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5 Tips for Making a Retrospective Meeting More Productive

NimbleWork

A retrospective meeting, often associated with agile methodologies like scrum and kanban , is a crucial opportunity for a team to reflect on their recent work and identify areas for improvement. Retrospectives should ideally be done at a regular cadence. However, what happens if your team does not find them engaging or useful.

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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

The Scrum Guide calls sprints the heart of Scrum as these time boxes set the cadence for all other events. It should also reduce bad surprises and the need for traditional status meetings. But to know if the Scrum heart is healthy we could track achievement of goals and value delivered sprint-over-sprint.

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Unlocking the Power and Mastery of Development Approach and Life Cycle

Project Pulse Journal

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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5  misconceptions about Scrum's Sprint Event

Scrum.org

The duration of the Sprint is timeboxed to a maximum of one month, establishing a cadence within which the Scrum team works together to deliver value. Wouldn’t you want to meet with stakeholders more often at the Sprint Review to get feedback? According to the 2020 Scrum Guide, the Sprint is the “heartbeat” of Scrum. Conclusion.

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Minimal measures for minimal stability in a complex environment

Scrum.org

No sustainable agility is achieved. Teams should not be all over the place in terms of getting dragged to external meetings regularly or having to work in multiple teams or on multiple projects. People dare not speak up or need to move to separate meeting rooms to do so. It requires dedication. Originally published at [link].

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The Three — Wait: Four — Elements of Empiricism

Scrum.org

To help with inspection, Scrum provides cadence in the form of its five events.”. I also recommend avoiding extending sprint length in a futile effort to save on “meeting overhead” to prevent decoupling from the market. Inspection enables adaptation. Inspection without adaptation is considered pointless. Source : Scrum Guide 2020.

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