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Improve Product Management to drive Business Agility

Scrum.org

A PO who is responsible for connectivity , search , or the billing engine is not building a Product, they are building a feature or a component. Often they use other names to describe their roles such as Requirements engineer, Team output owner, or Team lead. These are not things the company sells as separate items to their customers.

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How Usable Working Products Are Your Ultimate Weapon Against Risks

Scrum.org

Feedback loops, value delivery, and engineering excellence are your protection in agile product delivery. Conclusion: Be Agile, Truly So create a usable working product on a regular cadence, close the feedback loops, and leverage as much automation as possible. Let’s get down to brass tacks.

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Disciplined Agile & SAFe

International Institute for Learning

To coordinate the teams, SAFe applies cadence and synchronization. Cadence means all teams are aligned to a standard, two-week delivery cycle. The entire ART operates on a common 2-week cadence and begins its 10-week Program Increment (PI) with a 2-day planning event. They are closed books, online, and self-proctored.

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Comparing Nexus and SAFe - Similarities, Differences, potential synergies

Scrum.org

The Scrum Master in the NIT has a role similar to the Release Train Engineer - orchestrating and facilitating the effective use of Scrum/SAFe across the Nexus/ART with the purpose of enabling a tight Inspection and Adaptation cycle leveraging working product increments. . Scrum Master in the NIT - RTE. Nexus+ is comprised of several Nexus.

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Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Leading to Failure

Scrum.org

Apparently, there is a difference in the inspect & adapt cadence when product strategy and Sprint Backlog are compared to each other. The product roadmap needs to be adapted to the learnings from running product experiments regularly in an appropriate cadence to meet that standard. The engineers and I handle customer support.

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Are These DevOps Obstacles Getting in the Way of Your Agile Transformation?

Leading Agile

Different change cadences. The package is changing at one cadence and maybe you’re trying to innovate and change at another cadence, right? You want to be able to mark things that aren’t available because now you can move the package, something moving at different cadences. So get numbers.

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Building bonds: A founder’s take on our annual team retreat

Resource Guru

The birth of our Guru Gatherings Our inaugural Guru Gathering took place six years ago in London with a close-knit team of eight, bonding through fear and panic, in an escape room. Our engineering team had a break-out session to discuss how they could increase the cadence of feature releases. The result?

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