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Myth: Scrum is a Waste of Time

Scrum.org

The entire Scrum framework is designed to help teams self-manage themselves and align around value. 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). Here’s how the events reduce other meetings.

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

Scrum.org

As not all stakeholders are the same, the product owner or manager needs to communicate with them differently as well. My role was to coach product owners and managers. The majority of those conversations were about progress updates, key risks, timelines and immediate next priorities. Do our roadmap and goals align with yours?

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5 Tips to Build a Harmonious Project Team in 2023

LiquidPlanner

Think your project management clients are your business’ bread and butter? Without a harmonious project team, your project could be at risk of unhappy stakeholders and clients, delayed timelines, and every PM’s greatest nightmare … scope creep. Think again.

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Creating a Risk-Adjusted Backlog

Leading Answers

This article explains what a risk-adjusted backlog is, why they are useful, how to create one and how teams work with them. What is a Risk-Adjusted Backlog? A risk-adjusted backlog is a backlog that contains activities relating to managing risk in addition to the usual features associated with delivering value.

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Agile Release Train (ART)

Digite

Program Increments (PIs) provide a development timebox (default 10 weeks) that uses cadence and synchronization to facilitate planning, limiting WIP, provide for aggregation of value and assure consistent retrospectives. The Agile Release Train provides alignment and helps manage risk by providing program level cadence and synchronization.

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Sprint Reviews with Kanban

Scrum.org

Even so, this can all ring hollow when organizations are slow to change, and the avoidance and allocation of blame continues to be valued as an important management skill. In certain sprints the Goal could be to provide and meet an agreed SLE, whereas in others the traditional mitigation of feature risk could be more important.

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A modern (and easy) guide to the 5 agile ceremonies

Planio

But what if you’re not entirely comfortable managing and running Agile ceremonies? Working this way reduces the risk that you’re building the wrong software. Sprint review: At the end of each sprint cycle, teams meet to demo what they’ve shipped and get early feedback from stakeholders. But it also makes projects more complex.

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