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What is the Recommended Scrum Team Size?

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

The Scrum Guide offers very limited guidance, suggesting 3-9 people per team (exclusive of ScrumMaster and Product Owner), without giving reasons or context for those numbers. While this is primarily about Scrum, the lessons are applicable for any work that is collaborative and knowledge-based. Evidence from Agile Projects.

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9 tips for achieving IT service delivery excellence

CIO

Customer-centric Net Promoter Scores are equally important, he adds. “To Marcetic believes that it’s important to have a well-trained team and to place the right people in strategic roles, particularly architects and product management experts.

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A Simple Solution to Agile at Small-Scale

Net Objectives

They look to the two most popular frameworks out there for a solution (Scrum & SAFe) to solve their problems. On one hand they see something that can work at the team but doesn’t help them with their product management. I keep running across organizations with 4-10 dev teams struggling with Agile.

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Why a good tool may be more useful than a good framework

Net Objectives

The greatest diff between Kanban & Scrum is Kanban's insistence on explicit workflow which adds to Scrum's visibility of the work in process. An Agile product management tool's primary purpose is to create visibility of both workflow & of artifacts (epics->stories).

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Why teams starting out with SAFe need little SAFe training but do need ATDD up front – 6 days to #SAFeSummit

Net Objectives

I remember that my main focus was on training the managers, product managers and shared service managers. While I did do a SAFe/Scrum course for the train, I wasn’t particularly worried about them.

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Why teams starting out with SAFe need little SAFe training but do need ATDD up front – 6 days to #SAFeSummit

Net Objectives

I remember that my main focus was on training the managers, product managers & shared service managers. While I did do a SAFe/Scrum course for the train, I wasn’t particularly worried about them.

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Continuous Development: ‘Times Are a-Changin’

LaunchDarkly

As I’ve seen these changes take place over the last few years, I’ve been trying to make sense of what the faster pace of software means for product managers. There are two high-level buckets that any feature development falls into — updates to existing features and workflows and net-new functionality.