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How We Reduced Cycle Time from 164 Days to 8 Days in 6 Months

Scrum.org

Due to horrible time-management on my part, we could not answer all the questions in the webinar, so we are answering them in this blog instead. You might get more value from reading this blog if you watched the recording and reviewed the slides that are available on the webinar page - A Cycle Time Journey: 164 to 8 Days in 6 Months.

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11 Proven Stakeholder Communication Tactics

Scrum.org

Stakeholder communication: It is simply not enough for an agile product development organization to create great code and ship the resulting product like a clockwork. The two formal Scrum events that come to mind are: Sprint Reviews. The Sprint Review is Empiricism at work: inspect the Product Increment and adapt the Product Backlog.

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The Simple Way to Improve Visibility on Projects

LiquidPlanner

A work management software tool can help, but only if everyone looks at it. When your software tools use the power of planning intelligence, it’s easy to bring the team together around transparent goals. The solution is using smart software to bring all the elements you need to run a project together in a centralized location.

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How Do you Make a Retrospective an Interesting Session?

NimbleWork

So we want to include agile retros in the general cadence of the project lifecycle for iterative projects, whether you meet in person or virtually – but that regular cadence brings its own challenges. You can avoid that and keep the pace of the meeting high if you use software, even if you are all in the same room.

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Review People Over Process

Henny Portman

Furthermore, neither agile or scrum contemplates how the agile team should be connected to a larger organization and to external partners who will likely have differing development processes and cadences. It puts the focus on the software and the related business processes in a powerful way by using different scenarios. Conclusion.

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Scaling Agile Practices – Improve Business Outcomes

Agilemania

Develop on Cadence; Release on Demand. In SAFe®, this is known as Develop on Cadence, a coordinated set of practices that support Agile Teams by providing a reliable series of events and activities that occur on a regular, predictable schedule. Agile Team and Agile Release Train Cadences. Release on Demand.

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A Review Of Scrum For Kanban Teams

Digite

First off, I have to say that I’m not 100% certain how I feel about Yuval’s blog post. It also encourages everyone to review/adopt the values (in Scrum language) that can help software development teams succeed in building software. They will ship increments of software on a cadence or on demand.