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The Rhythmic Dance of Agile with Cadence

MPUG

Now, you might be thinking what exactly a dance has to do with cadence in Agile? Let’s start first with the definition of cadence. Cadence – Definition and Basics. One can define cadence in Agile as follows: Cadence is a regular, predictable pattern of development work in Agile. Working with Single Cadence.

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9 Best Practices for Your Daily Scrum Meeting

Project Bliss

When my team first started holding a daily scrum meeting, it honestly felt awkward. From the lessons I’ve learned through experience, I’ve compiled nine best practices that have helped our daily scrum meetings stay focused and efficient. The Purpose of the Daily Scrum Meeting. Keep the Daily Scrum Meeting Short.

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Employee Engagement and Professional Scrum - Part 1 of 5

Scrum.org

However, applying frameworks like Scrum or Kanban in a professional manner will often lead to improvements in engagement, and that will be reflected in future survey results. Matt's next Online Professional Scrum Master class will run October 18 - 19, 2022. Stay tuned for more! ? Click here to learn more. ?.

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Professionalism in Scrum. What does it mean to be a Professional

Scrum.org

Doing Scrum is not enough! The precious result will not be achieved just by understanding and following the rules and principles of the Scrum Framework. Every day organisations are starting and failing with business agility, praise and blame Scrum. And everyday organisations are succeeding with Scrum! Professional /pr??f???nl/

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Scrum Events Reduce Meetings

Scrum.org

One of the first things that I usually hear after describing the Scrum framework and its five events to someone new to Scrum is, “that’s a lot of meetings!” . . Only the Daily Scrum happens every day, and that event has a 15-minute timebox. The first event in Scrum is the Sprint. The Sprint. Sprint Planning.

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Using OKRs with Scrum and Evidence Based Management

Scrum.org

When used with Scrum and the value-based metrics of the Evidence Based Management (EBM) framework, the ability for the enterprise to inspect and adapt its initiatives in order to meet the challenges of disruptive change increases both the relevance and outcomes driven by OKRs supported by Scrum's empiricism. .

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5  misconceptions about Scrum's Sprint Event

Scrum.org

Many well-meaning Scrum practitioners have misconceptions about Scrum, which sometimes leads to creating “rules” that do not exist in the framework. Scrum is deliberately incomplete because the framework is used in complex environments where simple best practices won’t fit all situations.

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