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5 Agile Methodologies for Project Managers that are not Scrum Framework

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Ready to transform your approach to project management and software development? Let’s dive into the Agile world and discover the methodology that best aligns with your goals, team, and projects. Agile methodologies offer a path to mastering these challenges. What are the Top 5 Agile Methodologies? What Makes Kanban Agile?

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Scrum’s Nature: It Is a Tool; It Is Not About Love or Hate

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These rigid methodologies inevitably turn developers into mindless cogs in a corporate machinery—churning out more and more code—while ignoring the true potential of these knowledge workers. That is why we pay the Development Team to accept the responsibility to deliver a ‘done’ Product Increment.

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Sprint Planning 101: How to Plan Great Sprints

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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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Agile Project Management: Principles, Meetings, Values & Tools

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By using incremental steps towards completing a project, agile teams can easily adjust their project plan or product development plan to better meet their customer requirements. Agile project management allows teams to gather customer feedback as the project progresses. That flexibility must be evident in agile software, too.

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Agile Management Anti-Patterns — An Introduction for Aspiring Servant Leaders

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Instead, the management ought to provide the teams with goals and guidance on how to achieve these, along with funding sufficient to meet the objectives. The ‘where is my report’ mentality : The manager expects to receive reports regularly instead of participating in events, for example, the Sprint Reviews.

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Create A More Engaging Sprint Review With This String Of Liberating Structures

Scrum.org

Do you frequently find yourself in Sprint Reviews that only consist of a PowerPoint presentation? For such an important part of the empirical process made possible by the Scrum Framework, the Sprint Review often receives the least attention in how it is facilitated. In this post, we share the design for a Sprint Review.

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A Review Of Scrum For Kanban Teams

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In case you haven’t read Yuval’s post, basically, it presents a map of values and practices in Scrum to Kanban language, and encourages Kanban teams to approach Scrum from a practices point of view. This is probably the set of things that, regardless of the name, Scrum and Kanban teams will have the most in common.