Cultivating a culture of continuous improvement is crucial for team success.
Strategies for continuous improvement include embracing Scrum values and promoting stakeholder collaboration.
Three Ways to Help Your Team Embrace the Change to Agile and Scrum
People resist change due to lack of awareness about why the change is happening
Employees resist change due to fear of the unknown
Are Agile and Scrum Dead?
Agile has become a standard practice in most teams, evolving from a revolutionary concept to the norm.
The problem with growth: why everything is failing now
Agile has become widespread but has shifted focus from mindset to specific processes, leading to challenges in effective implementation.
Agile Collaboration: What It Is, How It Feels, and Why It Matters
Effective teamwork and collaboration are crucial for success in agile projects.
The problem with growth: why everything is failing now
The Agile Manifesto sparked a revolution, leading to widespread adoption but diverging from its original principles of collaboration and responsiveness.
Continuous Improvement as a Team - DZone
Cultivating a culture of continuous improvement is crucial for team success.
Strategies for continuous improvement include embracing Scrum values and promoting stakeholder collaboration.
Three Ways to Help Your Team Embrace the Change to Agile and Scrum
People resist change due to lack of awareness about why the change is happening
Employees resist change due to fear of the unknown
Are Agile and Scrum Dead?
Agile has become a standard practice in most teams, evolving from a revolutionary concept to the norm.
The problem with growth: why everything is failing now
Agile has become widespread but has shifted focus from mindset to specific processes, leading to challenges in effective implementation.
Agile Collaboration: What It Is, How It Feels, and Why It Matters
Effective teamwork and collaboration are crucial for success in agile projects.
The problem with growth: why everything is failing now
The Agile Manifesto sparked a revolution, leading to widespread adoption but diverging from its original principles of collaboration and responsiveness.
Can You Do Scrum Without Certain Features? It Depends.
Scrum can be tinkered with, but some parts are more essential than others.
Scrum without a Scrum Master or Product Owner is possible, but not recommended for new teams.
Sprint Anti-Patterns - DZone
Sprints transform hypotheses into value.
Shorter Sprints promote more learning cycles and limit risk.
Do Agile Teams Include Semi-Finished Work in Velocity?
Taking partial credit for unfinished work in Scrum is not recommended
Partial credit affects the accuracy and predictability of team velocity
To Empower Your Scrum Teams, Provide Mission Protection
Mission Protection is the ongoing commitment by executive leadership to safeguard the Scrum Team's ability to achieve their mission.
Scrum coaching and training typically focuses on collaboration and empowerment, but Mission Protection is a key ingredient for success.
Backchanneling occurs when influential stakeholders use their influence to shortcut the team's work queue and advance their own priorities.
Sprint Retrospective Meeting - DZone
A sprint retrospective meeting is an opportunity for the scrum team to discuss the previous sprint and make improvements in processes and interactions.
The focus of a sprint retrospective meeting should be on finding areas for improvement, not on evaluating the outcome of the sprint.
Mobile App Dev Methodologies - DZone
The waterfall model is a linear and sequential approach that is useful in projects with well-defined and unchanging requirements.
Agile methodology, including scrum, is an iterative and flexible approach that allows for rapid response to changes and emphasizes customer involvement.
Can You Do Scrum Without Certain Features? It Depends.
Scrum can be tinkered with, but some parts are more essential than others.
Scrum without a Scrum Master or Product Owner is possible, but not recommended for new teams.
Sprint Anti-Patterns - DZone
Sprints transform hypotheses into value.
Shorter Sprints promote more learning cycles and limit risk.
Do Agile Teams Include Semi-Finished Work in Velocity?
Taking partial credit for unfinished work in Scrum is not recommended
Partial credit affects the accuracy and predictability of team velocity
To Empower Your Scrum Teams, Provide Mission Protection
Mission Protection is the ongoing commitment by executive leadership to safeguard the Scrum Team's ability to achieve their mission.
Scrum coaching and training typically focuses on collaboration and empowerment, but Mission Protection is a key ingredient for success.
Backchanneling occurs when influential stakeholders use their influence to shortcut the team's work queue and advance their own priorities.
Sprint Retrospective Meeting - DZone
A sprint retrospective meeting is an opportunity for the scrum team to discuss the previous sprint and make improvements in processes and interactions.
The focus of a sprint retrospective meeting should be on finding areas for improvement, not on evaluating the outcome of the sprint.
Mobile App Dev Methodologies - DZone
The waterfall model is a linear and sequential approach that is useful in projects with well-defined and unchanging requirements.
Agile methodology, including scrum, is an iterative and flexible approach that allows for rapid response to changes and emphasizes customer involvement.
The article provides tips on how to consistently miss Sprint Goals in the Scrum framework.
The Sprint Goal is an important aspect of Scrum, guiding the team's work and measuring success.
The Scrum Trap - DZone
Scrum is a purposefully incomplete framework and needs to be augmented with tools and practices to apply its theoretical foundation to an organization's business reality.
Mindlessly applying best practices without considering their relevance to the current context can lead to ineffective processes when using Scrum.
Empowering steering committees to override Product Owner decisions undermines the Product Owner's role in maximizing the value of the work of their teammates.