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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Leading Agile

APRIL 7, 2023

I wasn’t around when things like XP and Scrum were invented, but I have been lucky enough to spend time with many of the original signers of the Manifesto. That having weekly planning cadences; daily standups, reviews, and retrospectives would give people a reason to get in the same room and collaborate. Why is it so difficult?

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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. 1 – Planning. But at the same time, they are not onerous.

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Leading Agile

JULY 18, 2023

If not, then we start measuring things like people trained, teams doing Scrum, or the organization’s sentiment toward Agile to tell us if we’re succeeding. Third, how are we reproducing working tests in software? What is the acceptance criteria for Scrum? Agile needs to be tied to business-driven results.

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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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Leading Agile

JULY 3, 2023

As more and more companies scramble to untangle the code of their monolithic legacy software and get it into the cloud, strategic priorities are shifting. 10 years ago, it seemed that a little Scrum here and some coaching there would suffice. I used to run a company that developed unit testing software.

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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.org

JULY 31, 2023

To realize this ambition, a transformation was initiated that aimed at implementing a uniform agile way of working with independent, integrally responsible customer journey teams. They did not have the skills or authorization to make software and configuration changes in the banking systems. A huge amount of time was wasted waiting.

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Agilemania

JANUARY 24, 2022

The Agile approaches such as Scrum framework, DSDM, Kanban, Extreme Programming (XP) provide rules, practices, and guidelines to build products and solutions using the Agile values and principles. . Most organizations started their Agile journey with one of the frameworks mentioned above, and Scrum is the most popular one.

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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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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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Henny Portman

JULY 26, 2020

Furthermore, neither agile or scrum contemplates how the agile team should be connected to a larger organization and to external partners who will likely have differing development processes and cadences. It puts the focus on the software and the related business processes in a powerful way by using different scenarios.

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Agilemania

MAY 17, 2021

The organizations start with few teams initially, and it is easier to follow simple & lightweight frameworks like Scrum or Kanban at this stage. Help teams navigate agile tools and software. The most important skills for an agile coach include: Strong understanding of Scrum and Kanban. Scrum@Scale.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 4, 2023

The Scaled Agile Framework wasn’t exactly what the authors of the Agile Manifesto imagined 20 years ago when they set out to define a better way of building software. It requires the ability to continuously deploy software, to continuously get feedback on it. That’s typically Scrum. And that’s the problem with SAFe.

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The groundwork for SAFe was formed in 4 knowledge areas – agile software development, lean product development, systems thinking, and DevOps. SAFe contains a combination of principles, processes, and best practices that help large organizations in easy adoption of agile frameworks including Lean, Kanban, and Scrum. LeSS is Scrum.

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Digite

JANUARY 2, 2017

Since the arrival of Scaled Agile Framework in the world market, there have been comparisons ad nauseum between the Scrum and SAFe frameworks. Those who have undergone any initiation to SAFe would confirm that at Team level, SAFe works very much like standard Scrum, although the teams can also work in Kanban.

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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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Agilemania

MAY 17, 2021

The organizations start with few teams initially, and it is easier to follow simple & lightweight frameworks like Scrum or Kanban at this stage. Help teams navigate agile tools and software. The most important skills for an agile coach include: Strong understanding of Scrum and Kanban. Scrum@Scale.

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Planio

JULY 4, 2022

Daily scrum 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. What are Agile ceremonies?

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Leading Agile

MAY 12, 2020

Here are some fun facts: The first company founded to provide software products and services was Computer Usage Company in 1955. It takes more than a few Scrum teams to solve the Transformation puzzle. Teams delivering on a predictable cadence earn the trust of the business. It involves more than just IT.

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 2, 2021

SAFe endorses alignment, transparency, collaboration, and product delivery involving large size teams.The core of SAFe is based on four bodies of knowledge which are agile software development, lean product development, systems thinking, and DevOps. Apply cadence and synchronize with cross-domain planning. Take an economic view.

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Redbooth

APRIL 26, 2018

The model has been favored by software engineers for its efficacy and flexibility, and it’s beginning to catch on in agencies and startups. Borrowing from Scrum methodology, an agile team has three main roles : Product Owner : An executive or key stakeholder who leads the project with vision. The 3 main roles of an Agile team.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 9, 2022

Business does not understand the complexity of software development or engineering work. Just initiate. initiative comes from your employees, support them by actions. I found it useful when I initiate the conversation, trying simultaneously to empathize and understand. Remember about cadences. It may happen that.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 13, 2018

Technical teams who are building or supporting application software usually work from a prioritized list of improvements, new features, and ideas to try out. Scrum calls the list the Product Backlog.) ” In the Old Days, the expectation was that building software was just like building anything else.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 19, 2020

They did a great job of getting the message out Scrum and the Scrum certification did a great job of getting the message out. Does it mean that we start Doing Scrum, right? Those are the things that get in the way of making Scrum not work in a lot of organizations. That was kind of the hypothesis.

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Leading Agile

JANUARY 21, 2021

And what that means to us is not just teaching people how to do agile or how to do kind of methodologies in this space like say for Scrum or what have you but really like how to create the kinds of organizations that really can do agile really well and really effectively at scale. They’re not thinking often about like team level Scrum.

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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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Leading Agile

JUNE 29, 2023

Old ways of working won’t solve it, and simply implementing practices like Scrum, DevOps, FinOps, or ProOps are not sufficient to create the organizations we need for the changes we must make. Executives aren’t solely focused on delivering software to customers. We agree with that, don’t we?

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Planio

AUGUST 1, 2022

For most development teams and startups, ‘becoming Agile’ starts and ends with how you build software. This means embracing an iterative and customer-centric focus on all levels of the business, from how you build software to how you organize and run your customer support team, performance reviews, and growth strategies.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2023

When I first started thinking through this idea, I was actually really thinking about the idea of practices because back in 2010, a little bit earlier than that, Jim Kundiff, the Scrum Alliance, and those guys were really popularizing the CSM certification, PMI was doing the PMI ACP or a lot of us were part of that. So think about scrum.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

It’s time now to move forward to the next level of proficiency in software delivery; what we might call “post-Agile.” Zombie Scrum describes the impact on delivery teams. Today, some of the same principles seem to present impediments or unnecessary challenges for many teams and organizations. What has changed?

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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2020

You get super clear backlogs, you find out what the real cadences you’ve finished work that you start. So, also about the time that you and I met you were doing some work with PMI and the OPM three initiative? And I was working at version one at the time and so like I’m like all in like, not like team level scrum.

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Digite

MARCH 2, 2018

From the questioner’s post, it is not clear if their team is doing production support or software/ app dev. We do product releases every 4-6 weeks, and these get deloyed to our SaaS servers – that cadence is well established. What is the business context? Support, SLAs, Meeting Market Requirements. This is a loss to the company.

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Digite

MARCH 2, 2018

From the questioner’s post, it is not clear if their team is doing production support or software/ app dev. We do product releases every 4-6 weeks, and these get deployed to our SaaS servers – that cadence is well established. What is the business context? Support, SLAs, Meeting Market Requirements. This is a loss to the company.

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

The agile approach is usually used in software projects where the scope is not always known and adaptability is prioritized. Projects might additional calendars as well to show resource availability, communication cadence, etc. Completion Date: The estimated date for the project's end, based on initial planning and current progress.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Here's a collection of presentations, briefings, papers, essays, book content used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've written and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems and other domains. Agile Software Development (#ASD). Enterprise IT and Embedded Systems (#EIT).

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MPUG

OCTOBER 16, 2019

You’re going to see this coming out at a very fast cadence. Remember if we talk about Scrum, we talk about chickens and pigs and the ability to, Hey look, you’ve got to listen on the sidelines, the team needs to come up with that and then they’ll engage you as they need to. It could start at a high level.

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