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To Fix Your OKRs – Go Back to First (Familiar) Principles

Scrum.org

Henrik Kniberg, in his usual brilliance, maybe nailed it best in this diagram describing Spotify’s “ Aligned Autonomy” engineering culture principle (Jason Yip elaborates on this principle here ). . Figuring out the right Cadence . The Scrum framework provides one example of how such a cadence could look.

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All technical debt is a risk to the product and to your business

Scrum.org

This commercial product was built using traditional project management practices and delivered on a two-yearly cadence. Even before 2012 Leadership, and engineers, had noticed that things were getting bogged down. On a two-yearly cadence, it takes four years to deliver on feature requests. upcoming professional Scrum classes.

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Enhancing Team Performance with Safe Scrum

Wrike

Safe Scrum is a framework that has gained significant popularity in recent years for enhancing team performance in an agile development methodology. By providing clear guidelines and principles, Safe Scrum enables teams to collaborate more effectively, communicate transparently, and ultimately deliver higher-quality projects.

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How to Set and Achieve Effective Sprint Goals

Scrum.org

Many teams grapple with the intricacies of Scrum, and one of the most pivotal components is the Sprint Goal. 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. Create a Cadence of Accountability.

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Disciplined Agile & SAFe

International Institute for Learning

They build on lean-agile thinking, and standard Scrum, Kanban, and DevOps practices. To coordinate the teams, SAFe applies cadence and synchronization. Cadence means all teams are aligned to a standard, two-week delivery cycle. A release train engineer, product manager, and systems engineer lead the ART.

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Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Leading to Failure

Scrum.org

Scrum has proven to be an effective product delivery framework for all sorts of products. However, Scrum is equally well suited to build the wrong product efficiently as its Achilles heel has always been the product discovery part. How that is supposed to happen is nowhere described in the Scrum Guide.

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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). Frequently, especially in a Scrum environment, it can be difficult to match the cadence of doing both. Not Scrum OR Kanban. Scrum and Kanban!