MPUG

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

What agile adds to this, therefore, is a distinct cadence of its own iterations or drawdowns of tasks into the Work in Progress part of the Kanban Board. They are stories (or tasks) that the team creates for the sole purpose of exploring an issue to increase their understanding, reduce uncertainty, and improve estimation and decision-making.

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Agilemania

MARCH 23, 2021

Most of us started our Agile journey with one framework, and that is Scrum. Scrum is simple to understand with some immutable principles & guidelines. For a long period, our idea of Agile was only Scrum. The foundational unit in SAFe is the Agile team, with the option to use Scrum, XP, or Kanban. Let us dig deeper.

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Planio

JULY 4, 2022

Daily scrum ceremony. Agile ceremonies — also known as Scrum ceremonies or just ‘events’ — are specific events that provide a structured framework for iterative software development processes. Daily scrum (or daily stand-up): These daily check-ups help teams stay on track and mark progress. What are Agile ceremonies?

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

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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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Apply cadence and synchronize with cross-domain planning. A SAFe Agile certification teaches you the skills of Lean Portfolio Management and Lean finance to make decisions based on economics and estimation. Build Incrementally with quicker integrated cycles. Base milestones on an objective evaluation of working systems.

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MPUG

MARCH 8, 2021

An example of this type can be the Scrum framework. 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 Inaccurate Estimation Results in Delayed Delivery. To utilize story points, estimate the tasks (i.e.,

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 30, 2023

Professional Scrum Master Training w/ PSM I Certificate — Live Virtual Class: February 7-10, 2023. How to Create ChatGPT Prompts Generally, ChatGPT prompts comprise several elements: I define in what capacity ChatGPT shall interact with the prompts; for example, as a Scrum Master. A rough estimation of the budget required.

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Wrike

MAY 23, 2023

The Product Owner presents the product backlog, while the team estimates the amount of work that can be completed during the sprint. By having a regular cadence of meetings, the team can stay on track with the project goals and make necessary adjustments along the way.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 20, 2023

As the world of business increases in complexity, it will take more than user stories, estimation, and OKRs to build a trustworthy system that management can delegate into. Do we solve it by putting in specific practices in place like scrum of scrums or dependency boards or like that’s a set of practices.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 7, 2016

This is not to say those 5 developers sitting around the table with the Product Owner and the Scrum Master are not working on vitally important code. Cadence Release - when a fixed period ends, go with what is ready to go. Cadence Release paradigm, is a flow-based approach. Release Plans come in two flavors.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 25, 2022

TL; DR: Scrum Master Anti-Patterns. Join Stefan in one of his upcoming Professional Scrum training classes ! Scrum’s Sprint Planning aims to align the Developers and the Product Owner on what to build next, delivering the highest possible value to customers. Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 13, 2018

Scrum calls the list the Product Backlog.) Fortunately, contemporary lightweight software delivery methods based on time-boxed iterations (like Scrum) or continuous flow (like Kanban) include mechanisms to handle unplanned work gracefully. They have a plan for completing the items on the list. There will be stress. Cognitive Bias.

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Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2023

But as I’m sure a lot of you guys have seen as a lot of people run around doing Scrum or SAFe or whatever, and they’re not actually achieving the goals of agility and you know what’s hard? It happened with RUP, it happens with SAFe, it happens with Scrum, it happens with everything. Is there a product owner?

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Project Management Essentials

AUGUST 3, 2019

In 2013, Mike Cohn coined the term scrum smells to describe the signs that a scrum team is in trouble. Scrum masters, agile coaches, and even team members can improve their teams’ performance by spotting these warning signs early and taking corrective actions. Who is the Scrum Master or Product Owner?

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

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. This approach simplifies the estimation process and fosters a sense of uniformity. This allows for a more accurate assessment of the work's size.

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Digite

MARCH 17, 2017

As the PI has 5 iterations with multiple teams working in cadence to achieve a common vision, it is important for these teams to assemble and plan out the course of action for the entire PI duration. The PI Planning meeting is organized by the Release Train Engineer (RTE, also called the Scrum Master of the Agile Release Train).

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Digite

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

In this article, he outlines the similarities of the two as WIP Limiting, Pull-based systems – with cadences and a focus on learning – while also explaining their differences. A question that I often get while speaking with people is: What is the difference between Kanban and Scrum? You will enjoy this excellent article.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 19, 2020

They did a great job of getting the message out Scrum and the Scrum certification did a great job of getting the message out. Does it mean that we start Doing Scrum, right? Those are the things that get in the way of making Scrum not work in a lot of organizations. We typically want to have those stories estimated, right?

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2020

TL;DR: The Scrum Product Owner in 58 Theses. The Product Owner theses also address the Product Owner’s part in Scrum events from Sprint Planning to Sprint Review to Sprint Retrospective, and the Daily Scrum. The Product Owner is also the most vulnerable Scrum role. Do you want to get this article in your inbox?

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Digite

MARCH 2, 2018

We do product releases every 4-6 weeks, and these get deloyed to our SaaS servers – that cadence is well established. On the one hand, the delivery team is not able to precisely estimate when it can deliver a release. It is really based on their own cost of deploying a new release from a vendor.

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Digite

MARCH 2, 2018

We do product releases every 4-6 weeks, and these get deployed to our SaaS servers – that cadence is well established. On the one hand, the delivery team is not able to precisely estimate when it can deliver a release. It is really based on their own cost of deploying a new release from a vendor.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 27, 2020

The Product Owner introduces the business objective the upcoming Sprint is supposed to meet, the Scrum Team collaboratively creates a Sprint Goal, and the Development Team forecasts the work required to achieve the goal by picking the appropriate items from the Product Backlog, transferring them to the Sprint Backlog.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 7, 2023

I wasn’t around when things like XP and Scrum were invented, but I have been lucky enough to spend time with many of the original signers of the Manifesto. They hypothesized that estimating the cards and doing burn-down charts would increase throughput. If you are doing Scrum or XP and cannot do that, you aren’t doing Agile very well.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2021

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. Figure: Diminishing returns from Agile Estimating – Estimation Approaches. Professional Developers create working software.

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Scrum.org

MAY 20, 2020

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. The purpose of completing PBIs is so the goals of the Scrum team are met. . was our next question.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 29, 2023

Old ways of working won’t solve it, and simply implementing practices like Scrum, DevOps, FinOps, or ProOps are not sufficient to create the organizations we need for the changes we must make. None of this is about Agile or Scrum or stand-ups or product ownership or DevOps or that stuff. We agree with that, don’t we?

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2023

When I first started thinking through this idea, I was actually really thinking about the idea of practices because back in 2010, a little bit earlier than that, Jim Kundiff, the Scrum Alliance, and those guys were really popularizing the CSM certification, PMI was doing the PMI ACP or a lot of us were part of that. So think about scrum.

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Actual dates are different from planned or estimated dates. Actual Effort: The actual effort spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated effort. Actual Expenditure: The actual expenditure spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated expenditure.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Cost and schedule growth for federal programs is created by unrealistic technical performance expectations, unrealistic cost and schedule estimates, inadequate risk assessments, unanticipated technical issues, and poorly performed and ineffective risk management, all contributing to program technical and programmatic shortfalls. What is Risk?

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

High WIP levels and failure to recognize delivery capacity, identify scarce resources, and consider estimates led to intense pressure to deliver late in the project schedule. Zombie Scrum describes the impact on delivery teams. One of the roles or functions of the Product Manager is that of Product Owner, in the Scrum sense.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 16, 2019

You’re going to see this coming out at a very fast cadence. A lot of times I like to have fun, certainly in doing estimating. But there are people who are building tools, but they remember the competency of what’s being organized, structured and delivered is on a very different cadence. Add a bucket.

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