scruminc

JULY 23, 2021

Psychological Safety And Scrum Teams: How To Create A High-Performance Environment. We can use our understanding of human biology to create an environment that supercharges performance, creativity, and efficiency. Individuals belonging to such a group feel safe to express ideas and opinions without fear of retaliation.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

MARCH 13, 2020

The Scrum Guide offers very limited guidance, suggesting 3-9 people per team (exclusive of ScrumMaster and Product Owner), without giving reasons or context for those numbers. While this is primarily about Scrum, the lessons are applicable for any work that is collaborative and knowledge-based. Clear Roles and Responsibilities [ 8 ].

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Apiumhub

JANUARY 12, 2023

In the list of activities in the Scrum software development life cycle ranked by their popularity amongst developers, “attending meetings” is perhaps locked in a perpetual battle only with “writing documentation” for the position of last place. This is, of course, merely reciting from the doctrine of Scrum. Introduction.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

MARCH 12, 2020

The Scrum Guide offers very limited guidance, suggesting 3-9 people per team (exclusive of ScrumMaster and Product Owner), without giving reasons or context for those numbers. While this is primarily about Scrum, the lessons are applicable for any work that is collaborative and knowledge-based.

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scruminc

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

This blog post explores the synergy between the OODA Loop and Scrum, delving into how this powerful decision-making tool can be leveraged for effective impediment removal. In business, this could mean looking at performance metrics, team feedback, or market conditions. The term “impediment” holds significant weight.

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scruminc

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Scrum in HR: A Better Way To Engage, Equip & Empower People. This free webinar explores how and why Scrum helps Human Resource professionals tackle some of their most pressing challenges. Scrum in HR: People Practices that Engage, Equip & Empower. Agile and Scrum are revolutionizing Human Resources.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JANUARY 30, 2019

Frequently in workshops, I get asked, “Where shouldn’t we use Scrum?” The short answer is there are lots of instances where the Scrum framework doesn’t fit. However, to give a more complete and effective answer to this question, first we need to have an idea of why and when Scrum does work and what the key conditions are for success.

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scruminc

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Scrum Trainer Spotlight: Diane H. by Scrum Inc. Scrum Trainers by Scrum Inc. sit at the core of the program; they are a distinguished group of Scrum educators with demonstrated experience improving the performance of teams and organizations. Leonard, GPC. Team | October 28 , 2020 | Blog.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

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. A key ingredient is allowing self-organization of the group to flourish. There are many ways micromanagement can show up in a Scrum environment.

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scruminc

JULY 23, 2018

How to Measure Happiness Across a Large Group. An aerospace parts client recently emailed me asking how to measure happiness across a group of hundreds of employees. Here is what I've learned about measuring team happiness: The happiness metric retrospective is easy to run via the team’s Scrum Masters.

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Risk management: Perform qualitative and quantitative risk analysis, plan risk mitigation strategies. Quality management: Performing all aspects of managing quality. Agile , which includes subvariants such as Lean and Scrum, is increasing in popularity and is being utilized in virtually every industry.

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scruminc

JANUARY 22, 2019

How Scrum Improves Gender Parity in the Workplace. From what I have read and experienced while traveling the world teaching Scrum, the rest of the globe isn’t much different or much better. My sincere belief is that Scrum can help narrow these gaps. Many Scrum Teams lay these ideas out explicitly in a Working Agreement.

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scruminc

OCTOBER 4, 2023

in 2001, a group of software development experts gathered to find a common language for their lightweight processes. This misinterpretation was so rampant that the Scrum Guide had to be revised. Given the current misuse of “sustainable pace,” it’s evident that another update to the Scrum Guide is urgently needed.

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Openxcell

JANUARY 31, 2023

If you work in the Agile or Scrum field, it’s likely that you already know at least one of these phrases. You may also be curious about the difference between Agile and Scrum. The term “Agile and Scrum” are often used interchangeably in modern DevOps environments because of their similarities. What is Scrum?

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

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. Why Micromanagement Happens.

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scruminc

JULY 17, 2018

Impediments of Performance Appraisals. The research on performance appraisal shows that they: Demotivate employees. 70% of content is about the manager, not the employee, and the remainder often does not accurately reflect employee performance because the manager does not really know day to day what happens (the team does).

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Openxcell

APRIL 26, 2021

Impact of work from home on scrum. Remote Scrum Master. When working remotely the scrum master might face some obvious problems like: Since everything becomes virtual the advantages of having face to face conversations are lost. Working remotely and thus scrum methodology in a remote situation are not alien concepts.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

MARCH 12, 2020

The Scrum Guide offers very limited guidance, suggesting 3-9 people per team (exclusive of ScrumMaster and Product Owner), without giving reasons or context for those numbers. While this is primarily about Scrum, the lessons are applicable for any work that is collaborative and knowledge-based.

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Gorilla Logic

APRIL 2, 2021

Much like a pod of whales or a pack of wolves, did you know that a group of gorillas is called a band? Juan Bosco Bustos Cortés — Scrum Master. Juan is one of our amazing Scrum Masters here at Gorilla Logic. Juan is one of our amazing Scrum Masters here at Gorilla Logic. Are you Gorilla material? Join the band today!

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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. So Standish Group data is known to be convservative as to failure rates.

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Altexsoft

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

One of the most popular Agile frameworks , Scrum, suggests building software in iterations aka Sprints that last between two to four weeks. Scrum roles include a Scrum Master, a Product Owner (PO), and a development team. Why does the Scrum Team need backlog grooming? That’ll be the focus of our article.

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scruminc

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Agile Teams In A Time of Disruption: How To Optimize Distributed Team Performance. However, for organizations to truly capitalize on the potential of distributed teams, they must be able to optimize virtual team performance. . Scrum Inc.’s by Avi Schneier | October 29, 2020 | Blog. It can be done.

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CIO

MAY 6, 2024

We sought technology leaders who could advise on succeeding fast, along with creating a strong organization, developing team leaders, leveraging the support of peers, and specifically how to streamline day-to-day management of a technology group. Bad hires happen, and sometimes, promotions don’t work out.

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Modus Create

JUNE 18, 2019

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. ” Support group: “Hi, Mark…” It started out innocent enough. we use Scrum, but …).

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scruminc

APRIL 17, 2018

What Do HBR, Scrum Alliance, and Scrum@Scale Have in Common? Would scaling up agile improve corporate performance as much as agile methods improve individual team performance?". These questions about corporate performance are posed in the newly published Harvard Business Review article " Agile at Scale ".

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scruminc

JULY 30, 2021

Sustaining Scrum in the military. ? Under Secretary of the Navy (Performing the Duties of). Sutherland”) is the co-creator of Scrum and the world’s leading authority on the framework. JJ is the CEO of Scrum Inc. Prior to Scrum Inc. The 2021 Military Agility Forum. September 23-24, 2021. Cost: Free. Register Now.

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scruminc

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

For example, OpenView Ventures Partners are part of a group seeking to invest $525 million in Agile companies in 2021. In 2018, Takao Sakai published his book on “ The Secret Behind the Success of Toyota ” and sent me a note saying Scrum trainers were teaching Scrum wrong. Measuring Business Agility is done at a macro level. .

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

The idea is to let developers test AI systems and biases — that is, the edge cases where the systems perform poorly — to reduce the time needed for validation, Choi explained in an email interview. The traction was enough to convince several investors to pledge money toward the venture. Today, Bobidi closed a $5.5

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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. Scrum, Agile, and Kanban, in this sense, are sets of behavioural design patterns.

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scruminc

AUGUST 31, 2023

Exploring Scrum’s Horizons: Expanding Possibilities in Regulated Industries Commander Jon Haase’s Extraordinary Journey featured in The Scrum Fieldbook by The Scrum Inc. Team | August 29 , 2023 | Blog At Scrum Inc., the boundaries of Scrum and Agile principles extend far beyond IT and software development.

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scruminc

APRIL 12, 2019

“People were saying that groups needed to communicate more. The reason for this is that more communication doesn’t scale while just enough communication is essential to high performance of a team and particular teams of teams. In Scrum we have leveled the playing field as the Product Owner is not the superior.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

In Scrum, we ask a Team to undertake Sprint Planning to agree on what they will achieve in the next Sprint, based on their expected capacity. The Sprint Goal provides focus in Daily Scrum and an opportunity to refocus if the Sprint goes off-track. 1 ] For that, we need clear Sprint Goals. Why Do We Have Sprint Goals?

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Xebia

JUNE 20, 2022

The scrum masters are concerned with the agile process on a team level. The considerable debate in the industry is whether we still require architects when we can make the high-performing software teams responsible for the architecture. The agile coaches are concerned with making the organization agile on a process level.

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Evolution4all

APRIL 30, 2019

It serves many important purposes, from educating to supporting your company’s talent, encouraging their growth, driving performance, and even resolving conflicts. The community activities they participate in are performed in a secondary group, which are meant to support their primary activities or main functions.

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scruminc

JUNE 3, 2021

by the Scrum Inc. Colocation has long been a mantra in the Agile and Scrum communities. Colocation builds team chemistry, increases communication saturation, and is a pattern commonly used by high-performing teams across industries and functions. . But consider the updated 2020 Scrum Guide. Team | June 3 , 2021 | Blog.

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Evolution4all

APRIL 5, 2019

In its simple definition, communities of practice refer to groups of people with common goals and interests (practice) interact to become better at what they do. In organisations, however, we look at CoPs as more of a process than actual groups or communities of experts. To improve performance. To foster collaboration.

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Evolution4all

MARCH 11, 2019

Key Results: Promote engagement among team members via incentives. Organise bi-weekly coaching sessions for low performers. Start a skill acquisition program for interested team members. . Look through the following objectives and key results examples as a guide to set yours: Example 1. Objective: Lower Attrition Rate by 15%.

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