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5 kinds of Agile bandits: Special Sprints Bandits

Scrum.org

Are Special Sprints in Agile Truly Beneficial? In my journey with Agile, I've often encountered teams embroiled in what I term 'special sprints' – Sprint zeros, refactoring sprints, and bugfix sprints. At first glance, these sprints appear as a savvy adaptation of Agile. The result?

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Agile and Scrum: Unravelling the Misconceptions

Scrum.org

As Scrum.org trainers, we often come across common misconceptions from course attendees about Agile and Scrum. We tend to hear red flags of misalignment when we explore folk's current definitions and understanding of Agile and Scrum at the start of our courses. Agile eliminates the need for planning or documentation.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

ProjectManager.com

We’ll go through some of the most popular project management methodologies, which are applied in many sectors such as software development, R&D and product development. Agile Methodology. What It Is: In a nutshell, Agile project management is an evolving and collaborative way to self-organize across teams. Scrum Methodology.

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Adopting Agile Practices Isn’t Agile Transformation

Leading Agile

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. Second, how are we building backlogs?

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In 4 Schritten aus der „Delivered vs. Promised“-Sackgasse entkommen

Scrum.org

State of Agile Report trifft dies bei 35 % aller Unternehmen zu. State of Agile Report messen immer noch 45 % der befragten Unternehmen die Velocity. Und wenn Scrum Teams die Zahl kennen, wie viel sie im letzten Sprint erledigt haben, ist es nur natürlich, sich für den nächsten Sprint die gleiche Menge vorzunehmen.

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What Is Rolling Wave Planning?

ProjectManager.com

Others still prefer forms of agile software development where they have room to adjust their project plan. That type of agile project management is called rolling wave planning or wave planning. They’re exploring and hoping to discover new products or services. Rolling Wave Planning vs Agile Sprints.

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How to manage discovery and delivery work on a Kanban board?

Scrum.org

Development Work Development is about building the product, making the product. Kanban vs Scrum: the approach to the backlog In Kanban, the backlog is optional. Unlike in Scrum, where there is a product backlog, which is mandatory, it is an artifact. In Kanban, the backlog is optional.