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Summary and review: The lean-agile way

Henny Portman

The book “ The Lean-Agile Way – Unleash Business Results in the Digital Era with Value Stream Management ” by Cecil ‘Gary’ Rupp, Richard Knaster, Steve Pereira, and Al Shalloway provides a comprehensive roadmap to optimize processes, improve products, and enhance service delivery.

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"Why can?t we plan Sprints accurately with velocity?"

Scrum.org

At the Sprint Planning, we would ask the team if there are any other expected drains on our time, such as people having booked vacations or other meetings in the calendar. . So that gives us 10 days x 5 people x 6 hours per day - 300 hours of capacity. Why is making accurate Sprint forecasts important anyway?

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The Agile Fluency Model with Diana Larsen

Scrum.org

Delivering teams deliver on the market cadence. Diana co-authored several influential books: Liftoff: Start and Sustain Successful Agile Teams, 2nd ed. The Agile Fluency® Model is based on four zones reflecting a team’s progress in becoming agile. Quote: Focusing teams produce business value.

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 Executive’s Guide To Large-Scale Agile Transformation & Sustaining An Adaptive Enterprise w/ Mike Cottmeyer

Leading Agile

The three systems include a System of Delivery, a System of Transformation, and a System of Sustainability. – [Announcer] This is Mike Cottmeyer’s talk from Agile Arizona, The Executive’s Guide to Large-Scale Agile Transformation and Sustaining an Adaptive Enterprise. And so sustainable business agility.

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Is SAFe Agile?

Leading Agile

You have ceremonies and cadences, ways you track progress, techniques for safely writing, testing, and deploying software; and various roles and responsibilities that make up a typical Agile team. Maybe even generating revenue that will help sustain future development. You either break dependencies or you manage them.

Agile 133
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Do you deliver dazzling demos?

Kiron Bondale

DO send meeting invitations well in advance and if you are following a standard sprint or iteration cadence (e.g. DON’T book demos on Friday afternoons to avoid having stakeholders who are absent in body or mind. Here are some do’s and don’ts to help increase the value your team gets out of demos.

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4 Common Misconceptions About Agile Transformation

Leading Agile

That having weekly planning cadences; daily standups, reviews, and retrospectives would give people a reason to get in the same room and collaborate. It is possible to do Scrum by the book and not create the results. That help them run the business, achieve key performance results, and sustain the company into the future.

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