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The Forgotten Scrum Event

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What are the 5 events in Scrum? The Sprint is the most commonly overlooked event in Scrum. In fact, many people don’t even realize that it is an event in Scrum. And yet, the Sprint serves a pivotal role in Scrum by setting the cadence for feedback, inspection and adaptation in Scrum. Can you name them?

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Navigating the Scrum Events - The Sprint

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What is the ‘Navigating the Scrum Events’ Series? for each Scrum Event. This is NOT the end-all-be-all perfect way to operate for all scenarios - but a straight-to-the-point tactical list of steps to help you get to the basic outcomes you need at the end of the event.

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5  misconceptions about Scrum's Sprint Event

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The Sprint is one of the five events defined in the Scrum Guide. It is a container event, which means that it contains all other events, including Sprint Planning, the Daily Scrum, the Sprint Retrospective, and the Sprint Review. According to the 2020 Scrum Guide, the Sprint is the “heartbeat” of Scrum.

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How Scrum event timeboxes make your team more effective

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Every Scrum event has a maximum allowable time period to carry it out, called a timebox. When I tell someone that the Sprint Planning event is timeboxed at eight hours, I usually receive shocked looks. While Scrum events have a maximum amount of time, they do not have a minimum amount of time. Scrum Event Timeboxes.

SCRUM 210
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Event Series: Practical Kanban with MS Project Agile

MPUG

The delivery is based on a cadence. Are there any specific Kanban events and can they be used with MS Project Agile? Hope to meet you in these three exclusive events where we are going to learn Practical Kanban with MS Project Agile. The post Event Series: Practical Kanban with MS Project Agile appeared first on MPUG.

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

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Figuring out the right Cadence . It’s all about finding the “goldilocks” cadence that provides frequent enough transparency and the opportunity to inspect and adapt at the right level. There can be a different cadence for everyone involved in achieving an OKR as compared to the cadence involving all stakeholders interested in that OKR.

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“Agile Is Just for Software” and other Scrum Myths

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For example, Scrum includes five events: the Sprint, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and the Sprint Retrospective. The Scrum guide clearly describes the purpose of each of these events, but the Scrum guide doesn’t include a required agenda for any of these events. It is deliberately incomplete.

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