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Do you deliver dazzling demos?

Kiron Bondale

Demos, or showcases as they are sometimes called, are a critical ceremony when they are run effectively as they address multiple project delivery objectives in a single event including: Validating that what the team has completed to date is valuable from the perspective of their customer and other key stakeholders. committed vs. completed).

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Seven Sins of Reviews

Kiron Bondale

Whether your team sets a regular cadence for external product reviews or they are conducted on a just-in-time basis, it is important to get actionable feedback. Holding a demo rather than a two-way exchange. But conducting a review is not just a matter of bringing people together.

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Improving SAFe Through Professional Scrum

Scrum.org

SAFe has a cadence at the Team and Program levels. The team-level cadence is called Iterations but other than that different name is almost identical to the Scrum Sprint. It also includes System Demos, Continuous Integration, Minimum Viable Products, and others in order to deal better with uncertainty. Well, let's unpack this.

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Myth: Scrum is a Waste of Time

Scrum.org

These events need to happen on a cadence of one month per less to ensure that the team is collaborating frequently enough to reduce risk (the Sprint). It’s not juts a demo, it’s an opportunity to inspect the increment that was delivered and to collaborate with Stakeholders on what would add the most value in the future.

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How to Use Flow Metrics to Optimize Product Delivery

Scrum.org

Armed with the data, you can set realistic deadlines, allocate resources efficiently, and prevent delays that might disrupt your delivery cadence. ActionableAgile has a nice explanation and demo video on how and when to run a Monte Carlo simulation using their tool. This metric is purely an output measure.

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Tips from the trenches: How to Start Up Three new Scrum teams Simultaneously.

Scrum.org

We created the Sprint Review agenda which made them discover all the stuff they need to prepare each Sprint to be ready for the Review: Iterating over the team goals, clarifying the Sprint Goal, sharing their challenges, demo the result, collecting feedback, discuss metrics. Synchronizing the Sprints.

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Comparing Nexus and SAFe - Similarities, Differences, potential synergies

Scrum.org

Empiricism via working integrated increments every Sprint - System Demo & Nexus Sprint Review meeting a common Definition of “Done”. The Nexus Sprint Review and the System Demo are similar events happening on a similar cadence - every several weeks (Sprint/Iteration). What’s appropriate is a matter of context of course. .

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