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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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8 Best Action Tracking Softwares that You Can Use in 2021

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So, if you were searching for the best action tracking software on the market right now, you have come to the right place, because, in this article, we are going to talk about just that. But, before we do that, let’s talk about what task tracking or action tracking software is. What is an Action Tracking Software? Ease of Use.

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Why Agile Engineering Practices in Software Development Are Essential to Achieve Agility

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There are no impulsive or unpredictable events happening. Sprints are short planning horizons and the artefacts and events in Scrum are there to provide greater transparency and opportunities to inspect and adapt based on early feedback, changes in conditions and new information. Frameworks such as Scrum are meant to support agility.

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7 Ways to Sell Agile to Project Stakeholders

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In certain cases, it’s possible to cling to legacy or home-rolled project management practices even when development teams have moved into some form of Agile development. Attend Agile events in your local area for networking and learning purposes (extra points if you bring your direct manager along).

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Scrum Methodology: Roles, Events & Artifacts

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The scrum methodology was developed as a response to rigid project management approaches such as the waterfall method, which didn’t adapt to the needs of agile product and software development teams. Scrum is part of agile software development and teams practicing agile. What Is the Scrum Methodology?

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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. Backlog A list of tasks, features, or requirements to be addressed by an agile project manager or team and is often associated with Agile methodologies.