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Adopting Agile is an Exercise in Change Management

LiquidPlanner

Based on the classroom exercises, you’re excited to try new concepts and apply the magic cure-all that will solve all waterfall-based project problems. The development team should know what needs to be done, so just call the customer when it’s ready. Adopting Agile is an Exercise in Change Management.

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Scrum Master Interview Questions (4): From Metrics to Kicking off Scrum to Scrum Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

The team addressing unplanned priority bugs. Another common cause for a Scrum Team to consistently fail in meeting their forecasts is that the team’s Product Backlog items are being poorly prepared, thus making the work items difficult for the team to estimate. Question 44: First Steps of a New Scrum Team.

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What is Value Stream Mapping (VSM)? A Comprehensive Guide to Process Visualization

NimbleWork

Such as requirements gathering, design, development, testing, and deployment in software development, or planning, execution, monitoring, and optimization in marketing campaigns. VSM can used to streamline software development workflows, optimize marketing campaign execution, and improve HR processes.

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How to build a product roadmap in 2022 (with examples and an in-depth guide)

Planio

That’s why a product roadmap is the backbone of every great development team. Review and align your roadmap with other internal teams. An execution phase. Your engineering team’s internal roadmap will focus on different elements than one designed for executives. Ask past users for reviews.

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To Fix Your OKRs – Go Back to First (Familiar) Principles

Scrum.org

OKRs aim to help you execute effectively on what matters most (your strategy), while overcoming silos, politics and turf wars , the ongoing grind (aka whirlwind ), and other management challenges. After identifying the few real OKRs, assess who’s needed to work towards each of them. Leverage agile/scrum to execute on OKRs.

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From Servant Leadership to Shared Leadership

Leading Answers

With such a deep history and broad scope, we need a focus to best direct our guidance toward knowledge-worker team execution. So we will take a product-focused view toward leadership and concentrate on the leadership traits and steps necessary for building and leveraging high-performing teams in complex knowledge-work environments.

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11 Proven Stakeholder Communication Tactics

Scrum.org

Keep in mind that many stakeholder egos, their statuses within the organization, their remuneration, and personal agendas are tied one way or another to executing “a plan.” There are plenty of opportunities for stakeholders to interact responsibly with a Scrum Team. The two formal Scrum events that come to mind are: Sprint Reviews.