scruminc

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Which Scrum Master Credential Is Best For Me? Your leadership team is ready to support Agile in your organization. They have tasked you with getting the teams ready to Scrum. A little research takes you to the Scrum Guide. A Scrum practitioner needs to know the ‘how’- how is the role administered out in the field.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

MARCH 13, 2020

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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RapidValue

AUGUST 12, 2020

In our previous blog , we had discussed the key Agile metrics that businesses use to optimize their product development processes. Taking the topic further, in this blog post, we are going to delve into the benefits of agile methodology that have helped it gain traction in the world of software development.

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Accenture

MAY 12, 2020

Agility, once the domain of product development organizations and IT, has moved out of this realm and into business overall as companies face an ever more uncertain world. Share Your Business Agility Journey. The 2020 Business Agility Report is collecting surveys right now – we invite you to speak up! Take the survey.

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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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scruminc

MARCH 22, 2018

The process efficiency of executing a story on a Scrum team is the most important metric for team performance, because a team can easily double velocity in one sprint by driving process efficiency up over 50%. Sutherland, in Agile 2009 , Chicago, 2009. The required data is easily available in any Scrum tooling. Jakobsen and J.

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Xicom

DECEMBER 2, 2020

If you have spent time in digital project management, you must have probably heard about scrum methodology. Indeed, according to the Project Management Institute Report , nearly 50% of the project managers working on an agile framework used Scrum process at least once in the time. A 360 Degree View Of Agile. More revenue.

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Altexsoft

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

One of the most popular Agile frameworks , Scrum, suggests building software in iterations aka Sprints that last between two to four weeks. Scrum roles include a Scrum Master, a Product Owner (PO), and a development team. Why does the Scrum Team need backlog grooming? That’ll be the focus of our article.

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CIO

AUGUST 1, 2022

The product was developed via a DevSecOps agile framework,” Coleman says. Initially, we did not have a dedicated Scrum master and product owner, but later we were able to adjust that. The increased focus helped us accelerate our delivery efforts.”. The automation has also led to a big cost savings. “In

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CollabNet VersionOne

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

CollabNet VersionOne has been conducting the State of Agile survey for 13 years. Many organizations use the results in the State of Agile Report to gauge trends in the industry and help make decisions around implementing Agile. Of course the more IT professionals who take the survey, the better the results.

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scruminc

APRIL 24, 2020

Book Review: Doing Agile Right - So It Doesn't Die On The Vine. About how, in these times, it is more important than ever for leaders to be Agile. In that conversation, I shared with him some thoughts from Doing Agile Right , a new book co-authored by Darrell Rigby. by JJ Sutherland) | April 24th, 2020 | Blog. Really big.

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Accenture

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

In Part One of this series, I wrote about how Agile represents not merely practices like Scrum and Kanban but is rather built on a foundational set of values. Now, in Part Three, we look at how behaviors support and reinforce Agile principles and values. Why is Microsoft even a member of this Agile Learning Consortium?

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scruminc

JUNE 3, 2021

by the Scrum Inc. You can start by focusing on these two areas: Team happiness and hopes – talk with or survey teams, team members, and leaders. Colocation has long been a mantra in the Agile and Scrum communities. But consider the updated 2020 Scrum Guide. Team | June 3 , 2021 | Blog. And for good reason.

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Accenture

OCTOBER 1, 2018

For agilists, the fact that Agile has gone beyond just IT to infiltrate all parts of the organization is something to celebrate. Business agility enables organizations to increase productivity while empowering employees. However, as the business community has embraced agility, everything is now becoming Agile this and Agile that.

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CollabNet VersionOne

JULY 12, 2018

For years VersionOne has taken its role seriously in furthering agile research for the betterment of the software development industry. The State of Agile Report is one great example. Where is agile bringing benefit and where is it falling short? Dean: “I first learned of Scrum and XP in the late nineties. I was tipped.

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Evolution4all

MARCH 11, 2019

Key Results: Conduct a monthly survey to get customers’ feedback. Organise a bi-weekly calibration session for QA involving selected team members. Increase customer retention by 80-90%. Obtain an NPS score of 9.5. . Objective: Establish a friendly, “family” like Company Culture. Download The White-Paper.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In Scrum, most people instantly think of velocity as the key metric – how much work a team does in a Sprint, usually in the form of number of story points completed. so they still have a place in Scrum. In The Guide to Effective Agile Retrospectives eBook, we mention many sources of data that you could collect for the team.

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Storm Consulting

MAY 3, 2018

London, UK 1 st May 2018 at Skills Matter , for Scrum Event. Agile Manifesto author and software expert Robert Martin asks if it is time for us to take responsibility for our work? Can we admit that Agile hasn’t worked? Wanna know how Uncle Bob really feels about Agile? There are those doing ‘ Scrum fall ’.

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Evolution4all

APRIL 25, 2019

Survey your employees to define actual problems. This company-wide survey of employees allows the organisation to learn about the issues or weaknesses which should be focused on by the Communities of Practice. The survey spells out the problem for the CoPs. Again, we don’t want to alienate the social learning nature of CoPs.

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Evolution4all

APRIL 29, 2019

Conduct in-house Surveys Regularly to Identify Areas of Improvement. Companies should conduct regular surveys to identify the weaknesses or issues that the community of practice has to work on. Respondents should include a host of employees from different departments and company hierarchy.

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Evolution4all

APRIL 26, 2019

In a survey involving 10,000 respondents, Dapulse Alternative, a project management software developer, asked what makes people happy at work. What aced in the survey is working for a company that has the culture they want to be part of. Promoting a Positive Company Culture. Surprisingly, the salary was not part of the top answers.

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Luis Goncalves

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Key Results: Conduct a monthly survey to get customers’ feedback. Perform a weekly calibration session for QA involving selected team members. Increase customer retention by 85-95%. Obtain an NPS score of 9. Example #3. Objective: Establish a friendly, “family” like Company Culture.

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QSM

MARCH 15, 2018

In a world trending away from traditional waterfall and toward agile development methodologies, it would be understandable to assume that there is no longer a need for software project estimation. In a recent interview , Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland, the founders of Scrum, were asked about the #NoEstimate movement.

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Modus Create

OCTOBER 13, 2020

We also ran surveys to validate our qualitative results and to help us prioritize use cases according to impact and concern. Precise sizing is done in the Scrum method of Agile development in order to reduce timing uncertainty. For example, we opted out of spending our time precisely sizing the features.

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Evolution4all

APRIL 5, 2019

The research conducted surveyed 57 community of practice leaders from organisations such as Mazda, Siemens, IBM, Oracle, World Health Organisation and United Nations. We provide Team Coaching , Agile Training , and Agile Consulting , OKR Training , OKR Consulting , Innovation Training and Innovation Consulting.

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CIO

APRIL 22, 2024

To get that hand in directing business strategy, Lieberman created a base with “the right people and the right roadmap, [as well as] the right processes and technology to ensure agility and transparency.” To do that, Saccal has his staffers articulate the business value of their tasks during agile rituals, such as the daily scrum.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

This all ties in well with the Agile Manifesto which includes the principle “ The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation. 5 ] Collaboration is good in the Agile world. That is most definitely not being Agile. [1]

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

DECEMBER 7, 2022

From working with Scrum and Kanban teams, I know that bonuses are counter-productive anywhere team members are doing knowledge work and their work is interdependent. Of course, from our experience in the agile world, we know that most targets are either outright dangerous (e.g. defects as a proxy for quality). Individual Bonuses.

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Trigent

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Focus on right capability: While organizations focus to a large extent on bringing capabilities across development, support, QA, operations, and product management in a scrum team, paramount from a quality perspective would be QA skills. The survey results show that 63 percent start to test only after a new build and code is being developed.

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Xicom

JULY 29, 2021

A study conducted in 2008, estimated that 68% of surveyed firms were statistically unlikely to have a successful project due to poor project requirements. Function points and app points are the most commonly used metrics for waterfall software development, while story points remain the usual metrics for agile projects.

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Apiumhub

JUNE 22, 2022

During COVID period, we conducted a software architecture metrics survey and found that there is strong demand for software architecture metrics resources, yet very few are available. Andrew specializes in Java/JVM technologies, Agile delivery, build tools and automation, and domain-driven design. ” How did it all started?

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CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Digging through research examining the impact of standard conventions like siloed teams and staged gate processes, Arooni began percolating ideas for how to shift IT organizations away from the traditional project-oriented culture to something more agile, with greater business accountability and more responsiveness to changing customer needs. “We

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UruIT

JULY 9, 2019

Some of those that we are going to share here were taken from the book, The Agile Samurai , (we definitely recommend reading it!) A Discovery Phase also means teaching a client about the importance of involving real users, either with tests, usage metrics, interviews, surveys, etc. Will the team follow Scrum?

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UruIT

JULY 9, 2019

Some of those that we are going to share here were taken from the book, The Agile Samurai , (we definitely recommend reading it!) A Discovery Phase also means teaching a client about the importance of involving real users, either with tests, usage metrics, interviews, surveys, etc. Will the team follow Scrum?

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Codegiant

MAY 3, 2020

Kanban vs Scrum?—?Every Every Difference Your Team Needs To Know [2020] Scrum is the most popular Agile framework today ( 56% of all Agile teams use Scrum ). Or is Kanban, one of the trending agile frameworks today , a better fit for your team? What Is Scrum? But first….

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Accenture

APRIL 1, 2019

The Definition of Business Agility. Examples of Business Agility mindsets in the real world. Agile Amped Podcasts. Partnering with the Business Agility Institute. 2019 Survey. Strategizing your Business Agility Transformation. The Definition of Business Agility. Case Studies. White Papers. Blog Posts.

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scruminc

JULY 10, 2023

Companies Need More Agile Talent. Lessons from leaders in how to attract, grow, and retain the talent that can unlock the full value of Agile. Written in collaboration with — Successful Agile organizations take a more holistic approach. They build talent ecosystems that attract and win great Agile hires.

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