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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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. How to Make Better Sprint Goals.

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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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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

Experienced Agile coaches and consultants have regularly observed that the greatest impediment to transforming organizations is transforming the mindsets of its members. It is easy to train Agile practices such as Scrum and get people started working in teams. So that is what a lot of folks do, they do the easy stuff.

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Mentormate

JANUARY 31, 2023

We’ve discussed implementing digital transformation at an enterprise scale , the importance of design research , and how successful teams plan and execute ideas. Teams may adopt the names of Agile roles and ceremonies but simply take a waterfall process and break it up into sprint-sized chunks.

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Evolution4all

APRIL 29, 2019

It will help your team share new strategies, open new business opportunities, share best practices and find solutions to challenges the company face. Decide How to Manage and Share Knowledge. The best thing about corporate communities of practice is how they transcend different types of business.

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scruminc

AUGUST 16, 2019

For 2019 we’re expanding the suggestions from the Scrum Inc. Team to include podcasts and even some TV shows. Jeff Sutherland, Founder and Principal Consultant of Scrum Inc. and co-creator of Scrum recommends: " Co unterpart " American Sci-Fi Thriller Series (TV). McCaul's favorite Scrum role is that of Scrum Master.

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Evolution4all

APRIL 25, 2019

Communities of Practice should be able to provide an opportunity for your team to build their expertise and deepen their knowledge in your industry. However, in its early stage, initiating and encouraging your team to make CoPs work can be a bit challenging. Survey your employees to define actual problems. In conclusion.

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Luis Goncalves

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

It aligns team efforts so that everyone is working on the same goal. So how do these companies do it? The same thing will happen to the teams and individual members of your company. When setting objectives, take into consideration the timeframe given to your teams or employees. Read more below. OKRs are time-bound.

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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.

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scruminc

JULY 26, 2018

We asked our team what books they are taking to the beach this summer and they responded with some great suggestions; a combination of fiction, non-fiction, business books and academic papers that make for great additions to any reading list. Jeff Sutherland, Founder and Principal Consultant of Scrum Inc. 2018 Scrummer Reading List.

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James Shore

NOVEMBER 12, 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. Whole Team. The Hole Team. Hi, I’m your Scrum Master,” she says.

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Coveros

APRIL 29, 2021

As an Agile Coach, Scrum Master, and instructor, I meet and interact with many people who have used Value Stream Mapping to successfully transform product and service delivery by focusing on value delivery to their customers and eliminating waste in delivering that value. Wikipedia – [link]. Creating a Value Stream Map.

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Capgemini

MARCH 27, 2020

How adaptive are you? Tomorrow’s leaders are already starting to transform towards new delivery models that will enable them to develop more exploratory and adaptive strategies. Coaching can be an effective tool here, but bringing on board new talent is also useful, especially top and middle managers.

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scruminc

APRIL 24, 2020

What Happens to Managers in Scrum? . This post is part of our new ScrumCast series of conversations with thought leaders who have successfully helped transform organizations and empower teams and individuals. Each episode will explore organizational Agility and Scrum patterns, tactics, and techniques that drive real-world success.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 27, 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. Make the investments and ignore the practices, and your teams are still likely to improve.

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Codegiant

AUGUST 20, 2020

From the desk of a brilliant weirdo #1: Are your hand shivering and pouring yourself with sweat right before your scrum master interview? If so, this “ Scrum Master Interview Questions and Answers ” article can, without a doubt, boost your confidence up and put your worries at rest.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

APRIL 2, 2020

Is your team running so smoothly that it hums? In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Ron Lichty, discuss what makes high-performance teams versus what makes low-performance teams. Most teams already know which category they fall into, but the solution to a low-performing team isn’t always clear.

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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. How the doubling rate resulted in a lack of leaders that can develop an industry discipline (6:34). You can’t build a team out of rules.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 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. How to Be Agile. Second Edition cover. Your feedback is appreciated! It’s action that matters.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JUNE 1, 2021

Let’s look at what purpose they serve, and how to improve them. A Sprint Backlog consists of a set of Product Backlog Items (PBIs) that the Developers think they can complete in the Sprint, along with the work needed, described in small enough chunks that progress can be tracked throughout the Sprint. What is a Sprint Backlog.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 9, 2020

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Rich Mironov, discuss the all too common disconnect between developers and those on the marketing side of organizations. How Rich helps marketers/sales develop a more useful frame for engineering (10:01). And these days, I coach heads-of-product. Transcript.

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Gorilla Logic

JULY 28, 2020

When working through an Agile transformation, many organizations struggle to efficiently re-organize delivery teams. Although you won’t find specific mention in the Agile Manifesto or the 12 Principles , most Agile frameworks (such as Scrum and XP) note that Agile teams should strive to be cross-functional. Delayed feedback.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

AUGUST 22, 2023

When I’m working with new Scrum Teams and say that Scrum encourages collaboration among team members, everyone nods and smiles. If I’m lucky, someone mentions solving impediments found in Daily Scrum through collaboration. This suggests that only 10% of a Scrum team’s work is collaborative.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

When it comes to organising engineering teams, a popular view has been to organise your teams based on either Spotify's agile model (i.e. squads, chapters, tribes, and guilds) or simply follow Amazon's two-pizza team model. It is one of the ways you can organise your engineering teams in a retail environment.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

MAY 14, 2020

Teams are not Agile, organizations are (7:12). Agile and Lean Software Development Group on LinkedIn. Intro: Welcome to the Programming Leadership podcast where we help great coders become skilled leaders and build happy high performing software teams. Scrum can be Agile. Scrum is an Agile process. Show Notes.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 9, 2020

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Rich Mironov, discuss the all too common disconnect between developers and those on the marketing side of organizations. How Rich helps marketers/sales develop a more useful frame for engineering (10:01). And these days, I coach heads-of-product. Transcript.

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Gitprime

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

In this Perspectives in Engineering interview series, engineering leaders talk about how to build, coach, and scale world-class technology teams. Create intimacy for both distributed and co-located teams. Yet why not bring that same awareness back around to creating more intimate and empathetic co-located teams, as well?

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

OCTOBER 17, 2019

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest Don Gray enlighten listeners regarding the world of software development, the reasons for implementing software changes and why it’s not as easy as people may think. Software development is not linear and not deterministic. How should we think about change?

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James Shore

AUGUST 19, 2020

For this week’s Tuesday Lunch & Learn livestream , I have a special show for you: the new edition of my book, The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition. The Art of Agile Development came out in 2007. I’m going to be reading from the new edition of my book, The Art of Agile Development. and now it’s time for an update.

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Accenture

DECEMBER 5, 2019

How to Ensure a Successful Agile Transformation. Agile Transformation Coaches. Because so much changes so quickly, today’s businesses need to develop a capability for learning and adapting with equal speed. Whether to bring in external support in the form of training, coaching, consulting and change management.

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