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Review Everything wrong with agile

Henny Portman

Time to turn Scrum transformation Robust plan Framework selection Cherry picking Meet the agile community Hybrid agile Copy and paste FATE (Fake Agile Transformation for Enterprises) gile transformation. Role master SM interview Scrum Master replacement Product Owner interview. Scrum at scale. Off to a great start!

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Becoming Agile: Evidence Based Management

Scrum.org

In fact, if you were to read some of the interviews with managers in business magazines, or the guest articles and puff-pieces on agility in their companies, you'd think that their hearts and minds had been won decades ago. Agile transformation, you would surmise, is a done deal with the higher-ups.

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How To Base Your Beliefs About Agile On Evidence

Scrum.org

What contexts are Scrum suited to, and which not? Perhaps you’ve read many blog posts about how horrible SAFe is, or how useless estimation is, or what the optimal size of a team is. What if you end up applying a methodology like Scrum to a context where it isn’t suited, and people leave the company as a result?

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Why do most projects fail?

Binfire

Forbes magazine also opined about the high rate of project failures recently. . In the Agile method, the project manager is replaced by an experienced Scrum master is needed. If the scope defined properly, it will be much easier to accurately plan and estimate the project duration. So, why so many projects fail?

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The Relationship Between Culture and Performance

Leading Agile

When I first started thinking through this idea, I was actually really thinking about the idea of practices because back in 2010, a little bit earlier than that, Jim Kundiff, the Scrum Alliance, and those guys were really popularizing the CSM certification, PMI was doing the PMI ACP or a lot of us were part of that. So think about scrum.

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Multi Team Backlog Refinement

Scrum.org

Product Backlog Refinement (PBR) is an activity that Scrum Teams regularly do to clarify potential upcoming Product Backlog Items (PBI). Estimating items for learning and alignment. see our paper in Testing Experience magazine for some more examples ) . What is Product Backlog Refinement? How to do multi-team refinement?

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Project Management Software Comparison: A Strategic View

The Strategic Project Manager

Smartsheet – HQ in Bellevue, Washington, USA, annual sales over $300 million, estimated 2,000 employees. Asana – HQ in San Francisco, California, USA, annual sales over $200 million, estimated 2,000 employees. Jira: Agile boards and scrum boards for iterative planning.