MPUG

JANUARY 22, 2024

The team pulls a feature or work item from the backlog based on the available capacity, executes the work, and when complete, delivers the work incrementally. The delivery is based on a cadence. In each delivery, we have analysis, design, development, testing, and so on. The emphasis in Kanban is primarily on the flow of work.

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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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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2021

Creating an ecosystem where teams with the appropriate skills and resources are able to organize around a well-prioritized backlog to build working, tested product sounds simple but can quickly become mired in the nuances and details that manifest as all sorts of complexities in product development organizations.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Similarly, Thalia, the Muse of Comedy, reminds project managers of the importance of fostering a positive team culture and maintaining morale, even in challenging times. A compelling vision is a guiding light, motivating team members and aligning efforts towards a common goal. This is genuinely what diversity means.

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Bridge the Gap Consulting

MAY 16, 2023

However, I tell people that reporting is an opportunity to highlight the awesome work the team is doing and to also bring forth issues you need help with. Think of the readers as the team owners/general managers who want to know if you’re going to win the Super Bowl. These reports are for the PMO leader and the PMO team.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The teams at his company had well established cadences for their Scrum events; well-oiled Daily Scrums that are done within 15 minutes and result in transparency of what the team will do for the next 24-hours. The very best teams that I’ve worked with have gone beyond - while still keeping in place - the core elements of Scrum.

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Agilemania

MARCH 23, 2021

It is a lightweight framework suitable for small self-managed teams. When more and more organizations and teams adopted Agile, it required scaling in a big way. The entire organization had to be in the process, not just a few self-managed teams. For a long period, our idea of Agile was only Scrum.

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Leading Answers

JANUARY 16, 2021

This article explains what a risk-adjusted backlog is, why they are useful, how to create one and how teams work with them. ' In deciding which feature to develop first, those with the highest economic value are selected. I do not think the teams have been weak at threat avoidance. What is a Risk-Adjusted Backlog?

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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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International Institute for Learning

MAY 16, 2022

As we adopt a continuous planning cadence, the ability to manage uncertainty with incomplete data becomes much more tolerable because we know we will have the opportunity to inspect and adapt at more frequent intervals. Leaping over the Competition with Innovation. Under Tim Cook, Apple Inc.

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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? Outsourced Agile.

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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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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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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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Scrum.org

APRIL 21, 2020

We also see in the evolution of the Scrum guide how the distinctiveness has improved over time, for instance by dropping the term “team” in favor of “Scrum team” and “Development team”. Another example is how the Scrum guide separates activities from events: Events have a clear time-box, cadence, subject and participants.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 30, 2023

Build a strong and diverse change management team to lead the effort. This team should include members from different departments and levels within the organization. Develop a detailed plan for the change, including specific milestones and timelines. Anti-pattern: Managers may micromanage teams or make decisions on their behalf.

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Resource Guru

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Increase team knowledge and expertise Retaining clients for extended periods allows your team the opportunity to accumulate valuable, industry-specific knowledge and expertise. Agency processes: An established framework your team uses to complete high-quality work on time.

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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. Release Plans come in two flavors.

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Resource Guru

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The result tells you the percentage of time that your team spends on projects that actually bring in money. A high utilization rate means your team is focused and efficient. Billable hours: These are the hours your team spends on client projects. Billable hours directly contribute to revenue.

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Planio

MARCH 20, 2020

Maybe you think it’s too much work for the size of your team. Or that your team already knows how to communicate. In this guide, we’ll run through a simple process for creating a communication plan as well as provide templates and examples you can use with your own team. But why leave it up to chance? Here’s an example.

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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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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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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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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

MARCH 11, 2024

TL; DR: Sprint Anti-Patterns Holding Your Teams Back Welcome to Sprint anti-patterns! Besides working on accomplishing the Sprint Goal, a Scrum Team also allocates time to product discovery, aligning with stakeholders, and refining the Product Backlog. Moreover, I added some food for thought.

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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. Kanban focuses more on flow and less on teams and time-boxes.

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Planio

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Managing remote teams can feel a lot like playing chess. You can use all your experience and instincts to make the right moves and still have no idea if it made any impact (or even what your team is up to!). But they’re also the first things to get murky when your team goes remote. Now, that’s the bad news.

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Planio

MAY 9, 2022

And that’s a problem — especially on remote teams. Here’s everything I’ve learned about how to help remote teams collaborate and communicate effectively, openly, and honestly. How does it help teams collaborate? Why it’s so hard to build psychological safety on remote teams. Set ground rules for how teams interact.

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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. TL;DR; Your Developers are ultimately responsible for creating done increments of working software. Developers needs to decide what Done means within the organisational context and the product domain.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 22, 2018

Do you, or the teams you work with, feel pressure from stakeholders to say “yes” to everything they ask for? I often see advice from coaches that teams should learn to say “no” to stakeholders. I often see advice from coaches that teams should learn to say “no” to stakeholders.

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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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Scrum.org

APRIL 11, 2019

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. I advise to start finding one person to be the single Product Owner for all teams.

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Planio

MARCH 13, 2023

The top 3 format Free project status report template 11 steps to write a project status report your team will actually read 1. Build your report where your team works 2. Don’t be afraid of bad news 10. Primarily, your project loses visibility and coordination with team members and key stakeholders unsure of what’s happening.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 25, 2022

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. First, the Product Owner points to the team’s Product Goal and introduces the business objective of the upcoming Sprint. How this is done is at the sole discretion of the Developers.

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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. I also believe that the scope of the area under review primarily focused on the team. Introduction.

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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. Basically, the Development Team and the Product Owner adjust the previously discussed scope of the upcoming Sprint to the available capacity.

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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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