My Agile Partner

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Understanding Scrum Fundamentals What is Scrum, and how does it differ from other Agile methodologies? This question assesses the candidate’s fundamental knowledge of Scrum and their ability to differentiate it from other Agile frameworks. What is the purpose of the Daily Standup (Daily Scrum) meeting?

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Agile Velocity

MAY 27, 2020

The Kanban Method is a powerful way for Agile teams and organizations to visualize work, identify and eliminate bottlenecks, and achieve measurable operational improvements in throughput and quality. This article is a Kanban cheat sheet identifying best practices , meetings , and key terms. Kanban Meeting Cheat Sheet.

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My Agile Partner

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Scrum, an Agile framework, operates on the principles of collaboration, adaptability, and iterative development. Responsibilities: The Developers select items from the product backlog during sprint planning, works collaboratively to fulfill the sprint goal, and ensures that the delivered product meets the Definition of Done (DoD).

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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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Agilemania

MARCH 19, 2021

Scrum vs. Kanban is one of the most trending comparisons in the world of agile methodology! We often use these terms while talking about the agile way of solving problems. Though Scrum is one of the most popular methods in agile, organizations are recently choosing Kanban. Scrum vs. Kanban: The Definitions. Daily Scrum.

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Villanova University

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Like everything in this framework, Agile Scrum events happen under the leadership of Scrum Masters. They usually take the form of meetings, and they exist to keep team members organized and sprints on track. A set meeting time keeps this important task from falling through the cracks.  What will you complete by the next meeting?

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Agilemania

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Organizations are also transforming, initially, companies transitioned from waterfall to agile now they are implementing SAFe®-. SAFe® isn’t something related to safety but SAFe® means a scaled agile framework. There can be no more than two Agile teams supported by one PO. They used to have a sync-up meeting every week.

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Agile Velocity

AUGUST 15, 2022

The Sprint Review, just like the Retrospective , is an important feedback loop in a Scrum team’s toolbox. What were some of the key improvements experiments from previous retrospectives that were implemented to help achieve the Sprint Goal or remove some viscosity the team has been dealing with? Creating Feedback Loops.

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Villanova University

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Like everything in this framework, Agile Scrum events happen under the leadership of Scrum Masters. They usually take the form of meetings, and they exist to keep team members organized and sprints on track. The five Scrum ceremonies are: Backlog refinement Sprint planning Daily Scrum Sprint review Sprint retrospective.

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Vitality Chicago

JULY 29, 2022

For most agile teams, that means that some or all of the members are working remotely. By “coaching” I mean the active engagement of an agile coach in supporting a team to leverage agile and Scrum and to self-organize. There is a reason that therapy sessions last an hour and you typically meet once per week.).

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Agilemania

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Scrum vs. Kanban is one of the most trending comparisons in the world of agile methodology! We often use these terms while talking about the agile way of solving problems. Though Scrum is one of the most popular methods in agile, organizations are recently choosing Kanban. Scrum vs. Kanban: The Definitions. Daily Scrum.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

Be clear on the reason why the meeting is needed. What’s the meeting about? Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. Carefully consider who should participate in the meeting to achieve the objective you have set. 1 Set an Objective.

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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Facilitating daily stand-up meetings with the team. Providing support to the team during sprint reviews and retrospectives. They are instrumental in ensuring that a business adopts the Agile methodology successfully. It educates you on the philosophies, frameworks, and techniques of Agile working methodologies.

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Word of Digits

APRIL 22, 2021

. Does the role of the Product Owner seen through the framework of a specific project respect the different theoretical precepts of the Agile method and the different definitions of this position? That’s what Agile is all about. And they can already give you a (Norman) answer: it depends.

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Argon Digital

MAY 30, 2023

Conducting user research, creating user personas, and soliciting user feedback are crucial for developing products that meet customer expectations. Adaptability and Agility Product managers operate in dynamic environments where change is inevitable. They gather insights on customer preferences, pain points, and purchasing behaviors.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Dependencies will stop Agility dead in its tracks. In the presence of dependencies, you’re never going to achieve the level of Agility you desire—unless you do something about them. That’s six Sprint Planning sessions, six daily standups, six reviews, and retrospectives. And that limits our ability to be Agile.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 19, 2017

The Daily Scrum meeting, sometimes also referred to as stand-up meeting, wants to help the development team manage its work. In Scrum, the team collectively agrees to a sprint goal and is responsible for meeting it. The Daily Scrum is meant to be a quick meeting that lasts no more than 15 minutes.

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Vitality Chicago

APRIL 29, 2022

To work at a sustainable pace (now that is a novel idea for an Agile Coach!). Sounds vaguely like a retrospective, doesn’t it?). I walked with my wife but the nature of the Camino is that you meet many people walking at the same pace and wind up seeing them every day. I need to unplug and detox from work more frequently.

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Agilemania

AUGUST 21, 2022

At the end of the sprint, the team has a Sprint Review Meeting to discuss what was accomplished and what could be improved for the next sprint. Sprints are an essential part of agile software development. A sprint framework makes it possible for any team to implement scrum or agile processes with minimal overhead and complexity.

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Agilemania

MARCH 25, 2021

SAFe defines the role of the Scrum Master is 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 get followed. Understanding of Lean and Agile. Focus on Quality.

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Think Agile

JULY 9, 2018

This remote-friendly Working Agreement exercise has been adapted from Esther Derby and Diana Larsen’s 5 step structure from their book Agile Retrospectives. Close — Goal: Summarize and end the meeting. Summarize and close the meeting. Use this feedback for future meetings/retrospectives or Working Agreement discussions.

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Vitality Chicago

JUNE 29, 2021

Lately I’ve being asked to teach more and more agile leader training classes. I want them to be the best possible agile leader training. Which will make a training course the best possible agile leader training ? You might think that the best agile training for leaders has already been created.

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Agilemania

AUGUST 19, 2021

So, if you are having the same critical questions in mind and want to explore agile development, then you are on the right page. It is an iterative and incremental structure for project management mainly used in agile software development. A coach, motivator and a leader for an Agile team, Scrum Master is the man behind the show.

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Agilemania

AUGUST 19, 2021

So, if you are having the same critical questions in mind and want to explore agile development, then you are on the right page. It is an iterative and incremental structure for project management mainly used in agile software development. A coach, motivator and a leader for an Agile team, Scrum Master is the man behind the show.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

A few years ago, I was asked to help a healthcare company with their agile transition and its impact on product management. One of the challenges the agile transition team was concerned about was the choice of the right product backlog tool, which at first seemed odd to me. The Product Backlog is Too Big. Third, they can be tested.

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MindsMapped

JULY 21, 2020

The delivery of the structure of the digital project is either agile or waterfall. Project structures are often tailored to adopt elements from both waterfall and agile delivery approaches, to meet the specific requirements of the client, the technology, or the team. The benefits of agile are more in agile than waterfall.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 20, 2023

You see, the real work of a manager is to understand that each team is different, then find ways to continuously elevate the teams to meet their collective needs, all while creating the conditions for the teams to thrive. And I think that the agile industry, to a certain extent has promoted that just empower the teams and get out of the way.

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Leading Agile

JANUARY 21, 2021

Mike Cottmeyer explores the key attributes in each of the three systems necessary for making a success out of the otherwise complex tax of large scale Agile Transformation. And what we are is we’re a consultancy that’s focused on doing Agile Transformation specifically. Transcript. Like what are the networks of teams?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Make time to collaborate with the team in order to work on user stories, answer questions, and participate in meetings. Use the sprint retrospective to investigate the causes and explore how you can help, for instance, by creating smaller user stories or better acceptance criteria. Fully Participate in the Meetings (or Don’t Show up).

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Vitality Chicago

MAY 30, 2021

I spoke recently on the topic of retrospectives and continuous improvement. Readers of this blog may recall that I have written no less than 10 articles on this site on the topic of retrospectives. IMHO, the retrospective is one of the most important meetings in the Scrum Framework. Books on the Retrospective.

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Monday

MARCH 31, 2021

What’s the difference between Agile and Scrum? These 2 terms are often used interchangeably, but they’re not the same thing — Scrum is a framework and Agile is a mindset. Agile is quite widely used, and often implemented using the Scrum framework. Agile is quite widely used, and often implemented using the Scrum framework.

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Agile Velocity

OCTOBER 11, 2023

While the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe ® ) is a popular methodology to implement LPM, some organizations find its intricacies, ceremonies, and overhead daunting. Just-in-Time Definition: Define work as it’s ready to pull so you are working from the most up to date information before beginning work.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Mike Cohn’s August 2016 article, The Dangers of a Definition of Ready describes certain problems that can occur when a team uses the concept of a Definition of Ready. He writes: You can think of a Definition of Ready as a big, burly bouncer standing at the door of the iteration. He’s right. Maybe in theory it could.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 4, 2023

The Scaled Agile Framework wasn’t exactly what the authors of the Agile Manifesto imagined 20 years ago when they set out to define a better way of building software. But that doesn’t mean you can’t achieve greater Business Agility with SAFe. SAFe thinks it’s THE way to do scaled Agile when it’s actually just one way to do it.

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Cprime

MARCH 12, 2024

Moving beyond the simplicity of the ‘value or productivity’ debate, it’s important to explore how these concepts can coexist and complement each other in a balanced Agile approach. Of course, this is not a fundamental problem with Agile itself. Value is definitely the outcome we’re all driving for.

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Agilemania

MARCH 25, 2022

The Agile methodology has long been accepted over the waterfall methodology. Despite over decades of its inception, agile transformations have been a failure for many organizations. Whatever the reason, today we are going to talk about the phases(steps) in Agile methodology. Agile Statistics. What is Agile Methodology?

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Monday

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

But doing so requires a large-scale shift, otherwise known as an Agile transformation. In this guide, we’ll examine the principles that drive Agile transformations as well as the differences between transformation and adoption of these tenets. But first, let’s define what an Agile transformation is. What is Agile transformation?

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