Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2022

This is challenging but satisfying (TIP: Slicing outcomes is similar to identifying a Minimum Viable Product, Minimally marketable features, and Slicing Stories… so your Product leaders and Agile practitioners can help out on this front). Figuring out the right Cadence . Disconnect/confusion between OKRs and agile ways of working.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 5, 2021

What adjustments were made in the entire organization as part of a 4 year Agile enablement? What challenges was this specific Agile Team facing when this journey began? What 4 key sets of adjustments made by the specific Agile Team that is the subject of this case study? CADENCE & RELIABILITY. UAT is part of DOD. .

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Kiron Bondale

APRIL 18, 2021

Whether your team follows a specific framework or has taken a mix-and-match approach with its practices, a tenet of agile is the use of short feedback loops to support inspection and adaptation. Cramming too much into a review and not allowing stakeholders sufficient time to digest what they’ve seen.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 22, 2020

No sustainable agility is achieved. One aspect of ‘complexity’ are the parameters, variables and events that influence an activity and its course. Benefit from the consistency that the Scrum events provide without industrializing your Scrum to death. It is why Sprints, as container events, have a fixed time-box.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 35,000-plus subscribers. ?? September 27, 2022 : Join 200-plus peers at the 45th Hands-on Agile Meetup: FAST: An Innovative Way to Scale with James Shore. Scrum combines four formal events for inspection and adaptation within a containing event, the Sprint.

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Leading Answers

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Many traditional project management deliverables have agile alternatives. Yet we rarely see agile communications management plans. Given the high rates of change often experienced on agile projects, we might expect more emphasis on communications to keep everyone on the same page. These are valid questions, so let me explain.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The Product Owner theses also address the Product Owner’s part in Scrum events from Sprint Planning to Sprint Review to Sprint Retrospective, and the Daily Scrum. A Product Owner is an innovator at heart and thus a value creator for customers and organizations if given a chance to work in an agile manner. Those two are natural allies.

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Technical Review SCRUM 2020 Cadence 248

Project Bliss

JUNE 19, 2017

I proposed the Daily Scrum Meeting, along with two other activities , as an Agile practice you can adopt if you want to gain some of the benefits of Agile – even if your team hasn’t adopted full Agile. In “ The Scrum Guide ” Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland point out that the daily scrum is a mini planning event.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 30, 2019

Organizations look to Agile to overcome challenges. Many organizations struggle in their implementation of Agile and/or their evolution of agile once they start their journey. As you get the early success you wonder why you ever worked the way you did before working in an agile environment. What do Agile leaders do?

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MPUG

DECEMBER 28, 2020

My perspective is based on my analysis, my own interpretations, and the interactions I’ve had with Agile practitioners who follow my publications, books, and/or courses. Introduction of Cadence. For the first time, we are introduced of a concept called “Cadence.” Product Goal. Lean Thinking.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

At a recent training class one of the delegates spoke about their present company, about how it was the most “Agile” place he had ever worked. They have regular Sprint Planning and Retrospective events, and hold their Sprint Reviews with stakeholders from the business in attendance. Get the basics in place and yes, you are doing Scrum.

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Scaled Agile Framework, SAFe® is the world’s leading framework for Business Agility. The seven core competencies each have three dimensions making it a total of twenty-one dimensions to enable Business Agility. These dimensions contain some of the practices, patterns, and guidelines to Scale Agility across the enterprise.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 7, 2023

As a community, we have developed a handful of team-based Agile approaches over the years; some of which we would consider scaled. Implementing Agile, especially in larger, more complex organizations, still seems to be a black art. All the things we consider hallmarks of a small team, Agile methodology. But here we are.

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Digite

MAY 26, 2017

The concept of Agile Release Train is central to understanding the constructs of SAFe and to implement them. The Agile Release Train is the primary value delivery construct in SAFe. An Agile Release Train typically consist of 50-125 people. Principles governing the Agile Release Train. So, what is an ART? What is an ART?

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Sie können sich hier für den Newsletter „Food for Agile Thought“ anmelden und sich über 35.000 Abonnenten anschließen. ?? Scrum combines four formal events for inspection and adaptation within a containing event, the Sprint. indem sie an den Sprint Review-Events teilnehmen. Scrum events are designed to provoke change.”.

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SCRUM 2020 Cadence Lean 195

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe™) is one of the most popular approaches to applying agile at scale out there. SAFe's perspective is that "Nothing beats an Agile Team" and it doesn't try to reinvent the wheel or even innovate too much when it comes to the Team level. SAFe's Scrum Master is more of an Agile Team Lead.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

In addition to Fitness and Nutrition Coaching, I’m fortunate to serve two incredible teams as their Scrum Master and Agile Coach at a Fortune 100 company. Scrum and Agile are ultimately about fostering change in a way that creates the most value for the customer or end-user. Agile is about the “becoming.”

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 27, 2020

Sprint Planning is a core event, defining how your customers’ lives will improve with the next Product Increment. Read More : Why Engineers Despise Agile ). Irregular Sprint lengths: The Scrum Team has variable Sprint cadences. Do Not Miss Out: Join the 6,500-plus Strong ‘Hands-on Agile’ Slack Team. Conclusion.

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Agilemania

MARCH 23, 2021

Some Agile experts are not hard-core fans of SAFe. And this makes SAFe more complicated, bureaucratic than the Agile manifesto recommends. They also have this opinion that SAFe is so heavy, maybe it is not Agile at all. Most of us started our Agile journey with one framework, and that is Scrum. Let us dig deeper.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

I was hired by a bank to help them to get started with agile and Scrum. I took the opportunity to present myself as the Agile Coach facilitating the change and explained in a couple of words the essence of working with Scrum. We agreed on the sprint schedule by planning the Scrum events and refinements. Social events matter.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 2, 2018

When we say “Working Software” in the Agile Manifesto, we don’t mean just “It is working and we tested it meets our acceptance criteria and our definition of Done”. The Sprint-level events are still as valuable as ever for inspecting and adapting the Product and the Process. Can it also be a release cadence?

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Scrum.org

APRIL 21, 2020

Like many Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches and Agile Managers, I am beginning to understand organizations are complex adaptive systems. One of the powerful properties of Scrum is that it makes a very clear distinction in roles, events and artifacts. Some time ago I decided to dive a bit deeper into Systems Thinking.

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MPUG

JANUARY 31, 2022

Many times, managing a Hybrid-Agile project with a sole Lean-Agile approach doesn’t meet the needs of an organization, the expectations of stakeholders, required delivery frequency of customers, or address uncertainties associated with engineering work. This project is largely focused on development, employing both Waterfall and Agile.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

I was hired by a bank to help them to get started with agile and Scrum. I took the opportunity to present myself as the Agile Coach facilitating the change and explained in a couple of words the essence of working with Scrum. We agreed on the sprint schedule by planning the Scrum events and refinements. Social events matter.

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SCRUM Estimate Cadence Initiating 217

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 2, 2018

When we say “Working Software” in the Agile Manifesto, we don’t mean just “It is working and we tested it meets our acceptance criteria and our definition of Done”. The Sprint-level events are still as valuable as ever for inspecting and adapting the Product and the Process. Can it also be a release cadence?

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 14, 2021

The Nexus group of teams is very similar to the Agile Release Train (ART) construct. Lean/Agile Leadership. The Nexus Sprint Review and the System Demo are similar events happening on a similar cadence - every several weeks (Sprint/Iteration). Nexus and SAFe - Similar Concepts. Nexus - ART. Sprint - Iteration.

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Scrum.org

JULY 21, 2020

Great DT's considers their Scrum events as an opportunity for collaboration and conversations. This directly relates to the Agile values : “Individuals and Interactions Over Process and Tools”. This directly relates to the Agile values : “Individuals and Interactions Over Process and Tools”. They don't view it as 'meetings’.

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Cadence SCRUM Energy Construction 145

Scrum.org

APRIL 25, 2022

The Sprint Planning is a core event that defines how your customers’ lives will improve with the following Product Increment. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 35,000-plus subscribers. ?? Read More : Why Engineers Despise Agile. ). ?? TL; DR: Scrum Master Anti-Patterns.

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Scrum.org

MAY 20, 2020

My fellow PST, Glaudia Califano, and I were sitting in a café (at a time prior to the current lockdown due to Covid-19), having agreed to meet up with a Business Analyst who had reached out to us to have a chat about Scrum and Agile. We are never too busy to pass on having coffee, so we agreed to meet and have a chat. .

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 21, 2019

This can hardly be described as the right agile spirit, and a Scrum Master’s greatest challenge often lies in coaching teams to value each Scrum event as an inspect and adapt opportunity. This can hardly be described as the right agile spirit either. Perhaps there still needs to be something like a Sprint Review after all.an

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

When I first learned about Agile methods in 2002, the principles seemed to offer an ideal solution to many organizational issues common at the time. It’s time now to move forward to the next level of proficiency in software delivery; what we might call “post-Agile.” Stable Team. Dedicated Team. Team Spaces.

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MPUG

JANUARY 22, 2024

Two widely accepted Lean-Agile approaches, iteration- and flow-based, are embraced by Agile practitioners. While iteration-based Agile prescribes an iteration, in flow-based Agile, iterations are not prescribed. The most well-known framework for iteration-based Agile is Scrum , while Kanban represents flow-based Agile.

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Agile Underperforming Technical Team Cadence Lean 52

MPUG

JUNE 5, 2024

In this article, we will learn how to build multiple Kanban Boards with the MS Project Agile software tool and how to use these boards across multiple Kanban teams. That’s another advantage you can have in Scaled Kanban Projects with MS Project Agile! The below video [duration: 6m:50s] demonstrates scaling with MS Project Agile.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe™) is one of the most popular approaches to applying agile at scale out there. SAFe's perspective is that "Nothing beats an Agile Team" and it doesn't try to reinvent the wheel or even innovate too much when it comes to the Team level. SAFe's Scrum Master is more of an Agile Team Lead.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Unplanned events, outages, and work eat at the money you planned to invest in a new value. ESSENTIALS FOR AGILITY: TEAMS, BACKLOGS, AND WORKING TESTED PRODUCT. At LeadingAgile, we have distilled the concepts of agility down to the very essentials: Teams, Backlogs, and Working Tested Product. Everything after that is chaos.

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Planning Finance Cadence Government 127

International Institute for Learning

APRIL 19, 2023

By Alan Zucker Disciplined Agile® (DA) and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) are two popular, second-generation agile methodologies. They build on lean-agile thinking, and standard Scrum, Kanban, and DevOps practices. They emerged about a decade after the Agile Manifesto.

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Agile Cadence Certification Lean 59

The IIL Blog

MARCH 20, 2024

The executives and leaders I collaborate with acknowledge that, in their contexts, large-scale transformation events are becoming less common. That is why agile change and project management approaches are so popular. Inspire joint decision-making and shared responsibilities, tapping into diverse team strengths for collective success.

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