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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. For example, they may gauge success in terms of a certain capability delivered by a certain date for a certain cost.

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In-Depth: What a Social Systems Perspective Teaches us About Change

Scrum.org

like choosing for Scrum?—?they These norms range from very basic ones, like attending a Daily Scrum every day, to abstract ones like “work together towards a shared goal instead of working on your own tasks” and “delivery small, working bits of product frequently instead of huge chunks occasionally”. Why Is Change Hard?

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Review AGILE NXT – New Insights for Agile Performance Management

Henny Portman

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). Curious to read the magazine? Diamond Agile: Measuring What’s Meaningful (by Frank Verbruggen). Download or request a printed copy at: AGILE NXT.

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The Best Project Management Blogs for 2019

Online PM Courses

So, for example: I write for new and intermediate level project managers who want to learn more about the discipline. Others offer commentary for advanced project managers, who want something meaty to think about – Matthew Squair (below) is a good example. There are plenty of other examples I could give. PM World 360.

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Mitosis and Express Kickoff

Scrum.org

Context We are in the process of Agile business unit transformation, with 15 teams and dedicated functions (marketing, magazine, CRM) creating a product ecosystem for SMBs ( small and medium-sized businesses). We suggested scaling correctly and using Scrum-pattern mitosis instead. We call this product fragmentation.

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How To Base Your Beliefs About Agile On Evidence

Scrum.org

What contexts are Scrum suited to, and which not? 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? when everyone is pro-Scrum, or against SAFe or against estimation, or exclusively Scrum Masters? Is scaling always a bad idea?

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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). In single team Scrum, typically the Scrum Team gets together for one or more workshops during a Sprint to create and maintain a Refined Product Backlog. .

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