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Professional Development Day 2022 – IGNITE!

International Institute for Learning

Friday, September 23, 2022, 9:00 AM to 1:30 PM EST. PDD 2022 Ignite your future with new skills, add to your professional network, and develop as a leader. It has been said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over but expecting different results. The Science of Focus: Unleashing the power of focused teams.

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A Review Of Scrum For Kanban Teams

Digite

In the most recent post in Steve Porter’s series, Yuval Yuret presents Scrum in a manner that is intended to educate Kanban teams. It also encourages everyone to review/adopt the values (in Scrum language) that can help software development teams succeed in building software. Disclaimer. You should go read it now.

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Unleashing Agile: Empowering Agile Teams for Managers

Leading Agile

Empowering your teams isn’t about allowing them to make decisions in a vacuum and giving them free rein to do whatever they want. The days of providing a little guidance here, some methodology there, and letting the teams self-organize their way to success are behind us. What does it mean to empower teams?

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Scrum or Kanban for Application Support teams?

Digite

The questioner asked – “I have recently joined a company and to one of the projects that I’m engaged we have this Scrum team that has a mixed backlog (USs and Bugs). This team’s goal is to be fixing urgent bugs and when they aren’t (doesn’t happen that often :)) they should work on the product increment.

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Systems Thinking episode #4: DSRP

Scrum.org

By making distinctions we challenge existing norms, labels and definitions. We also see in the evolution of the Scrum guide how the distinctiveness has improved over time, for instance by dropping the term “team” in favor of “Scrum team” and “Development team”. Imagine we observe a poorly functioning team.

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Getting started with a Definition of Done (DoD)

Scrum.org

In my last post about Professional software teams creating working software David Corbin made a good point. Since that is different for each Product and may change over time you need to focus on Quality and reflecting that quality in a Definition of Done (DoD). What is a Definition of Done (DoD). Done Increments.

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Releases and Deadlines in Agile

Herding Cats

This is not to say those 5 developers sitting around the table with the Product Owner and the Scrum Master are not working on vitally important code. Cadence Release - when a fixed period ends, go with what is ready to go. Cadence Release - when a fixed period ends, go with what is ready to go. Release Plans come in two flavors.

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