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Improve Product Management to drive Business Agility

Scrum.org

A PO who is responsible for connectivity , search , or the billing engine is not building a Product, they are building a feature or a component. Often they use other names to describe their roles such as Requirements engineer, Team output owner, or Team lead. They study and do the work in a shared cadence (Sprint).

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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. TL;DR; Your Developers are ultimately responsible for creating done increments of working software. Working Software is not specific to a PBI; it’s applied regardless of PBI to the entire delivery.

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Release planning and predictable delivery

Scrum.org

TL;DR; Without working software, you can’t build trust and you don’t know when you will get the next piece of working software. Once you accept this, and quality becomes non-negotiable, your Dev e lopers can focus on creating usable increments of working software. Professional Developers create working software.

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Are These DevOps Obstacles Getting in the Way of Your Agile Transformation?

Leading Agile

As more and more companies scramble to untangle the code of their monolithic legacy software and get it into the cloud, strategic priorities are shifting. Want the Deck Text HIDDEN to 33777 Video Transcript We will run into times where packing software makes it harder for us to transform the skills of our staff and external vendors.

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Estimate at Completion: A Complete Guide + Template

Rebel’s Guide to PM

You probably won’t be expected to use it without having the back up of decent spreadsheets (I have a basic template I share below, so scroll down for that) and the software to underpin the calculations. As the maths on this one is quite involved, it’s a better option to choose as part of an integrated earned value management system.

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11 Proven Stakeholder Communication Tactics

Scrum.org

Stakeholder communication: It is simply not enough for an agile product development organization to create great code and ship the resulting product like a clockwork. The two formal Scrum events that come to mind are: Sprint Reviews. The Sprint Review is Empiricism at work: inspect the Product Increment and adapt the Product Backlog.

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Troubleshooting in Lean-Agile Development

MPUG

It’s usually based on a cadence. As shown in the above figure, there is no regular timeboxed iteration, but incremental delivery can happen in cadence. When you fire a gun in the dark, it’s difficult to aim due to the lack of light. Developers, with all due respect to them, are generally optimistic people.

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