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Easy but effective tips for a better Sprint Planning, part 2b: adding resilience

Ever find yourself in a position where sprint surprises are seriously impacting the teams ability to deliver? If you do, then this post is for you. Here we will look at building a teams capacity to respond quickly to future challenges. We will not alter the sprint plan, instead we will develop the teams capacity to […]

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Measuring Agility, your own way

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Measuring Agility, your own way

You are new to the organization. Your first mandate will be to access the state of Agility and to ensure that everyone else has the same understanding of what it means to be Agile Describe the approach you will choose Tools and techniques you plan to use How you validate that you are successful (metrics […]

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Easy but effective tips for a better Sprint Planning, part 2a: avoiding impediments

Ever find yourself faced with unique impediments for which nobody seems to know the solution? The only course of action seems to be to accept that the impediment is there, escalate it to management, inform stakeholders of delays, then attend the daily scrum regularly to give an update to the team, and when they get […]

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Easy but effective tips for a better Sprint Planning, part 1

“The work to be performed in the Sprint is planned at the Sprint Planning. This plan is created by the collaborative work of the entire Scrum Team. Sprint Planning is time-boxed to a maximum of eight hours for a one-month Sprint. For shorter Sprints, the event is usually shorter.” At the end of the sprint […]

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Easy but effective tips for a better daily planning

Try these tips if your daily scrum doesnt resemble how the scrum guide describes it: “Daily Scrums improve communications, eliminate other meetings, identify impediments to development for removal, highlight and promote quick decision-making, and improve the Development Team’s level of knowledge. This is a key inspect and adapt meeting.”

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