Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

MARCH 28, 2023

If your Scrum Team has been together for years and you’ve been following the Agile principles and Scrum structure, you might be feeling quite confident. Scrum isn’t an inherently easy methodology to adapt, especially since it requires change beyond the personal behaviour level to see the biggest results.

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CIO

APRIL 23, 2024

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certifications are becoming valuable in larger organizations looking for efficient project delivery, reduced time-to-market, and ways to provide better stakeholder value. Their team is composed of highly experienced consultants and trainers. What is SAFe certification?

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

AUGUST 24, 2018

Scrum by Example is meant to empower readers to become excellent in their practice of Scrum. We’ll examine many of the real-world challenges new ScrumMasters deal with , especially in work environments where Scrum has been only recently introduced or is not applied consistently. Steve – The “protagonist” of Scrum by Example.

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Agile42

MAY 17, 2019

As an international Leading Logistics Provider Company, they wanted to transform ‘the agile way’ of all over the world. Taking a step in that direction, they decided to transform the agile way of working in the IT department of their Turkey base too. The framework to work best at enhancing agility was Scrum for the IT department.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

MARCH 12, 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. In this post, we’ll explore the research and I’ll share my personal experiences about effective team size.

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Gorilla Logic

JUNE 18, 2020

DevOps and Agile software development work together to harmonize the software development lifecycle, enabling teams to rapidly build and deliver software that adds value to a business. In this article, we’ve outlined five pragmatic success factors for integrating DevOps with your Agile software practice.

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Capgemini

MARCH 27, 2020

Six recommendations for building a distributed Agile model. There is a common myth that Agile teams can only be efficient if all (100%) members are onsite and in-house. But according to the Annual State of Agile Report [1], 78% of organizations practice Agile with distributed team members.

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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. We want to know, what are the challenges of software teams? Where is agile bringing benefit and where is it falling short? I was tipped.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

This is the general outline of a presentation that Mark gave at the Agile Tour Montréal 2020. How Escape Rooms Taught Me Everything I Needed to Know About Teams from Mark Levison, CST. If you would like to discuss having Mark do a presentation for your organization, or at your next Scrum or Agile event, contact us and let us know.

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Storm Consulting

JULY 7, 2016

The Shu Ha Ri Agile metaphor. The chef metaphor version of Shu Ha Ri goes like this: Commis chef: follows the rules to learn the basics of hygiene, food preparation, cleaning and sharpening knives and working as part of a high performance team. There is no Agile equivalent to the role of Head chef. Agile teams need a Chef.

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Altexsoft

DECEMBER 29, 2021

In this article, we’ll talk about the concept of story points in Agile development , figure out how to calculate them, and explain what poker has to do with that. Later, they were popularized by Mike Cohn and his book Agile Estimating and Planning published back in 2005. How to calculate story points in Agile?

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CIO

APRIL 22, 2022

Offered by the PMI, the Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP) certification is designed to validate your knowledge of agile principles and skills with agile techniques. The exam covers topics including Scrum, Kanban, Lean, extreme programming (XP), and test-driven development (TDD). Top project management certifications.

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James Shore

JUNE 2, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Take a coach interested in trying Agile, assemble a team of novices, shake well, and bake for three years. Embedded Agile Project by the Numbers with Newbies. Second Edition cover. Testers’ Role.

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Existek

MARCH 28, 2023

Cross-functional teams in software development aim to enhance productivity and promote communication, collaboration, and transparency among team members. They often follow agile methodologies, emphasizing collaboration, flexibility, and iterative development.

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Evolution4all

MAY 12, 2018

Why learning roadmap for Scrum Masters is needed? Often, after completing the Scrum Master certification, Scrum Masters have not much idea where to start. This article presents several activities that Scrum Masters can perform when they join an organisation. Learning roadmap for Scrum Masters.

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Apiumhub

APRIL 21, 2022

However, for companies already implementing Agile (or wanting to dive into it), adding contractors to their product teams adds an interesting challenge. Agile is more than a methodology, it’s how we describe organizations committed to the premises of the Agile manifest. Your contractor should already be fluent in Agile.

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Codegiant

AUGUST 15, 2021

And with no set approach in place, software development teams often find themselves in a never-ending bug chase, which is another reason behind delayed releases. Most scrum masters don’t take these points into consideration while planning their sprints. Deadlines successfully align team members’ actions and help them stick to the plan.

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Codegiant

AUGUST 15, 2021

And with no set approach in place, software development teams often find themselves in a never-ending bug chase, which is another reason behind delayed releases. Most scrum teams don’t take these points into consideration while planning their sprints. Otherwise, you’ll face a hard time upgrading down the line.

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QAspire

JANUARY 22, 2012

In agile terms, a strong purpose that is bought in by all in the team is also referred to as “shared vision”. If the purpose of your project/initiative does not excite people, they will not be able to give their best. Strong purpose and clear goals automatically establishes a demand for performance.

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Apiumhub

MARCH 12, 2024

In our article “ Stages Of Agile Retrospective & 7 Popular Techniques ,” we delve into what a retrospective entails. However, not all retrospectives are the same, and adapting dynamics to your team’s specific needs can make a significant difference, fostering collective learning and maintaining high motivation.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

MAY 22, 2020

So I spent an initial two years in the customer success part of the organization, building internal-facing Data Science and Machine Learning products to help drive our revenue, minimize attrition problems in that space. So that’s a quick summary of my journey, I guess. . So every time we do planning for the next release.

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Altexsoft

MARCH 3, 2023

Cross-functional teams in Agile Agile project management can be characterized by iterative development. So cross-functional teams play a critical role in Agile as the product increment has to undergo all the stages of development in a short period of time (e.g. a sprint ). The quality, not the quantity, agree?

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Codegiant

AUGUST 7, 2020

Depending on the methodology being used, this could be on a daily basis (for AGILE projects) or weekly basis. The most common certifications include PMI PMP, PMI ACP, Prince2, Agile Scrum Master, and Scrum Product Owner. If you are either a fan of Scrum or Kanban, Codegiant comes with both. Keep track of progress.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

MARCH 7, 2024

Agile teams have been struggling since the earliest days with how to bring new people on to a team. In one of the first Agile books, there was a story of Alistair Cockburn walking a new hire through the team’s flip charts and telling the story of their work. If you’re the new person on an Agile team Ask questions.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

AUGUST 13, 2019

Some discussions with the whole Team became so heated that the quieter team members stopped speaking up for several days. Doug was late for Daily Scrum on several days. On multiple occasions Team members needed to ask Paula some questions but she wasn’t available by email and they often didn’t know how to find her.

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LeanEssays

JUNE 5, 2015

Agile and Lean Software Development: 2000 - 2010 It’s hard to believe these days, but in the mid 1990’s, developing software was a slow and painful process found in the IT departments of large corporations. In 2001 the Agile Manifesto (Beck et al., 2001) gave this new approach a name – “Agile.”

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