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5  misconceptions about Scrum's Sprint Event

Scrum.org

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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Leadership Futures from the Next Generation: Adapting, Empowering, Thriving

The IIL Blog

The executives and leaders I collaborate with acknowledge that, in their contexts, large-scale transformation events are becoming less common. They are currently getting stifled by the bias of ‘we tried that, or we can’t do that’. They just want to have the ‘ladder held for them’, while they try. Reward experimentation and curiosity”.

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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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How effective are your agile ceremonies?

Kiron Bondale

Each agile framework provides its own ceremonies but given that Scrum is still the most commonly referenced one, let’s focus on that framework’s events. The Scrum Guide calls sprints the heart of Scrum as these time boxes set the cadence for all other events.

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The Three — Wait: Four — Elements of Empiricism

Scrum.org

Scrum combines four formal events for inspection and adaptation within a containing event, the Sprint. These events work because they implement the empirical Scrum pillars of transparency, inspection, and adaptation.”. To help with inspection, Scrum provides cadence in the form of its five events.”.

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Minimal measures for minimal stability in a complex environment

Scrum.org

No sustainable agility is achieved. One aspect of ‘complexity’ are the parameters, variables and events that influence an activity and its course. Benefit from the consistency that the Scrum events provide without industrializing your Scrum to death. It is why Sprints, as container events, have a fixed time-box.

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 Executive’s Guide To Large-Scale Agile Transformation & Sustaining An Adaptive Enterprise w/ Mike Cottmeyer

Leading Agile

The three systems include a System of Delivery, a System of Transformation, and a System of Sustainability. – [Announcer] This is Mike Cottmeyer’s talk from Agile Arizona, The Executive’s Guide to Large-Scale Agile Transformation and Sustaining an Adaptive Enterprise. And so sustainable business agility.