Scrum.org

APRIL 11, 2019

I was working with various groups over the last year and noticed some commonalities in the problems they faced. The PO’s are then unsure what needs to be developed. I advise to start finding one person to be the single Product Owner for all teams. The Product Owner should develop an inspiring vision and a plan to make it happen.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 1, 2022

Long has spoonfeeding solutions and off-the-shelf feature descriptions prevailed in many development teams. Although some issues might have been fixed, I rarely see the full potential of a Scrum Team being achieved. Going all-in on predefined features fails to capitalize on hidden ideas in the brains of team members.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 22, 2021

Your Scrum team is consistently failing to meet commitments, and its velocity is volatile. How would you address this issue with the team? If a Scrum Team is exhibiting a volatile velocity, consistently failing to meet their forecasts, it suggests that velocity is being used as the prevalent metric for measuring that team’s progress.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

TL; DR: 15 Sprint Review Anti-Patterns. Answering this question in a collaborative effort of the Scrum Team as well as internal (and external) stakeholders is the purpose of the Sprint Review. Given its importance, it is worthwhile to tackle the most common Sprint Review anti-patterns. Are we still on the right track?

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Scrum.org

JUNE 22, 2019

For years, I’ve fulfilled the role of Scrum Master for many different organizations and Scrum Teams. These teams were mostly focused on software development. These organizations were able to attract the smartest developers and create products customers loved. Sprint Review at Schiphol Airport with lot’s of stakeholders.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 7, 2022

Recently, the concept of “fluid teams”, “dynamic reteaming” or “ad-hoc teaming” has gained traction in the Agile community. Although the concept has many different definitions, a characteristic they share is that members move in and out of a team during its lifetime. The need for fluid teams.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Long has spoon-feeding solutions and off-the-shelf feature descriptions prevailed in many development teams. Although some issues might have been fixed, I rarely see the full potential of a Scrum Team being achieved. Going all-in on predefined features fails to capitalize on hidden ideas in the brains of team members.

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nTask

DECEMBER 8, 2020

These qualifications have evolved due to the challenges that are faced by the companies in the project management paradigm – and that too on daily basis. They will help improve the communication channels that are present in the company, resulting in improved communication and collaboration between the team leaders and project managers.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Scrum has proven time and again to be the most popular framework for software development. Scrum Anti-Patterns: From Product Backlog to Sprint Review. More critical, however, is when the Scrum Master decides to keep the team in the dark about principles and practices to secure his or her job.

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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. We can create backlogs and release plans all we like, but until there is a motivated team with a shared vision of the end goal, it is like trying to push a rope—ineffective.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 29, 2024

( Japanese version・日本語版 ) When picturing an effective and truly agile product development team, one often imagines a software development team, pushing some software to production every day, maybe multiple times a day, ala Amazon. But most teams that try it find out that the benefits exceed the costs.

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Project Bliss

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Projects stay interesting with new challenges, opportunities to collaborate with teams, and the satisfaction of delivering value and solutions. You need strong leadership and communication skills, which you can develop during your work in any level of project management. And a project manager role can be fulfilling and interesting.

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Planio

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Rituals tie your team together, creating a shared purpose and a powerful culture. While everyone has their own routines to help them maximize productivity, team rituals create a sense of togetherness and motivation that takes performance to the next level. Jump to a section: What are team rituals? What are team rituals?

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Whether you are just starting out, developing your project manager resume, or a seasoned professional, mastering the Project Management Buzzwords is non-negotiable. Agile team A cross-functional group of individuals (e.g., Business case An organization will develop a document to justify the investment in a project (i.e.,

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

But many teams struggle with this rule. An increment is considered “Done” by the Development Team, but requires further testing and stabilization in the next Sprint. Or work is considered “Done” by the Development Team, but the install package still needs to be created. It is tempting to fall into “shades of Done”.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 19, 2018

A great Scrum Master is able to facilitate an event that leads to a high-quality decision that is owned by the whole group attending that event. . By default, the Scrum Master facilitates the Scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospectives or even a Product Backlog refinement session.

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Project Bliss

MAY 24, 2017

When you finish reading this post, you’ll have a better understanding of each, what each looks like when applied to a simple project, and reasons why each might be good or bad approaches for your team. The team repeats the same steps over and over. The team also reassess the work as they develop the solution.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Our Business Lending product is being developed by more than 20 teams spread across 3 sites. Each team contains business, IT and operations skills. Previously, I was involved in setting up a retail bank from scratch and in the development of mortgages solutions. My talk was about programmers in large scale development.

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nTask

AUGUST 22, 2019

The term Agile refers to a way of managing projects that incorporates constant improvement, scope flexibility, team involvement, and delivering crucial quality products. This method often results in low-quality products due to delays in milestones, financial issues and lack of prioritized characteristics for the products.

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Leading Answers

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

The project communications management plan outlines how all the various stakeholder groups will be kept informed of progress and issues. Demos  – Having the team demonstrate increments of functionality at the end of every iteration shows what the project has achieved to date. Let’s examine a few….

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Would you recommend formal Daily Scrums for all teams, no matter the size or experience level? Daily Scrums are an important part of Scrum, but not all Daily Scrums need to be formal — a Development Team should not have a Daily Scrum for the sake of having it; it serves a different purpose than ticking off a box on a checklist.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In both instances I was happily working as a developer and some form of team lead, when over a short period of time my role in the organization changed significantly and I faced serious challenges in learning completely new ways of working. . I couldn’t review all the code or be in on every discussion and decision.

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Planio

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Have you ever had one of those bad dreams where you keep making the same mistake over and over again? Now, what if that dream became your team’s reality? If you feel like your team keeps making the same mistakes over and over, they probably are. Agile teams made retrospectives popular, but they work for any team.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Development teams and stakeholders can “see” how they connect. Stretched goals are a great way to grow but often teams simply don’t see themselves getting there. Focus means that a product team should only be pursuing a single goal at the time. . Try aligning your Product Goals with quarterly business reviews.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Let’s start with team size. According to the Scrum Guide , Optimal Development Team size is small enough to remain nimble and large enough to complete significant work within a Sprint […] Large Development Teams generate too much complexity for an empirical process to be useful. Task Focus.

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Leading Answers

DECEMBER 21, 2017

My first opportunity to create and run a large agile team did not start well. Having had good successes with small to medium sized agile teams I was keen to unleash the benefits on a bigger scale. A clean-sheet development opportunity with a smart team and engaged business group – what could go wrong?

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Pawel Brodzinski

MARCH 6, 2025

We aspire our clients to be happy with the value we deliver for the price they pay for the whole team. While we can easily assess how many hours anyone spends on a task, the time doesn’t automatically translate to value. Not a bad outcome for a flop, eh? The same goes for value assessment in most of the knowledge work.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Am I a bad interviewer? . The Scrum Master serves the Development Team . It would then make most sense for a scrum master to be interviewed by a diverse group, each with a stake in the success of the candidate. A proposed hiring team for a scrum master may look like. Development Team members.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 25, 2022

How sustainable is your pace as a developer? This has always been a huge struggle for us and most of the teams we’ve been part of. Unfortunately, many developers and development teams still burn more hours than are probably good for them. The initial practice was for developers to work no more than 40 hours a week.

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Agilemania

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Scrum is a lightweight agile framework that encourages team members to work on a problem together. It helps teams to gather knowledge from experience and learn self-organization through working on an issue. . Scrum encourages teams to improve by reflecting on their success and losses. . The Scrum Master.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 14, 2021

The Nexus group of teams is very similar to the Agile Release Train (ART) construct. In both SAFe/Scrum it is a self-managing team of self-managed teams with a couple of key roles at the team of teams level. . Nexus Integration Team (NIT) - System Team. Nexus - ART. Important Differences.

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Binfire

MARCH 6, 2018

Too bad these companies do not advertise how they organize their workforce and share with everyone the amazing benefits they get from turning their companies into Agile enterprises. The bad news; Bringing Agile to traditional organizations is not easy. Some executives try to take a middle ground and make the development team Agile.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 8, 2024

Malinawan, PMP Navigating the complexities of modern project management demands a sophisticated comprehension of the Development Approach and Life Cycle Performance Domain. Delve deep into this insightful guide crafted to unravel the intricacies of Development Approaches. By: Meredith G.

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Agilemania

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The role and responsibilities of the product owner includes identifying the business needs & market opportunities, establishing project objectives, and managing the product development process from ideation to final release. Top In-demand Product Owner Certifications. SAFe® Product Owner/ Product Manager (POPM) Training.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

In discussing the delivery capacity of a software development team, we can say “velocity” and everyone knows we mean the amount of work the team can complete, on average, in a given time interval , and we don’t mean, literally, va=v+v02. Seems like it should; wouldn’t that mean the team is improving?

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The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The History of Agile Project Management Agile project management emerged in the software development industry in the late 1990s and early 2000s. In 1991 the book Rapid Application Development was published and an approach of the same name, RAD, was born. Agile projects are iterative and have regular feedback loops.

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Planio

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Project deliverables refer to any project-related output your project generates, including your team meetings and ceremonies , project artifacts, and the final products or services you deliver. But while anything can be a deliverable, the best teams are purposeful and specific with what they want to deliver.

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