Digite

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

The questioner asked – “I have recently joined a company and to one of the projects that I’m engaged we have this Scrum team that has a mixed backlog (USs and Bugs). This team’s goal is to be fixing urgent bugs and when they aren’t (doesn’t happen that often :)) they should work on the product increment.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 20, 2023

Empowering your teams isn’t about allowing them to make decisions in a vacuum and giving them free rein to do whatever they want. The days of providing a little guidance here, some methodology there, and letting the teams self-organize their way to success are behind us. What does it mean to empower teams?

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Agilemania

MARCH 23, 2021

Most of us started our Agile journey with one framework, and that is Scrum. Scrum is simple to understand with some immutable principles & guidelines. It is a lightweight framework suitable for small self-managed teams. For a long period, our idea of Agile was only Scrum. That’s when SAFe came to the party.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 30, 2023

Professional Scrum Master Training w/ PSM I Certificate — Live Virtual Class: February 7-10, 2023. How to Create ChatGPT Prompts Generally, ChatGPT prompts comprise several elements: I define in what capacity ChatGPT shall interact with the prompts; for example, as a Scrum Master.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 21, 2020

Like many Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches and Agile Managers, I am beginning to understand organizations are complex adaptive systems. One of the powerful properties of Scrum is that it makes a very clear distinction in roles, events and artifacts. Let’s look at a Scrum example. Imagine we observe a poorly functioning team.

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Agilemania

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Teams can build products faster and more efficiently by utilizing agile methodologies from the Product Management perspective. Many agile teams can benefit from SAFe®’s alignment, collaboration, and delivery strategies. It enhances the product quality delivered by the team. Now the question arises “How does this happen?”.

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Project Management Essentials

AUGUST 3, 2019

Experienced agile coaches and practitioners develop a sixth-sense. They can quickly assess the health of an agile project or team just as doctors do with their patients. In 2013, Mike Cohn coined the term scrum smells to describe the signs that a scrum team is in trouble. What are the team dynamics?

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International Institute for Learning

MAY 16, 2022

Larkland is participating in the panel on Agile at Large Organizations at IIL’s 2022 Agile & Scrum Online Conference. Given the importance of innovation, as Agile Coaches and Change Agents, our mission is to advocate for dedicated cadence and timebox for promoting innovation and a continuous learning culture.

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Velociteach

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

We should not blame Agile for bad Agile. Agile teams are empowered and collaborative. They provide the structure and practices to guide the teams. High-performing agile teams are characterized by the following: Psychological Safety. Team members are empowered. We developed our own lightweight practices.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

More often than not in kind of either the IT product development space or IT services space. We like to consider ourselves kind of a full stack consultancy in the sense that you know, obviously, you have to deal with the work surface levels and what the teams are doing but you know, how do you orchestrate teams across dependency boundaries?

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Digite

MARCH 2, 2018

My team is using Kanban board but they seem to prefer to collate a couple of tickets then ‘do a release’ as appose to releasing each ticket. This is absolutely true – and reflects the realities of business of different organizations or teams – and their customers, both internal and external. What is the business context?

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Herding Cats

MARCH 7, 2016

This is not to say those 5 developers sitting around the table with the Product Owner and the Scrum Master are not working on vitally important code. Cadence Release - when a fixed period ends, go with what is ready to go. Cadence Release - when a fixed period ends, go with what is ready to go.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 25, 2022

TL; DR: Scrum Master Anti-Patterns. Join Stefan in one of his upcoming Professional Scrum training classes ! Scrum’s Sprint Planning aims to align the Developers and the Product Owner on what to build next, delivering the highest possible value to customers. Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 11, 2024

TL; DR: Sprint Anti-Patterns Holding Your Teams Back Welcome to Sprint anti-patterns! This article covers the three Scrum accountabilities (formerly roles) and addresses interferences of stakeholders and IT/line management with this crucial Scrum event. Join Stefan in one of his upcoming Professional Scrum training classes !

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Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2023

We’re not talking about creating agile projects or agile teams. And then the idea is I’ve got my marketing team on the call with me right now. Without overcoming this, it is hard to make a case for Agile teams. A lot of agile folks want to ignore dependencies and believe the team will self-organize.

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Velociteach

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Learn from the intriguing parallels between a jazz ensemble and an effective project team. Leonard demonstrates that music and project management share common principles as he offers a unique perspective on fostering a high-performing project team through the integration of music, productivity, workplace culture, and neuroscience.

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Planio

JANUARY 11, 2021

It’s quickly becoming the ‘new normal’ for companies and teams to be split across cities, countries, and even time zones. And while there’s no denying the many benefits of working remotely , mismatched schedules, repetitive communication, and out-of-sync teams don’t make the list. Poor people management: Embrace your team’s nuances.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 29, 2023

It doesn’t mean they are bad. Agile is an incremental and iterative approach for developing software products. It’s typically best for small teams. The most common small team Agile methodologies are Scrum and XP, maybe Kanban, or a combination of the three. Scrum focuses more on management activities.

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Digite

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Continuing our theme of helping Agile teams understand the Kanban Method, so they can effectively adopt it for their improvement efforts, I am again honored to publish a guest article by another great friend of ours – Dave White. A question that I often get while speaking with people is: What is the difference between Kanban and Scrum?

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Scrum.org

APRIL 11, 2019

Intended audience: Scrum masters, Product owners, Managers and Agile coaches. The PO’s are then unsure what needs to be developed. For instance, a lead developer or architect prepares the work for sprints ahead, acting as a proxy between the teams and the PO’s, splitting the requirements in tasks per team.

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Digite

MARCH 2, 2018

My team is using Kanban board but they seem to prefer to collate a couple of tickets then ‘do a release’ as appose to releasing each ticket. This is absolutely true – and reflects the realities of the business of different organizations or teams – and their customers, both internal and external.

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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.

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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. And I was working at version one at the time and so like I’m like all in like, not like team level scrum. And that was about the time that I was starting to develop the teams backlogs, working testing software.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 27, 2020

The purpose of the Sprint Planning is to align the Development Team and the Product Owner on what to build next, delivering the highest possible value to customers. According to the Scrum Guide, the Sprint Planning answers two questions: “What can be delivered in the Increment resulting from the upcoming Sprint?”. “How

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Leading Agile

APRIL 7, 2023

As a community, we have developed a handful of team-based Agile approaches over the years; some of which we would consider scaled. 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. But here we are. Why is it so difficult?

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Leading Answers

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Demos  – Having the team demonstrate increments of functionality at the end of every iteration shows what the project has achieved to date. Instead, the team regularly surfaces from work to show where they are with progress and discuss what should come next. Information radiators can show any data the team wants to display.

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Planio

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Have you ever had one of those bad dreams where you keep making the same mistake over and over again? Now, what if that dream became your team’s reality? If you feel like your team keeps making the same mistakes over and over, they probably are. Agile teams made retrospectives popular, but they work for any team.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 14, 2021

The Nexus group of teams is very similar to the Agile Release Train (ART) construct. In both SAFe/Scrum it is a self-managing team of self-managed teams with a couple of key roles at the team of teams level. . Scrum theory emphasizes Empiricism and Self-management, coupled with Flow in recent years.

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Wrike

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

When it comes to managing teams and projects effectively, managers can choose from many project management frameworks and methodologies. The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is an Agile project management framework focused on flexibility, continuous iteration and improvement, and cross-functional collaboration between teams and stakeholders.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

With the release of the 2020 version of the Scrum Guide, we now have Product Goals but what are they? See the Professional Scrum Product Owner book for more details. Development teams and stakeholders can “see” how they connect. Focus means that a product team should only be pursuing a single goal at the time. .

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MPUG

MAY 18, 2022

Melanie here with team MPUG. He has 30 years as a new product development project management professional. His current specialty is creating and improving project management offices and developing project management talent by coaching, mentoring and training. You can get on Excel with teams and some other collaboration package.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 29, 2023

In fact, at conferences, we often talk about how managers are bad and executives are foolish people who want to derail the company. 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.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 17, 2021

And I was working for this VP that was like really super cool, is very into agile and we were coming up with really creative things for like team formation strategies and agile governance, all stuff. And then the process developed a point of view around kind of why companies were jacking it up. What do you organize those teams around?

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Today, some of the same principles seem to present impediments or unnecessary challenges for many teams and organizations. How can the same principle be a good idea in 2002 and a bad idea in 2019? Stable Team. Dedicated Team. Team Spaces. Survival is the best the teams can hope for. What has changed?

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

A project team might also go through an audit to ensure that there are no lapses in project management. Projects might additional calendars as well to show resource availability, communication cadence, etc. If you have an in-house design team, for instance, you can say that you have "design capability".

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Product Development (#ProdDev). Agile Software Development (#ASD). The following material comes from conferences, workshop, materials developed for clients. Chartering the Team , Chartering empowers team members, both individuals and collectively. Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM).

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PM That Works

MAY 9, 2020

I had a chance to join a mastermind with several of the john Maxwell team members. In short, his mission is to help teams and organizations become better, better in the sense of increased teamwork, increased flow, increased learning and increased passion about their mission. Now, there's a dozen or more for most of these.

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