InfoQ Culture Methods

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Effective Facilitation helps Scrum and Agile Teams leverage differences in positive ways, guiding teams to frame their discussions with clear purpose, decisions, outcomes and engagement with one another.

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scruminc

MARCH 18, 2019

On March 8, 2019, in Tokyo Japan, I attended the press conference for the formation of Scrum Inc.’s s new joint venture, Scrum Inc. This joint venture is out to change the way of work in Japan and reignite the spark of innovation in this beautiful country with a rich and ancient culture. We called it “Scrum Ba at Night”.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

DECEMBER 30, 2020

What are the questions you should be asking and what behaviours should you be measuring within your Scrum teams in order to improve overall dependability and delivery efficiency?

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InfoQ Culture Methods

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Although many organizations use Scrum, the majority struggle to grasp both the purpose of Scrum as well as its benefits. They do Zombie Scrum; it looks like Scrum from a distance, but you see that things are amiss when moving closer.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

AUGUST 24, 2022

POCs and Scrum can play a critical role in implementing Quality software solutions. Scrum short sprints often create an environment most conductive to working reactively to constantly-changing requirements making it hard for developers to prioritize and achieve Quality over the course of the project.

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CIO

MARCH 7, 2023

I’ll be covering more examples of force multipliers in upcoming articles, and here are three to start that should apply to most CIOs and their IT organizations. The organization’s size, types of programs, compliance requirements, and cultural readiness are just a few of the key variables requiring consideration.

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Luis Goncalves

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Scrum is a framework for developing, delivering, and sustaining complex products. The Scrum Guide defines the roles, events, artifacts and the rules that define this framework. Not all product development frameworks have a certain set of values like Scrum. The Scrum Values. The first Scrum value is commitment.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

MARCH 31, 2020

The Culture & Methods editors team present their take on the topics that are at the front of the technology adoption curve.

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scruminc

MARCH 15, 2021

Improve Pipeline Generation With Scrum. Monotype , an on-demand digital typesetting and typeface design services company and longtime client, implemented Scrum in their sales teams to maximize their pipeline, improve team culture, and find opportunities to enhance prioritization during the pandemic.

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scruminc

APRIL 24, 2020

What Happens to Managers in Scrum? . Each episode will explore organizational Agility and Scrum patterns, tactics, and techniques that drive real-world success. Each episode will explore organizational Agility and Scrum patterns, tactics, and techniques that drive real-world success. There’s a word missing in the Scrum Guide.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

OCTOBER 2, 2019

The Scrum Fieldbook aims at introducing Scrum within organizations outside of the software industry, where Scrum can help leaders achieve a culture of high performance. The author shares patterns, practices and practical steps that leaders can take to incorporate these successfully in their organization.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

This article shares the experiences from doing a Sprint 0 with an existing team which was struggling to deliver, helping them to align to a new product vision and become a stronger team.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

But after two years of what students alleged to be poor leadership and a culture of silence, they were set on making this incident the last time Awodele retaliated against a boot camp attendee. AfroTech deleted its article on Awodele after allegations surfaced.). We’re using a pseudonym here.). Jack their s**t and remake it.”.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

MAY 26, 2021

In this article in a series on how ‘debt’ can be used to guide an agile journey, we will provide two examples of smells that are related to organizational debt, explain the symptoms, the impact on the business and in our organization, outline the experiments (countermeasures) that we have introduced in an effort to try to remove the smell, and provide (..)

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The Crazy Programmer

APRIL 10, 2019

According to a survey taken of the Scrum Alliance, approximately 70 percent of all groups handling Agile software development believe there are issues present between various internal departments within the company. The Agile Development isn’t Being Supported by the Company Culture. The fact is, Agile groups work at a much faster pace.

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Evolution4all

AUGUST 5, 2018

Blame Culture. There are clear roles for Product Owners , Scrum Masters , and Team Members, but nothing for Agile Managers. At that time I was Scrum Master , and the team was recruiting a developer; of course, we all looked for senior developers. I believe this is partly the result of the previous problem.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JUNE 10, 2021

Corporate agile often represents an improvement over what went before but falls short on delivering the high performance management want and quality engineering environment developers dream of. The backlog becomes tyranny. Could OKRs - objectives and key results - reawaken the radical side of agile?

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JUNE 21, 2023

In this article, we will explore the substantial mindset shift and routine change from a typical reporting-focused to interactive data-driven culture of Sprint Reviews. By Yuliia Pieskova

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InfoQ Culture Methods

APRIL 29, 2020

Introducing business-oriented automated testing can involve a huge cultural change. For this we really need a Test Coach role, just like we have agile coaches and scrum masters.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

MARCH 8, 2020

Does your Daily Scrum suffer from ’storytelling' or 'problem solving’ symptoms, as well as Sprint Goal amnesia? Does your Daily Scrum Therapy take longer than 15 minutes, but still no relevant information is being shared? By Raluca Mitan, Rade Zivanovic.

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James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

This is a transcript of my keynote presentation for the Regional Scrum Gathering Tokyo conference on January 8th, 2025. Martin Fowler wrote an article in 2003 titled Cannot Measure Productivity. Just like real Agile and real Scrum is too extreme for most companies. This is a big cultural shift! Not possible.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Ahmad Fahmy and Cesario Ramos take the changes to the new Scrum Guide as an opportunity to explore what it means to be "on a team." They draw on research to create an ACID test to differentiate who is on the team and who isn't.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

DECEMBER 27, 2021

This article proposes an analysis of workspaces from anthropology to solve one of the most common problems: the appearance of silos instead of a culture of collaboration. These companies are made of people who, unlike smartphones, personal computers or smart watches, have not evolved as much in recent years. By Patricia Salgado.

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SCRUMstudy

APRIL 12, 2018

This is why Scrum recommends co-located teams. Global reach and distributed costs, more culturally inclusive team leads to understanding the market better, global acquisitions of other small businesses to assist the main organization etc. A culturally different team needs a different approach to communicate among each other.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JUNE 21, 2021

This article gives you a sneak peek into the adoption of Agile methodology at Red Hat. It shows how they have split the existing large subsystem team into smaller durable Scrum teams. Small teams scale well.

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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. Now that I’m done being dramatic, let me say this: I’m not actually trying to get you all to quit Scrum. we use Scrum, but …).

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Luis Goncalves

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

While a vision can sound witty and unforgettable, it is meant for your team and culture. If you liked this article, feel free to visit my company´s Products and Services pages. It’s basically your company’s ultimate dream – the end result of all your efforts. Often, company vision statements are mistaken for a company tagline.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

MAY 27, 2022

In this article, This approach must eventually be left behind after an Agile transition. By Kurt Bittner.

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Luis Goncalves

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Moreover, it helps sustain the company culture and largely benefits the organisation, particularly employee productivity and performance. Company/Organisation Culture Benefits. This makes a cultural shift from output to outcomes. If you liked this article, feel free to visit my company Products and Services pages.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

This article dives into the differences between user stories and tickets, where stories came from and how recent trends are moving us away from conversations. User stories are meant to be a placeholder for a conversation.

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scruminc

JUNE 3, 2021

by the Scrum Inc. Are You Looking To Refresh Or Reboot Your Culture? As a recent article in the Wall Street Journal points out: It took months for bosses and employees to adjust to working remotely in the pandemic. Colocation has long been a mantra in the Agile and Scrum communities. Structure begets culture.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This article was co-written by Chris Davis, Partner, Metis Strategy , and Kelley Dougherty, Associate, Metis Strategy To succeed as a large, global company, there is no choice but to harness the power of technology talent around the world.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

This article is a guide to organizing a Gemba sprint; a sprint where teams, leadership, and management work together with the ultimate goal of coming together as an organization. Ahmad Fahmy explores what is needed to set up a Gemba sprint, how to organize and run one and provides some dos and don'ts to make a Gemba sprint effective.

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Evolution4all

MARCH 11, 2019

Objective: Establish a friendly, “family” like Company Culture. Key Results: Redesign the layout of newsletter. Add more useful content, apart from the regular product updates and special offers. Feature one interesting article each time. . More Tips to Writing Good OKRs.

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Codegiant

AUGUST 14, 2020

Agile vs Scrum: Differences & Similarities?—?The The Complete Review [2020] From the desk of a brilliant weirdo #1 : If you are using Scrum it’s safe to say that you are also using Agile. On the other hand, if you are using an Agile framework, that may not necessarily be Scrum. In Scrum, you have three main roles?—?the

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Xebia

APRIL 14, 2022

We’ll tell you all about it in this article! . A Release Train Engineer , Scrum Masters, Product Management, and Product Owners support each ART. Continuous Learning Culture ?- But all that requires a fundamental shift in work culture and organizational behavior.? What is SAFe? What are its core values? What is an ART?

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scruminc

JULY 23, 2021

Psychological Safety And Scrum Teams: How To Create A High-Performance Environment. Maybe it’s the culture or an individual’s upbringing. Without a process in place to ensure open discourse around touchy topics, the team runs the risk of burying issues and creating a passive-aggressive culture. Why is it so difficult?

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