Many people use the Daily Scrum to provide a status report to the Product Owner or Scrum Master, and even to stakeholders, but this event plays a more critical part in ensuring that the team continues to stay focussed on their goal and adapt their work so they improve their chance of achieving it.
How to mitigate Integration issues? – In the short term, transparency and communication is key. In the longer-term, we needed a more empowering state so we looked at how to to use agile practices to build capability and evolving environment practices to move to automation and continous integration.
Sprint Planning is one of Scrum’s five events. There’s more to it than just making a plan. Importantly, as an action of empiricism, the team should be inspecting the Product Backlog and adapting, and creating, a Sprint Backlog that makes their plan to achieve the Sprint Goal, and deliver a potentially releasable Increment, transparent.
When setting up new agile teams we have found that starting small with the basics and adding patterns as they start to develop capability has helped us get new teams up and running within 2-3 days and acheive a baseline of agile capability within 3 months
Whilst the RTE role is a challenging role, there is limited benefit in rotating the role each PI. Instead, ensure the focus is on the right things to promote incremental delivery and continuous improvements
Agile change management embraces as a set of principles that can help focus efforts on the most important activities, determined by customer value and stakeholder impact and outcomes
Gartner reports that 85% of executives are now turning to agile product management over projects. Why is this shift occurring and what do you need to know about product management to optimise your strategic investments for greater market share, better ability to pivot, or get your products to market faster?
Agile coaching focused on developing and building agile capability and maturity and transferring knowledge to develop people in key agile roles to build an enduring internal agile capability after our engagement as external consultants concluded completed.
Running remote PI planning for the first time 100% virtual was a bit daunting a few weeks ago when the reality set in that with the current crisis, this was now our reality. We prepared, thought through worse case scenarios and had back up plans and felt eerily calm as the day began. It was a great success and here are our tips.
If your an agile coach, just knowing Agile, or Scrum, or how to set up a Kanban board won’t be enough to get you though the complexities involved in successfully performing the role and being an agile leader. Seek to expand your knowledge and capabilities and practice intentionally as part of your own continuous improvement.
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