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The Difference Between Right Sizing and Same Sizing of Work Items (and Why You Should Care)

Scrum.org

Right-sizing in Agile refers to the practice of customizing the size of work items in your backlog to match their inherent complexity and effort required to the time interval of your cadence. Real-World Example of Right Sizing: Take a software development project. This allows for a more accurate assessment of the work's size.

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Release planning and predictable delivery

Scrum.org

Once you accept this, and quality becomes non-negotiable, your Dev e lopers can focus on creating usable increments of working software. Once you have usable increments of working software, you can then start to look with interest at the progress being made on features and goals. Professional Developers create working software.

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Map Your Route to Mastering Agile Fluency

Scrum.org

And in the 21st century for software development teams, this means realizing the paradigm of Continuous Delivery. And then, based on the company strategy and portfolio management decisions, an estimated number of teams to be funded, created and focused to work in that value area with that leader. In fact, it is never done.

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The Difference Between The Kanban Method and Scrum

Digite

In this article, he outlines the similarities of the two as WIP Limiting, Pull-based systems – with cadences and a focus on learning – while also explaining their differences. Scrum prescribes a cadence and that all activities happen within that timebox. If you didn’t guess, this cadence is called the sprint duration.

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New PM, New Choices

Leading Answers

Likewise, there are defined, repeatable IT projects that can (and have been) successfully managed using meticulous planning, detailed estimation, and formal change control procedures. Here, formal planning and estimation are difficult because we don’t know what we will encounter. Consider the process of designing a new car or home.

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Don’t Say NoGet Them to Understand Your Team Delivery Capacity

Leading Agile

Let’s say that on average stakeholders request a couple of large items, a couple of medium-sized ones, and five small ones in any given cadence, iteration, release, or whatever unit of time your organization uses for such matters. In a typical cadence, stakeholders ask you to complete 12.5 things, and you agree.

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Is SAFe® (Scaled Agile Framework®) not Agile?

Agilemania

It is for large-scale software development teams of 50-125 people on multiple projects but wants to still adopt the best Agile practices, despite their size. Working Software over Comprehensive Documentation :- SAFe reemphasizes and uses working software as the means of progress towards achieving the objectives.

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