The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

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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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 8, 2024

Improved Risk Management This component empowers teams to anticipate and mitigate potential risks by selecting a development approach tailored to the project's unique nature. Incorporating advanced risk assessment models enables a deeper understanding and identification of possible pitfalls.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 11, 2021

The Product Owner is a critical role in Agile and Scrum. And although the Scrum Guide doesn’t give much guidelines around great product ownership, the role is still absolutely necessary for great Agile and Scrum Teams. A Product Owner guides the efforts of their Scrum or Agile Teams. Scrum Reading List.

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Scrum.org

MAY 7, 2019

In August 2018, Scrum.org launched the Professional Scrum Master II class. The intention of this class is to offer the Scrum community an advanced class designed to support Scrum Masters in their professional development. What is the value of Liberating Structures for Scrum Masters?”.

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Planio

MAY 8, 2023

On average, IT projects come with more complexity and risk, and can quickly fall to pieces without proper due diligence, management, and leadership. IT projects still require planning, control, teamwork, and leadership — and for that, organizations use IT project management frameworks to maximize their success.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 26, 2024

With digital project management skills like effective online communication, robust leadership, data literacy, adaptability, professional and personal life stress management, and adept virtual team management, you can lead your projects to completion. Don't let the digital age leave you behind.

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Wrike

APRIL 12, 2023

When it comes to managing projects, Scrum and Project Management are the two most commonly utilized approaches. In this article, we will explore the differences between a Scrum Master and a Project Manager and provide insights into their roles, responsibilities, and skill sets.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Safe Scrum is a framework that has gained significant popularity in recent years for enhancing team performance in an agile development methodology. By providing clear guidelines and principles, Safe Scrum enables teams to collaborate more effectively, communicate transparently, and ultimately deliver higher-quality projects.

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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In the business world innovation is the one thing that never changes. You won’t be able to adapt to these disturbances using conventional software development techniques. You can enhance the user experience of the product with enhanced coordination and appropriate assessment. Giving Rise to Innovation. Scrum Master.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In today’s fast-paced and ever-changing business landscape, organizations are increasingly turning to agile methodologies to drive innovation and achieve their goals. At the heart of agile teams is the Scrum Master, a role that plays a crucial part in ensuring the team’s success.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 18, 2020

On November 22nd, 2019, I gave the closing keynote at Scrum Deutschland, a talk called ‘The Four Things You Do To Prevent Value Delivery.’ In my research, I found many issues throughout the development process, but one stuck out in particular. They had embraced Agility to run their business and encouraged Scrum at the team level.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

I couldn’t review all the code or be in on every discussion and decision. These situations caused me to deeply explore and try out various approaches to leadership, organization design, and teamwork. Strong teams are much more powerful than strong leaders. That’s what draws me to scrum. That requires collaboration.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

TL; DR: Scrum Anti-Patterns GPT Can a Custom Scrum Anti-Patterns GPT align teams with Scrum principles? Dive into how leveraging custom GPTs might offer a novel path through Scrum’s common hurdles, focusing on creating actual customer value in the face of organizational and team-level challenges. ?

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International Institute for Learning

APRIL 19, 2023

They build on lean-agile thinking, and standard Scrum, Kanban, and DevOps practices. They offer practitioners tools to extend and mature their agility beyond the team to programs and the broader enterprise. Disciplined Agile is methodology agnostic and supports Scrum, Kanban, Program, and continuous delivery lifecycles.

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Leading Agile

JULY 3, 2023

10 years ago, it seemed that a little Scrum here and some coaching there would suffice. The package is changing at one cadence and maybe you’re trying to innovate and change at another cadence, right? If you want your vendors to be collaborative, innovate, fail fast, and deliver results, your contracts should reflect this.

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Henny Portman

JULY 10, 2019

The Quantifiable Added Value of Scrum is an interview with Jeff Sutherland about result-oriented organizations operating on clear and simple performance indicators (by Serge Beaumont). Security and development need to dance together, so it’s best if they both learn the steps together, right from the beginning of your agile transition.

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International Institute for Learning

JUNE 22, 2022

Transforming an organization and having high-performing teams goes hand in hand. In my talk at the Agile and Scrum conference 2022 , which is available on-demand through September 29, 2022 , I have shared a story of transformation , implementing Lean and Agile values and principles into our operations. Learn more and register here.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

TL; DR: ChatGPT Product Owner Job Interview A few weeks ago, I ran a simulated job interview with ChatGPT for a fictitious Scrum Master position. Admittedly, I would not have invited this “interviewee” for an interview with other team members; however, the interview produced some remarkable answers.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Customer collaboration: Unlike the waterfall approach, where requirements are defined upfront and rarely revisited, Agile encourages regular interactions with customers throughout the development process. This allows for a better understanding of customer needs and enables the development team to adapt and make changes as necessary.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 2, 2020

TL; DR: Scrum Stakeholder Anti-Patterns. Learn how individual incentives and outdated organizational structures — fostering personal agendas and local optimization efforts — manifest themselves in Scrum stakeholder anti-patterns which easily can impede any agile transition. Common Scrum Stakeholder Anti-Patterns.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Discovering the recipe for team agility. About three years ago, together with several colleagues at Worldline and Atos, I worked on an open-source DevOps maturity assessment tool (you can find it on GitHub here or see it in action here ). The 5-minute agility self-assessment questionnaire.

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Scrum.org

JULY 5, 2022

During the first year of the pandemic, Scrum adoption more than doubled for software development teams. According to the 15th Annual State of Agile Report, the use of agile approaches for software development grew from 37% in 2020 to 86% in 2021. It is, in essence, the plan for what the Scrum Team will do next.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 20, 2024

According to the 2020 Scrum Guide , Scrum team members should be “self-managing, meaning they internally decide who does what, when, and how.” On the one hand, some Scrum team members think that self-managing means doing whatever they want. Our answer comes straight from the Scrum guide.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 15, 2023

And when we started LeadingAgile about six or seven years ago, we well, I guess we started 12 years ago, but we, we started to build a dev team about seven or eight years ago and we’re working on an internal product called Navigator that’s been in development for a while now.

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Planio

AUGUST 1, 2022

For most development teams and startups, ‘becoming Agile’ starts and ends with how you build software. But a full Agile transformation isn’t just about the development process you use — it’s a way to bring creativity, innovation, and lean operations to every aspect of your business. More creativity and innovation.

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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Planning and Execution of Program Increment: A SAFe Agilist has envisioned a roadmap for the success of the Agile Development and successful SAFe implementation process. They start strategic planning as a lead which sets the plan for the Development team to realize the goal of becoming an Agile organization. Reduced delays.

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Wrike

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

It is especially useful in software development and enterprise product management as these teams tackle projects and programs on extended timelines with continuous improvements, upgrades, and iterations released and delivered to customers over time. Think of your favorite mobile apps (e.g., What are the principles of SAFe?

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 14, 2021

The Nexus group of teams is very similar to the Agile Release Train (ART) construct. In both SAFe/Scrum it is a self-managing team of self-managed teams with a couple of key roles at the team of teams level. . Scrum theory emphasizes Empiricism and Self-management, coupled with Flow in recent years.

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Scrum.org

JULY 10, 2018

While working diligently behind feature flags, using elements of Scrum, it wasn’t clear to the stakeholders the value being delivered and how well the teams were progressing towards their end goal. Origins of self organising teams. Development teams have the following characteristics: They are self-organising.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 17, 2021

And then how do we make decisions when teams are in conflict and how do we subordinate backlogs to a portfolio? If you just do Scrum, you’ll get the goodness out of it. I don’t mean Scrum. And all that stuff’s like really super important, but we have this debate internally quite a bit with my leadership team.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 19, 2023

TL; DR: ChatGPT 4: A Bargain for Scrum Practitioners? I wanted to determine whether ChatGPT 4 is superior to its predecessor, which left a good impression in recent months; see my previous articles on Scrum, Agile, and ChatGPT. Zur deutschsprachigen Version des Artikels: ChatGPT 4: Ein Schnäppchen für Scrum-Praktiker? ?

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Nehmen Sie an einer von Stefans kommenden Professional Scrum-Schulungen teil ! Executives that are not close to the customer problems make the decisions at the portfolio level, and teams execute, which can lead to disengaged teams. SAFe is for compliance and contacts, Scrum for performance. Die Daten der Umfrage.

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Paymo App

APRIL 2, 2018

You’ll also find e-books, book reviews, toolkits, and training guides to help you develop your career with less stress. What to expect: Mike’s blog helps software development teams improve their work through Agile and Scrum. How Are You Doing as Team Leader? Developing Project Leaders. Worth reading.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Join Stefan in one of his upcoming Professional Scrum training classes ! Executives that are not close to the customer problems make the decisions at the portfolio level, and teams execute, which can lead to disengaged teams. SAFe is for compliance and contacts, Scrum for performance. Survey Data.

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International Institute for Learning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Regarding the right size of a team, it has been experienced that a good number is around 10. For instance in the Agile Scrum Methodology [4] it is recommended to have 10 or fewer people in a team. Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, likes to use the “two-pizza rule” for strategy and development teams.

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