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Sprint Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

If a Sprint is too long, the market may invalidate a Sprint Goal, increasing complexity and risk. Shorter Sprints, similar to short projects, promote more learning cycles and limit the risk of cost and effort to a briefer time frame. This habit also puts reaching the Sprint Goal at risk. Source : Scrum Guide 2020.

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28+2 Sprint Anti-Patterns Holding Back Scrum Teams

Scrum.org

When a Sprint’s horizon is too long the Sprint Goal may become invalid, complexity may rise, and risk may increase. Shorter Sprints can be employed to generate more learning cycles and limit risk of cost and effort to a smaller time frame. This habit also puts reaching the Sprint Goal at risk. 28 Sprint Anti-Patterns. (As

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Troubleshooting in Lean-Agile Development

MPUG

Many project managers utilize a Lean-Agile approach when there is high change or churn in project requirements, significant lack of clarity in scope, high complexity to their projects, and/or a larger number of risks associated with such. It’s usually based on a cadence. When the feature is complete, it can be delivered.

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Cultivating the Kind of Culture Employees Crave

Leading Agile

We take pride in being fearless, adaptive, sustainable, and egalitarian, and we admire attributes like integrity, respect, teamwork, and passion for continued learning. . Our core values, principles, and desired character attributes were cultivated through an innate closed-loop accountability system that had no choice but to exist.

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The Second Of Four Things You Do To Prevent Value Delivery

Scrum.org

On November 22nd, 2019, I gave the closing keynote at Scrum Deutschland, a talk called ‘The Four Things You Do To Prevent Value Delivery.’ Work (or sometimes even a transformation) is ongoing, and the organization wants a second opinion on risk or improvement factors. . It wasn’t sustainable. Background . Hence the question. .

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The Best Project Management Templates

Wrike

Getting granular with work projects is important as you’re often faced with pressure from several sources: Time limits Budget constraints Client expectations Stakeholder opinion Without a measured or considered approach to how you’ll tackle both major and minor projects, the risk of falling prey to pressure from any of these sources increases.

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Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling

Leading Agile

What do you do with planning cadences? There’s a third system we call, system and continuous improvement, which is, how are you going to sustain it and continuously adapt it? You’re the guy that’s close to the ground, you know what kind of house I need, like no, right, you want to know what you’re going to get for your money.

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