Henny Portman

MARCH 15, 2019

ambler and Mark Lines are the creators of the Disciplined Agile Delivery framework and the authors of the book Introduction to Disciplined Agile Delivery – a small Agile Team’s journey from Scrum to Disciplined DevOps ( 2 nd edition). Scrum offers only a development cycle. Every iteration starts with an iteration planning cycle.

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Technical Review Agile Lean Cadence 53

Leading Agile

JULY 3, 2023

10 years ago, it seemed that a little Scrum here and some coaching there would suffice. 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.

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Software Review Fractional CTO Technical Review Agile 124

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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Agilemania

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Apply cadence and synchronize with cross-domain planning. Facilitate cross-domain planning: Team planning is a major challenge that organizations grapple with. SAFe offers a solution in the form of PI planning. In the Scaled Agile Framework, every team member works diligently. Decentralize decision making.

Technical Review 98

Technical Review Agile Software Review Lean 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. These five events from Scrum strongly support a decentralised command approach. #1 1 – Planning. 4 – The Review.

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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. Large corporations in particular, which are in urgent need of more agility due to entrenched structures, usually have the hardest time implementing an agile transformation. But it’s not that easy.

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Agile project management is a stripped-down version of ‘traditional’ project management that takes different approaches to planning and managing change. As you’d expect, risk management is more adaptive and emergent in agile projects, compared to traditional, plan-driven projects. Rapid development in the technology available.

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Risk Management Risk Agile Technical Review 98

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 2, 2018

If you’re also an experienced Scrum practitioner, you probably associate the time you started to use Scrum with the time you started to release more frequently. Transcending Scrum and the Increment? Before you recycle your copies of the Scrum Guide – can I ask you a couple of questions though? You were pretty proud.

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Cadence Development Team Review Software Review Technical Review 133

Scrum.org

MAY 14, 2020

Technology alone won’t solve the problem. When nothing changes, we can anticipate what will happen and create the perfect plan with the right milestones to successfully deliver. Standard planning and management approaches don’t work in such environments. We are Scrum practitioners. Classical approaches aren’t enough. .

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 2, 2018

If you’re also an experienced Scrum practitioner, you probably associate the time you started to use Scrum with the time you started to release more frequently. Transcending Scrum and the Sprint Increment? Before you recycle your copies of the Scrum Guide – can I ask you a couple of questions though?

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Cadence Development Team Review Software Review Technical Review 126

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. The caller will say something like, “We’ve adopted Scrum, SAFe, or LeSS, but we’re not getting the desired business benefits from it.”

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Leading Agile

JULY 28, 2022

From a process perspective, like in Scrum, the product owner brings the backlog to the Scrum team, and they accept the work into their sprint. They can negotiate the amount of work they accept into their sprint during sprint planning based on their team’s past velocity. Getting to a Definition of Done.

Agile 125

Agile Technical Review Cadence Software Review 125

Agilemania

DECEMBER 13, 2021

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. Work happens in small planned batches so that problems can be resolved quickly. Apply cadence and synchronize with cross-domain planning.

Agile 98

Agile Lean Software Review Technical Review 98

Planio

JULY 4, 2022

Even in the depths of the most complex projects, regular check-ins, moments for self-reflection, and planning sessions can help illuminate the path ahead. Sprint planning ceremony. Daily scrum ceremony. Sprint review ceremony. Then, based on user feedback, usage data, and self-reflection, they plan their next sprint.

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Agile Technical Review Development Team Review Software Review 88

MPUG

MARCH 8, 2021

pull system, just-in-time planning, flow, visualization, waste elimination, error-proofing, and small batch-size, among others). An example of this type can be the Scrum framework. It’s usually based on a cadence. When you fire a gun in the dark, it’s difficult to aim due to the lack of light. Flow-based Lean-Agile.

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Lean Software Review Technical Review Agile 64

Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The Assumptions of Scrum. So, what does Scrum say about dependencies? And if you look at the way that Scrum is architected, you’ll notice that it assumes a lot, including that each team: Consists of six to eight people. Owns its technology stack. The Reality of Scrum. Focuses on a particular business problem.

Agile 125

Agile Technical Review SCRUM Cadence 125

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.

Software Review 143

Software Review Technical Review Cadence SCRUM 143

Agilemania

JANUARY 19, 2022

It would be better if you could get someone knowledgeable to review it. Review all the answers before submitting. Cadence synchronize with crossdomain planning. Establishing team and technical agility (3%). PI Planning. Innovation and Planning Iteration. Write the exam by keeping the time in mind.

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Certification Lean Technical Review Consulting 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

Scrum.org

JANUARY 30, 2023

This article is another excursion into this nascent yet fascinating new technology of generative AI and LLMs and the future of knowledge work. If technology can pass a Wharton MBA exam , maybe, it deserves some attention. Professional Scrum Master Training w/ PSM I Certificate — Live Virtual Class: February 7-10, 2023.

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ChatGPT Agile Artificial Inteligence Consulting 179

MPUG

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

An Agile PMO is useful when an organization is doing a transition to an Agile approach, and particularly can play a crucial role if the organization is planning to undergo an Agile transformation. For example, the PMO is responsible for providing the template for use story or the template for Product Review/Demonstration.

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Agile PMO Technical Review Cadence 94

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

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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Agile Technical Review Governance Government 62

MPUG

JUNE 28, 2021

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US, notes in its web-archives that Odissi is two to three thousand years old. Now, you might be thinking what exactly a dance has to do with cadence in Agile? Let’s start first with the definition of cadence. Cadence – Definition and Basics. Working with Single Cadence.

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Cadence Agile Technical Review SCRUM 115

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.) They have a plan for completing the items on the list. Things don’t always proceed as planned. People make mistakes.

Software Review 98

Software Review Technical Review Cadence SCRUM 98

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. We can make our bottom box bigger with some technologies and some expertise, some experience. So Scrum kind of tries to address that a little bit.

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Agile Underperforming Technical Team Cadence SCRUM 62

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. Your single best investment to improve your professional standing ; order the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now! ? Source : Scrum Guide 2020.

Technical Review 156

Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Software Review 156

Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2020

– I was working in my office down in technology Parkway. You get super clear backlogs, you find out what the real cadences you’ve finished work that you start. And it’s not always get better the technology get better the processes, it’s get better producing the outcome. And BPR was about the technology.

Agile 71

Agile Technical Review SCRUM Engineering 71

Scrum.org

MAY 24, 2022

One of the first things that I usually hear after describing the Scrum framework and its five events to someone new to Scrum is, “that’s a lot of meetings!” . . The Sprint Planning meeting happens just once per Sprint, and the same goes for the Review and Retrospective events. The first event in Scrum is the Sprint.

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SCRUM Technical Review Cadence 2020 181

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. Join Stefan in one of his upcoming Professional Scrum training classes ! Source : Scrum Guide 2020.

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SCRUM Technical Review Software Review Consulting 154

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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Sustainability Agile SCRUM Technical Review 111

Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2021

Many organisations wrestle with the seeming incompatibility between agile and release management, and they struggle with release planning and predictable delivery. Updated to reflect the 2020 Scrum Guide! Without a regular cadence of delivery of working software any belief that you will get a usable increment is misguided at best.

Software Review 228

Software Review Technical Review Planning Manufacturing 228

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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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

DECEMBER 7, 2020

TL;DR: The Scrum Product Owner in 58 Theses. They cover the concept of the Product Owner role, product discovery, how to deal with external and internal stakeholders, product portfolio and product roadmap planning, and the Product Backlog refinement. The Product Owner is also the most vulnerable Scrum role.

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Technical Review SCRUM Estimate Cadence 201

Scrum.org

MAY 20, 2020

My fellow PST, Glaudia Califano, and I were sitting in a café (at a time prior to the current lockdown due to Covid-19), having agreed to meet up with a Business Analyst who had reached out to us to have a chat about Scrum and Agile. Our problem is that we can’t plan Sprints accurately with velocity,” he said.

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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. Same for XP.

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