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7 tell-tale signs of fake agile

CIO

The same is not true, sadly, for many agile project management and development initiatives. Leaders must be committed to the enablement of agile teams.”. Agility is about shipping as well as development. Team leadership void. Walker suggests spending time with team members to view and understand how they operate.

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How To Maximize An Agile Team – Don’t Give Up On Scrum

Modus Create

When I first attended Scrummaster training, I went in wide-eyed and excited to learn all of the secrets behind this amazing “new” agile project-management strategy called Scrum. But my employer had just paid for me to go through the training, and I was expected to help improve their development processes.

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How to organize small teams

Apiumhub

In this article I would like to share my experience as a Product Owner supporting one of Apiumhub’s smallest teams. When I joined, the team was formed by: One permanent Backend Developer with some Front End skills. One Front End developer part time. No QA, no Scrum Master… and no PO until I landed here!

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Definition of Done vs. User Stories vs. Acceptance Criteria

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

One of the more frequently asked questions in my Scrum workshops is around the difference between Definition of “Done” and Acceptance Criteria , and how they relate to User Stories. While Acceptance Criteria is a commonly understood concept in software development, Definition of “Done” is unique to Scrum. User Stories.

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Uncle Bob Martin challenges software industry to Grow-up

Storm Consulting

The State of Software talk by Robert C. 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? He chunked his talk on the state of software into four timeboxes of fifteen minutes each.

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What do software engineers do?

Openxcell

Software engineering jobs carry a whole lot of hype around it. Regardless of the toil a software engineer goes through, it is certainly a well-paying career profile that has a bright future. Now that the world’s existence is going to rely mostly on technologies, a software engineer job is certainly going to offer great opportunities.

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Why a matrix organisational structure will destroy your company

Evolution4all

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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