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Useless Agile Metrics

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TL; DR: Useless Agile Metrics Ideally, a metric is a leading indicator for a pattern change, allowing your Scrum team to analyze the cause in time and take countermeasures. What if these useless agile metrics lead you in the wrong direction while providing you with the illusion that you know where your team is heading?

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“Agile Is Just for Software” and other Scrum Myths

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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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In-Depth: The Evidence-Based Business Case For Agile

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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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Project management degrees: Do you need one and what you can do with it

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I do think that having a degree (of any kind, in any subject) is beneficial for securing a job, especially as project managers are expected to influence and lead, and many employers want to see evidence of the ability to operate at that level and use a degree as a benchmark for it. That’s about 2.3 million new jobs a year. That’s about 2.3

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What Makes Scrum Teams Effective? A scientific investigation of 1.200 Scrum teams

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This post is a non-technical version of an academic paper about Scrum teams that I wrote with Daniel Russo. I am an organizational psychologist and Scrum practitioner with a love for survey development and statistics. Please note that our paper is currently reviewed by academic peers. . Screenshots of the survey.

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The Sprint Planning Checklist

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How dare you: Agile is a mindset, not a methodology. Then sign up for the Food for Agile Thought newsletter and join 27k other subscribers. Generally, the stakeholders had a significant influence on where the Scrum Team was heading, impeding the team on more than one occasion in the process. T-1 : Run the Sprint Review.

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Unlock the Power of ChatGPT for your Scrum Team

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Think twice if you still believe this technology is a fad or a toy. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 36,000-plus other subscribers. ? The technology your Scrum team has built over time is increasingly less reliable, and technical debt is notably increasing.

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