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How Agile Meetings Impact Arousal Levels and Team Productivity

Apiumhub

In Agile environments, maintaining focus is crucial to achieving optimal performance, especially in complex tasks like software development. The challenge in professional environments, especially for Agile teams , is maintaining this balance so the team can perform at its best without experiencing burnout or exhaustion.

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3 force multipliers for digital transformation

CIO

But the faster transition often caused underperforming apps, greater security risks, higher costs, and fewer business outcomes, forcing IT to address these issues before starting app modernizations. One of the common complaints agile team members voice is the number of coordination meetings and time spent in them.

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The Best Product Engineering Org in the World

James Shore

This is a transcript of my keynote presentation for the Regional Scrum Gathering Tokyo conference on January 8th, 2025. Kent Beck concluded , Measure developer productivity? He says a measurement based approach generates relatively weak improvements and significant distortion of incentives. How are you measuring productivity?

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Why Having a Tech Lead or Manager as Scrum Master is a Bad Idea

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

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.

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Coach your Architects in Agile Architecture!

Xebia

Some companies ignore architects in their transformation, some will upskill their architects, and some will make the DevOps teams responsible for the architecture. The agile coaches are concerned with making the organization agile on a process level. The scrum masters are concerned with the agile process on a team level.

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7 tell-tale signs of fake agile

CIO

The same is not true, sadly, for many agile project management and development initiatives. Leaders must be committed to the enablement of agile teams.”. Agility is about shipping as well as development. Team leadership void. Walker suggests spending time with team members to view and understand how they operate.

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Why a matrix organisational structure will destroy your company

Evolution4all

Agile asks for cross-functional teams, and therefore companies start to build teams around different people with different skills within the organisation. The team in this situation is a bunch of individuals from different parts of the organisation that are brought together to deliver something. Blame Culture.

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