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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. Conclusion.

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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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How We Reduced Cycle Time from 164 Days to 8 Days in 6 Months

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Due to horrible time-management on my part, we could not answer all the questions in the webinar, so we are answering them in this blog instead. You might get more value from reading this blog if you watched the recording and reviewed the slides that are available on the webinar page - A Cycle Time Journey: 164 to 8 Days in 6 Months.

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Beyond Mechanical Scrum

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The teams at his company had well established cadences for their Scrum events; well-oiled Daily Scrums that are done within 15 minutes and result in transparency of what the team will do for the next 24-hours. They are releasing software after every 2-week sprint. Get the basics in place and yes, you are doing Scrum. Kanban 101.

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Scaling Agile Practices – Improve Business Outcomes

Agilemania

Develop on Cadence; Release on Demand. In SAFe®, this is known as Develop on Cadence, a coordinated set of practices that support Agile Teams by providing a reliable series of events and activities that occur on a regular, predictable schedule. Agile Team and Agile Release Train Cadences. Release on Demand.

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Troubleshooting in Lean-Agile Development

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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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11 Proven Stakeholder Communication Tactics

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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. Scrum Events. The two formal Scrum events that come to mind are: Sprint Reviews. Sprint Reviews are a zone free from death by PowerPoint.