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Remote Agile (Part 7): Sprint Review with Distributed Teams

Scrum.org

TL; DR: A Remote Sprint Review with a Distributed Team. This seventh article now looks into organizing a remote Sprint Review with a distributed team: How to practice the review with virtual Liberating Structures, including and giving a voice to team members, stakeholders, and customers.

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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.

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11 Proven Stakeholder Communication Tactics

Scrum.org

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. The Sprint Review is Empiricism at work: inspect the Product Increment and adapt the Product Backlog. Sprint Reviews are a zone free from death by PowerPoint.

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From Servant Leadership to Shared Leadership

Leading Answers

We must also be able to make the team feel capable and develop team members to their fullest potential. Instead, it recommends leaders build leadership teams that comprise all the necessary skills. This is another instance where having diversity on the team is helpful. Why pay twice for the same opinions?”.

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Top 5 objections to Scrum (and why those objections are wrong)

Scrum.org

When I present the Scrum framework to a new team, I almost always hear someone cry out, “How can we get anything done with so many meetings?! ” The Scrum framework consists of five events (what the uninitiated refer to as meetings), three artifacts, and three roles. Too many meetings—we don’t have time!

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4 Must-Have Features for a Kanban Tool

ProjectManager.com

There are simple drag-and-drop tools for organizing to-do lists, planning systems for agile teams and hybrid tools for robust project management. After reviewing dozens of these tools, we’ve found that there are four specific features of a kanban tool that are must-haves for any serious user. Your new columns would be: To-do.

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

Planio

Agile is all about staying lean and adapting to user feedback, right? The essential elements of a lean, mean one-pager PRD. In this post, we’re going to run you through how to research, write, and present a product requirements document that’s actually useful and valuable, no matter what software development process you use.

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