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How to Set and Achieve Effective Sprint Goals

Scrum.org

Final Transition and Decommissioning Sprint Goal - "By the end of this sprint, all remaining applications will be fully migrated to the cloud, and on-premises infrastructure will be decommissioned." Final Transition and Decommissioning - KR12: Fully migrate all remaining applications to the cloud and decommission on-premises infrastructure.

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7 tips for setting more effective goals

Scrum.org

For example, an infrastructure team might set a goal to reduce turn-around time for internal customer requests. Conflict ensues because the infrastructure team sees “in-progress” work requests sitting too long as a threat to their goal achievement. 6: Establish a cadence to inspect and adapt different goals .

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Half Agile Isn’t Real Transformation

Leading Agile

Tech Infrastructure != I’m including all IT resources “in front of” the API layer in the organization’s technical infrastructure. Dividing your transformation initiative along the seams of the technical infrastructure will often be a suboptimal approach. Value Stream. Half-Agile Transformations.

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Are These DevOps Obstacles Getting in the Way of Your Agile Transformation?

Leading Agile

But as companies scale, as the market shifts and more parts of the business become software-focused, there’s been an increase in demand for an end-to-end solution to help large organizations build infrastructure around sound technical practices. Different change cadences. Dealing with Packaged Software The first one, it came up, right?

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Agile Still Works

Scrum.org

Getting infrastructure and remote working tools is a good start. How can we find the right cadence for collaboration and when should we collaborate? Under such tremendous turbulence, organisations need dependable ways of working. Technology alone won’t solve the problem. Classical approaches aren’t enough. . Roll out Zoom?

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Avoid Best Effort Mentality AND Get the Agile Culture You Want

Leading Agile

And we can have multiple teams that are integrated in such a way that they produce integrated deliverables on regular cadences and where we have our portfolio items that actually move through our portfolio at a predictable rate. And ultimately that enable us to inspect and adapt and market and achieve our business goals.

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Do We Need Risk Management in Agile Projects?

MPUG

However, its biggest practical impact will be the risk management processes and infrastructure the organization imposes on its projects. 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.