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The Power of Product Ownership: A Tale from Microsoft's Journey

Scrum.org

In the vast realm of software development, the role of a product owner is pivotal. In this video, Martin discusses the transformative journey of Microsoft's product development, highlighting the significant contributions of two individuals: Brian Harry and Aaron Bjork. ?? But it wasn't just about changing a release cycle.

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The Roles and Responsibilities of a SAFe Agilist You Never Knew

Agilemania

SAFe is a knowledge base of proven, integrated principles, practices, and competencies for achieving business agility using Lean, Agile, Systems Thinking, and DevOps. Software and IT teams delivering in an agile way alone isn’t enough. A SAFe agilist is the person responsible for Lean-Agile transformation. Let’s get kickstarted.

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Top 7 Benefits of SAFe® Training for a Product Owner / Manager

Agilemania

Three primary bodies of knowledge make up agile software development, lean product development, and systems thinking. An Agile team establishes faultless processes for developing quality products that cannot be inspected into a product or service. Cadence is an important aspect of agile mindset training.

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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. The book is divided into four sections. The final section focusses on project retrospectives. People over Process is the third book.

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Half Agile Isn’t Real Transformation

Leading Agile

Business agility is what organizations are looking for; agile software development may be one enabling factor in achieving it, but it isn’t the point of a transformation. Most agile consultants and coaches are unfamiliar with back-end technologies, and they tend to treat them as a mysterious black box.

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Is SAFe® (Scaled Agile Framework®) not Agile?

Agilemania

It is for large-scale software development teams of 50-125 people on multiple projects but wants to still adopt the best Agile practices, despite their size. Working Software over Comprehensive Documentation :- SAFe reemphasizes and uses working software as the means of progress towards achieving the objectives.

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New PM, New Choices

Leading Answers

Consultants will say,  “Oh, it depends…”  and start a lengthy (aka expensive) conversation. Approaches like lean, kanban and agile work well in these uncertain, high-change environments. A Case Study A couple of years ago, I worked on a project to develop and install routing software for truck drivers.