scruminc

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Steel and Sticky Notes Part 2: Lean, Scrum, and a Priority Culture . Lean is one of the foundations of the Scrum framework. Scrum stands on the shoulders of Lean to help companies and teams achieve more, innovate, deliver. . CEO JJ Sutherland nails it in this section of The Scrum Fieldbook : “Your structure is your cul­ture.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Steve, being a well-organized ScrumMaster, has an agenda in place: Remind the audience that the Sprint Review has a focus on the Product. Consider attending one of our Certified ScrumMaster workshops , where we discuss the how and why of Scrum, not just the what. They finished the top five of seven items and fixed one bug. (B

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CIO

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Having a clear vantage point within the organization, CIOs play a vital role bringing together engaged and motivated employees to work toward a common outcome, increase productivity, and achieve better business outcomes. And then do the same exercise with an eye on the future, he adds.

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Agile42

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

How often do our SCRUM teams encounter challenges like these and yet they struggle to respond or move forward? Here are some examples of ways which you can apply improv to help your team, organization, and yourself: Has your daily stand up become stale and boring? - Revitalise this ceremony with spontaneity using improv.

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Agile42

JUNE 4, 2018

“…but I still haven't found what I'm looking for…” Having worked in NGOs and development agencies for years, in my professional and academic work, I had always searched for a model, or an approach, which would help me organize myself. I had heard about Scrum and I already had started using Kanban by myself in my previous position.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JUNE 22, 2022

But what about building a great organization? The exercise starts off with the facilitator asking the attendees to imagine a moment several years into the future, when their world of work is much better now. You overhear a group of your colleagues talking about the organization. Too often the answer is, “ To be Agile ”.

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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. As a result, the Team repeats the whole exercise for the Story to “Use a gift card.”.

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scruminc

APRIL 12, 2019

A properly implemented Scrum radically reduces the need for communication while assuring the right communication happens. The roots of Scrum lie in fighter pilot training and that training was based on the work of John Boyd, the world’s greatest fighter pilot. Hermann Balck crossing the river Meusse in 1940.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

OCTOBER 29, 2018

How to Be an Effective Manager in Scrum. Scrum Team Titles. 1 ] The number of titles in an organization inversely correlates with the effectiveness of the collaboration. When managers don’t reconsider their role and titles, their lack of action implies that Scrum changes the Team but not Management. Of course they can!

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scruminc

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Prioritization is an important step in achieving success at every level of an organization. . You first need to understand how you’re going to prioritize competing, sometimes mutually exclusive items of importance for you and your organization. However, prioritizing is not the first step. Vision At Every Level. 118 they replied. .

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Through storytelling, conversation, and a few exercises, Mark helped the audience learn the basics to the science of team building using scientific principles to have more fun, improve, and be successful – in this case, in Escape Rooms, but more broadly, with teams in general.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JUNE 22, 2018

Training — Learn effective techniques to handle the complex challenges faced by Scrum teams and organizations. Instead of blindly following a list of the mechanics of Scrum, we focus on the Scrum mindset: why we use Scrum and. of teams is discussed, and is led by Certified Scrum Trainer ? Key Concepts.

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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. What do you actually do ?”

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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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Exadel

OCTOBER 8, 2021

We’re sure that everyone has experienced a Scrum Master dominating a meeting while the rest of the team sits quietly waiting for the meeting to finally end. The facilitator’s aim is to organize the process and create an environment that helps participants to reach the desired outcome. Exercising judgment. Coming to agreement.

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Net Objectives

JULY 20, 2018

It has in some ways - simulations, games, group exercises, etc. Especially in the area of growing Scrum Masters or Agile Team Coaches. If you have hundreds of Scrum Masters or other Agile coaches & need an effective way to grow them, please contact me. See Coaching Academy for Large Organizations for More.

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Agile42

AUGUST 21, 2018

The vision for this new program from the Scrum Alliance is to make the values and principles of Agile accessible to every leader, regardless of prior education and experience, by making known the why, what, and how of Agile in a pragmatic and experiential approach. Without organizing, they make self-organization possible.

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Evolution4all

APRIL 25, 2019

Apart from the reporting relationship, a typical company follows a top-down approach in all other matters, from exercising control and authority to communicating. It is important to protect the natural, organic structure of CoPs. Whereas in CoPs, the relationship takes place between individuals with similar or equivalent functionality.

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CIO

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The courses are designed to be completed in succession, starting with the Apple Device Support course, which focuses on the skills and expertise you’ll need as a help desk professional, technical coordinator, or service provider for an organization that relies on Apple hardware and software.

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Accenture

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

They require a skillful application of a series of mini-learning components that build upon each another to provide a metanoia, an “aha” experience that hopefully occurs for the participant at some point during the progression of exercises. It came to the first collaborative exercise with which each team table was to engage.

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CIO

MARCH 11, 2024

Countless variables must be considered: skillset alignment and maturity, time zone differences, and ways of working (both within a team and across the organization), and so on. Acknowledging these challenges and complexities, how can one pressure-test their spreadsheet exercise against the realities of execution?

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Trigent

JUNE 27, 2022

Focus on the right capability: While organizations focus to a large extent on bringing capabilities across development, support, Q A , operations, and product management in a scrum team, paramount from a quality perspective would be QA skills. Best practices for ensuring the effectiveness of distributed QA teams.

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Accenture

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

They require a skillful application of a series of mini-learning components that build upon each another to provide a metanoia, an “aha” experience that hopefully occurs for the participant at some point during the progression of exercises. It came to the first collaborative exercise with which each team table was to engage.

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Accenture

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

In Part One of this series, I wrote about how Agile represents not merely practices like Scrum and Kanban but is rather built on a foundational set of values. By looking at these three aspects individually and together, we can identify a more effective approach to Agile organization change. For me, the secret is culture change.

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Xebia

JANUARY 27, 2022

It proved why this exercise was such a great idea. Flying blind on Agile, Scrum, DevOps, Microservices… . Cross-functional product teams, organized around capabilities so that we have the least coupling in our domains. For this exercise, we all got roles assigned that we needed to play in the EventStorm. I’m not alone!

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Xebia

JANUARY 27, 2022

It proved why this exercise was such a great idea. Flying blind on Agile, Scrum, DevOps, Microservices… . Cross-functional product teams, organized around capabilities so that we have the least coupling in our domains. For this exercise, we all got roles assigned that we needed to play in the EventStorm. I’m not alone!

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Trigent

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Focus on right capability: While organizations focus to a large extent on bringing capabilities across development, support, QA, operations, and product management in a scrum team, paramount from a quality perspective would be QA skills. The challenge is to find the right skill mix.

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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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Atomic Spin

MAY 16, 2019

What we need is some organizing principle—some way to organize and categorize all the practices. I propose this as just such an organizing principle: practices can be arranged on a spectrum ranging from most concrete (i.e. It’s hard to offer specific advice because organizations can be dysfunctional in so many ways.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

After closing his software company during the pandemic, Beasley turned toward the nonprofit space, working with several organizations, serving on the board of directors. Through that work, Beasley recognized a growing need for organizations that bring together Black technology professionals to build community and advancement opportunities.

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UruIT

JULY 9, 2019

We could also discuss the concept of quality, which functionalities are paramount and should have complete QA coverage (this will help the devs organize the workload once the project starts). This exercise is about identifying the risks that are worth worrying about and ignoring those that aren’t. Will the team follow Scrum?

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UruIT

JULY 9, 2019

We could also discuss the concept of quality, which functionalities are paramount and should have complete QA coverage (this will help the devs organize the workload once the project starts). This exercise is about identifying the risks that are worth worrying about and ignoring those that aren’t. Will the team follow Scrum?

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The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2017

Buying became an exercise in sourcing for the lowest unit cost any vendor was willing to supply for a particular skill-set. It didn't matter whether you were competent, Sun certified you as a Java developer, Scrum Alliance a Scrum Master, PMI a Project Manager, any employer a Six Sigma blackbelt.

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Exadel

AUGUST 5, 2020

Mid-morning, I participate in daily Scrum meetings with my team members discussing current project assignments and challenges and then work on the project tasks during the rest of the day, connecting with the team members to address any urgent issues. Sometimes I’m also involved in looking at Google analytics and analyzing the data gathered.

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Atomic Spin

MAY 16, 2019

What we need is some organizing principle—some way to organize and categorize all the practices. I propose this as just such an organizing principle: practices can be arranged on a spectrum ranging from most concrete (i.e. Weekly – Things like your Scrum meetings. What to Look For. Let’s Talk.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Digging through research examining the impact of standard conventions like siloed teams and staged gate processes, Arooni began percolating ideas for how to shift IT organizations away from the traditional project-oriented culture to something more agile, with greater business accountability and more responsiveness to changing customer needs. “We

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Modus Create

APRIL 4, 2019

Over the next two days, I walked Tim and Mark through some structured exercises to brainstorm different markets. Making the judgment call on who to invite to a meeting is much easier when we fully understand each stakeholder’s role in an organization. Many of us work in small scrum or design teams. The RACI Model.

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