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. Scrum, Agile, and Kanban, in this sense, are sets of behavioural design patterns.

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Gorilla Logic

JANUARY 31, 2019

Many organizations shy away from scaling Agility or conducting robust Program Increment (PI) Planning because of remote teams. We’ll walk you through how we did it to show that remote Program Increment Planning is a viable option. The solution: Conduct remote PI Planning using Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®).

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scruminc

JULY 30, 2020

Jessica Larsen, Product Owner, Scrum Inc. Trying Program recommends: " The Fearless Organization " by Amy Edmundson. For me, this book provided great empirical evidence and theoretical basis for why the Scrum Values and pillars of the Toyota Way are so important in the workplace. by Aaron Dignan.

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Agile42

APRIL 16, 2020

I have worked as an Agile Coach for over 15 years now. More and more, I am seeing organizations that want to install The Agile ! The recipe for “installing The Agile” usually looks something like this: Agile training for everyone — it’s important that people understand the principles and practices. Sounds great!

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

MARCH 4, 2020

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, GeePaw Hill, discuss how the doubling rate in the software industry has resulted in a complete lack of trade discipline. Intro: Welcome to the Programming Leadership Podcast, where we help great coders become skilled leaders and build happy, high performing software teams.

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LeanEssays

JUNE 5, 2015

The dentist made an impression of the gap in my tooth and fashioned a temporary crown. In 1991 the University of Michigan began its Japan Technology Management Program. In 1999, Kent Beck proposed a radically new approach to software development in the book “Extreme Programming Explained” (Beck, 1999).

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Altexsoft

AUGUST 7, 2019

While a flat product backlog is a common practice for any agile project, in its traditional form, it has lots of limitations. In 2005, agile practitioner, Jeff Patton, developed a new way to arrange user stories in a backlog. But, at the same time, stories written in a top-down fashion cause the conflict of priorities.

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