Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

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. What do you actually do ?”

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

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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Evolution4all

AUGUST 5, 2018

Before I continue, I want to clarify that there are some businesses that can apply this organisational structure with success—Spotify, for example. Agile asks for cross-functional teams, and therefore companies start to build teams around different people with different skills within the organisation. Blame Culture.

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scruminc

OCTOBER 2, 2020

A $90 Billion Annual Opportunity for the Scrum and Agile Community. Government has a significant software development problem. Denise Jarvie is a consultant now working with Scrum Inc. She was one of the Scrum and Agile experts that helped develop the GAO’s guide. And they know it.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JANUARY 16, 2019

It is common in the early stages of Scrum implementation for there to be misunderstandings about what User Stories are for and what makes them useful. A ScrumMaster’s task is to be able to help the Team and Product Owner when they are faced with ineffective User Stories as they go into Sprint Planning.

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scruminc

JULY 30, 2020

ACM Queue Magazine: How To Improve Your Scrum. The lightweight nature of Scrum makes it flexible, adaptable, and easy to understand. . However, as we wrote in the Scrum Guide, ‘Scrum is easy to understand but difficult to master.’ This is why Scrum Essence Cards have become a key component of every class I teach. .

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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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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. But my employer had just paid for me to go through the training, and I was expected to help improve their development processes.

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scruminc

APRIL 24, 2020

What Happens to Managers in Scrum? . This post is part of our new ScrumCast series of conversations with thought leaders who have successfully helped transform organizations and empower teams and individuals. Each episode will explore organizational Agility and Scrum patterns, tactics, and techniques that drive real-world success.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

OCTOBER 12, 2021

When last we left our World’s Smallest Online Bookstore team, their Sprint was rocky. The team set “Have basic reader review system in place so book buyers can see a variety of opinions about a book” as their Sprint Goal. B y the standards of many teams this is remarkably good. and implemented the changes.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JULY 7, 2011

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Gorilla Logic

MARCH 17, 2023

Have you ever been part of a team where tickets are hard to understand or don’t supply enough detail for the team to properly work? Experiences like these make many developers think about using Behavior-Driven Development (BDD). Know your team members You work with your team every day and know them well.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JANUARY 15, 2019

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

In Scrum, Product Backlog Refinement is an essential meeting of the Product Owner and the Development Team to gain clarity and a shared understanding of what needs to be done through discussion and sharing of ideas. The following is a guide example of how to run an effective Product Backlog Refinement meeting.

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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. Why Scrum Works - Decision Latency. was well received. Successful.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

If your Sprints are merely about ticking off items on a scattered work list without having a shared understanding of why they’re important or what purpose they serve, your Development Team will struggle to keep focus in the short-term and will take longer to become highly effective in the long run. Why Do We Have Sprint Goals?

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

AUGUST 23, 2018

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Business leaders expect IT to develop new products, improve customer experiences, automate workflows, and deliver new artificial intelligence capabilities. Many IT teams use agile methodologies to iteratively deliver feature-rich releases, improve capabilities, address technical debt, and experiment with emerging technologies.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

DECEMBER 11, 2023

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CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

As a result, many new car companies are created and competition increases, says Tobias Altehed, who leads Volvo Cars’ digital organization and sits on the company’s extended management team. We need to take greater responsibility for the development of our digital products and not act as an internal supplier to our business.”

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

DECEMBER 10, 2019

One of the more frequently asked questions in my Scrum workshops is around the difference between Definition of “Done” and Acceptance Criteria , and how they relate to User Stories. While Acceptance Criteria is a commonly understood concept in software development, Definition of “Done” is unique to Scrum. User Stories.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Scale: Team and/or across multiple teams. 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.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 26, 2012

They didn't feel they had visibility into timelines and costs for development of their software. In three of the cases, the founder was finding that the software teams (1 in-house, 2 outsourced) were delivering relatively well in the short-run. They couldn't plan their business. My belief is that you shouldn't sign that contract.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Many people who attend Scrum training courses start with the impression that the Daily Scrum is the whole of Scrum. Others think the Daily Scrum centres on three questions (this was true a long time ago). This guide to the Daily Scrum meeting was created to address these misconceptions as well as answer common questions.

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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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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

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Evolution4all

MARCH 15, 2023

Agile Transformation Executed Only On the Team Level Most organizations make this mistake. They believe that Agile transformation means simply implementing Agile only on the team level. And more importantly, you are ready to change the organization as a whole, not only the development teams.

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scruminc

JULY 23, 2021

Psychological Safety And Scrum Teams: How To Create A High-Performance Environment. Organizations have gravitated toward this concept because they want to address a challenge around creativity, innovation, and basic team formation. . What Happens When Teams Lose Sight Of The Purpose? . For example: .

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JUNE 1, 2021

A Sprint Backlog consists of a set of Product Backlog Items (PBIs) that the Developers think they can complete in the Sprint, along with the work needed, described in small enough chunks that progress can be tracked throughout the Sprint. Most Scrum Teams simply use whatever their online Scrum tool feeds them for their Sprint Backlog.

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Evolution4all

JULY 2, 2018

In one of his articles, Welch reiterated that budgeting hides opportunities for growth and at the same time, promotes bad behaviour especially when market demands change and the company still tries to reach its target. Within the organisation, a good example of the value stream would be the development of new processes, systems, or products.

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Luis Goncalves

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Do you want to be successful like them in implementing processes and empowering your team ? This may feel a little uncomfortable for you if you an open line of communication between you and your subordinates hasn’t been opened or has been weak for the longest time. This also promotes collaboration among your team members.

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Codegiant

MAY 3, 2020

Kanban vs Scrum?—?Every Every Difference Your Team Needs To Know [2020] Scrum is the most popular Agile framework today ( 56% of all Agile teams use Scrum ). But is it the most effective one, particularly for your team? Or is Kanban, one of the trending agile frameworks today , a better fit for your team?

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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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James Shore

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Whole Team. The Hole Team. Hi, I’m your Scrum Master,” she says.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JULY 18, 2012

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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. Today his unit is a shining example of how to succeed with Agile.

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