My Agile Partner

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

it’s an important concept for the agile team in agile project management. 0 0 + 1 = 1 0 + 1 = 1 1 + 1 = 2 1 + 2 = 3 2 + 3 = 5 Fibonacci sequence in Scrum The Fibonacci sequence is used in Scrum to estimate the size of user stories (backlog items). Estimate the effort required to complete each user story.

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Dataversity

JULY 5, 2023

Global spending on public cloud in 2023 will grow by an estimated 20.7% billion, according to Gartner. The benefits of cloud migration are well known.

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BA Careers

JANUARY 14, 2024

In Agile project management, velocity is a metric used to measure the amount of work completed by a development team during a specific time period, typically a sprint. Velocity is expressed as the sum of story points or other units of estimation assigned to user stories, features, or tasks completed within that time frame.

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BA Careers

JANUARY 18, 2024

In Agile project management, velocity is a metric used to measure the amount of work completed by a development team during a specific time period, typically a sprint. Velocity is expressed as the sum of story points or other units of estimation assigned to user stories, features, or tasks completed within that time frame.

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Growing Agile

MAY 12, 2022

Anyone who knows me knows I’m not a fan of estimation. Instead of that we should be listing what features we want in a backlog that is not estimated. These tasks can probably be estimated in some way to help the team know how much to pull in for that given iteration. appeared first on Growing Agile.

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The BAWorld

JANUARY 24, 2024

E.g. In an agile iteration, timelines of a deliverable is a constraint to do full regression testing after the changes are implemented or limited resource is a constraint when assigning an increased number of activities to the team. What are the four Agile Values and why are these important? What are Spikes in Agile?

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Leading Agile

JANUARY 11, 2024

Additionally, in this sprawling conversation, the guys chat about whether personal agility plays a role inside your organization, the history of Agile, Mike’s beef with estimation, and the disconnect between Agile and “the business.” Want to Listen Instead?

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My Agile Partner

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

If you’re looking for an online Scrum poker tool, it may be interesting to try out Agile Casino, which offers an intriguing version and requires no registration. Agile Casino – Online Scrum Poker This small online application is very well-made and encourages users to sit at a table to estimate Agile projects.

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BA Times

JUNE 15, 2021

Points Make Problems (Rather Than Prizes) – Or why Story Points might not be the best way of estimating effort. The concept of story points will be well known to those working in an Agile environment but, in my […]. Points make prizes’ was the catchphrase of a UK game show called ‘Play Your Cards Right’.

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Smart Data Collective

MAY 21, 2021

It is estimated to be worth $429.6 Use data analytics to improve Agile management. Agile management is a very important aspect of modern web development. Around 71% of organizations have stated that they use Agile for their project management. The software development industry is growing at a healthy pace.

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Adaptive US

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Over the last few decades, organizations have moved to an agile way of working. Among the agile frameworks, Scrum has become the most popular framework. It is estimated that more than 75% of software projects are executed using the Scrum Framework. What is a Product Owner? The scrum framework has 3 distinct roles:

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Vitality Chicago

OCTOBER 25, 2020

In a recent client conversation, the topic of estimating backlog items in hours came up. It seems that I stepped on a hornet’s nest when I suggested that the client adopt a relative estimating approach rather than estimating new requests in hours. Here are some reasons why you should stop estimating in hours.

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BA Careers

JULY 3, 2023

The Art of Agile Story Pointing: How to Prioritize Tasks and Boost Team Productivity Welcome to the world of agile story pointing, a powerful technique that can revolutionize the way you prioritize tasks and boost your team’s productivity.

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Vitality Chicago

OCTOBER 1, 2022

I introduced the concept of #NoEstimates in a recent agile training class I was teaching at Northwestern University. In defense of my students, the class was titled Agile Estimating and Planning!). The three of them separately came to similar conclusions about the cost and value of estimating.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 7, 2021

In our Try It Series, we will explain a common Agile or company problem, and provide solutions that have worked for us in the past. Question : How do you enable 100+ teams to execute relative estimation rapidly and set up newly-placed Agile coaches for success? Discovery: Teams had 3 Distinct Methods for Estimating the Work.

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The BAWorld

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

He is using an estimation technique in which each component of the estimate is given three values - Optimistic value, Pessimistic value, and Most Likely value. Then a weighted average for each estimated component is computed. Then a weighted average for each estimated component is computed.

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Analysts Corner

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Understanding a day in the life of a BA depends on whether the project is a Waterfall Project or an Agile Project. But talking about the current trend, where 71% of companies in the US are using Agile over Waterfall, the scenarios are a bit different. I am assuming you are aware about Agile and its different events.

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Analysts Corner

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

yours, Igor [link] BA Skills & Processes 1) Turn guesses into estimates with Wideband Delphi by Karl Wiegers Most software professionals must provide estimates for their work, but few of us are skillful estimators. Many of us haven’t been trained in estimation techniques.

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Vitality Chicago

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In my previous article , we explored how to help your team succeed faster using Disciplined Agile. In this blog post, I would like to walk you through how a new agile team can figure out how to plan and establish a starting point leveraging the Disciplined Agile Toolkit including the DA Browser.

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Leading Agile

JULY 18, 2023

Agile needs to be tied to business-driven results. If not, then we start measuring things like people trained, teams doing Scrum, or the organization’s sentiment toward Agile to tell us if we’re succeeding. If your Agile isn’t helping you do that, then it’s not really Agile at all. First, how are we forming teams?

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Monday

MARCH 15, 2023

Agile project management has its roots in software development, but today it’s used widely in everything from marketing campaign management to scientific research. If you want to understand the fundamental principles behind the agile approach, you might want to consider Agile project management certification.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 17, 2022

Part 2: How do you estimate Spikes? Managing Risk and Uncertainty in Agile: [link]. That’s Not Agile: [link]. Begins at 11:55). Part 3: How does a team evolve their use of Spikes as they mature, or move through Basecamps (Begins at 23:32). LeadingAgile Blog Posts About Spikes. Contacting Steve.

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Agile Velocity

OCTOBER 11, 2023

This variance introduces inconsistency in estimation. The Role of Throughput in Agile In Agile frameworks, throughput typically refers to the quantity of work items (like features, user stories, or tasks) completed within a specific timeframe. Dive deeper into how these metrics can supercharge your team’s performance.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Four Common Misconceptions About Agile Transformation In this article, our CEO, Mike Cottmeyer, explores why focusing on practices and culture isn’t the right place to start an Agile Transformation. Next, he talks about how Agile Transformation is an ongoing process and the importance of teaming strategies. Is SAFe Agile?

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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

SAFe defines the role of the Scrum Master as a servant-leader for the agile team who helps educate the team on various frameworks and methods, including Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming, and SAFe, ensuring that the agreed-upon agile process is duly followed. SAFe embraces Lean and Agile principles making them very explicit.

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Analysts Corner

JANUARY 5, 2023

[link] Back in 1998 Alistair Cockburn , the co-author of the Agile Manifesto, coined the phrase: “A user story is a promise for a conversation”. In this hilarious TikTok of a mother and toddler locked out of the house we see how important that conversation is. Luckily, the mother left a window at ground level unlocked.

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My Agile Partner

OCTOBER 2, 2023

If this agile methodology is less popular today, Extreme Programming (XP) still influences today’s Scrum and various agile movements that emphasize technical excellence, such as Software Craftsmanship and DevOps. Iterations in Extreme Programming Like many agile methods, Extreme Programming insists on short-duration iterations.

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My Agile Partner

OCTOBER 30, 2023

SAFe Team Kanban is an Agile method used by teams within an Agile Release Train (ART) to continuously deliver value. SAFe Kanban teams apply a flow-based process to their daily work and operate within the Agile Release Train (ART) iteration cadence. Most Agile Teams use SAFe Scrum as their primary method to deliver value.

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My Agile Partner

OCTOBER 12, 2023

– Scrum, one of the most popular Agile frameworks, is well-known for its iterative and incremental approach to software development. They decompose these items into smaller tasks, estimate the effort required for each task, and create a plan for how to complete them. appeared first on My agile Partner Scrum.

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Cprime

MAY 20, 2021

One of the main promises agility is supposed to deliver on is decreased costs. Most organizations view IT as a cost center and believe that if IT becomes more efficient through agile practices, then it will cost less. Agility shouldn’t be limited to just efficiency and cost effectiveness, but also a guide to exponential revenue growth.

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My Agile Partner

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Scrum, an Agile framework, operates on the principles of collaboration, adaptability, and iterative development. Time Estimation: Not an Accountability: Scrum provides the framework for time-boxed sprints but does not prescribe the duration of each sprint or individual task time estimation.

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BA Squared

JUNE 17, 2020

What many of these patterns come down to is a misunderstanding of what it means to “be” agile and truly act out our roles and as a team in an agile way, following the values and principles that the term “agile” was founded on. I hope this helps with your road to more “being” agile and the path to agile maturity.

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Timo Elliott

MAY 16, 2023

Well, because it’s “Built for business” Built into your processes: Make agile decisions, unlock valuable insights, and automate tasks with AI built into your end-to-end business processes. So why would you be interested in using SAP’s Business AI technology?

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Agilemania

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Despite its importance, prioritization isn’t effectively practiced in many organizations—the most common issue being the poor ability to estimate the ‘Cost of Delay.’ When there are a lot of jobs to prioritize, we do not have to estimate absolute numbers. and is passionate about all things agile and leadership. Job Duration.

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BA Squared

AUGUST 16, 2021

Agile has been around now for 20 years (agile as a term in software), whereas the practices have been around much longer. After 20 years, there seems to be continued conversation about the BA role on agile teams. If Agile teams don’t have BAs they still do analysis, they have to! The question is how good are they at it?

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Vitality Chicago

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Are you just getting started with Agile and Scrum? Download our free 1-page Agile and Scrum Cheat Sheet. This handy reference contains the 4 Agile Values and 12 Agile Principles from the 2001 Manifesto for Agile Software Development. Get Your Agile and Scrum Cheat Sheet Here . The 4 Agile Values.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 29, 2021

Back in the Summer of 2018, I spoke at the Agile2018 Conference under the topic of “Addressing Your CFO’s Concerns to an Enterprise-Wide Agile Transformation.” What’s to say that a new marketing program is more or less important you’re your agile transformation?

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