Gorilla Logic

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

“ My Scrum Master scheduled all these meetings, but they are taking time away from my actual work!”. I’ve seen some people struggle with the amount of meetings that revolve around an Agile implementation, but these spaces where the team members come together are priceless. Scrum ceremonies are where the magic happens!

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James Shore

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Bas co-created Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) with Craig Larman. Bas and Craig’s book, Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS , is well worth reading. Discussion prompts: The book discusses scaling organizational capability as well as scaling product teams. Team-level coaching capabililty is an important part of scaling agility.

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scruminc

JULY 30, 2020

A good time was had by all at Scrum Day India 2020. A recent Forbes survey indicated to me that about 47% of Agile Transformations fail and 77% of Agile Transformations are Scrum transformations so most of the failures are due to bad Scrum. Why Scrum Works - Decision Latency. was well received. Successful.

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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. Why Do We Have 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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Have you ever had friends or family ask, “I know you’re called a scrum master, but what does that mean? Tell them that the role of ScrumMaster is as a servant-leader, coach, and facilitator, navigating the dynamics of the team to ensure Scrum practices are followed and value is delivered effectively.

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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. Paula – the Product Owner of Steve’s team. Getting Ready for Product Backlog Refinement.

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Luis Goncalves

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Do you want to be successful like them in implementing processes and empowering your team ? This may feel a little uncomfortable for you if you an open line of communication between you and your subordinates hasn’t been opened or has been weak for the longest time. This also promotes collaboration among your team members.

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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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Evolution4all

APRIL 5, 2019

When Wenger (1998) made further studies on this concept, he made it clear how communities of practice can help nurture knowledge, stimulate innovation, and develop social capital. Fast forward to the present, CoPs have become a generally accepted principle of organisational learning and development. ORGANISATIONAL MASTERY SCORECARD.

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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

AUGUST 5, 2018

Agile asks for cross-functional teams, and therefore companies start to build teams around different people with different skills within the organisation. The team in this situation is a bunch of individuals from different parts of the organisation that are brought together to deliver something. Blame Culture.

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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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Luis Goncalves

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

From a team of 30 people to now a giant tech corporation with over 70,000 employees, Google is one of the hallmarks of OKR as an organisational goal-setting methodology. The company used to adopt the “rank and yank” system wherein managers had to identify their least productive team members through a yearly evaluation. Take The Test.

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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. CoPs can thrive in online or offline settings, making them perfect for both typical corporate set up and companies with remote teams. Provide Resources and Support to New Communities.

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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. CEOs would have broader objectives as their roles encompass many aspects of the organisation while teams and business units may have a more limited scope when setting objectives as theirs would depend mainly on the department or management team that they support.

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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. Episode 46.

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Evolution4all

AUGUST 5, 2018

They hire Agile Coaches or Scrum Masters to implement scrum or any other agile flavour in their teams, but they stop there. I have had the opportunity to work with many different teams and I discovered that many worked without a common vision or strategy. Strategic Prioritisation. Connection to the Big Picture.

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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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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

In many ways, we owe its popularity to the adoption of Scrum, more specifically the role of Scrum Master. The industrial revolution era approach to managing labor wasn’t nurturing employees to develop innovative products. By being active listeners, servant leaders cultivate a culture of empathy in their teams. Mentorship.

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CIO

MARCH 7, 2023

But the faster transition often caused underperforming apps, greater security risks, higher costs, and fewer business outcomes, forcing IT to address these issues before starting app modernizations. One of the common complaints agile team members voice is the number of coordination meetings and time spent in them.

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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

Tomorrow’s leaders are already starting to transform towards new delivery models that will enable them to develop more exploratory and adaptive strategies. This can be achieved using methodologies like Scrum, Kanban, SAFe®, DevOps etc, leading to responsive business prioritization and short delivery iterations.

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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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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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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

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 ). But is it the most effective one, particularly for your team? Or is Kanban, one of the trending agile frameworks today , a better fit for your team?

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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

Drawing on his 40 years in the software industry, GeePaw’s solution is to develop a thick culture in which certain standards are established across the industry. How the doubling rate resulted in a lack of leaders that can develop an industry discipline (6:34). Developing a common language of change in the trade (24:24).

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JUNE 1, 2021

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. Most Scrum Teams simply use whatever their online Scrum tool feeds them for their 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). Where does product management fit between sales and development? (26:31).

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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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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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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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