ProjectManager.com

MARCH 4, 2022

The scrum methodology was developed as a response to rigid project management approaches such as the waterfall method, which didn’t adapt to the needs of agile product and software development teams. Scrum is part of agile software development and teams practicing agile. Scrum Values.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 27, 2020

TL; DR: A Remote Sprint Review with a Distributed Team. We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools; we explored virtual Liberating Structures, and how to master Zoom. The Purpose of the Sprint Review. What Does the Scrum Guide Say about the Sprint Review?

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Technical Review Development Team Review Agile SCRUM 229

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

In a previous post “Don’t blame “agile” for existing problems” I shared my analysis why agile or Scrum itself often gets the blame. This time we take the perspective of the Development Team. Development Team – Why your Scrum Doesn’t work (2/3) (this post). Development Team.

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Development Team Review SCRUM Technical Review Closing 225

ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 13, 2020

Ask a dozen people what agile is and you’ll get a dozen different answers. Scrum is a way to manage a project within an agile framework and is made up of three roles: product owner, scrum master and team. A sprint is an iteration in the development cycle of a project. But it’s best defined by scrum as a model.

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Planning Development Team Review Software Review SCRUM 362

Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 21, 2022

They work with development teams to track progress and identify potential risks, as well as liaise with other departments such as QA, ops teams, service management, and support. The release manager at my last job worked closely with the development team to review what code changes would be coming.

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Technical Review Software Review Cadence Software Developers 461

MPUG

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

One might conclude that agile approaches to project management, such as Scrum, mean there is no need for gate reviews. We say the same thing if one adopts gate reviews for every product development project. Let’s explore a typical product development project’s phases, goals, and metrics reviewed at each gate.

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Development Team Review Technical Review Manufacturing 2008 111

ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 28, 2018

Thanks to the evolution of modern business practices, Agile , an iterative approach to planning and guiding the project process, is on the mind of nearly every manager. It’s important to understand that Scrum is not a methodology; it is a framework for putting the methodology of Agile into practice. The Development Team.

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SCRUM Development Team Review 2016 Agile 148

Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

TL; DR: Agile Management Anti-Patterns. Learn more about agile management anti-patterns the aspiring servant leader should avoid during the organization’s transition: From applying the Stage-Gate® approach through the back door to the ‘where is my report’ attitude to other beloved signs of applied Taylorism.

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Software Review Agile Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review 242

ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As you might imagine, having project management software helps plan, manage and track this work, but if you’re not using such tools, there are product management templates that can help you steer the course. There’s also room for user stories and, of course, requirements, features, release criteria, success metrics and more.

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Software Review Development Team Review Budget Agile 395

Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

On June 30th Christopher Handscomb and I presented a webinar based on our joint research on the topic of the value of enterprise agility. Firstly, I see Enterprise agility - building an agile organizational system - as being all about creating resilience and sustainability over time. CH - I’d like to add a couple of points.

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Agile Technical Review Development Team Review SCRUM 254

Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

If you work with Agile methods , you will likely be attending standup meetings every day. Some teams that don’t use Agile still do standups because they are a good way to catch up with everyone, especially on fast-moving projects. In Scrum, the development team attend the daily standup meeting.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 27, 2019

Scrum ceremonies are meetings that are unique to scrum teams. Scrum ceremonies ensure that everyone (the scrum master, product owner and development team) is in-sync. A sprint employs four different scrum ceremonies to ensure proper execution: sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review and sprint retrospective.

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SCRUM Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review 2011 291

ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Agile Methodology. What It Is: In a nutshell, Agile project management is an evolving and collaborative way to self-organize across teams. The agile methodology offers project teams a very dynamic way to work and collaborate and that’s why it is a very popular project management methodology for product and software development.

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Technical Review Prince2 Lean Manufacturing 505

Scrum.org

MAY 4, 2020

TL; DR: A Remote Daily Scrum with a Distributed Team. We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools; we explored virtual Liberating Structures, and how to master Zoom. This eighth article now looks into supporting a distributed Development Team organizing a remote Daily Scrum.

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SCRUM Agile Technical Review Development Team Review 215

The IIL Blog

JULY 31, 2024

Based on the needs analysis, project leadership typically develops a business case and charters a project. These steps occur whether the project team uses the traditional waterfall (or phased) project methodology or a more iterative, agile project methodology. With the latter, the charter might evolve over time.

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Technical Review Development Team Review 2013 Underperforming Technical Team 88

Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

I recently attend the Professional Scrum Master II (PSM II) course and I'd like to share my thoughts with you about it. . I am a Professional Scrum Trainer (PST) and intend to deliver the PSM II course soon. I took the course as part of the process but viewed it with my Scrum Master head and not as a PST. . First, a confession.

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Development Team Review SCRUM Leadership Agile 139

ProjectManager.com

MAY 1, 2024

Make process policies explicit and share them with your team, preferably during meetings when you can address their questions, comments or concerns. Have feedback loops, such as review stages, to deliver project deliverables that meet the standards. Be collaborative and experimental to always push for improvement.

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Software Review Manufacturing Lean Development Team Review 459

Scrum.org

MARCH 14, 2023

Agile Fluency® Model is a fantastic model. With this model, you start seeing your journey as a series of paradigm shifts and stages toward higher fluency in Agile: The Agile Fluency model has been as an inspiration for us, when we were designing Org Topologies. Without defining value, no agile transformation is possible.

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Agile Cadence Technical Review Development Team Review 225

Scrum.org

JUNE 14, 2019

The Sprint Burndown Chart that looks awesome but somehow there's still a lot of work dumped on testing towards the end of the Sprint and a scramble to try and get a Done Increment before the Sprint Review. . I'm of course talking about Kanban and Flow. Some of them organically started to look for aging WIP in their Daily Scrums.

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Development Team Review SCRUM 2007 Estimate 193

Scrum.org

AUGUST 29, 2022

The best Scrum teams that I have worked with were supported by management leaders focused on removing impediments, providing resources, and promoting an agile mindset and culture that supports the Scrum values. Making it more challenging are the agile leadership myths out there that can get in the way of being effective.

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Leadership Agile SCRUM Development Team Review 229

Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Optimise the value of the work the Development Team perform Talk with customers. Ensure that the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all, and shows what the Scrum Team will work on next. Ensure the Development Team understands items in the Product Backlog to the level needed. The Development Team.

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Development Team Review 2017 SCRUM Estimate 169

Project Bliss

MAY 10, 2017

Everybody’s talking about agile software development these days: project managers, software developers, IT directors, small startups and big corporations. What is Agile Software Development? Agile software development is an approach that promotes delivering value quickly to the customer.

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Software Developers Software Development Software Review Agile 191

Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

If you are looking to fill a position for a Scrum Master (or agile coach) in your organization, you may find the following 47 interview questions useful to identify the right candidate. These should allow an interviewer to deep dive into a candidate’s understanding of Scrum and her agile mindset. Question 14: A Good User Story.

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SCRUM Planning Development Team Review Technical Review 240

Project Bliss

MAY 24, 2017

Agile is a popular term these days, and you likely hear it a lot. But what is it and what’s the difference between agile vs waterfall methodology? By the end, you’ll have a high-level understanding of each and how work is done in agile vs waterfall. In this post I’ll do the following for you: Explain Agile.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 4, 2022

TL; DR: Business Agility, Scrum and Generative AI’s Take on Getting There. I thought it might be fun to ask ChatGPT a few questions about business agility in general and Scrum in particular. . ???? You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 36,000-plus other subscribers. ??

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ChatGPT Generative AI SCRUM Agile 213

Scrum.org

MARCH 2, 2020

Learn how individual incentives and outdated organizational structures — fostering personal agendas and local optimization efforts — manifest themselves in Scrum stakeholder anti-patterns which easily can impede any agile transition. The early majority of organizations are already adopting BDD/DDD or Pragmatic Agility.).

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SCRUM Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 243

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. But we can't ignore the differences in lingo.

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SCRUM Development Team Review Technical Review Cadence 172

Scrum.org

JANUARY 27, 2020

Many teams and organizations struggle to get the most out of Scrum. In my previous post “Don’t blame “agile” for existing problems” I shared my analysis why agile or Scrum itself often gets the blame. Development Team – Why your Scrum Doesn’t work (2/3). Originally posted on www.debooij.training. Product Owner.

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SCRUM Development Team Review Closing Executing 229

LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Agile means a lot of different things to different project teams. Many teams I meet describe themselves as “Agilish” or use “Scrumerfall”. These teams struggle with Agile practices as business analysts author reams of business requirements only to have a development team write the user stories.

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Agile Software Review Development Team Review Certification 144

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 12, 2020

On the one side, they address typical Scrum events such as Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and the Sprint Retrospective. November 19, 2020 : If you use Scrum then join the free Hands-on Agile meetup—it will be worth your time ! But this only happens if a Scrum Team is certain about the quality of the Product Backlog items in question.

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SCRUM Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review 234

Scrum.org

APRIL 27, 2020

It is planned by the Product Owner that the increment that will be inspected tomorrow will be released at the end of the Sprint Review. The Scrum Master says, "The team stays until 9:00 p.m. Is this behavior really aligned with the sustainable pace advocated by the Agile Manifesto and Scrum's values ? . Are you certain?

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Development Team Review Sustainability SCRUM Risk Management 224

Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

I have been in software development for 23+ years and have worked on various technologies and have played the role of a developer, analyst, project manager, delivery manager, scrum master, product owner, and coach. The Product Owner may do the above work, or have the Development Team do it. There are two ways to think?

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SCRUM Development Team Review Certification Software Developers 214

Scrum.org

MARCH 12, 2020

Isn’t a Product Owner some kind of an Agile Project Manager? Before we dive into an overview of the differences between a Product Owner and a Project Project Manager, let’s start with the conclusion first, which is: The Product Owner is not an Agile Project Manager. Meaning that a Product Owner is not an Agile Project Manager.

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Prince2 Development Team Review SCRUM Budget 47

ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Scrum, an agile framework for small teams, especially harnesses the benefits of retrospection. The entire team is present for the sprint retrospective. That includes the Scrum Master, the product owner, the development team and everyone who is designing, building and testing the product. Who’s Involved?

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SCRUM Development Team Review Agile Software Review 336

The IIL Blog

JULY 24, 2024

Predictive, Agile, and Lean/Kanban form the boundaries. Agile (Scrum). An adaptive approach with empowered, self-organizing teams. Mostly traditional structures with integrated agile practices. Hybrid-Agile. Gate reviews mark the completion of each phase. Phase reviews may be informal or not used.

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2024 Lean Software Review Sustainability 78

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Scrum is a popular Agile project management framework that has been adopted by organizations worldwide. A scrum master is a critical member of a scrum team, responsible for facilitating the process and ensuring the team follows scrum practices. Removing obstacles that may impede the team’s progress.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The Project Manager is typically concerned with day-to-day progress of the Development Team. They rarely (or never) miss a Daily Scrum, they’re involved during the Daily Scrum and it might just be that they’re asking individual team members what they’ve done, what they’re going to do and if there’s anything blocking them.

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Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review Governance Government 110