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The Difference Between Right Sizing and Same Sizing of Work Items (and Why You Should Care)

Scrum.org

Right-sizing in Agile refers to the practice of customizing the size of work items in your backlog to match their inherent complexity and effort required to the time interval of your cadence. Real-World Example of Right Sizing: Take a software development project. The result?

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Unlocking the Power and Mastery of Development Approach and Life Cycle

Project Pulse Journal

This domain facilitates strategic alignment, optimized delivery cadence, methodology customization, increased flexibility, and improved risk management. The desire for a project management framework that sustains deliverability, supports the required cadence, and remains faithful to an adaptable methodology is now within reach.

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

Leading Agile

Dealing with Packaged Software The first one, it came up, right? Different change cadences. The package is changing at one cadence and maybe you’re trying to innovate and change at another cadence, right? And, you know, ultimately the thing that slows software development down is fear of change.

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Is Macroeconomics and Social Science the Same as Software Development?

Herding Cats

There a popular notions in the agile development world that authors like Hayek and Taleb speak to how software development works. Let's look at the thesis of Hayek in light of software development and the decisions that must be made when spending other people's money in the presence of uncertainty. probably not.

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Half Agile Isn’t Real Transformation

Leading Agile

The latter provides a nice-looking and usable interface to the “real” systems in the back-end, to provide read and write access to customers’ data via their smart devices, and to print materials to be mailed out, such as account summaries, late payment notices, and documentation required by regulatory bodies.

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Don’t Say NoGet Them to Understand Your Team Delivery Capacity

Leading Agile

You collect the raw data by keeping track of the date/time when you begin each item, and the date/time when you complete it. Let’s say you’re using a two-week cadence, as that’s pretty typical and is what most agile coaches recommend as a starting point. In a typical cadence, stakeholders ask you to complete 12.5

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Live from Product404, in Atlanta: Agile RoadMapping

Leading Agile

Prior to Gather, he led the product management team at ExpApp to drive mobile commerce, flexible ticket sales, and data solutions empowering sports and entertainment leaders. He’s also served as a Senior Associate at Bain & Company in their Technology Private Equity Group. Scott Sehlhorst: SVP, Executive Consultant at LeadingAgile.

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