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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Exadel

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Successful Agile software development can’t be done without an effective Sprint Retrospective. Let’s start with the definition of Sprint Retrospective from the Scrum Guide : “The purpose of the Sprint Retrospective is to plan ways to increase quality and effectiveness. The Scrum Master runs the meeting.

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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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CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2023

IT service delivery enables an organization to give end users access to essential IT services by designing, developing, and deploying key technology resources, including applications and data. One way to ensure smooth service delivery is to deploy tools aimed at detecting and proactively resolving issues.

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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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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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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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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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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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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. What are technical skills testing software?

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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 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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scruminc

OCTOBER 4, 2023

I want to reclaim and redefine sustainable pace, elevating it from a mere concept to a potent tool in the arsenal of Agile teams and organizations. in 2001, a group of software development experts gathered to find a common language for their lightweight processes. In a meeting at Snowbird, Utah, U.S.

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Evolution4all

AUGUST 5, 2018

They hire Agile Coaches or Scrum Masters to implement scrum or any other agile flavour in their teams, but they stop there. I have had the opportunity to work with many different teams and I discovered that many worked without a common vision or strategy. Regular course correction for checking any development drifts.

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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 4, 2023

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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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CIO

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Depending on the role, a business analyst might work with data sets to improve products, hardware, tools, software, services, or process. Not all business analysts need a background in IT if they have a general understanding of how systems, products, and tools work.

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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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Codegiant

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

From the desk of a brilliant weirdo #2 In this article, we will review 39 of the best software development and programming tools, ranging from web development and interactive development to rapid application development. Jira Jira is one of the best software management tools by Atlassian. Easy task tracking.

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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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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. . Maybe we have not been provided with the proper skills or tools. . For example: .

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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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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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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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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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Xebia

JUNE 20, 2022

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

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CIO

AUGUST 22, 2022

The fast-growing IT team had a lot on its plate: “We had probably 130 different ERP platforms across the four business units, and a lot of times they were similar, they were SAP or JDE, but there were different versions, and they ran autonomously on different platforms,” she says. Microtransformations.

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Altexsoft

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Meanwhile, developers think of the product in terms of its internal characteristics. That’s why a Business Analyst steps in to translate customer’s needs into requirements, and further transform them into tasks for developers. Functional requirements describe the system’s behavior in response to the input, Source: QRA Team.

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scruminc

MARCH 26, 2021

As an Agile consultant, that’s what I hear on a pretty regular basis coming from Shared Services teams. We support many products and many tools spread across the entire company. Challenge: Let’s get back to that ever-present tornado of requests that haunt Infrastructure and Shared Services teams. Everything. . .

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James Shore

OCTOBER 27, 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. Make the investments and ignore the practices, and your teams are still likely to improve.

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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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Gorilla Logic

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Program Increment (PI) Planning, following the definition provided by Scaled Agile, “ is a cadence-based, face-to-face event that serves as the heartbeat of the Agile Release Train (ART), aligning all the teams on the ART to a shared mission and vision. ” . The team can focus on writing code. Allows teams to think ahead.

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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 27, 2021

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Early and Incremental Delivery They say hindsight is 20/20, but its also a useful tool to avoid history repeating itself. So how could we have done this using Scrum, and minimized, or even eliminated, the pain? A basic tenet of Scrum is that it requires the team to develop truly shippable software every sprint.

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