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. When are Sprint Goals crafted?

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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. Release on Demand.

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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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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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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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MPUG

MARCH 8, 2021

We also previously explored the differences between iterative and incremental development with an example. An example of this type can be the Scrum framework. It’s usually based on a cadence. An example is the Kanban method , which has its original roots in Lean manufacturing. Flow-based Lean-Agile.

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Lean Software Review Technical Review Agile 64

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 115

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.org

MAY 14, 2020

In an effort to curb productivity leakage, some managers are turning to software to monitor their people. People and Interactions over tools and software. Agile has been around for a while now, but many firms still see agility as a software development solution. We are Scrum practitioners. Agile isn’t just for software.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 14, 2023

In Scrum terms, this is about improving upon the Definition of Done. And in the 21st century for software development teams, this means realizing the paradigm of Continuous Delivery. We have reviewed those ideas in an article on Team Topologies and highlighted some serious drawbacks of such an org design. So be aware.

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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

MAY 27, 2021

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. 4 – The Review. 1 – Planning. 1 – Planning. 5 – The retrospective.

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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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Leading Agile

JULY 28, 2022

They depend on the software or product they produce and their audience or market. Improved Quality of Software or Product. And whether you are producing software or some other product, the process can be applied to many different contexts. For example: You have 1000 story points in the backlog. Cost Savings.

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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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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

As we will see, agile methods are, to a degree, a response to the kind of risks that software development projects face. What agile adds to this, therefore, is a distinct cadence of its own iterations or drawdowns of tasks into the Work in Progress part of the Kanban Board. This is the uncertainty of the end product.

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Risk Management Risk Agile Technical Review 98

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Scrum has proven to be an effective product delivery framework for all sorts of products. However, Scrum is equally well suited to build the wrong product efficiently as its Achilles heel has always been the product discovery part. How that is supposed to happen is nowhere described in the Scrum Guide.

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The Strategic Project Manager

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

To provide an initial taste of agile methods, consider the following list: Scrum – Scrum codifies the ‘pillars and values’ of transparency, inspection, and adaptation. This is most visibly implemented in sprints, with well-established scrum team roles. Scrum – Think about product development.

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Agile Software Review Cadence SCRUM 52

MPUG

DECEMBER 26, 2021

As I’ve explained in a previous article, flow-based Agile can benefit from cadences. In this article, I will begin an example scenario and illustrate how to build Burndown and Burnup charts using MS Project Agile. Scrum Project Scenario. Our current project is building a stock trading system using the Scrum framework.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 18, 2019

I have been hiring Scrum Masters lately. So far, I hired 2 Scrum Masters whose answer to the question didn’t have any of those metrics. Rarely do you hear Scrum practitioners bringing up Cycle Time, Lead Time, Throughput, Work Item Age. The software uses example data to show its capabilities – nice touch.

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Agile Cadence SCRUM Software Review 138

Inloox

JULY 1, 2021

In most cases, however, previous experience is based only on the small-scale use of Scrum or other agile methods in individual departments. What usually started in software development can now be extended to the entire company and thus, change the way people collaborate. But it’s not that easy.

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The Strategic Project Manager

JUNE 28, 2022

This post outlines the essentials of the agile scrum process. It then looks at implications of the agile scrum process for project management and strategy. A Basic Agile Scrum Process Diagram. The diagram above provides a basic structure for organizing a scrum process. Sprints set a cadence for the team.

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Process SCRUM Agile Cadence 40

Agilemania

FEBRUARY 22, 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 52

Scrum.org

MARCH 18, 2019

I have been hiring Scrum Masters lately. So far, I hired 2 Scrum Masters whose answer to the question didn’t have any of those metrics. Rarely do you hear Scrum practitioners bringing up Cycle Time, Lead Time, Throughput, Work Item Age. The software uses example data to show its capabilities – nice touch.

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Agile Cadence SCRUM Software Review 98

Gunther Verheyen

DECEMBER 20, 2019

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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SCRUM Cadence Software Review Technical Review 55

Planio

JULY 4, 2022

Daily scrum ceremony. Sprint review ceremony. Agile ceremonies — also known as Scrum ceremonies or just ‘events’ — are specific events that provide a structured framework for iterative software development processes. Agile is an umbrella term for different iterative and feedback-driven software development processes.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 24, 2019

Business agility is what organizations are looking for; agile software development may be one enabling factor in achieving it, but it isn’t the point of a transformation. Dividing your transformation initiative along the seams of the technical infrastructure will often be a suboptimal approach. Half-Agile Transformations.

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Technical Review Agile Infrastructure Cadence 118

Digite

JUNE 13, 2018

She also shows you how to design your first Kanban Board, with examples. Compared to Scrum, Kanban is a young work-management method. But, for teams that chafe under the strictures of the Scrum process, Kanban can be a freeing alternative. In fact, many Scrum teams use this type of visualization to manage their work.

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Agile Technical Review Cadence Software Review 110

Digite

MAY 26, 2017

Program Increments (PIs) provide a development timebox (default 10 weeks) that uses cadence and synchronization to facilitate planning, limiting WIP, provide for aggregation of value and assure consistent retrospectives. In the case of IT and software domain, that would mean working- software). An Example.

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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.

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Software Review 181

Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2021

In my last post about Professional software teams creating working software David Corbin made a good point. Updated to reflect the 2020 Scrum Guide! TL;DR; Your Developers are ultimately responsible for creating done increments of working software. The 2020 Scrum Guide. Done Increments. So what do you do?

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Leading Agile

APRIL 20, 2023

But I think I think it’s important we all know what just kind of Scrum, Agile, the whole world knows that if we have to escalate every decision, it just takes forever. Do we solve it by putting in specific practices in place like scrum of scrums or dependency boards or like that’s a set of practices.

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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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Project Management Essentials

AUGUST 3, 2019

In 2013, Mike Cohn coined the term scrum smells to describe the signs that a scrum team is in trouble. Scrum masters, agile coaches, and even team members can improve their teams’ performance by spotting these warning signs early and taking corrective actions. Who is the Scrum Master or Product Owner?

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Underperforming Technical Team Agile Technical Review Software Review 40

Digite

MARCH 2, 2018

Most corporate IT organizations, for example, cannot and do not accept product update releases from vendors more than once in 3 months or often even less frequently. From the questioner’s post, it is not clear if their team is doing production support or software/ app dev. What is the business context?

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Cadence Software 71

Digite

MARCH 2, 2018

Most corporate IT organizations, for example, cannot and do not accept product update releases from vendors more than once in 3 months or often even less frequently. From the questioner’s post, it is not clear if their team is doing production support or software/ app dev. What is the business context?

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Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Cadence Software 66

Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2023

But as I’m sure a lot of you guys have seen as a lot of people run around doing Scrum or SAFe or whatever, and they’re not actually achieving the goals of agility and you know what’s hard? It happened with RUP, it happens with SAFe, it happens with Scrum, it happens with everything. Is there a product owner?

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