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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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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. Clear Roles and Responsibilities [ 8 ].

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Business Agility – The Intersection of Outcomes and Efficiency

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In 2018, Takao Sakai published his book on “ The Secret Behind the Success of Toyota ” and sent me a note saying Scrum trainers were teaching Scrum wrong. We had already figured out with the Japanese that the Scrum Guide was not sufficient for training Scrum Masters at Toyota. How Outcomes are Tied to Efficiency.

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AoAD2 Chapter: Teamwork (Introduction)

James Shore

Scrum leaves the actual determination of who does what up to the team. Agile Software Development with Scrum. Scrum calls it “The Scrum Team.” Team rooms are just as old; XP calls it “Sit Together” and the original Scrum book [Schwaber and Beedle 2002] talked about the importance of a team working environment.

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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. Used by over 100 million users, Twitter is a highly active platform, with 340 million tweets posted a day. For Twitter, OKRs aren’t just used to measure progress.

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Subsumption Architecture: How iRobot Enabled Scrum

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Scrum booted up just like the robot. It has always interested me to see people trying to tweak Scrum without understanding the subsumption architecture. Scrum is the biggest thing that has hit the valley since the invention of the computer chip!" Do you think that would work?" Brooks said, "I don't know, why don't you try it?".

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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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