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7 tell-tale signs of fake agile

CIO

The same is not true, sadly, for many agile project management and development initiatives. Too often, an organization may launch something that looks like an agile program, calls itself an agile program, claims to operate like an agile program, yet really isn’t an agile program in the least.

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Agile Retrospectives

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

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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Using Scrum To Improve Cybersecurity In The Department Of Defense

scruminc

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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Transforming to an Agile Mindset, Part 1

Accenture

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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Here’s The Crucial Metrics To Measure Your Software Development Team Effectiveness

Xicom

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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AGILE Retrospective: A tool for continuous improvement

MagmaLabs

Reading Time: 3 minutes Retrospectives are used frequently at MagmaLabs to give teams the opportunity to pause and reflect on how things have been going. Having Retrospectives frequently and regularly supports a team to continuously improve their performance – but what’s the best way to go about it? What did not work at all.

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Definition of Done vs. User Stories vs. Acceptance Criteria

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

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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