Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Every Scrum event has a maximum allowable time period to carry it out, called a timebox. There seems to be a misunderstanding about applying timeboxes in Scrum. While Scrum events have a maximum amount of time, they do not have a minimum amount of time. Scrum Event Timeboxes. The first event in Scrum is the Sprint itself.

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SCRUM Technical Review Cadence Lean 205

MPUG

DECEMBER 28, 2020

A new version of Scrum guide was released last month. It contains commitments for each of the Scrum artifacts. Product Goal also reflects one of the values of Scrum: “Focus.” Now, every artifact in Scrum comes with a commitment. The formal artifacts in Scrum are three: Product Backlog. Commitment based Artifacts.

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Cadence SCRUM 2020 Agile 116

Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

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. The Scrum Guide is explicit in stating that Scrum is a framework.

Software Review 128

Software Review SCRUM Underperforming Technical Team Cadence 128

Scrum.org

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The non-linear accumulation of technical debt A good example of this is from the Developer Division (DivDev) at Microsoft in developing a product called Team Foundation Server. This commercial product was built using traditional project management practices and delivered on a two-yearly cadence. upcoming professional Scrum classes.

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Underperforming Technical Team Risk 2012 Cadence 172

Scrum.org

MARCH 28, 2022

Welcome to the Sprint anti-patterns article from my series on Scrum anti-patterns, covering the three Scrum roles—pardon me: accountabilities—and addressing the contributions of stakeholders and the IT/line management. For example, could a month-long Sprint be too short for accomplishing something meaningful?

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SCRUM Technical Review Software Review Consulting 159

Project Bliss

JUNE 19, 2017

When my team first started holding a daily scrum meeting, it honestly felt awkward. From the lessons I’ve learned through experience, I’ve compiled nine best practices that have helped our daily scrum meetings stay focused and efficient. The Purpose of the Daily Scrum Meeting. We stumbled through our first few.

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SCRUM Cadence Agile Planning 243

The Strategic Project Manager

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The concepts of scrum are powerful in business, not only in software development but also in other areas. This post reviews the basics of agile scrum roles, ceremonies, and their impact on developing strategy and managing projects. Agile Scrum Roles. The scrum team has its origins in rugby, an ultimate team sport.

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SCRUM Agile Lean Cadence 98

Scrum.org

MARCH 11, 2024

This article covers the three Scrum accountabilities (formerly roles) and addresses interferences of stakeholders and IT/line management with this crucial Scrum event. For example, could a month-long Sprint be too short for accomplishing something meaningful? Source : Scrum Guide 2020.

Technical Review 161

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Software Review 161

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

SAFe includes Scrum - so how come many Scrum practitioners and thought leaders consider it unsafe? It takes advantage of established frameworks and techniques that work well - Scrum being the first and foremost of those. SAFe's Scrum Master is more of an Agile Team Lead. I hear a lot of questions and claims.

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SCRUM Development Team Review Technical Review Cadence 137

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. Real-World Example of Right Sizing: Take a software development project. Ideal size comes into play with work items being too BIG and too SMALL.

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Cadence Estimate Agile Software Developers 229

Agilemania

DECEMBER 5, 2022

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. Scrum Master. Release on Demand.

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Cadence Agile Certification Lean 98

Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

In its theory section, the Scrum Guide refers to the three elements of empiricism: transparency, inspection, and adaptation. However, a fourth element, foundational to enable empiricism, is hidden in a sentence on Scrum Values. Read on and learn more about the complete picture of Scrum’s empiricism. ???? Empiricism.

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2020 2022 SCRUM Cadence 189

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Many teams grapple with the intricacies of Scrum, and one of the most pivotal components is the Sprint Goal. Thanks to our reviewers: Ralph Jocham | Scrum.org TLDR; The Sprint Goal is the heart of Scrum, representing the team's commitment to the value derived from the Sprint's outcome. Sprint Goal videos!

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Infrastructure Monitoring SCRUM Cadence 174

Scrum.org

APRIL 11, 2019

Intended audience: Scrum masters, Product owners, Managers and Agile coaches. I was successful with optimising for feature size that could be delivered in a two-sprint cadence. This approach is ideal to get a cadence from the influx of new features to done, closing the empirical process control loop from design to delivery.

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Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Development Team Review Software Review 142

Scrum.org

AUGUST 24, 2020

The Scrum Master tactics series are a series of articles in which I write about and explore contemporary techniques that will aid you in your journey as a Scrum Master. The tactics explained stem from my personal experience as a Scrum Master which I accumulated over the years in working with many different teams and contexts.

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SCRUM Development Team Review Cadence Initiating 187

Kiron Bondale

JULY 25, 2021

Whether a team uses a scheduled cadence for reviewing their WoW such as the use of retrospectives in Scrum, or they use a just-in-time approach they will come up with improvement ideas. For example, they might not have sufficient budget left to purchase a new tool. But what about changes to the team’s way of working (WoW)?

Software Review 207

Software Review Cadence Development Team Review Risk Management 207

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

SAFe includes Scrum - so how come many Scrum practitioners and thought leaders consider it unsafe? It takes advantage of established frameworks and techniques that work well - Scrum being the first and foremost of those. SAFe's Scrum Master is more of an Agile Team Lead. I hear a lot of questions and claims.

SCRUM 113

SCRUM Development Team Review Technical Review Cadence 113

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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Cadence SCRUM Lean Underperforming Technical Team 94

Scrum.org

MAY 4, 2023

By Lavaneesh Gautam , Professional Scrum Trainer Effective Stakeholder Engagement is key to the success of the product and one of the essential skills all product people should have. By Lavaneesh Gautam , Professional Scrum Trainer Question 1: What Message Do We Want To Provide? What should be the frequency of the message?

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Influencer Software Review Cadence SCRUM 188

Planio

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

7 unique sprint retrospective templates and examples to supercharge your meetings. In this guide, we cover the basics of what is a sprint retrospective, when it happens, and how to run one and then cover some of the best examples and ideas for running a successful one. Improvements to processes like your daily scrum.

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Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review SCRUM Risk Management 135

Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 8, 2024

This domain facilitates strategic alignment, optimized delivery cadence, methodology customization, increased flexibility, and improved risk management. The desire for a project management framework that sustains deliverability, supports the required cadence, and remains faithful to an adaptable methodology is now within reach.

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Underperforming Technical Team Cadence Development Team Review Technical Review 52

Wrike

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Safe Scrum is a framework that has gained significant popularity in recent years for enhancing team performance in an agile development methodology. By providing clear guidelines and principles, Safe Scrum enables teams to collaborate more effectively, communicate transparently, and ultimately deliver higher-quality projects.

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SCRUM Cadence Development Team Review Software Review 36

Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

Run a quick mental exercise: Try walking in your stakeholders’ shoes, and ask yourself: Would you entrust your career a bunch of hoodie-wearing nerds, promising a big reward because they are practicing XP and Scrum? Scrum Events. There are plenty of opportunities for stakeholders to interact responsibly with a Scrum Team.

Technical Review 189

Technical Review Software Review Development Team Review Cadence 189

Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2021

Updated to reflect the 2020 Scrum Guide! The 2020 Scrum Guide. If you can’t ship working software at least every 30 days then by its very definition, you are not yet doing Scrum. Either we are handed an existing product, or we are the team that built it and are switching to Scrum. Done Increments.

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Software Review Cadence Underperforming Technical Team 2020 230

Scrum.org

JANUARY 22, 2020

Scrum, in its more general definition, is a simple framework to help us address complex challenges. 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.

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Cadence SCRUM Software Review Technical Review 203

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

I often see User Experience (UX) Designers struggle to align focus, work, and approach with Scrum Teams building increments of product in iterations of 30 days or fewer. I'm trying to work side-by-side with the team, but I'm always a bit ahead of them, so what should we talk about in our Daily Scrum?". "I UX and Scrum: Better Together.

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SCRUM Cadence Influencer Initiating 129

Digite

MAY 15, 2018

This article is the fourth in a series of “Kanban and Scrum – Stronger Together”. In the most recent post in Steve Porter’s series, Yuval Yuret presents Scrum in a manner that is intended to educate Kanban teams. Values shouldn’t be expressed as goals like they are in the Scrum Guide. Disclaimer.

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Development Team Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM 93

Kiron Bondale

MAY 26, 2019

For those teams which use an iteration-based cadence for their delivery such as those who have implemented the Scrum framework there have multiple feedback loops to help them improve. Teams which don’t use feedback loops with their products and their processes should not consider themselves to be very agile.

Influencer 197

Influencer Cadence Agile Estimate 197

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Professional Scrum Product Owner, Jan 23-26, 2023, from 9 am to 1 pm EST. ?? Let Us Create Transparency—join 925-plus peers : Join the Anonymous Scrum Master Salary Report 2023. Delivering teams deliver on the market cadence. Any examples? Download the free Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide. The Agile Fluency® Model.

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Underperforming Technical Team Agile 2023 2022 188

Agilemania

MARCH 19, 2021

Scrum vs. Kanban is one of the most trending comparisons in the world of agile methodology! However, while Scrum and Kanban both have differences, their principles are the same. Both Kanban and Scrum will help you to build high-quality products and provide better services with less hassle. Scrum vs. Kanban: The Definitions.

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SCRUM Lean Software Review Cadence 98

Scrum.org

JANUARY 14, 2021

In both SAFe/Scrum it is a self-managing team of self-managed teams with a couple of key roles at the team of teams level. . Scrum theory emphasizes Empiricism and Self-management, coupled with Flow in recent years. Scrum theory emphasizes Empiricism and Self-management, coupled with Flow in recent years. Lean/Agile Leadership.

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Cadence Technical Review Development Team Review Lean 137

Scrum.org

MARCH 20, 2019

This question "What is the duration of a Sprint" is seemingly simple, but depending on the interviewing situation, company, interviewer, and their familiarity with Scrum you might need to give them more or less details and answer additional questions your answer might bring up. Scrum, But. Sprint Duration - Where Size Matters.

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SCRUM Cadence Consulting Risk Management 107

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Recently, I connected with Evan Cook, the founder of Head Down Heart Up (HDHU), a fitness and nutrition organization that has “The Perfect Fitness Framework,” which is a program based on Scrum, designed to simplify food and fitness. When did you start using Scrum, and why did you choose it as the model for the Perfect Fitness Framework?

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SCRUM Cadence 2018 Agile 119

Teamweek

APRIL 29, 2020

Right now, project managers are falling in love with Scrum and Kanban boards. If you are interested in using these systems, it’s worth spending time learning more about Kanban boards vs. If you are interested in using these systems, it’s worth spending time learning more about Kanban boards vs. Scrum boards. What Is Scrum?

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SCRUM Cadence Software Review Development Team Review 59

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.

Planning 217

Planning Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Cadence 217

Scrum.org

MARCH 14, 2023

In Scrum terms, this is about improving upon the Definition of Done. Delivering Other organizations require the minimal defects and high productivity that allows them to ship on cadence and receive the market boost that comes from consistently Delivering when the market demands. A good example here would be SAFe. So be aware.

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Agile Cadence Technical Review Development Team Review 200

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?

Technical Review 208

Technical Review SCRUM Cadence Estimate 208