Scrum.org

JANUARY 21, 2020

Students and clients ask us “Can Kanban and Scrum work together?” If you are talking about Kanban as a strategy for optimizing the flow of value through a process that uses a visual, work-in-progress limited pull system , then The Kanban Guide for Scrum Teams has some clear advice on how we make this happen. all the time.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 17, 2022

As project managers, it’s important that we know how to best support our development teams (and vice versa), especially in Agile environments. A lot of the points below relate to teams in Agile environments , but can apply to any type of project team. Elisa Cepale. Tasks are continually added during the project.

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Agile team A cross-functional group of individuals (e.g., Product Owner, Scrum Master, Development team members) who work collaboratively to deliver value in an Agile project. Benchmarking Identifying a project performance indicator or practice, then assessing it against industry standards or best practices.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

One thing that every team has had in common is that, at one time, they were new to Scrum. When I engage with teams to discuss implementing the Scrum framework, they often raise potential impediments to adopting Scrum. Below are the five most common objections to Scrum and why they don’t hold any weight. .

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SCRUM Software Review Lean Leadership 206

Scrum.org

DECEMBER 25, 2018

A few days back I did a Scrum Tapas Video explaining what are few of the rules within Scrum. Besides these rules, there are also certain guidelines which help the Scrum Teams to make the best possible use of Scrum framework to create maximum Business Impact. The impact of it would vary based on team context.

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Agilemania

MARCH 14, 2023

The Definition of Done is the most crucial aspect for the team to be able to build shippable increments of any product. A team’s definition of done helps them continuously add value to the product. One way to think about the definition of done, is as a checklist that helps us guarantee the quality of the product.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

In the "Scrum from the trenches" blog post series I like to address topics that I encounter in practicing Scrum in the real world, with real Scrum Teams. In the previous "Scrum from the trenches"-blog I talked about the Sprint Goal. During Product Backlog refinement, items are reviewed and revised.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

"The Development Team consists of professionals who do the work of delivering a potentially releasable Increment of "Done" product at the end of each Sprint." - The Scrum Guide. The Scrum Guide is markedly ambitious in the standard of professionalism it demands of a team. There can be many underlying causes.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

TL; DR: ChatGPT Product Owner Job Interview A few weeks ago, I ran a simulated job interview with ChatGPT for a fictitious Scrum Master position. Admittedly, I would not have invited this “interviewee” for an interview with other team members; however, the interview produced some remarkable answers.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 16, 2024

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM Embarking on project estimations can often feel complex - where the path forward is unclear, and the potential for missteps is high. This is where the concept of T-shirt sizing shines as a simple estimation technique. What is T-shirt Sizing?

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MPUG

JUNE 23, 2023

Please find highlights from Satya Narayan Dash’s webinar – Practical Scrum Using MS Project Agile – being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content.

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SCRUM Agile Development Team Review Technical Review 59

Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2021

Most Scrum Teams that I encounter don’t do refinement of their Product Backlog and try to work on things that they don’t understand correctly. Updated to reflect the 2020 Scrum Guide! Updated to reflect the 2020 Scrum Guide! Although the Scrum Guide does not define Refinement as an event, you should be doing it.

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2020 Technical Review Development Team Review SCRUM 240

Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

In Scrum classes we often ask the attendees to draw a picture of the Scrum framework, in order learn what their current understanding of the framework is. But they also bring forward many related elements that are important or even indispensable to support the Scrum framework, but are not roles, artifacts nor events.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

During the last year and a half, I was working as a Scrum Master with a team that was working on a product with a history of about ten years. When I started working with the team, they finalized a platform migration and were still struggling with a lot of remaining work. The Scrum with Kanban Beta class.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

TL; DR: Scrum Product Owner Anti-Patterns. 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 Role of the Product Owner According to the Scrum Guide. Source : Scrum Guide 2017. You can sign up here and join 25k other subscribers.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

During the last one and a half year, I was working as a Scrum Master with a team that is working on a product with a history of about ten years. When I started working with the team, they finalized a platform migration and where still struggling with a lot of remaining work. The Scrum with Kanban Beta class.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 23, 2019

Scrum is a simple, yet sufficient framework to build emerging products, provided you identify in advance what is worth building. The following article points at 28 Product Backlog anti-patterns — including the Product Backlog refinement process — that limit your Scrum Team’s success. TL; DR: 28 Product Backlog Anti-Patterns.

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Development Team Review Technical Review SCRUM Estimate 173

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 18, 2019

As project managers, it’s important that we know how to best support our development teams (and vice versa), especially in Agile environments. By setting a common basis the team will have a clear focus to support the decision-making process , and ways to measure whether success is achieved. Elisa Cepale.

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Technical Review Development Team Review Risk Management Agile 394

Agilemania

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

And, the winner is Scrum. The survey revealed 66% of the organizations voted Scrum as the most sought-after Agile framework. Now, the question arises as to what Scrum is and why it is so popular, that it is an all-time favorite agile framework. What is Scrum? The benefits that Scrum provides are numerous.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2021

Updated to reflect the 2020 Scrum Guide! Any software that you create is an organisational asset and decisions to cut quality need to be reflected in your company accounts and as such those decisions need to made by your executive leadership and should not be made by Developers.

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Agilemania

MAY 5, 2021

In the agile or scrum framework, a burndown chart helps to recognize completed work by measuring the project completion rate. You can use the burndown chart in the stand-up meetings to get an idea about how your team is working in the current sprint. What is the Burndown Chart: The Definition. How Can You Read a Burndown Chart?

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SCRUM Development Team Review Agile Estimate 98

Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

In a fixed-time, fixed-cost, fixed-scope environment, time and cost estimates are often wrong and the pressure to deliver and get things into market faster intensifies. They thought that if they could just improve team-level communication or get better alignment across multiple delivery teams that they would begin to see improvements.

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Software Review Agile Development Team Review Governance 125

Scrum.org

JULY 29, 2019

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. Team health? What about business value metrics, I ask?

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review Software Review 144

Scrum.org

JUNE 23, 2019

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

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Development Team Review Technical Review SCRUM Estimate 163

Agilemania

MAY 5, 2021

In the agile or scrum framework, a burndown chart helps to recognize completed work by measuring the project completion rate. You can use the burndown chart in the stand-up meetings to get an idea about how your team is working in the current sprint. What is the Burndown Chart: The Definition. How Can You Read a Burndown Chart?

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SCRUM Development Team Review Agile Estimate 88

Planio

JULY 4, 2022

Agile ceremonies are the fuel that keeps your development team moving forward. Agile ceremonies get abandoned when teams stop seeing the value in them. Daily scrum ceremony. Sprint review ceremony. Daily scrum (or daily stand-up): These daily check-ups help teams stay on track and mark progress.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

They are derived from my fifteen years of practical experience with Scrum and XP, serving both as Product Owner and Scrum Master and interviewing dozens of Product Owner candidates on behalf of my clients. Join Stefan in one of his upcoming Professional Scrum training classes ! ?? Source : Scrum Guide 2020.

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Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Technical Review Development Team Review 189

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

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. Having defined throughput, let’s imagine a Scrum team running on 2-week sprints.

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Planning Development Team Review SCRUM Closing 159

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 11, 2019

The Sprint Review is running smoothly. The Sprint Retrospective allows the team to find 1 or 2 axes of improvement without revolutionizing the world. You observe that Sprint Planning becomes very delicate because you realize that you have great difficulties in estimating the actual working capacity of the development team.

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Planning Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review Software Review 143

Scrum.org

MARCH 14, 2023

After focusing, delivering goes – as a shift towards creating customer-facing self-managing teams. In Scrum terms, this is about improving upon the Definition of Done. And in the 21st century for software development teams, this means realizing the paradigm of Continuous Delivery. Not to get stuck in mediocrity.

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Agile Cadence Technical Review Development Team Review 201

NimbleWork

APRIL 11, 2024

Although there isn’t a single definitive origin, the concept evolved over time as project management practices advanced. This decomposition continues until the work packages are small enough to be easily understood, estimated, assigned, and monitored. Project managers can identify the resources (human, financial, material, etc.)

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Software Review Development Team Review Risk Management Defining 52

Agilemania

AUGUST 21, 2022

At the start of a sprint, the team brainstorms which tasks need to be completed and creates a plan of action. During the sprint, the team works on these tasks and updates the sprint issue accordingly. They help teams structure their workflow so that they can complete projects faster with higher quality results.

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Software Review Development Team Review SCRUM Estimate 98

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Now let’s have a look at how this benefits your team’s Sprint Planning event. A small reminder from the Scrum Guide: “The work to be performed in the Sprint is planned at the Sprint Planning. This plan is created by the collaborative work of the entire Scrum Team. On Monday morning, the Scrum Team is back.

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Planning Development Team Review Construction SCRUM 152

Planio

OCTOBER 19, 2021

And whether you’re a designer, developer, team lead, or administrator, your job requires many of the same skills that separate the best project managers: organization, effective collaboration, and being goal-oriented. Step 3: Talk to your team and create a project plan. Step 7: Estimate time and effort for each task.

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Technical Review Software Review Risk Management Estimate 199

Planio

MAY 22, 2023

Review your product backlog and rank features 5. Estimate the work and plan the release dates 6. The Scrum Master facilitates sprint planning, making it a collaborative process across the entire team. How to estimate the work required for a release: Estimating is often just informed guessing.

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Planning Agile Software Review Estimate 78

Scrum.org

JULY 10, 2018

Often I hear people say that Scrum does not take care of risk: there is no risk log, risk is not on the agenda of the Sprint Review or Retrospective as a standard agenda-item. The Development Teams need to be accountable for the quality of the product and how it's made. How is risk managed in Scrum? Financial risk.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Now let’s have a look at how this benefits your team’s Sprint Planning event. A small reminder from the Scrum Guide: “The work to be performed in the Sprint is planned at the Sprint Planning. This plan is created by the collaborative work of the entire Scrum Team. On Monday morning, the Scrum Team is back.

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