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Sprint Planning 101: How to Plan Great Sprints

ProjectManager.com

For this post, we’re going to take a deep dive into one of the events in the scrum framework, sprint planning. In order to provide some regularity and minimize the need for meetings, scrum is broken down into events. One of these events is the sprint. A sprint is an iteration in the development cycle of a project.

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Who Should be Doing What in a Sprint?

Scrum.org

As Scrum is framework, your teams may be doing additional things in the events - which is fine,as long as they're getting value from doing the actions. Optimise the value of the work the Development Team perform Talk with customers. Ensure the Development Team understands items in the Product Backlog to the level needed.

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125 Project Management Buzzwords

The IIL Blog

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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Is this "The Perfect Daily Scrum"?

Scrum.org

It's a key inspect and adapt opportunity for the Development Team, encouraging them check their progress towards the Sprint Goal and adjust their plan accordingly. It's also supposed to be an event for the Development Team and run by the Development Team but as we know in "the real world" it's not always implemented that way!

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Agile Project Management: Principles, Meetings, Values & Tools

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Agile project management came about as development teams worked towards getting products to the market faster. The waterfall methodology, which identifies a problem and then plans a solution, forces teams to stick to the requirements and scope of work that was defined at the beginning of the project. Sprint Review.

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When Done is Too Hard

Scrum.org

"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. Review Ready. Code Complete.

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Embrace a Scrum Revolution: Your New Year's Resolution Guide

Scrum.org

Take a deep dive into the world of incremental delivery here to discover the perfect way to explain this concept to your Scrum teams and stakeholders. The Retrospective is the Scrum team's opportunity to reflect on their processes, people, and the definition of done. Monitor and Adapt: Regularly review and reflect on your workflow.

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