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Self Managing Defects escaping into Prod

Scrum.org

Code is reviewed by a different team member before it is committed. About 2 months ago, the team noticed an uptick in the number of production defects they had to fix urgently. Due to this, the team adopted the practice of swarming which enabled them to minimize the impact of their production defects on the customer.

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What is a technical project manager? (And why you should think about becoming one)

Planio

According to the Project Management Institute’s Pulse of the Profession survey , 81% of top-performing companies prioritize the development of technical project management skills. But what if you’ve never written a line of code in your life? Development teams get bored doing the same work day after day.

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The Sprint Planning Checklist

Scrum.org

The following Sprint Planning checklist includes tasks for everyone on the Scrum Team: Preparing the Sprint Planning: T-2 : Address the number of open tickets in the “code review” & “ready for acceptance columns.” Ask the team members to focus on moving tickets to “Done” before starting work on new tickets.

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Do We Need Risk Management in Agile Projects?

MPUG

As we will see, agile methods are, to a degree, a response to the kind of risks that software development projects face. The style of project management The organization may have a preferred methodology or paradigm, and the project manager (along with their team) will also assess what is right for this project.

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The ultimate guide to annual planning for product teams

Planio

Contrary to what most product teams have heard, annual planning isn’t just reserved for senior executives and finance teams. In fact, an annual product survey found that over 30% of teams plan their roadmaps a year in advance, dispelling the myth that agile teams shouldn’t waste their time planning far into the future.

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Innovation within a Scrum Team

Scrum.org

There are two metrics from Evidence-based management (EBM) Ability-To-Innovate Area, that are related to each other and help us to understand how much is spent on innovation and on code maintainance throughout the sprints: innovation rate : the percentage of budget spent on innovation. customer or end-users satisfaction surveys.

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Agile vs Waterfall: Embracing the Hybrid Project Revolution

NimbleWork

Due to strong resistance against such changes even among organizations claiming to adopt pure Agile, there may exist as many flavors of Agile as the organizations adopting them. An Agile framework follows iterative development cycles of planning, execution and evaluation, called Sprints.

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