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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?

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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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Over my 15 years of experience with Scrum, I’ve observed velocity-driven and capacity-driven sprint planning as our ways of working when we figure out the amount of work the development team can take during a sprint. Please note I am not talking about the number of story points per unit of time.

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Does Your Team Produce ‘Bugs’?

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In the same way, the labels we apply in work environments, the language we use, can help teams conquer complexity. 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.

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Product Owner Anti-Patterns — 31+2 Ways to Improve as a PO

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Hence, if you recognize some anti-patterns in your daily work, why don’t you ask the rest of the Scrum Team for support? The Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of the product resulting from work of the Development Team.” Remember: user story creation is a team exercise.).

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28 Product Backlog Anti-Patterns

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Scrum is a simple, yet sufficient framework to build emerging products, provided you identify in advance what is worth building. This is an ongoing process in which the Product Owner and the Development Team collaborate on the details of Product Backlog items. During Product Backlog refinement, items are reviewed and revised.

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?? Product Owner Interview Guide: PO Anti-Patterns

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This latest update to the interview guide addresses Product Owner anti-patterns from Product Backlog management and refinement to the Sprint Review. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 33,000-plus subscribers. ?? How this is done may vary widely across organizations, Scrum Teams, and individuals.