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Myth: Scrum is a Waste of Time

Scrum.org

These events need to happen on a cadence of one month per less to ensure that the team is collaborating frequently enough to reduce risk (the Sprint). It’s not juts a demo, it’s an opportunity to inspect the increment that was delivered and to collaborate with Stakeholders on what would add the most value in the future.

SCRUM 136
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Review People Over Process

Henny Portman

Levine wrote with People Over Process – Leadership for Agility a very pragmatic and down to earth book about leadership and agile projects. 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.

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How to Use Flow Metrics to Optimize Product Delivery

Scrum.org

Moreover, we'll delve into the specific Flow Metrics that warrant your attention – those metrics directly bearing on your delivery process's efficiency and effectiveness. Flow Metrics are quantitative measures that offer a panoramic view of work progressing through your delivery process. What Are Flow Metrics?

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Stakeholder Communication Strategy: Part 3 of 4 Steps of Stakeholder Engagement

Scrum.org

The success of building effective stakeholder communication strategy depends upon the outputs of the first two steps of the stakeholder engagement process i.e. Stakeholder Exploration and Stakeholder Analysis & Mapping. Again, not to my surprise, the response was ‘people are not interested in the demos’.

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5 Tips to Build a Harmonious Project Team in 2023

LiquidPlanner

Whenever possible, implement business process automation to help your team automate manual, repetitive tasks. Harmonious Focus 2: Set ground rules and act as a harmonizing influence Set a cadence for how your team should behave and work from project initiation to completion. Trust the process, trust your tools, and trust your team.

2023 148
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Is SAFe® (Scaled Agile Framework®) not Agile?

Agilemania

The entire organization had to be in the process, not just a few self-managed teams. It provided us with a unique framework and guidelines for the entire organization, including the chief executives, to be part of the process. So, the perception is made that SAFe is process heavy. System Demo and PI Demo confirm this theory.

Agile 98
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Improving SAFe Through Professional Scrum

Scrum.org

To use the leadership styles model we discuss in the Leading SAFe class - the starting point is more of an orchestrating and technical expert kind of leadership stance and the goal should be to evolve towards a more serving the team and the process style over time. SAFe has a cadence at the Team and Program levels.

SCRUM 140