International Institute for Learning

JANUARY 25, 2023

By Roman Pichler The Need for Guidance and the Lack of Transactional Power Product success is not something you can achieve on your own as a product manager or Scrum product owner. For example, the marketer has to create the marketing strategy, and the development teams have to design and build the product.

Development Team Review 52

Development Team Review Leadership Influencer SCRUM 52

Kiron Bondale

JULY 25, 2021

But what about changes to the team’s way of working (WoW)? Whether a team uses a scheduled cadence for reviewing their WoW such as the use of retrospectives in Scrum, or they use a just-in-time approach they will come up with improvement ideas. Some of those ideas will be all or nothing.

Software Review 207

Software Review Cadence Development Team Review Risk Management 207

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. How much time should they spend with their team or with stakeholders? From our own quantitative research with 1.200 Scrum Teams , we know that teams are more effective when they are more aware of the needs of their stakeholders.

2014 232

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Scrum.org

JULY 21, 2020

What has always struck me in this discussion is the fact that Scrum is a tool useful to accomplish one primary task: delivering value to customers of emergent products in complex environments while mitigating an organization’s exposure to risk at the same time. Seriously, how hard can Scrum be if the manual comprises of 18 pages, right?).

Software Review 221

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Engineering 221

Scrum.org

JULY 29, 2019

In my role as an Agile coach and Scrum trainer, I get the chance to talk to a lot of Scrum Masters and teams. When I ask them about what their team is measuring, the most common answers I hear are velocity, story points, and burn-down charts. Team health? What about business value metrics, I ask?

Technical Review 181

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review Software Review 181

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

I couldn’t review all the code or be in on every discussion and decision. These situations caused me to deeply explore and try out various approaches to leadership, organization design, and teamwork. Teamwork is a huge competitive advantage - focus on creating strong teams. That’s what draws me to scrum.

Software Review 205

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Development Team Review 205

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

TL; DR: Scrum Anti-Patterns GPT Can a Custom Scrum Anti-Patterns GPT align teams with Scrum principles? Dive into how leveraging custom GPTs might offer a novel path through Scrum’s common hurdles, focusing on creating actual customer value in the face of organizational and team-level challenges. ?

SCRUM 224

SCRUM ChatGPT Technical Review Development Team Review 224

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 8, 2018

In Scrum, Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of product being developed by Development Team. Communicative and Collaborative - As a Product Owner, the person will need to communicate with diverse set of stakeholders including Development Teams.

Development Team Review 159

Development Team Review SCRUM Budget Leadership 159

Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2021

From January 10th, 2021 the Scrum.org assessments have changed to support the 2020 version of the Scrum Guide. Even though Scrum has not changed significantly, some of the wording and descriptions of Scrum have changed. For a more complete description of the 2020 version of the Scrum Guide please go here. . .

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2020 SCRUM Development Team Review 2017 246

International Institute for Learning

APRIL 19, 2023

They build on lean-agile thinking, and standard Scrum, Kanban, and DevOps practices. They offer practitioners tools to extend and mature their agility beyond the team to programs and the broader enterprise. Disciplined Agile is methodology agnostic and supports Scrum, Kanban, Program, and continuous delivery lifecycles.

Agile 59

Agile Cadence Certification Lean 59

Leading Agile

JULY 3, 2023

10 years ago, it seemed that a little Scrum here and some coaching there would suffice. This was more of a blind test rather than an open book test. We’re trying to create teams that can align as closely to the customer as possible and produce results. We’re building teams with as few interdependencies as possible.

Software Review 112

Software Review Fractional CTO Technical Review Agile 112

LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 16, 2018

If you’re fresh out of Certified Scrum Master training, you are likely invigorated to start applying the Agile and SCRUM based techniques to your next project. After all, your two-day training class and one online test later makes you a certified Scrum Master! Develop an Agile overview for business and development teams.

Change Management 74

Change Management Agile Development Team Review Consulting 74

Scrum.org

JANUARY 9, 2023

TL; DR: A ChatGPT Job Interview for a Scrum Master Position. Can a large language model, not specializing in anything “agile,” pass a screening interview for a Scrum Master position? So, read on and learn whether Scrum Masters will soon be replaced with a chatbot. ?? Question : Thank you for your application as a Scrum Master!

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ChatGPT SCRUM Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 225

Scrum.org

MAY 5, 2020

Being an effective and successful Scrum Master requires a wide variety of skills, knowledge, and experience. This variety is captured in the stances of a Scrum Master. The Scrum Master is expected to act as a teacher, impediment remover, facilitator, coach, mentor, and change agent. How to improve team dynamics?

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SCRUM Development Team Review Technical Review Consulting 218

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 12, 2020

TL; DR: 70 Scrum Master Theses. The following 70 Scrum Master theses describe the role of from a holistic product creation perspective. The theses cover the role of the Scrum Master from product discovery to product delivery in hands-on practical manner. The Role of the Scrum Master. It is not a mere management role.

SCRUM 232

SCRUM Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review 232

Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Discovering the recipe for team agility. About three years ago, together with several colleagues at Worldline and Atos, I worked on an open-source DevOps maturity assessment tool (you can find it on GitHub here or see it in action here ). The 5-minute agility self-assessment questionnaire. The answer is usually “no”.

Technical Review 448

Technical Review Agile Development Team Review Software Review 448

MPUG

DECEMBER 23, 2020

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. Bill Dow: So when you think about a project assessment, there’re really hundreds of things that could go wrong. Kyle: Hello everyone. I go to what 90 videos.

PMO 52

PMO Construction Development Team Review Executing 52

Scrum.org

MARCH 4, 2019

The 2019 Scrum Master Trends Report by scrum.org and the State of Agile 2018 shows numbers that provide insight in the maturity of agile adoptions. More than 80% of the Scrum Masters (respondents) claim their organization is in or below a “still maturing” level. Pre-Scrum waterfall . Starting with Early Scrum.

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SCRUM Software Review Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team 153

Leading Agile

MARCH 15, 2023

And when we started LeadingAgile about six or seven years ago, we well, I guess we started 12 years ago, but we, we started to build a dev team about seven or eight years ago and we’re working on an internal product called Navigator that’s been in development for a while now.

Agile 62

Agile Development Team Review Software Risk Management 62

The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In 1991 the book Rapid Application Development was published and an approach of the same name, RAD, was born. The Benefits of Agile Project Management Agile project management often results in the early release of benefits due to its incremental nature. Agile projects are iterative and have regular feedback loops.

Agile 88

Agile Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Development Team Review 88

MPUG

DECEMBER 28, 2020

A new version of Scrum guide was released last month. It contains commitments for each of the Scrum artifacts. My perspective is based on my analysis, my own interpretations, and the interactions I’ve had with Agile practitioners who follow my publications, books, and/or courses. Product Goal. Commitment based Artifacts.

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Cadence SCRUM 2020 Agile 116

Planio

OCTOBER 19, 2021

And whether you’re a designer, developer, team lead, or administrator, your job requires many of the same skills that separate the best project managers: organization, effective collaboration, and being goal-oriented. Step 3: Talk to your team and create a project plan. Step 12: Plan your first sprint as a team.

Technical Review 199

Technical Review Software Review Risk Management Estimate 199

Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2021

Updated to reflect the 2020 Scrum Guide! Any software that you create is an organisational asset and decisions to cut quality need to be reflected in your company accounts and as such those decisions need to made by your executive leadership and should not be made by Developers. Yet movies get made all of the time.

Software Review 228

Software Review Technical Review Planning Manufacturing 228

Scrum.org

MARCH 4, 2019

The 2019 Scrum Master Trends Report by S crum.org and Age of Product and the State of Agile 2018 show numbers that provide insight in the maturity of agile adoptions. More than 80% of the Scrum Masters (respondents) claim their organization is in or below a “still maturing” level. Pre-Scrum Waterfall . Starting with Early Scrum.

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SCRUM Software Review Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team 26

Scrum.org

MARCH 12, 2020

If you’re having a similar question about the Scrum Master vs the Project Manager, then check out this blog. The Product Owner is one person (not a committee) responsible in the Scrum Framework for maximizing the value. The Product Owner also shouldn’t track and measure team progress. What is a Product Owner?

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Prince2 Development Team Review SCRUM Risk Management 47

Leading Agile

MARCH 17, 2021

And I was working for this VP that was like really super cool, is very into agile and we were coming up with really creative things for like team formation strategies and agile governance, all stuff. And this was like way before the days Dean Leffingwell hadn’t even written his first book on scaling. I don’t mean Scrum.

2021 62

2021 Agile Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM 62

Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Here's a collection of presentations, briefings, papers, essays, book content used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've written and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems and other domains. Agile and Earned Value Management Bibliography of papers, books, and thesis (#Biblio).

Technical Review 42

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

Scrum.org

MARCH 19, 2023

TL; DR: ChatGPT 4: A Bargain for Scrum Practitioners? I wanted to determine whether ChatGPT 4 is superior to its predecessor, which left a good impression in recent months; see my previous articles on Scrum, Agile, and ChatGPT. Zur deutschsprachigen Version des Artikels: ChatGPT 4: Ein Schnäppchen für Scrum-Praktiker? ?

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ChatGPT SCRUM Technical Review 2020 172

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Nehmen Sie an einer von Stefans kommenden Professional Scrum-Schulungen teil ! Executives that are not close to the customer problems make the decisions at the portfolio level, and teams execute, which can lead to disengaged teams. SAFe is for compliance and contacts, Scrum for performance. Die Daten der Umfrage.

Lean 209

Lean Software Review 2022 Technical Review 209

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Join Stefan in one of his upcoming Professional Scrum training classes ! Executives that are not close to the customer problems make the decisions at the portfolio level, and teams execute, which can lead to disengaged teams. SAFe is for compliance and contacts, Scrum for performance. Survey Data.

Lean 181

Lean Software Review 2022 Technical Review 181

Paymo App

APRIL 2, 2018

You’ll also find e-books, book reviews, toolkits, and training guides to help you develop your career with less stress. What to expect: Mike’s blog helps software development teams improve their work through Agile and Scrum. How Are You Doing as Team Leader? Developing Project Leaders.

Influencer 112

Influencer Prince2 Software Review SCRUM 112

International Institute for Learning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Regarding the right size of a team, it has been experienced that a good number is around 10. For instance in the Agile Scrum Methodology [4] it is recommended to have 10 or fewer people in a team. Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, likes to use the “two-pizza rule” for strategy and development teams.

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Underperforming Technical Team 2022 Technical Review 2002 52