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

Scrum.org

Using the budgeting process as a Stage-Gate® to exercise control through the back door : The budgeting process is hard to align with agile requirements like the longevity of teams. 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.

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21 Sprint Retrospective Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

The Scrum Master encourages the Scrum Team to improve, within the Scrum process framework, its development process and practices to make it more effective and enjoyable for the next Sprint. By the end of the Sprint Retrospective, the Scrum Team should have identified improvements that it will implement in the next Sprint.

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32 Scrum Stakeholder Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

Too bad, when nowadays diversity, autonomy, mastery, and purpose become the driving factors in a highly competitive environment where more of the same for everyone is no longer creating value. Flow disruption: The Scrum Master allows stakeholders to disrupt the flow of the Scrum Team during the Sprint. The Sprint. Nice try #1.).

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From Servant Leadership to Shared Leadership

Leading Answers

This is part one in a series on leading agile teams from the Beyond Agile book. We will examine what leadership entails and how it applies to agile teams. We can create backlogs and release plans all we like, but until there is a motivated team with a shared vision of the end goal, it is like trying to push a rope—ineffective.

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Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 1: Overview Of Project Performance Measurements

MPUG

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. Individual contributor team, lead section, lead project manager, program manager, director of engineering. You can’t influence that project.

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How to write a lean PRD (product requirements document) for your next project in 5 steps (with free template)

Planio

A product requirements document (PRD) is one of the most important documents for teams using traditional project management. However, an increasing number of Agile teams are starting to see the value of adding more planning to their process. How to sell your Agile team on the need for a one-pager product requirements document.

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The Urge to Strangle(The Strangler Pattern)

Leading Agile

Most systems implemented in large IT organizations are point solutions implemented to solve local (departmental, business unit, or team) problems. They know their solutions are of local scope, but they lack the power or influence to drive a comprehensive solution. The Parable of the Bridge and the Canoe. It saved them a lot of time.