Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The World’s Smallest Online Bookstore team has just come out of their Sprint Review. For those who’re keeping score, the team committed to a Sprint Goal: Have basic reader review system in place so book buyers can see a variety of opinions about a book. The team return from lunch and the Retrospective starts.

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Trigent

JUNE 27, 2022

With outsourced QA being expedited through teams distributed across geographies and locations, many aspects that were hitherto guaranteed through co-located teams have now come under a lot of pressure. Best practices for ensuring the effectiveness of distributed QA teams. The challenge is to find the right skill mix.

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scruminc

JUNE 3, 2021

by the Scrum Inc. Team | June 3 , 2021 | Blog. You can start by focusing on these two areas: Team happiness and hopes – talk with or survey teams, team members, and leaders. Ask them directly about the good and bad of full remote vs. colocation. But consider the updated 2020 Scrum Guide.

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Trigent

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

DevOps is the preferred methodology for software development and release, with collaborating teams oriented towards faster delivery cycles augmented by early feedback. Outlined below some of the best practices for ensuring the effectiveness of distributed QA teams for an efficient DevOps process.

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Derek Huether

APRIL 24, 2018

Most organizations I deal with think the more metrics they have, the better off they are. To the contrary, collecting metrics data takes time. If the metrics you're reporting on are not valuable, then that time you spent collecting data is all wasted time. Know what metrics should be used to measure key results.

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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. When you have a firm handle on past metrics, it is much easier to predict future factors, like resource utilisation. Management oversight and monitoring throughout the product’s development.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

After you recover from this bombshell, you will need to decide what tool you will use and who you will grab to help you start to tackle this problem. A great tool when you have an idea of where you’re going.). Impact Mapping is a tool to help you figure out where you will likely get the most bang for your buck. A Journey Map?

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Accenture

OCTOBER 29, 2018

It is easy to train Agile practices such as Scrum and get people started working in teams. It is even easier to install collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams and Jira. It had to do with the metrics they recommend to measure the Agile team’s output.

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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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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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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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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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Wolk Software Engineering

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The CHAOS Report examined thousands of software projects over three decades and found some very disappointing performance metrics: Over the last three decades, the success rate of software projects has never exceeded 38%. We have managed to identify and document the main risks involved in developing software products.

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Mentormate

APRIL 3, 2018

When it comes to medical software development, businesses can fall into one of two traps: They are unaware that the product they want to create has features that are subject to the FDA’s scrutiny. Exploring Medical Software Development? How Does the FDA Choose to Regulate Medical Software Development? Tread Carefully.

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Altexsoft

DECEMBER 29, 2021

In software development, estimates have to be done to evaluate the duration and cost of the project and quite understandably, stakeholders want them to be as accurate and reliable as possible. With time, they became a common metric in Scrum and other Agile methodologies and in many cases replaced estimations in time or money.

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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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scruminc

MAY 11, 2022

by The Scrum Inc. Team | March 11, 2022 | Blog. Accumulating excess inventory due to poor projections or workflow production? . It’s a workplace efficiency tool designed to identify bottlenecks, eliminate waste, and speed up delivery with continuous improvement of the process. Image Source: Wikipedia ].

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Wolk Software Engineering

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

In Part I , I explored some of the most popular software development methodologies (SDM) to explain why they often fail to improve our outcomes. Kill” Scrum: Scrum has helped us to learn a lot, but it is time we move on. We need a new methodology that learns from the scrum ease of adoption.

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scruminc

MAY 10, 2022

Value Stream Management allows you to determine the measurable flow of value, where value delivery is slowed down, as well as create opportunities for better alignment & collaboration among teams. It’s a critical aspect of lean operations that contributes to the success of agile product development and delivery.

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Altexsoft

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Meanwhile, developers think of the product in terms of its internal characteristics. That’s why a Business Analyst steps in to translate customer’s needs into requirements, and further transform them into tasks for developers. Functional requirements describe the system’s behavior in response to the input, Source: QRA Team.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JANUARY 25, 2024

Just a few notes on methodology: This report is based on O’Reilly’s internal “Units Viewed” metric. Remember that these “units” are “viewed” by our users, who are largely professional software developers and programmers. Software Development Most of the topics that fall under software development declined in 2023.

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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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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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Altexsoft

JANUARY 16, 2019

In software development, collective thinking thrives during workshops. However, with their social energy, engaging dynamic, and intense focus, workshops can fuel your team’s progress on a project like no other technique. What is a product development workshop? PDW at different stages of the product development lifecycle.

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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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The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2020

Distributed software development has been practiced for decades. Skilled labor, global communication networks and collaborative tools made "offshore development" possible at scale from the mid-1990s onward. Consider a distributed Agile program consisting of multiple teams based in different countries around the world.

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scruminc

MARCH 26, 2021

As an Agile consultant, that’s what I hear on a pretty regular basis coming from Shared Services teams. We support many products and many tools spread across the entire company. Challenge: Let’s get back to that ever-present tornado of requests that haunt Infrastructure and Shared Services teams. Everything. . .

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Codegiant

AUGUST 7, 2020

He manages the team by assigning tasks and prioritising issues. You have to be able to communicate deadlines, user stories, requirements, in a clear and cogent way that your team members will have no trouble understanding. push your team but don’t be harsh. What makes a good PM is that good PMs are team players.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

MAY 14, 2020

Teams are not Agile, organizations are (7:12). Agile and Lean Software Development Group on LinkedIn. Intro: Welcome to the Programming Leadership podcast where we help great coders become skilled leaders and build happy high performing software teams. Scrum can be Agile. Scrum is an Agile process. Show Notes.

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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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LaunchDarkly

MAY 20, 2020

And I am a developer advocate for LaunchDarkly. It’s sometimes referred to as the bad apples management principle. If you have a team or a person who seems to be coincidentally associated with reliability issues, getting rid of that person is not likely to make the system more reliable. Watch Casey’s full talk.

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Codegiant

JULY 8, 2021

This results in lower productivity, which often leads to: Lesser profitability Employee disengagement Lower team morale Lack of motivation and creativity Delay in project deliveries Workplace toxicity High employee turnover If you are wondering how to increase productivity in your workplace, you’re at the right place. Here’s the scenario? —?let’s

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Codegiant

JULY 8, 2021

This results in lower productivity, which often leads to: Lesser profitability Employee disengagement Lower team morale Lack of motivation and creativity Delay in project deliveries Workplace toxicity High employee turnover If you are wondering how to increase productivity in your workplace, you’re at the right place.

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Codegiant

JULY 10, 2020

What’s fascinating about Asana being a project management tool is that you can effortlessly create tasks within your beautifully-designed Asana dashboard. Why some teams love Asana is because of the transparency it can bring into their Asana workflows. Custom fields seem to be accessible across teams in your company.

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Crafty CTO

MAY 1, 2020

We left off at the handoff of shaped, de-risked work to the development teams. In effect, we are saying: “Here you go, dev team. ” Autonomy (project) or code monkey (tasks), which do you think your dev teams will prefer? This post will focus on Shape Up’s approach to building. And shipping!)

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

OCTOBER 17, 2019

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest Don Gray enlighten listeners regarding the world of software development, the reasons for implementing software changes and why it’s not as easy as people may think. Software development is not linear and not deterministic. Show Notes. Change is complex. Transcript.

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LeanEssays

DECEMBER 23, 2010

“We’re really struggling with the Product Owner concept, and many of our Scrum teams just don’t feel very productive.” The company had several vertical markets, with a Scrum team of about ten people assigned to each market. they told us. We’d like you to take a look at this and make some recommendations.”

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