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Moving Beyond Velocity

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In my role as an Agile coach and Scrum trainer, I get the chance to talk to a lot of Scrum Masters and teams. When I ask them about what their team is measuring, the most common answers I hear are velocity, story points, and burn-down charts. What about business value metrics, I ask? Team health? And that's important!

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The Sprint Planning Checklist

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How dare you: Agile is a mindset, not a methodology. There is no one-size-fits-all approach, and what else could you possibly cover with a checklist, the mother of all standardized processes? Then sign up for the Food for Agile Thought newsletter and join 27k other subscribers. TL; DR: Scrum Sprint Planning Checklist.

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Throughput-driven sprint planning

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I’ll use the definition of throughput as defined in the Kanban guide for Scrum teams : Throughput: The number of work items finished per unit of time. Please note I am not talking about the number of story points per unit of time. Having defined throughput, let’s imagine a Scrum team running on 2-week sprints.

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Does Your Team Produce ‘Bugs’?

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James Shore wrote succinctly on this topic in The Art of Agile Development. James Shore wrote succinctly on this topic in The Art of Agile Development. This article is the story of such a discovery. I met with my colleague, Ryan Kent , to discover his experience with Buggy Definitions (his term) in his environment.

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Product Backlog Refinement: How to Succeed as a Scrum Team

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Consequently, refinement is about creating alignment among all team members about the Why, the What, the How, and probably even the Who regarding the upcoming work for the Scrum team’s Product Goal. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 35,000-plus subscribers. ?? Source : Scrum Guide 2020.

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27 Product Backlog and Refinement Anti-Patterns

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Scrum is a tactical framework to build products, provided you identify what is worth making in advance. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 35,000-plus subscribers. ?? TL; DR: 27 Product Backlog and Refinement Anti-Patterns. The Product Backlog According to the Scrum Guide.

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The Big Picture with Story Map in Agile Development

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“I keep six honest serving-men, They taught me all I knew, Their names are What and Why and When, And How and Where and Who. Long ago, in my childhood days, I was introduced to the fascinating world of poetry by my father, who brought a variety of poems and stories from writers and authors around the world to me. Story Map Definition.

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