we cannot influence the purpose of our organization, we can try to find the compelling purpose for our project and create as much autonomy and opportunities for mastery as possible.

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Underperforming Technical Team Healthcare Technical Review Influencer 88

Scrum.org

APRIL 19, 2021

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 30,000-plus other subscribers. Join more than 145 peers from May 27-29, 2021 , for the Virtual Agile Camp Berlin 2021, a live virtual Barcamp using open space technology principles and practices. Finding this answer is a process and not a destination.

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Project Bliss

MAY 24, 2017

Agile is a popular term these days, and you likely hear it a lot. But what is it and what’s the difference between agile vs waterfall methodology? By the end, you’ll have a high-level understanding of each and how work is done in agile vs waterfall. In this post I’ll do the following for you: Explain Agile.

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Scrum.org

MAY 23, 2021

In an agile context, we use metrics to set performance goals, measure current conditions, define small improvement experiments and measure the effectiveness of the experiments in order to inspect and adapt goals and determine the next steps. The Product Goal and the Sprint Goal is what we want the teams to focus on. Team velocity.

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Scrum.org

JULY 15, 2018

In the second post, we explored how to grow a strong team identity. Now we will explore the team process dimension. How do you work as a team to maximize the benefits of Scrum and agility? Recall that the Scrum Team defines their own process within the boundaries of the Scrum framework. Poor quality.

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Scrum.org

JULY 11, 2022

What if, for example, not all of your Scrum team’s members feel enthusiastic about the Sprint Retrospective, the critical event when the Scrum team inspects itself? You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 35,000-plus subscribers. ?? The team wins together; the team fails together.

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Project Risk Coach

JUNE 20, 2022

This edition is a principles-based guide as opposed to the process-based guide of the Sixth Edition. Create a Collaborative Project Team Environment 3. Build Quality into Processes and Deliverables 9. Second, be respectful to your team members, vendors, end-users, customers, and other stakeholders. Table Of Contents.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

What is an Influencer? These gentlemen are in all the top-10 lists of being the ‘the best’ Politician, Influencer, world changer, etc. So before diving into the Product Owner taking an Influencer stance, let’s first inspect what an Influencer is. The Influencer is also referred to as the Politician.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 26, 2021

In their book Agile Retrospectives , Esther Derby and Diana Larsen popularized the idea that a Sprint Retrospect comprises five stages. The second stage refers to gathering data so that the Scrum Team can have data-informed Retrospectives. The Scrum Team identifies the most helpful changes to improve its effectiveness.

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Scrum.org

MAY 16, 2022

Hence, learn more about 21 common Sprint Retrospective anti-patterns that will hold back your Scrum team. ???? You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 35,000-plus subscribers. ?? The Scrum Team identifies the most helpful changes to improve its effectiveness. Sprint Retrospective Anti-Patterns.

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The IIL Blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

The development team was devastated. In my consulting practice, I see development teams struggling with their users. A primary reason is poor stakeholder engagement. Few organizations invest in the change management capabilities required to support new technologies and business processes.

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Velociteach

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Shift-left is an Agile/DevOps call to action. As we adapt to the current dynamics, we should challenge standard paradigms and reevaluate when to execute project processes. For large and complex projects, engage them during the pre-initiation stage when the business case is being developed. It also avoids unnecessary delays.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 6, 2022

Learn how individual incentives and outdated organizational structures — fostering personal agendas and local optimization efforts — manifest themselves in Scrum stakeholder anti-patterns that easily impede any agile transformation to a product-led organization. ???? Update : Join the poll and its lively discussion on LinkedIn. ??

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Leading Answers

MARCH 9, 2022

Moving from left to right in the same row, we see the next step in our development is recognizing emotions in other people, artwork, etc. Moving to the right highlights skills that come with age; moving downward, we see more sophisticated and complex processes. Are we mad, glad, or sad, for instance?

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