The IIL Blog

JULY 31, 2024

In her book, The Content Strategy Toolkit , Meghan Casey says, “The first key to getting stakeholders on board and aligned is to have empathy for where they are starting from. I like to do assessments from time to time, beyond the regular meetings and updates. Both can help to scope the work and serve as a reference during development.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The term scrum was introduced in a “Harvard Business Review” article from 1986 by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka. It became a part of agile when Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle wrote the book “Agile Software Development with Scrum” in 2001. Get work management software that fits with every methodology.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 18, 2019

As project managers, it’s important that we know how to best support our development teams (and vice versa), especially in Agile environments. At White October, we encourage direct communication between the development team and clients. This is a guest post from Elisa Cepale. Elisa Cepale.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 21, 2019

He literally wrote the book about it, It’s All in How You Slice It , which came out in 2005. For example, a user story might be written like this, “As a project manager, I want to print out my Gantt chart, so I can review it regularly on my office wall.” The idea of user story mapping can be traced back to Jeff Patton.

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Epicflow Blog

JULY 5, 2024

Reporting and analytics A robust capacity planning tool should generate reports and dashboards with insights into resource availability and capacity, allocation, and utilization, which will help managers track resource performance and assess the efficiency of project work. Top 15 Capacity Planning Tools 1.

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Kiron Bondale

AUGUST 8, 2021

As our family is a long standing team, the Develop Team process is less relevant than the Manage Team one and significant effort has been spent to ensure that team members are engaged, motivated and focused! It’s available on Amazon.com and on Amazon.ca as well as a number of other online book stores).

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Scrum.org

JULY 25, 2022

Go through the following open assessments several times until you pass them with 100% in less than 10 minutes. The texts in the feedback (after submitting the open assessment) contain a lot of helpful information. Please note that the book is based on the Scrum Guide 2017. Read the Scrum Glossary carefully .

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

And that demand causes the market-entry of new professionals from other project management branches, probably believing that reading one or two Scrum books will be sufficient. An excellent suggestion on the part of your candidate would be for the Scrum Team to participate in gathering qualitative signals by taking part in user interviews.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 12, 2020

Other teams hold their meetings around the Kanban board or whiteboard so everyone can refer to that if they need to. In Scrum, the development team attend the daily standup meeting. Agile team roles are quite specific, and yet, at the same time, you often find everyone mucking in to get the job done in a multi-skilled team.

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Scrum.org

MAY 5, 2020

Due to the COVID-19 crisis, chances are that everyone in your organization is working from home. This includes your Product Owner and Development Team. Start a virtual book club. With your Scrum Team or within the wider organization, start a book club. Pick a book, a blog post or a podcast to start with.

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Kiron Bondale

JULY 25, 2021

But what about changes to the team’s way of working (WoW)? Whether a team uses a scheduled cadence for reviewing their WoW such as the use of retrospectives in Scrum, or they use a just-in-time approach they will come up with improvement ideas. Some of those ideas will be all or nothing.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 15, 2022

What [shall we] do when a product requires many development teams? Your emphasis on teams that include all of the many stakeholders implies that everyone needs to have a basic understanding of every aspect of the product and delivery. His most recent book, Forever Employable , was published in June 2020.

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Leading Answers

JUNE 22, 2022

This is part one in a series on leading agile teams from the Beyond Agile book. We will examine what leadership entails and how it applies to agile teams. There are over 70,000 published English-language books on leadership. Instead, it recommends leaders build leadership teams that comprise all the necessary skills.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 12, 2020

As per Scrum Guide – The Sprint Goal is an objective that will be met within the sprint by implementing the Product Backlog , and it guides the Development Team on why it is building the Increment. The scrum team discusses what can be done based on the definition of done and crafts the Sprint Goal and forecast their work.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Dive into how leveraging custom GPTs might offer a novel path through Scrum’s common hurdles, focusing on creating actual customer value in the face of organizational and team-level challenges. ? Your single best investment to improve your professional standing ; order the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now! ?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Even though it’s a short daily get together, it helps to have some fun standup meeting ideas to break the monotony and keep team morale high. In Scrum, the development team attend the daily standup meeting. Depending on your agile team structure , you might choose the attendees at the daily standup differently.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 11, 2021

They have to be able to create the right ideas for value and be expert at communicating those ideas to the Development Team. Your goal therefore should be to be reading at least 1-2 books per month that help you get better at being a Product Owner. Here is a solid list of books to get you started in the right direction.

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Digite

MARCH 12, 2018

We started with a single Kanban board, but with 2 separate swim lanes for the product manager and the dev team – see below – Planning Lane for the Product Owner. Dev Lane for the main dev activity. The Dev board value stream follows a Test Driven Development flow. Our Kanban Journey.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

This is not a manager or decision-maker but instead serves the team by helping them to be more effective. Removing obstacles that may impede the team’s progress. Ensuring that the team follows scrum practices and guidelines. Shielding the team from external distractions and interruptions.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 27, 2020

Development Team – Why your Scrum Doesn’t work (2/3). The posts are based on my own experience when I practiced the roles of Development Team (member), Product Owner, and Scrum Master. You are the only one who decides what the Development Team will work on in future Sprints. Product Owner.

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Scrum.org

MAY 19, 2020

. This post is an excerpt from the book we’re writing, the ‘ Zombie Scrum Survival Guide ’. Sprint Planning takes place at the start of the Sprint, the Daily Scrum once every 24 hours, a Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective at the end of the Sprint. Zombie Scrum Teams show no response to a failed Sprint or even a successful Sprint.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 11, 2023

More things to think about come from Marty Cagan's “Inspired” book. The tool: Product Opportunity Assessment (POA): What problem will this solve? Does it fit into the product portfolio? Can the user use it? How do we earn money with it? Who are we solving a problem for and how big is that market?

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Over my 15 years of experience with Scrum, I’ve observed velocity-driven and capacity-driven sprint planning as our ways of working when we figure out the amount of work the development team can take during a sprint. The development team decided to set a WIP limit of 10 on its Ready column based on its throughput run chart.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 22, 2021

Your candidate should not align themselves with the fallacy that a team’s adoption of Scrum is working only because a Scrum Team’s forecasts and velocity are aligned. Cooking the agile books is easy to do ! Trends derived from these polls are great points for discussion during a team’s Sprint Retrospectives.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

And that demand causes the market-entry of new professionals from other project management branches, probably believing that reading one or two Scrum books will be sufficient. Scrum Anti-Patterns: From Product Backlog to Sprint Review. Lack of support : The Scrum Master does not support team members who need help with a task.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 15, 2020

This post is an excerpt from the book that we’re writing, the ‘ Zombie Scrum Survival Guide ’. The Scrum Framework urges teams to involve stakeholders. But many Scrum Teams struggle to do so. We also introduce the other 5 symptoms, which will be explained in more detail in the book. Or just your audience? ”.

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Project Bliss

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

These 4 stages in the framework are still widely used for understanding group development. Team leaders can use this framework to help teams mature for better performance. And because Agile teams are self-guiding teams, this model can be helpful for them, too. How to Use this Model for your Teams.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 7, 2023

You could also interview experts, review lessons learned or innovative solutions from previous projects, research what the rest of your industry is doing or consult customers on what they’d like to see. Choose the creative approach that gets you a range of options to review. There are no silly ideas at this point!

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 30, 2022

When I started my journey as a Scrum Master about 12 years ago, I read many books about Scrum. Interestingly, one of the first books I also studied was “ Extreme Programming Explained ” by Kent Beck. In order to make the start as smooth as possible, you spend lots of time with the team to practice the Scrum kickstart.

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Digite

MAY 15, 2018

In case you haven’t read Yuval’s post, basically, it presents a map of values and practices in Scrum to Kanban language, and encourages Kanban teams to approach Scrum from a practices point of view. This is probably the set of things that, regardless of the name, Scrum and Kanban teams will have the most in common.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 19, 2019

They create Spreadsheets with questions/measures to assess how well these teams, groups and branches are complying with the standard way of working. They send out Agile Coaches to assess, train and coach the teams, groups, and branches to work according to the standard process. You probably do not want this.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 12, 2020

The Product Owner also shouldn’t track and measure team progress. And the Product Owner shouldn’t manage people and resources or Development Team capacity for example. A Product Owner cares that a team has a velocity, yet he doesn’t care about the actual number or about “optimizing” it. Being a Subject Matter Expert.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

You could therefore see the Scrum Master as a teacher; A Scrum Master might be having some coaching conversations with the Product Owner, managers, customers, Development Teams and other people or stakeholders in the organization, in order to help them gain a better understanding of Scrum. This doesn't mean booking (conference) rooms.

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Scrum.org

JULY 29, 2019

It is defined in the Scrum glossary as follows: An indication of the average amount of Product Backlog turned into an Increment of product during a Sprint by a Scrum Team, tracked by the Development Team for use within the Scrum Team. Invite your manager to the Sprint Review. And that's important!

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 12, 2020

On the one side, they address typical Scrum events such as Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and the Sprint Retrospective. When a weak Development Team meets a commanding Product Owner, focusing on shipping new features, the team may end up as a feature factory, churning out new code while neglecting the technical foundation.

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nTask

JULY 7, 2021

PERT stands for the Project Evaluation and Review Technique. Well, that’s how the famous American engineer and management consultant, Harold Kerzner puts it in his book. They can also help in assessing the risks related to the project and also in eliminating them on time so that there are no issues in the future. Let’s begin.

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The IIL Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In general, the decision to have a tailored solution, ensuring it fits perfectly with company workflows, is strictly linked to the company needs, but it is also determined by the company size, as underlined in an article with a meaningful title When Should Your Company Develop Its Own Software? appeared on Harvard Business Review [7].

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