CloudGeometry

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

So much of the discussion around developer productivity – without doubt, an essential feature of feature agility – revolves around methodology. The choices in building out an Agile capability are non-trivial. The nature of a SaaS business is not only in feature agility but in eliminating sources of feature friction.

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scruminc

JUNE 3, 2021

by the Scrum Inc. is not clear (or worse yet, a net negative), it’s likely time to either downsize and move to a hybrid model or consider remaining fully remote. . Colocation has long been a mantra in the Agile and Scrum communities. But consider the updated 2020 Scrum Guide. Team | June 3 , 2021 | Blog.

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CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Customer-centric Net Promoter Scores are equally important, he adds. “To Your leadership team should behave like a Scrum team, enabling end-to-end delivery and support.” He also advises establishing defined service targets and using agile methods to ensure continuous improvements and developing an effective governance improvement plan.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

DECEMBER 7, 2022

From working with Scrum and Kanban teams, I know that bonuses are counter-productive anywhere team members are doing knowledge work and their work is interdependent. Of course, from our experience in the agile world, we know that most targets are either outright dangerous (e.g. defects as a proxy for quality). Individual Bonuses.

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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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Net Objectives

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Targetprocess and Net Objectives Announce Strategic Partnership. Collaboration Integrates Lean-Agile Practices into a Visual Workflow Management Platform to Improve Value Delivery of Mid-Sized Enterprises. Together, we can maximize the value our customers receive from scaling Agile.”. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sep 6 2018.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JUNE 23, 2019

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JUNE 24, 2019

Today, our ScrumMaster and their Team grapple with these issues, to help you understand how they affect a Scrum Team and what you can do to prevent them from dragging you down. They set a goal every Sprint of having zero net new defects, agreeing to drop Stories rather than push new defects out of the door. 3] [link]. [4] 4] [link].

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Net Objectives

JUNE 24, 2018

Scrum has proven to be effective but companies often encounter severe challenges with its adoption. At Net Objectives, we believe otherwise. After using and teaching Scrum for two decades, we see the root cause of challenges with Scrum adoption lie in how it is promoted and the ways in which it is adopted.

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Net Objectives

JANUARY 7, 2019

Scrum and Kanban are the two most popular Agile team level methods available. They … Continue reading "Why Agile Coaches Need to Know Both Scrum and Kanban" They … Continue reading "Why Agile Coaches Need to Know Both Scrum and Kanban"

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

MARCH 12, 2020

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Net Objectives

APRIL 1, 2019

This was originally published May, 2017 Note: This blog assumes the reader understands the basic roles and practices of Scrum.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

DECEMBER 14, 2016

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Net Objectives

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Ken Schwaber & Jeff Sutherland created the Scrum Agile Framework based on The New New Product Development Game (TNNPDG) & empirical process control. In the 20+ years since Scrum’s ascension, other useful methods – Flow, Theory of Constraints, Kanban and Lean Management have come to the forefront.

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Net Objectives

JULY 11, 2018

While it's useful to bring in someone who can actually help with the work, such as a technical or ATDD coach, when it comes to Scrum or Agile coaches it's usually better to grow your own.There are several reasons for this: . If you are kicking off new teams there are two types of coaches you can bring in.

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Net Objectives

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

I often hear that you can get people to do Scrum but it won’t last unless they learn to “be” Agile. I suggest Scrum often fails because teams never learned how to do Agile.

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Net Objectives

JULY 7, 2018

Scrum’s roles, events, artifacts and rules are immutable. Ironically, immutability is as non-Agile as one can be – so why is this? Scrum pre-defines the “right” thing & says keep working on until you do it correctly. Of course, you won’t be doing Scrum anymore. Not understanding what to build is even worse.

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Evolution4all

APRIL 30, 2019

Now it can be a community of Product Owners looking for a new approach to work with their Scrum Teams or a network of Developers sharing their new scripts to automate their work. We provide Team Coaching , Agile Training , and Agile Consulting , OKR Training , OKR Consulting , Innovation Training and Innovation Consulting.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

DECEMBER 6, 2022

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Net Objectives

AUGUST 4, 2018

People often conflate Scrum with Agile. But Scrum is not the same as Agile. Agile's considered by many to be a set of values, principles and way of being. Scrum is a framework consisting of roles, rules, artifacts and events. XP is quite different.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

They agree to raise the issue in the next Daily Scrum. Day 2 During Daily Scrum Ian describes what theyve learned from installing Sonar and trying to configure PMD. Scrum by Example is a narrative-style blog series designed to help people new to Scrum, especially new ScrumMasters.

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Net Objectives

JUNE 22, 2018

Writing a page on "How to Adopt Scrum" reminded me that the CSM course started around '02 because Ken wanted to help those of us who already knew Scrum to be better coaches. But it didn't teach me scrum. I already knew Scrum & reading Ken's book was a pre-requisite for the course. . .

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Net Objectives

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Proponents of Scrum often put the responsibility for failed adoptions of Scrum at the feet of management who don’t want to change. While I believe this is true some of the time, I believe the challenge is that Agile adoptions based on Scrum often don’t attend to management’s needs.

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Net Objectives

DECEMBER 15, 2018

The Scrum Guide tells us “Scrum’s roles, events, artifacts, and rules are immutable” This presumes people need this structure and can’t think on their own without it. Why “Scrum-ish” is better than Scrum".

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Net Objectives

AUGUST 17, 2019

But yet we hear people infer that incorporating a few Lean practices into Scrum makes it Lean. Putting an Agile practice into waterfall will likely improve things, but it … Continue reading "Does incorporating a few Agile practices into waterfall make waterfall Agile?". It doesn’t.

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Net Objectives

MAY 8, 2019

Originally published October 20, 2017 Context / Intent for Article I have seen the Agile movement grow from when we new a fraction of what we have now and didn’t have a name for the overall approach. XP and Scrum were gaining ground. Continue reading "The Lean-Agile Manifesto".

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Net Objectives

APRIL 20, 2019

Now that the three Scrum bodies are offering Kanban you might think the Agile wars are over and it’s a good thing. Few look for what is common, underneath Scrum … Continue reading "How the Certifying Bodies Are Impeding Agile". But just the opposite is true. Their focus is still on the certs.

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Net Objectives

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Many proponents of Scrum based frameworks say: knowledge workers are people who know more than their managers we must trust & respect people people must self-organize But then their courses go on to tell people what to do. … Continue reading "The contradictions in many Scrum-based Framework Training (Scrum, SAFe, …)". .

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Net Objectives

JANUARY 16, 2019

Looking at differences between Scrum and Kanban can help us see which will work better for us. 1) Scrum requires planning the sprint ahead. 2) Scrum requires cross-functional teams, a good thing to have. Kanban doesn’t but this often misses the opportunity … Continue reading "The Differences Between Scrum and Kanban".

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Net Objectives

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

I’ve written recent posts about stoping the binary thinking & a Manifesto for Agile Learning. If you’re an SM you may have the concepts of Scrum & Agile down, but may not have what you need regarding Kanban. The key point of both is that breadth is more important than depth.

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Net Objectives

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

I’m guessing most people are expecting me to talk about making a decision on whether to use Scrum or Kanban. The first thing when starting Agile at the team is to ask “what’s in my way of creating and delivering value?” But I don’t believe that’s the biggest decision to make.

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Net Objectives

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Scrum was inspired by the article “The New New Product Development Game” (’86). Several characteristics of successful development included: Teams work best when they work autonomously … Continue reading "The True Intention of Scrum". It introduced a new way to develop new products.

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Net Objectives

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Scrum presumes it is effective to give all teams a simple preset, immutable framework that each team must follow until they figure out how to manifest it. Scrum is designed for and requires cross-functional teams doing work that is plannable.

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Net Objectives

JANUARY 11, 2019

I keep running across organizations with 4-10 dev teams struggling with Agile. They look to the two most popular frameworks out there for a solution (Scrum & SAFe) to solve their problems. On the other … Continue reading "A Simple Solution to Agile at Small-Scale".

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Net Objectives

MARCH 31, 2019

There is a division in the agile community about whether one should rely on people or focus on people supported by systemic thinking (no one I know of suggests systems alone are enough). Continue reading "Smart People, XP and Scrum – Is there a pattern?" This blog was originally written January 2010.There

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Net Objectives

MARCH 30, 2019

I have repeatedly heard that “Scrum succeeds largely because the people doing the work define how to do the work” (see From The Top by Ken Schwaber for his full text). However, I do not … Continue reading "Challenging why (not if) Scrum works". I have left the # of years the same to keep context.

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Net Objectives

JANUARY 29, 2019

Focus on Scrum. Daily Scrums provide an opportunity to pivot each day. This is the common way certified … Continue reading "Three ways to get trained in Scrum". This is the common way certified … Continue reading "Three ways to get trained in Scrum". Use its practices, events and artifacts to drive teams to improve.

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