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DECEMBER 16, 2020

You can start working on the product requirement within Sprint. Now, what is a sprint? Well, when you start building a product, the entire product may… The post What Is Sprint Planning: Definition, Advantages, and 10 Pro Tips appeared first on Agilemania.

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APRIL 22, 2024

Velocity is a complementary practice many Scrum teams use to plan future work. Every Sprint, the team adds up points for each Product Backlog item (PBI) that meets the Definition of Done by the end of the Sprint. Teams can use Velocity to predict how much work they may be able to accomplish by two or three Sprints from now.

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APRIL 2, 2024

It has tools that allow you to plan sprints, track the completion of tasks, balance your team member’s workload and create product roadmaps. Yes, Jira’s kanban view is one of its most popular features and software developers commonly use it for sprint planning. Does Jira Have a Kanban Board?

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APRIL 24, 2024

The five events in Scrum are 1) the Sprint, 2) Sprint Planning 3) Daily Scrum, 4) Sprint Review and 5) the Sprint Retrospective. In these environments, we need to plan frequently, inspect our work, and adapt based on what we learn. a release schedule), but generally, a shorter Sprint is better.

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APRIL 9, 2024

Sprint Planning then breaks this down into actionable objectives via the Sprint Goal, which acts as a beacon during each Sprint, focusing efforts on high-value tasks. Additionally, the clear articulation of Goals helps in the discovery and management of unplanned work.

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

But you don’t want to put your time, money and effort on a tool that can’t deliver what you need. What Is Jira? Boards are similar to kanban boards or sprint boards. It’s an essential scheduling and planning tool. But do they deliver on those promises? The short answer is sometimes. Is there a Jira Gantt chart?

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FEBRUARY 14, 2023

What you need is a burn up chart. What Is a Burn Up Chart? It’s used for tracking work in a project schedule or during a sprint in a scrum. These two data points allow project managers to determine how efficiently their team is working by comparing the work they’ve done to the total amount of work planned.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

What Is Software Project Management? Software project management is the planning, managing and tracking of software development projects. However, what makes software development projects unique is that they involve the traditional project management life cycle as well as the software development life cycle (SDLC). Learn more.

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APRIL 25, 2024

For those unsure what kanban is, we’ll first explain the kanban system and then go into kanban history from its development to its uses in manufacturing, project management and software development. What Is Kanban? Before getting into kanban history, it’s important to understand what kanban is. Kanban as a name came later.

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JANUARY 10, 2023

But meetings are critical for project planning and team collaboration. Let’s take a look at 10 different types of project management meetings and define them, and we’ll start with the definition of what a project meeting is. What Are Project Meetings? It all depends on the urgency and type of meeting being held.

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MARCH 25, 2024

From the Scrum Guide: The Sprint Goal is the single objective for the Sprint. Although the Sprint Goal is a commitment by the Developers, it provides flexibility in terms of the exact work needed to achieve it. Since the Sprint Goal is fix, it provides focus and flexibility for the Developers in how to achieve it.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

What does “Same Sizing” even mean? Understanding these terms is crucial for effective backlog management and sprint planning if you're a product manager or product owner. What Is Right-Sizing? What Is Same Sizing? This simplifies assigning sizes during sprint planning and backlog grooming.

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JANUARY 19, 2024

Unveiling the Agile Burndown Trap: A Fresh Perspective on Sprint Planning Agile teams often rely on burndown charts to monitor progress throughout a sprint. In essence, it forces teams into a rigid, plan-driven approach, which is paradoxical to the Agile principles of flexibility and adaptation to change.

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MARCH 11, 2024

TL; DR: Sprint Anti-Patterns Holding Your Teams Back Welcome to Sprint anti-patterns! For example, could a month-long Sprint be too short for accomplishing something meaningful? For example, could a month-long Sprint be too short for accomplishing something meaningful? And if so, what are the consequences? ?

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JANUARY 2, 2024

What is a Sprint Goal? The scrum guide defines the sprint goal as: “The Sprint Goal is the single objective for the Sprint. Although the Sprint Goal is a commitment by the Developers, it provides flexibility in terms of the exact work needed to achieve it. Why Do We Need a Sprint Goal?

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A self-managing team is taking decisions about who does what, when, and how. Cross-functional, meaning the team internally has all skills needed to successfully complete their goals. During each of the Scrum Events, and throughout the Sprint itself, the Scrum Team should have all necessary skills in order to reach its objectives.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

TL; DR: Humble Planning w/ Maarten Dalmijn In this fascinating talk, Maarten introduced the concept of humble planning and why it’s crucial for succeeding with an Agile way of working and building products of exceptional value. Watch the video now : Humble Planning — Maarten Dalmijn at the 57. What would you recommend?

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DECEMBER 18, 2023

This cost-effectiveness is achieved by significantly reducing waste through incremental delivery, ensuring that resources are directed toward what is truly needed. This cost-effectiveness is achieved by significantly reducing waste through incremental delivery, ensuring that resources are directed toward what is truly needed.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

If you can spell out exactly what you want them to do, the computer will do it the same way every time. I get that Type A personality desire to do something correctly and follow the rules but the problem is that they end up focusing on the wrong thing. Scrum is not the point. Let me clarify. It’s that Scrum isn’t the point.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

What does it entail? It's all about the conditions that must be met for a Product Backlog Item to be considered ready for action and understood enough by the entire Scrum Team so that it can be pulled into the Sprint Backlog during Sprint Planning. What does the Scrum framework say about “readiness”?

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MARCH 9, 2024

Have you ever considered how a satisfying meal relates to effective Sprint Planning in Scrum? ?️? Eating on a full stomach is similar to achieving 100% capacity utilization in Sprint Planning; interestingly, neither is good. By not cramming every possible item into the sprint, you allow 'breathing space'.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

What is the ‘Navigating the Scrum Events’ Series? If you or your team are new to Scrum, you can use this as a starting point to answer, “What should we be doing and why?” Sprint Planning - What’s The Point? It does not have to be the same person each Sprint. for each Scrum Event.

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MAY 29, 2023

First, let’s start with a short introduction of what we mean by Zombie Scrum. They conduct all the Scrum events and use a Product Backlog and even a Sprint Backlog. Due to dependencies and constraints, the team can’t ship their product increments and validate if what they’re building is really valuable. In short, Zombie Scrum!

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

TL; DR: Missing Sprint Goals Do you excel in the art of setting unattainable, imposed, or plain non-existing Sprint Goals? In other words, are you good at missing Sprint Goals with regularity? They are ideally suited for teams who love the challenge of aimlessly wandering through Sprints! ?

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DECEMBER 28, 2023

Self-managing, meaning the team internally decides who does what, when, and how. Let’s take a look at the Sprint Backlog. The Sprint Backlog includes the Sprint Goal. This is the objective for the current Sprint. And so the Sprint Backlog supports deciding on what.

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JANUARY 13, 2024

Are Special Sprints in Agile Truly Beneficial? In my journey with Agile, I've often encountered teams embroiled in what I term 'special sprints' – Sprint zeros, refactoring sprints, and bugfix sprints. At first glance, these sprints appear as a savvy adaptation of Agile. Enjoy this video?

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OCTOBER 15, 2023

The purpose of the Sprint is to deliver a done increment of valuable, usable product. In order to get there, it is important that higher ordered Product Backlog items are sized so that they are small enough to be completed within a single Sprint. See our recent article, Developing in One Sprint and Testing in the Next Is Not Scrum.)

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NOVEMBER 18, 2022

It’s a myth that Scrum Teams don’t plan. Scrum Teams plan at the Sprint Planning event and when refining work items. They also create a forecast or a roadmap that shows their plans across multiple Sprints. . The team inspects new knowledge and adapts their approach to take advantage of what they've learned.

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DECEMBER 20, 2023

Scrum - the most popular Agile framework - is founded upon Empiricism , or making decisions based on what is known. However, when Product Owners craft roadmaps in isolation - without consulting the Developers - the result can be a 'pie in the sky' or unrealistic plan that jeopardizes the very essence of Scrum.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

As a seasoned practitioner in the Scrum framework, I've often been queried on the approach to select the most appropriate items for the Sprint backlog. The truth is, crafting a Sprint backlog is akin to navigating a multi-dimensional chessboard. It informs but does not govern the Sprint's content. Enjoy this video?

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JANUARY 2, 2024

Velocity is a metric that measures the number of 'points' assigned to each Product backlog item, and it is easy to calculate per Sprint how many points are closed per team or individual. What to do instead: Velocity can be used by the Scrum team to help them decide how much work to plan for an individual Sprint.

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OCTOBER 29, 2023

TL; DR: Scrum Team Failure This post on Scrum team failure addresses three categories from the Scrum anti-patterns taxonomy that are closely aligned: Planning and process breakdown, conflict avoidance and miscommunication, and inattention to quality and commitment, often resulting in a Scrum team performing significantly below its potential.

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JANUARY 22, 2024

I once worked with a Scrum team that deliberately underestimated the size of Product Backlog items during refinement to enable them to pull oversized items into the Sprint, bypassing the team agreement that restricted larger items from being pulled into the Sprint. Why would they do this?

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MARCH 20, 2024

According to the 2020 Scrum Guide , Scrum team members should be “self-managing, meaning they internally decide who does what, when, and how.” There is a lot of confusion about what exactly this means. On the one hand, some Scrum team members think that self-managing means doing whatever they want.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

What is the ‘Navigating the Scrum Events’ Series? If you or your team are new to Scrum, you can use this as a starting point to answer, “what should we be doing and why?” The Sprint Sprint Planning Daily Scrum Sprint Review Sprint Retrospective The Sprint - What’s The Point?

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

The purpose is to ensure that we have the highest-ordered Product Backlog items (PBIs) ready to Sprint. During refinement, the team discusses what we will deliver with each Product Backlog item. Although it's easy to drift into sorting out how we will deliver each PBI during these discussions, planning at this stage is a mistake. .

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A self-managing team is taking decisions about who does what, when, and how. During each of the Scrum Events, and throughout the Sprint itself, the Scrum Team should have all necessary skills in order to reach its objectives. Let’s have a look at the Sprint Retrospective. How did the last Sprint went?

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