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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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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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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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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Gorilla Logic

MARCH 17, 2023

Have you ever been part of a team where tickets are hard to understand or don’t supply enough detail for the team to properly work? Experiences like these make many developers think about using Behavior-Driven Development (BDD). Know your team members You work with your team every day and know them well.

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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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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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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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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

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. The following is a guide example of how to run an effective Product Backlog Refinement meeting.

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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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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. The following is a guide example of how to run an effective Product Backlog Refinement meeting.

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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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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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Evolution4all

AUGUST 5, 2018

Before I continue, I want to clarify that there are some businesses that can apply this organisational structure with success—Spotify, for example. 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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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. For example, the lines of written source code.

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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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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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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Metrics tells you whether three days is how long it took one person (data) to unload a cubic yard (data) of rocks in a rainstorm, or whether it’s how long it took a team of five developers (data) to plan, create, test, and release a product that does X. But that’s a weak and easily gamed measure. How could a team game (i.e.

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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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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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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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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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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JUNE 22, 2022

When a product team starts work on a product, it’s important that they understand the vision. Over the process of a few hours these activities get the Developers and Customers to a common understanding of what problem they’re attempting to solve. Too often the answer is, “ To be Agile ”. Who is involved. Characteristics.

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Luis Goncalves

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Do you want to be successful like them in implementing processes and empowering your team ? This may feel a little uncomfortable for you if you an open line of communication between you and your subordinates hasn’t been opened or has been weak for the longest time. This also promotes collaboration among your team members.

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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. Agile isn’t about “doing practice X.” ” Finding a Solution – for Your Team. The Real Problem.

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Capgemini

MARCH 27, 2020

Tomorrow’s leaders are already starting to transform towards new delivery models that will enable them to develop more exploratory and adaptive strategies. To reach this goal, companies must embark on an Agile Transformation journey. Agile Transformation is not (only) about methodology. Why is this a journey?

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Have you ever had friends or family ask, “I know you’re called a scrum master, but what does that mean? Tell them that the role of ScrumMaster is as a servant-leader, coach, and facilitator, navigating the dynamics of the team to ensure Scrum practices are followed and value is delivered effectively. What do you actually do ?”

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Impact Mapping is a strategic tool to help teams and businesses focus their work on a product feature that will give the most bang for their buck. I’ve used Impact Maps for teams seeking to figure out what/where to build next, and I’ve also used them outside of software development. What can we do as a team to deliver the Goal?

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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.

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Evolution4all

JULY 2, 2018

In one of his articles, Welch reiterated that budgeting hides opportunities for growth and at the same time, promotes bad behaviour especially when market demands change and the company still tries to reach its target. We’re talking about an agile approach to budgeting. Delays make things uglier, especially in product development.

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Altexsoft

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Depending on team size and structure, QA is viewed and utilized differently, but tailored to specific organization needs. Other variations of QA-related job offerings are QA analyst, QA engineer, automation engineer, test automation developer, etc. Besides that, manual testing is used as an initial step in developing automated tests.

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Mentormate

APRIL 24, 2018

When an MVP has matured far beyond its baseline functionality, the wise product owner considers shifting from a project-based development strategy to contract help from a dedicated software development team. But the benefits of a dedicated software development team are also its Achilles’ heel. Download Our Guide.

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Exadel

JANUARY 24, 2022

A bug tracking tool is usually a track management system that keeps track of reported bugs in software development projects. You can check the progress on developing any specific feature or see how many bugs were submitted during the last iteration. For example, does it include extensions like test management or automation tools?

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Evolution4all

APRIL 5, 2019

When Wenger (1998) made further studies on this concept, he made it clear how communities of practice can help nurture knowledge, stimulate innovation, and develop social capital. Fast forward to the present, CoPs have become a generally accepted principle of organisational learning and development. ORGANISATIONAL MASTERY SCORECARD.

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