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Scrum: 20 Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns

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TL; DR: Scrum Master Anti-Patterns. The Sprint Planning is a core event that defines how your customers’ lives will improve with the following Product Increment. Learn more on how to improve its effectiveness by avoiding 20 common Sprint Planning anti-patterns. ???? The Purpose of the Sprint Planning.

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Release planning and predictable delivery

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Many organisations wrestle with the seeming incompatibility between agile and release management, and they struggle with release planning and predictable delivery. Updated to reflect the 2020 Scrum Guide! Without a regular cadence of delivery of working software any belief that you will get a usable increment is misguided at best.

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The Difference Between Right Sizing and Same Sizing of Work Items (and Why You Should Care)

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Understanding these terms is crucial for effective backlog management and sprint planning if you're a product manager or product owner. Right-sizing in Agile refers to the practice of customizing the size of work items in your backlog to match their inherent complexity and effort required to the time interval of your cadence.

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20 Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns

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Sprint Planning is a core event, defining how your customers’ lives will improve with the next Product Increment. Learn more on how to improve its effectiveness by avoiding 20 common Sprint Planning anti-patterns. The Purpose of the Sprint Planning. The Purpose of the Sprint Planning. Source : Scrum Guide, 2017.

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Tips from the trenches: How to Start Up Three new Scrum teams Simultaneously.

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I was hired by a bank to help them to get started with agile and Scrum. Most people who see the value of the Scrum Master role will agree that a seasoned scrum master can support up to three experienced teams when sprinting. But is one Scrum Master enough to start up three teams from scratch simultaneously?

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"Why can?t we plan Sprints accurately with velocity?"

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My fellow PST, Glaudia Califano, and I were sitting in a café (at a time prior to the current lockdown due to Covid-19), having agreed to meet up with a Business Analyst who had reached out to us to have a chat about Scrum and Agile. Our problem is that we can’t plan Sprints accurately with velocity,” he said. was our next question.

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Tips from the trenches: How to startup three new Scrum teams simultaneously.

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I was hired by a bank to help them to get started with agile and Scrum. Most people who see the value of the Scrum Master role will agree that a seasoned scrum master can support up to three experienced teams when sprinting. But is one Scrum Master enough to start up three teams from scratch simultaneously?

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