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Why Your Agile Adoption Should Pay For Itself Within the First Program Increment

Net Objectives

By learning Agile Product Management before shifting to a SAFe-like program increment planning event, groups can shorten the program increment being planned to 2-4 sprints instead of the normal 5-7. If you don't want to use SAFe, product management with some Lean-Agile coaching can be used instead. .

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AoAD2 Practice: Whole Team

James Shore

Okay, you’re Agile now,” your manager says, before vanishing in a puff of golf-scented smoke. Broadly speaking, these skills can be grouped into customer skills, development skills, and coaching skills. Customer skills fall in to several categories, as follows: Product management (aka product ownership).

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150+ live online training courses opened for April and May

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Product Management in 90 Minutes , April 11. Spotlight on Data: Creating Smart Products Requires Collaboration, with Gretchen Anderson , April 15. Developing Your Coaching Skills , April 22. Test-Driven Development In Python , May 21. Agile for Everybody , April 18.

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AoAD2 Chapter 4: Investing in Agility

James Shore

There’s a wide variety of help available: occasional mentoring; training; help with process design and implementation; and full-time (or near-full-time) coaching. The most effective help you can get is to hire experienced practitioners to coach each team full-time. The same goes when hiring consultants and coaches.

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AoAD2 Chapter: Scaling Agility

James Shore

One of the limits on your ability to scale will be the availability of skilled coaches. Remember, coaches are the people who help each team learn how to apply Agile ideas and practices.) If you’re taking a home-grown approach to your coaches, each team will need a dedicated team member to act as coach.

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Agile vs Waterfall: Key Differences And Definition?—?Which Model Is Better?

Codegiant

ASD is highly suggested by teams who don’t have a clear picture of the end product and need to adapt constantly. Test-Driven Development ?—?TDD TDD encourages you to write automated code first and then develop just-enough code in order to pass the test later. Hope this article helped you out.

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The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition

James Shore

So, what allows me to do this—what allows me to do this show, this software development show every week, and what allows me to write this book—is the people who hire me for training and consulting. Less, with full-time coaching. Sales and product management, in particular, want accurate forecasting (often called “estimating”).

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