Xebia

MARCH 19, 2024

Are you a developer who has to put up with a bitter manager? A Scrum Master struggling to survive under the tyranny of micromanagement? A Product Owner who feels like they’re being sucked dry by an overbearing Agile coach? Or maybe a manager, leader, or coach who wants to understand how to support their team better?

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JULY 14, 2020

The goal of this post is to give teams a solid introduction on how to have not-sucky Sprint Retrospectives. Retrospectives are explicitly part of Scrum – “ The Sprint Retrospective is an opportunity for the Scrum Team to inspect itself and create a plan for improvements to be enacted during the next Sprint.”

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scruminc

AUGUST 25, 2021

Should I Be A Scrum Master? 6 Questions To Determine If This Scrum Role Is Right For You. by Avi Schneier | August 25, 2021 | Blog. Expertly trained Scrum Masters are in high demand. Effective Scrum Masters are critical for the success of any Agile organization. Scrum Masters are passionate about outcomes.

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Evolution4all

AUGUST 5, 2018

I have recently been talking with several organisation leaders about Why Agile Portfolio Management is crucial. I have the opportunity to point out several challenges experienced by many organisations today, and I am tackling these in this blog post: The connection of company strategies to everyday operations seemed to be difficult.

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Gorilla Logic

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

“ My Scrum Master scheduled all these meetings, but they are taking time away from my actual work!”. I’ve seen some people struggle with the amount of meetings that revolve around an Agile implementation, but these spaces where the team members come together are priceless. Scrum ceremonies are where the magic happens!

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scruminc

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Using Scrum To Improve Cybersecurity In The Department of Defense. by Denise Jarvie | December 2, 2020 | Blog. Failure to keep pace with the innovation of ‘bad actors’ turns the software we rely on into unguarded digital flanks ripe for exploitation and attack. Software is ubiquitous.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

OCTOBER 12, 2021

When last we left our World’s Smallest Online Bookstore team, their Sprint was rocky. As a result, they had the more effective Sprint Planning that we discussed in the last blog post. The team set “Have basic reader review system in place so book buyers can see a variety of opinions about a book” as their Sprint Goal.

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Evolution4all

AUGUST 5, 2018

In this blog post, I will explore how a matrix organisational structure built in the style of a matrix organisation can harm your company. Spotify’s document about tribes and guilds became extremely popular in the Agile community. This approach is extremely common nowadays when companies start to implement Agile.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JUNE 12, 2019

Hardening Sprints are one of the most common kinds of Scrum Anti-Patterns: ways of addressing recurring problems that seem like effective solutions at the time but in fact hamper productivity or create more problems later on. In software development work, a design pattern is a description of a solution to a recurring problem.

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Xicom

JULY 29, 2021

But, writing the lines of code or the number of hours spent at the office is not how you evaluate the effectiveness of a software developer in doing their job. Because in today’s competitive industry, like software development, quality almost eclipses the quantity of the job done. The budget increased by 160% more than the original.

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MagmaLabs

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Reading Time: 3 minutes Retrospectives are used frequently at MagmaLabs to give teams the opportunity to pause and reflect on how things have been going. Having Retrospectives frequently and regularly supports a team to continuously improve their performance – but what’s the best way to go about it? What did not work at all.

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Planbox

OCTOBER 3, 2018

How to manage the transformation to Agile Scrum with success. Agile Scrum methodology has been implemented in many product software companies for quite some time, but even the companies that have not made use of software development are beginning to jump on board the Agile train. . Resistance to Change.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

DECEMBER 10, 2019

One of the more frequently asked questions in my Scrum workshops is around the difference between Definition of “Done” and Acceptance Criteria , and how they relate to User Stories. While Acceptance Criteria is a commonly understood concept in software development, Definition of “Done” is unique to Scrum. User Stories.

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scruminc

JUNE 3, 2021

by the Scrum Inc. Team | June 3 , 2021 | Blog. You can start by focusing on these two areas: Team happiness and hopes – talk with or survey teams, team members, and leaders. Ask them directly about the good and bad of full remote vs. colocation. But consider the updated 2020 Scrum Guide.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

In Scrum, Product Backlog Refinement is an essential meeting of the Product Owner and the Development Team to gain clarity and a shared understanding of what needs to be done through discussion and sharing of ideas. Paula – the Product Owner of Steve’s team. Getting Ready for Product Backlog Refinement.

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OTS Solutions

DECEMBER 22, 2023

With the implementation of these technologies, you can achieve a more agile, customer-centric streamlined, and efficient business. While a transformation project is in its early phases, developers should consider this and look for the most user-friendly integrated systems.

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scruminc

JULY 30, 2020

We asked the team what books they are currently nose-deep in, or that they highly recommend others check-out. Jessica Larsen, Product Owner, Scrum Inc. For me, this book provided great empirical evidence and theoretical basis for why the Scrum Values and pillars of the Toyota Way are so important in the workplace.

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UruIT

MAY 20, 2021

We asked him a few questions to learn from his experience with this digital product, and asked him to share the lessons he has learned in the path that took him from his early career stages as a developer to the role he has now. After working as Sr PM for Instapage, the worldwide leader in landing page creation, I lead two teams at Postclick.

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scruminc

AUGUST 16, 2019

For 2019 we’re expanding the suggestions from the Scrum Inc. Team to include podcasts and even some TV shows. Jeff Sutherland, Founder and Principal Consultant of Scrum Inc. and co-creator of Scrum recommends: " Co unterpart " American Sci-Fi Thriller Series (TV). McCaul's favorite Scrum role is that of Scrum Master.

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Coveros

APRIL 29, 2021

As an Agile Coach, Scrum Master, and instructor, I meet and interact with many people who have used Value Stream Mapping to successfully transform product and service delivery by focusing on value delivery to their customers and eliminating waste in delivering that value. Wikipedia – [link]. Creating a Value Stream Map.

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scruminc

OCTOBER 2, 2020

A $90 Billion Annual Opportunity for the Scrum and Agile Community. by Denise Jarvie, Avi Schneier , with Tom Bullock | October 2, 2020 | Blog. Government has a significant software development problem. And they’re embracing Agile to do just that. . Denise Jarvie is a consultant now working with Scrum Inc.

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Derek Huether

APRIL 24, 2018

This post focuses on an organization's desired to have its Scrum Delivery Team predictably meeting its release or milestone commitments. Understand Goals and Outcomes of Going Agile Your journey toward greater business agility starts by identifying what outcomes are most important to your company’s success.

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scruminc

APRIL 24, 2020

What Happens to Managers in Scrum? . by Tom Bullock , Dave Slaten , Avi Schneier | April 23, 2020 | Blog. This post is part of our new ScrumCast series of conversations with thought leaders who have successfully helped transform organizations and empower teams and individuals. There’s a word missing in the Scrum Guide.

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scruminc

MAY 11, 2022

Value Stream Management, Mapping & Agile: The High-Performance Compliment. by The Scrum Inc. Team | March 11, 2022 | Blog. Accumulating excess inventory due to poor projections or workflow production? . Makes silos visible to spot points of weakness/vulnerabilities in the system. Kirk Gould, Scrum Inc.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

MARCH 4, 2020

Drawing on his 40 years in the software industry, GeePaw’s solution is to develop a thick culture in which certain standards are established across the industry. How the doubling rate resulted in a lack of leaders that can develop an industry discipline (6:34). Developing a common language of change in the trade (24:24).

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Codegiant

AUGUST 15, 2021

Like I conveyed in my “The Ultimate Workplace Productivity Guide You Should Read to Get Things Done” blog post, I love starting things off with a quote. While producing this blog post, I collaborated with our in-house software development team. Deadlines are any software development team’s biggest nightmare.

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Codegiant

AUGUST 15, 2021

Like I conveyed in my “The Ultimate Workplace Productivity Guide You Should Read to Get Things Done” blog post, I love starting things off with a quote. While producing this blog post, I collaborated with our in-house software development team. These days, packages are ever-changing.

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scruminc

MARCH 26, 2021

It Just Won’t Work: Dispelling The Myth Of Agile In Shared Services. by Robert Woods | March 26, 2021 | Blog. “It As an Agile consultant, that’s what I hear on a pretty regular basis coming from Shared Services teams. Agile just won’t work here. But it’s important to understand what Agile actually is. . .

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

MAY 22, 2020

And then two years later, I switched to the engineering side of the organization where I currently lead team-building marketing automation solutions, bringing Data Science and Machine Learning to solve these problems for our customers. And we also have dedicated teams to look into some of this. Alfred: Great. Vatsan: Well.

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Altexsoft

OCTOBER 25, 2019

This article will guide you through all the steps of a new product development (NPD) process and give you some insights into implementing best practices en route from a pure idea to roll-out and selling. What is a new product development process? Put together, these efforts compose a new product development (NPD) process.

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LaunchDarkly

JANUARY 14, 2020

At the November Test in Production Meetup in San Francisco, LaunchDarkly’s Yoz Grahame (a Developer Advocate) moderated a panel discussion featuring Larry Lancaster, Founder and CTO at Zebrium, and Ramin Khatibi, a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and infrastructure consultant. So, I guess I’m a bad expert on process.

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Gorilla Logic

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

When it comes to PI planning using a scaled Agile framework, some of the main questions people have are: . • Isn’t the point of Agile to be more flexible, plan constantly, and in iterations? . A better way to look at this plan is as a set of objectives that the teams are committing to. The team can focus on writing code.

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Gorilla Logic

JULY 28, 2020

When working through an Agile transformation, many organizations struggle to efficiently re-organize delivery teams. Although you won’t find specific mention in the Agile Manifesto or the 12 Principles , most Agile frameworks (such as Scrum and XP) note that Agile teams should strive to be cross-functional.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

When it comes to organising engineering teams, a popular view has been to organise your teams based on either Spotify's agile model (i.e. squads, chapters, tribes, and guilds) or simply follow Amazon's two-pizza team model. It is one of the ways you can organise your engineering teams in a retail environment.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 9, 2020

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Rich Mironov, discuss the all too common disconnect between developers and those on the marketing side of organizations. How Rich helps marketers/sales develop a more useful frame for engineering (10:01). Where does product management fit between sales and development? (26:31).

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scruminc

MAY 10, 2022

by Kamaria Hill | May 10, 2022 | Blog. Value Stream Management allows you to determine the measurable flow of value, where value delivery is slowed down, as well as create opportunities for better alignment & collaboration among teams. Listen in as Scrum Inc.’s Andrew Robbins: I work at Scrum Inc.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JANUARY 25, 2024

Before that, cloud computing itself took off in roughly 2010 (AWS was founded in 2006); and Agile goes back to 2000 (the Agile Manifesto dates back to 2001, Extreme Programming to 1999). Remember that these “units” are “viewed” by our users, who are largely professional software developers and programmers. What does this mean?

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