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

Scrum.org

But, not all debt is bad!” I hear the phrase “but not all debt is bad” a lot, usually coupled with “some level of debt is manageable” and, as a software developer, it makes me cringe. This commercial product was built using traditional project management practices and delivered on a two-yearly cadence.

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Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling

Leading Agile

More often than not in kind of either the IT product development space or IT services space. We like to consider ourselves kind of a full stack consultancy in the sense that you know, obviously, you have to deal with the work surface levels and what the teams are doing but you know, how do you orchestrate teams across dependency boundaries?

Agile 140
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Sprint Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Sprint Anti-Patterns Holding Your Teams Back Welcome to Sprint anti-patterns! Besides working on accomplishing the Sprint Goal, a Scrum Team also allocates time to product discovery, aligning with stakeholders, and refining the Product Backlog. Moreover, I added some food for thought.

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Agile Unplugged: EP 02 | Mike Cottmeyer and Dennis Stevens

Leading Agile

You get super clear backlogs, you find out what the real cadences you’ve finished work that you start. The way I got into it was when I was at Perot systems, I was working in Jim champions organization and champion was one of the guys that led business process re-engineering. How do you like fix it? – Yeah. – Mm hmm.

Agile 71
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Comparing Nexus and SAFe - Similarities, Differences, potential synergies

Scrum.org

The Nexus group of teams is very similar to the Agile Release Train (ART) construct. In both SAFe/Scrum it is a self-managing team of self-managed teams with a couple of key roles at the team of teams level. . PS Some people feel the term Sprint isn’t the best choice if we want to emphasize “sustainable pace”. .

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Questioning Agile Dogma

Leading Agile

Today, some of the same principles seem to present impediments or unnecessary challenges for many teams and organizations. How can the same principle be a good idea in 2002 and a bad idea in 2019? I’d like to consider the following in this post: Sustainable Pace. Stable Team. Dedicated Team. Team Spaces.

Agile 115
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The Complete Glossary of 614 Project Management Terms

Workamajig

A project team might also go through an audit to ensure that there are no lapses in project management. Projects might additional calendars as well to show resource availability, communication cadence, etc. If you have an in-house design team, for instance, you can say that you have "design capability".