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How Rocket Mortgage Used Scaled Agile and Scrum to Dominate the Mortgage Industry

Agile Alliance

In 2000 Quicken Loans was the first company to do mortgages online and launched its Rocket Mortgage product in 2016 during the Super Bowl, quickly becoming the largest mortgage originator in the US. The post How Rocket Mortgage Used Scaled Agile and Scrum to Dominate the Mortgage Industry first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Business Agility – The Intersection of Outcomes and Efficiency

scruminc

Business Agility – The Intersection of Outcomes and Efficiency. There is a debate In the global Agile coaching and training community about whether we should focus on the outcomes or efficiency of teams. At the same time, there is the question about the difference between business agility and team agility. .

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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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AoAD2 Chapter: Teamwork (Introduction)

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. 1 When the Agile Manifesto was written, people thought about software development in terms of projects. Today, the Agile community prefers to focus on products or capabilities instead. The Agile Manifesto.

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Which Companies Use OKR? Take A Look At These Successful Companies

Luis Goncalves

It also became the largest source of breaking news, which was very evident during the 2016 US Elections wherein over 40 million election-related tweets were posted during that day. We provide Team Coaching , Agile Training and Agile Consulting , OKR Training and OKR Consulting , Innovation Training and Innovation Consulting.

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How to Use Metrics to Reach Better Business Outcomes

Derek Huether

This post focuses on an organization's desired to have its Scrum Delivery Team predictably meeting its release or milestone commitments. Theory: Monitoring Goals A journal article* from 2016 supports the suggestion that monitoring goal progress is a crucial process between setting and attaining the goal. Know what outcomes look like.

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Our book “Software Architecture Metrics: Case Studies to Improve the Quality of Your Architecture” is published!

Apiumhub

He is a former practitioner of Agile methodologies, particularly extreme programming, with experience in practices like TDD, continuous integration, build pipelines, and evolutionary design. Andrew specializes in Java/JVM technologies, Agile delivery, build tools and automation, and domain-driven design. Rene Weiss is a CTO at Finabro.