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“Agile Is Just for Software” and other Scrum Myths

Scrum.org

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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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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Event Series: Practical Kanban with MS Project Agile

MPUG

The delivery is based on a cadence. Now, the MS Project Agile software allows both Scrum and Kanban. Are there any specific Kanban events and can they be used with MS Project Agile? With it, the software design looks to be more streamlined. same sized boxes). Is there any other backlog needed?

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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.

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

Scrum.org

CADENCE & RELIABILITY. CADENCE: What was the sprint cadence you folks started off with? What was sustainable cadence after improvements? In addition to all 5 scrum events, we added a pre-planning meeting at the halfway mark of the sprint to look ahead at the next sprint. UAT is part of DOD. .

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Minimal measures for minimal stability in a complex environment

Scrum.org

Product development is the subset of complex problem domains where Scrum took root first; by explicitly acknowledging software and new product development to be complex work, serving to deliver complex products in complex circumstances. Benefit from the consistency that the Scrum events provide without industrializing your Scrum to death.

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How Agile Practices Enable Remote Working

Scrum.org

The following five simple events derived from Scrum offer leaders and managers a way of regularly checking-in with their teams, always being present for them without falling into the pitfalls of micro-management. We know Agile is not just for software teams. For leaders, these events facilitate the ability to support your teams.

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