Scrum.org

AUGUST 18, 2023

Organizations have been taking their efforts toward Agility for many years. This question is often asked when I discuss the results or ongoing endeavors of the Agile Transformation with Management in organizations. The second reason is a poor understanding of what Agility is all about. Why is that? Adaptiveness.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 19, 2023

Agile organizational characteristics are crucial, but they alone won’t determine all of your design decisions. What roles are needed, and how should you distribute authority and responsibility among units and roles? What roles are needed, and how should you distribute authority and responsibility among units and roles?

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Scrum.org

MAY 19, 2023

Image Source: [link] Although Scrum is a well-known framework for agile software development, implementing Scrum alone won’t guarantee success. Scrum and technical practices help achieve business agility by building the right thing and delivering it sooner. Scrum helps the team learn what they need quickly.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

But what does it take to get there? A while back, I asked project management experts w hat we should be aware of as we go into the new year to achieve their most successful year ever? And this article is a summary of what they replied. Especially as the last few years haven’t been exactly stellar years for many of us!

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Many organizations nowadays have an urgency to adopt Agility. The required innovation speed also puts continuous pressure on product quality and the ability to deliver something valuable. So, it's not a surprise that Agility has become mainstream, 20 years after the Agile Manifesto was released. Agile immaturity.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 19, 2022

What is the business case for Agile teams? Is it really that important that they are autonomous, able to release frequently, interact closely with stakeholders and spend all that time on continuous improvement? But what is the evidence we have for this? A working definition of Agile and Stakeholders.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 7, 2022

When I coach, consult and teach classes, I often get questions about creating an agile maturity tool or defining agile maturity metrics. I also noticed that the purpose and value of agile maturity metrics are misunderstood. Agile comes at a price. Going agile costs money. Agile comes at a price.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

What Is a Project Management Methodology? A project management methodology is a set of principles, tools and techniques that are used to plan, execute and manage projects. Project management methodologies help project managers lead team members and manage work, while facilitating team collaboration.

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Scrum.org

JULY 20, 2023

As the software development landscape evolves, evaluating the time-tested traditional project management strategies alongside the burgeoning agile methodologies is essential. TL;DR: Agile's emphasis on incremental development with working software mitigates risks efficiently by validating real-world use early and continuously.

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Scaled Agile Framework, SAFe® is the world’s leading framework for Business Agility. The seven core competencies each have three dimensions making it a total of twenty-one dimensions to enable Business Agility. These dimensions contain some of the practices, patterns, and guidelines to Scale Agility across the enterprise.

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Inloox

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The SAFe method is based on the Lean philosophy and offers a fixed framework in which Scrum and other agile management methods can be scaled to the entire company. The basic concept SAFe divides enterprise agility into three level of abstractions: Team level (Scrum teams). Agile Release Train (ART). Agile Teams.

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Leading Agile

JULY 28, 2022

The goal of adopting Agile is always about achieving the desired business outcome unique to the organization that is pursuing it. Innovation. Improving the quality of your product requires testing, releasing to market, and updating based on customer feedback. The Agile mindset can be adapted to fit many industries or businesses.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 8, 2019

Hearing a senior executive announce "We're committed to becoming agile!" In fact, if you were to read some of the interviews with managers in business magazines, or the guest articles and puff-pieces on agility in their companies, you'd think that their hearts and minds had been won decades ago. Time, after all, is money.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Join the Mastering Agility Discord community! Let's define what it is, and also what is not. It's a high-level, strategic plan around what is likely to be done in the future of development. If that is what you are looking for, please close your laptop and never look at this article ever again.

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Inloox

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The SAFe method is based on the Lean philosophy and offers a fixed framework in which Scrum and other agile management methods can be scaled to the entire company. The basic concept SAFe divides enterprise agility into three level of abstractions: Team level (Scrum teams). Agile Release Train (ART). Agile Teams.

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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

One of the biggest challenges in agile project management is determining what tasks are needed to complete a project, how long each should take, and who needs to carry them out. The agile release plan helps in aligning the teams by addressing multiple aspects that can contribute to creative and innovative problem-solving.

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Agilemania

JANUARY 21, 2022

A career in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is financially rewarding. Being a globally recognized certification, SAFe is a niche agile framework that has tons of job opportunities. Here’s a guide containing the Top Scaled Agile Interview Questions and Answers in 2022 that’ll be of great help. . Leading SAFe® 5.1

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 31, 2021

Gathering the metrics for Evidence-based Management in software organisations can be a strenuous task and I have a number of customers that are fretting on what to collect and from where. Here I try to create an understanding of the ‘what’ that we need to collect. Evidence-based Management: Gathering the metrics.

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Agilemania

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The term “ agile product management ” means precisely what it sounds like. At its foundation, agile product management is a reaction to the widespread usage of agile software development approaches such as scrum or kanban. How Agile Can Product Management Benefit Your Business?

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 18, 2023

Even if a team is driven by value, agility is compromised when validation and value realization take excessively long. While Agile embodies a mindset defined by specific values and principles, it isn't tied to any particular framework or practice. In this blog series, drawing from our vast experience, we'll guide you through it.

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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? How many of you here are consultants?

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nTask

APRIL 5, 2021

One such way of improving performance in Agile planning. Agile panning is used by a whopping 71% of organizations to manage their projects. It has been proven that agile projects have a faster delivery rate when compared with other methodologies of project planning and management. What Is Agile Planning?

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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

OCTOBER 9, 2023

However, in our rapidly evolving business landscape, sticking rigidly to traditional Scrum by the book could be a straightjacket stifling innovation, user focus, and adaptability. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 49,000-plus subscribers. ? TL; DR: Can We Or Should We Change Scrum?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 7, 2023

Since I became a Professional Scrum Trainer in November, I have been asked a lot about the current state, and the future perspectives, for Scrum and agile development in Japan, where I’ve worked for the last six years. Yet, Scrum and the principles of agile development are not as common in Japan as they are in other parts of the world.

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Scrum.org

JULY 24, 2023

TL; DR: Product Discovery for Scrum Teams While Scrum excels at building and releasing Increments, it does not guarantee that those are valuable—garbage in, garbage out. The critical artifact to create value is the Product Backlog, “an emergent, ordered list of what is needed to improve the product.” ( Source.)

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Scrum.org

APRIL 16, 2019

One of the biggest misconceptions of agile is that it focuses on speed. This short-sighted view of agile is causing a bigger problem?—?misalignment. Focusing on individual team velocity is causing misalignment both vertically and horizontally within organizations reducing their overall agility. How fast can we deliver?

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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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Leading Answers

JUNE 19, 2019

If success goes to those who can innovate the fastest, how do we nurture innovation? To innovate faster than our competitors, we need to maximize our learning potential. They need to model the desired behavior, share what they have learned and their new plan of action. We Are in the Maze-Solving Business.

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International Institute for Learning

APRIL 19, 2023

By Alan Zucker Disciplined Agile® (DA) and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) are two popular, second-generation agile methodologies. They build on lean-agile thinking, and standard Scrum, Kanban, and DevOps practices. They emerged about a decade after the Agile Manifesto.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 22, 2022

When you can get a tool to accomplish what it used to take teams full of people to do, and the cloud boosts that process even more, it can seem like a no-brainer to jump on the bandwagon so you can stay competitive and efficient. . But what are you doing? What Are You Trying to Achieve? . What’s your goal? Innovation.

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Agilemania

AUGUST 24, 2022

Is DevOps a subset of Agile? There is a common myth that Agile and DevOps cannot work together. Enterprise solution development can be managed effectively by combining Agile and DevOps. Additionally, these two facilitate the management of inconsistencies and outages in software for both tech and DevOps teams.

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Wrike

JANUARY 12, 2024

Jeff Kinney’s hit children’s book series, Diary of a Wimpy Kid , was first released in 2007 and is still rolling out installments each year. But what is the answer to your long-awaited success? Try Wrike for free What is the NPD process? This is a prime example of successful new product development (NPD).

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Agilemania

JANUARY 24, 2022

What is Scaling in Agile? Agile is a set of values and principles. Agile is an umbrella term for a group of iterative product development frameworks. Most organizations started their Agile journey with one of the frameworks mentioned above, and Scrum is the most popular one. Scaling Agile Frameworks.

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Proofhub

AUGUST 12, 2020

Whilst ‘Agile’ is a descriptor originally born out of software development teams, it’s becoming more common in other areas?—?like like marketing and project management. But just what does it involve? planning and execution happen side-by-side, instead of linearly Agile project management has many benefits.

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Agilemania

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Scaled Agile Framework, SAFe® is the world’s leading framework for Business Agility. The seven core competencies each have three dimensions making it a total of twenty-one dimensions to enable Business Agility. These dimensions contain some of the practices, patterns, and guidelines to Scale Agility across the enterprise.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Is an Agile Transformation Coach any different than being an Agile Coach? When most people think about Agile Coaches, they tend to think about a person who comes in and assists the teams with things like: Learning Scrum, SAFe, LeSS. Release Planning. Agile Transformation Coach Leaders. Setting Up Team Spaces.

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