Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Sprint Planning is the most underappreciated Agile event. This resulting plan is created by the collaborative work of the entire Scrum Team.”. The Guide goes on to say that the team is expected to cover three topics: Why is the Sprint Valuable? We’ll use them as an example of a typical Scrum team.

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Xebia

JUNE 20, 2022

When companies transform towards an agile and DevOps way of working, they sometimes ask how to proceed with architects. Some companies ignore architects in their transformation, some will upskill their architects, and some will make the DevOps teams responsible for the architecture.

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Modus Create

JUNE 18, 2019

When I first attended Scrummaster training, I went in wide-eyed and excited to learn all of the secrets behind this amazing “new” agile project-management strategy called Scrum. But my employer had just paid for me to go through the training, and I was expected to help improve their development processes.

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CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2023

IT service delivery enables an organization to give end users access to essential IT services by designing, developing, and deploying key technology resources, including applications and data. Develop a structured service catalog and adapt Achieving service delivery excellence is not a one-size-fits-all process.

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TechBeacon

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

When quality issues arise, many Scrum teams look to testing and technical development practices to address the problems. What they often miss is that poor implementation of Scrum has directly contributed to their quality issues.

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Mentormate

JULY 18, 2023

But here’s the secret sauce: business analysts are also the drivers of change, the catalysts that push teams to achieve unprecedented levels of agility. So how exactly do business analysts increase the agility of teams? Agile projects thrive on adaptability, continuous improvement, and seamless collaboration.

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Modus Create

MARCH 8, 2022

What is Agile Release Planning? In Agile, a release is a group of software features that can be developed and deployed to the users in a given period. Adding more plans and meetings to an Agile team can seem like a slowdown which feels scary given that Agile is all about speed and deployments.

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scruminc

OCTOBER 7, 2020

When over 50% of Scrum implementations fail to deliver on time, on budget, with happy customers according to Standish Group data, we need to find tools and techniques to help us improve the odds against this. Scrum is by far the most widely used agile framework in the world, but we’ve also found that 58% of Scrum implementations fail.

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James Shore

DECEMBER 1, 2021

This book club was about scaling agility, and we had a fantastic special guest joining us: Bas Vodde. Bas co-created Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) with Craig Larman. LeSS is one of the earliest and most popular Agile scaling approaches, and my go-to recommendation for organizations looking to scale Agile. How did it turn out?

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scruminc

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Jeff Sutherland and JJ Sutherland | October 4 , 2023 | Blog In the ever-evolving landscape of Agile methodologies, the term “sustainable pace” has often been relegated to the realm of buzzwords—misunderstood, misapplied, and at times, even misused as an excuse for mediocrity. In a meeting at Snowbird, Utah, U.S.

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Exadel

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Read other Exadel articles about Agile approach. Successful Agile software development can’t be done without an effective Sprint Retrospective. The Scrum Team inspects how the last Sprint went with regards to individuals, interactions, processes, tools, and their Definition of Done.”

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scruminc

JULY 30, 2020

A good time was had by all at Scrum Day India 2020. My talk on “Why 47% of Agile Transformations Fail!” My slides are posted here - Why 47% of Agile Transformations Fail. The Forbes survey was funded by the Scrum Alliance and self-selected respondents indicated at 86% success rate. Why Scrum Works - Decision Latency.

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scruminc

JULY 30, 2020

ACM Queue Magazine: How To Improve Your Scrum. The lightweight nature of Scrum makes it flexible, adaptable, and easy to understand. . They are the opposite of Agile. . However, as we wrote in the Scrum Guide, ‘Scrum is easy to understand but difficult to master.’ by Jeff Sutherland | July 14 , 2020 | Blog.

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Openxcell

JULY 4, 2022

Scrum Master and Project Manager profiles are quite distinct though most of the people get confused. What is Scrum? Scrum is a framework that helps teams to encourage self organization and generate effective solutions against complex issues. Scrum guides the product creation and focuses on value and high visibility.

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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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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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scruminc

AUGUST 25, 2021

Should I Be A Scrum Master? 6 Questions To Determine If This Scrum Role Is Right For You. Expertly trained Scrum Masters are in high demand. Effective Scrum Masters are critical for the success of any Agile organization. Effective Scrum Masters are critical for the success of any Agile organization.

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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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Evolution4all

AUGUST 5, 2018

I have recently been talking with several organisation leaders about Why Agile Portfolio Management is crucial. Why Agile Portfolio Management. In my opinion, Agile Portfolio management has the ability to solve or improve some of the issues I encountered in organisations. My first job was as a software engineer.

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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. 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. The ability to develop, procure, assure, deploy, and continuously improve software is thus central to national defense.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

If your Sprints are merely about ticking off items on a scattered work list without having a shared understanding of why they’re important or what purpose they serve, your Development Team will struggle to keep focus in the short-term and will take longer to become highly effective in the long run. Why Do We Have Sprint Goals?

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Scale: Team and/or across multiple teams. People new to Scrum often struggle to understand boundaries of control between being an effective manager, ScrumMaster, or Product Owner. This is a critical consideration because, at the heart of Scrum, we’re attempting to grow a group of people into a resilient, high-performing team.

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CIO

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Business analyst job description BAs are responsible for creating new models that support business decisions by working closely with finance and IT teams to establish initiatives and strategies aimed at improving revenue and/or optimizing costs. Business analyst skills The business analyst position requires both hard skills and soft skills.

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Accenture

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Once, over beers late into the evening in an old European pub not far from his office, an executive shared with me his personal Agile mindset transformation journey. It is an account that I have found representative of many when they begin to lead Business Agility transformation. But first, some background. Martin demanded.

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Apiumhub

JULY 30, 2018

We are looking for a Backend developer to join our software development team in Barcelona! We build high quality working software and we want essential people to be part of our growing team and to work with us on inspiring projects. . At Apiumhub , we are experts in software architecture and software development.

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Exadel

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Read other Exadel articles about Agile approach. The importance of having teams with diverse specialties and experience is growing, and Agile has emerged as a way to help bring those varied voices together. Agile has become the new industry standard and replaced classic directive management methods. Questioning.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The World’s Smallest Online Bookstore team has just come out of their Sprint Review. For those who’re keeping score, the team committed to a Sprint Goal: Have basic reader review system in place so book buyers can see a variety of opinions about a book. The team return from lunch and the Retrospective starts.

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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. 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. B y the standards of many teams this is remarkably good. and implemented the changes.

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Evolution4all

AUGUST 5, 2018

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. Agile asks for cross-functional teams, and therefore companies start to build teams around different people with different skills within the organisation.

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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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Atomic Spin

MAY 16, 2019

But I often see tweets or posts about how people don’t “get” capital-A Agile. I’ve thought a lot about this problem, and I’ve tried to assemble a bit of a theory of Agile that would provide a framework for improvement. The Real Problem Agile isn’t about “doing practice X.” Tweets like this and this point out common faults.

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Existek

MARCH 28, 2023

Have you thought about the concept of a cross-functional team? What differentiates it from setting up traditional teams? How can it improve the software development process? In this article, we’ll discuss the characteristics of a cross-functional team, the benefits of having one, and how to build and manage such a team.

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Mentormate

JANUARY 31, 2023

We’ve discussed implementing digital transformation at an enterprise scale , the importance of design research , and how successful teams plan and execute ideas. Even companies with great ideas often get stuck on their inability to execute them because their IT organization simply isn’t agile enough.

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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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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JUNE 11, 2020

How can we train teams to consistently produce quality code without negatively impacting productivity? David Green, discuss Agile Dojos and how they can make teams more effective. Dojos provide a six-week training ground where teams focus on recognizing and replicating value by pairing, mobbing, and swarming. Episode 46.

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James Shore

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Today, the Agile community prefers to focus on products or capabilities instead.

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