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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Gorilla Logic

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

“ My Scrum Master scheduled all these meetings, but they are taking time away from my actual work!”. I’ve seen some people struggle with the amount of meetings that revolve around an Agile implementation, but these spaces where the team members come together are priceless. Scrum ceremonies are where the magic happens!

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Xebia

MARCH 19, 2024

Are you a developer who has to put up with a bitter manager? A Scrum Master struggling to survive under the tyranny of micromanagement? Or maybe a manager, leader, or coach who wants to understand how to support their team better? Mostly though, it is demotivating and, therefore, bad.

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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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CIO

MAY 6, 2024

We sought technology leaders who could advise on succeeding fast, along with creating a strong organization, developing team leaders, leveraging the support of peers, and specifically how to streamline day-to-day management of a technology group. Bad hires happen, and sometimes, promotions don’t work out.

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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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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

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. How to Make Better Sprint Goals.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JANUARY 15, 2019

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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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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Skill assessment software has become the new buzzword in the software development industry. Recruiters are looking for highly skilled candidates to handle their software development duties. As a result, the demand for talented software developers is witnessing unprecedented growth. Higher accuracy. Higher accuracy.

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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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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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Altexsoft

OCTOBER 25, 2019

This article will guide you through all the steps of a new product development (NPD) process and give you some insights into implementing best practices en route from a pure idea to roll-out and selling. What is a new product development process? Put together, these efforts compose a new product development (NPD) process.

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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.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JANUARY 16, 2017

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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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Xebia

JUNE 20, 2022

When companies transform towards an agile and DevOps way of working, they sometimes ask how to proceed with architects. Some companies ignore architects in their transformation, some will upskill their architects, and some will make the DevOps teams responsible for the architecture.

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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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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. But how can this accuracy be achieved? But how can this accuracy be achieved? How to calculate story points in Agile?

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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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Codegiant

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

This is an article about scrum ceremonies. I’ll cover the 5 types of scrum meetings. Each scrum ceremony?—?be be it the daily scrum, the scrum retro, the sprint planning, the sprint review, or the backlog refinement?—?is But that just shows how impartial they are. is timeboxed.

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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

AUGUST 23, 2018

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JUNE 1, 2021

Let’s look at what purpose they serve, and how to improve them. 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. What is a Sprint Backlog.

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Altexsoft

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Depending on team size and structure, QA is viewed and utilized differently, but tailored to specific organization needs. Other variations of QA-related job offerings are QA analyst, QA engineer, automation engineer, test automation developer, etc. Besides that, manual testing is used as an initial step in developing automated tests.

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Apiumhub

JUNE 27, 2022

In this article I would like to share my experience as a Product Owner supporting one of Apiumhub’s smallest teams. When I joined, the team was formed by: One permanent Backend Developer with some Front End skills. One Front End developer part time. No QA, no Scrum Master… and no PO until I landed here!

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Codegiant

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

This is an article about scrum ceremonies. I’ll cover the 5 types of scrum meetings. Each scrum ceremony — be it the daily scrum, the scrum retro, the sprint planning, the sprint review, or the backlog refinement — is timeboxed. It really means a lot.

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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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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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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

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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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CIO

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Business analyst job description BAs are responsible for creating new models that support business decisions by working closely with finance and IT teams to establish initiatives and strategies aimed at improving revenue and/or optimizing costs. Business analyst skills The business analyst position requires both hard skills and soft skills.

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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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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

DECEMBER 11, 2023

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JUNE 12, 2019

Hardening Sprints are one of the most common kinds of Scrum Anti-Patterns: ways of addressing recurring problems that seem like effective solutions at the time but in fact hamper productivity or create more problems later on. In software development work, a design pattern is a description of a solution to a recurring problem.

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