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How We Reduced Cycle Time from 164 Days to 8 Days in 6 Months

Scrum.org

How do we define “cycle time” in our context? Due to horrible time-management on my part, we could not answer all the questions in the webinar, so we are answering them in this blog instead. We review progress in sprint reviews, which our stakeholders almost always attend. CADENCE & RELIABILITY.

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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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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. It puts the focus on the software and the related business processes in a powerful way by using different scenarios. Conclusion.

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Map Your Route to Mastering Agile Fluency

Scrum.org

Without defining value, no agile transformation is possible. And in the 21st century for software development teams, this means realizing the paradigm of Continuous Delivery. Once the value is defined and the teams starting to learn and deliver, the change isn't done yet. It all starts with focusing on value.

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Minimal measures for minimal stability in a complex environment

Scrum.org

Product development is the subset of complex problem domains where Scrum took root first; by explicitly acknowledging software and new product development to be complex work, serving to deliver complex products in complex circumstances. Define and identify your product first. No sustainable agility is achieved.

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How Agile Testing Can Improve Business Outcomes

Leading Agile

They depend on the software or product they produce and their audience or market. Improved Quality of Software or Product. And whether you are producing software or some other product, the process can be applied to many different contexts. They are the ones that must define clear acceptance criteria and definition of done.

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How to Set and Achieve Effective Sprint Goals

Scrum.org

Thanks to our reviewers: Ralph Jocham | Scrum.org TLDR; The Sprint Goal is the heart of Scrum, representing the team's commitment to the value derived from the Sprint's outcome. The Sprint goal should be something stakeholders can review and provide feedback on. Create a Cadence of Accountability. When are Sprint Goals crafted?