Fri.Jun 18, 2021

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Back to the foundations of the Scrum framework - The Sprint and Transparency

Scrum.org

Scrum is founded on empirical process control, and transparency is one of the three pillars. During each of the Scrum Events, and throughout the Sprint itself, the Scrum Team and the stakeholders need transparency so there is a common understanding. Transparency as such is way more than bringing “visibility”. It is about reaching ”a common understanding”.

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Beyond Agile - Webinar Recording

Leading Answers

Last month I did a 20-minute overview of my new Beyond Agile book for the Washington D.C. Lean-Agile MeetUp group hosted by Sanjiv Augustine. I outline how Beyond Agile grew from studying high-performing teams and trying to distill what they did differently than most other teams. In the video, I cover Agile Myopia, Buffet Syndrome and the need to drop agile processes when they no longer bring enough value to warrant their use.

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Why Great (Scrum) Teams Have A Mind Of Their Own

Scrum.org

A common platitude about teams is that “1+1 = 3”. This highlights the notion that teams are more than just the accumulation of the skills, experience, creativity, and capacity of their members. If you’ve ever been part of a high-performing team?—?or a band for that matter?—?you know how that feels. We’re talking about those moments of crisis where the team is faced with a demanding challenge, and everyone just seems to intuitively know how to act and constructively add to each other's contributi

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Infographic: Challenges in Various Types of Projects

Epicflow Blog

Project management involves work with various types of projects. Despite that every project is unique with its combination of activities, people, constraints, external factors, etc., it can also have similar features with other projects. Accordingly, there are multiple classifications of projects: they can be classified by complexity, objectives, content, industry or other parameters.

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Understand Digital Debt, Form a Team, Set Goals, and Plan Roadmap for Transformation

Understanding digital debt is crucial before digital transformation. Assemble a team to assess internal operations, market pressures, and digital debt's impact. Define future digital vision with measurable goals. Refine hypotheses and conduct market analysis. Develop a roadmap for transformation with defined projects, cost estimates, and governance.

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Drive Your Projects to Success With a Powerful Project Implementation Plan

ProProfs Project Management

Have you ever faced this – You work with all your might on a project, but it still fails to produce the expected results? . Now, take a step back and evaluate what really went wrong. . Did you start the project on the right note? Did you create a roadmap defining how your project will move and where your efforts will be dedicated? . If not, you know where you fell short!