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Thoughts on the state of Agile
Every year the State of Agile survey consistently includes the results from over 1000 to as many as 6000 respondents who report their experiences and perceptions of the Agile industry along with the role that Agile plays in their organizations. The survey is very useful for Agile leaders, coaches, thinkers, and developers alike, and it is…
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Overcoming Resistance the Integral Way – Team level
If you are a scrum master or team coach, you’ve probably felt the frustration of laying out a sound set of Agile practices only to find team members lack your enthusiasm for diving in. With some people, it’s overt – questioning, challenging, complaining about the time spent planning vs coding; in others it’s more subtle…
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Why is my team slowing down?
The worst thing any team can do is to raise expectations through early success, but be unable to sustain the pace. This happens to many Agile teams due to some simple mistakes made in tracking Team Velocity. As a result of these painful misses, some organizations are getting a bad taste for Agile, and are…
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Scaled Agility or Big Process?
Crossing the threshold of agility I remember the first time I experienced a team crossing that subtle threshold of discovering the power of working together as a group, with transparency and trust, rather than a collection of individuals working alone on a common project. I recall the energy that was unlocked as people gradually let…
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What is a Sprint Demo?
The Sprint Demo should be the most exciting meeting on any team’s calendar. Why? Because it is the team’s chance to showcase and celebrate all the hard work they accomplished over the course of a sprint. Traditionally, the Sprint Demo happens at the end of each sprint with the development team, scrum master and product…
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Agile velocity
Velocity is the primary measure of the performance of an Agile team.The Agile manifesto values “Finished Software” as the primary deliverable of a team, and team velocity is an agile metric that measures that directly.Measuring Team Velocity: Velocity measures a team’s capacity to do this, by counting Story Points of the stories that are accepted…
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Tapping the power of Scrum for your organization
Thesis: agile methods can save you money. Are you getting your share? Systematic adoption of agile methods can substantially reduce your project costs; however it can be hard to get these results right away. Most new agile teams don’t see these results until the 3rd or subsequent project. That’s where we come in. We can…
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SPRINT/ITERATION PLANNING
The purpose of Sprint/Iteration Planning is for a team to identify and commit to the total amount of work they think they can to accomplish within a 2 week period. In order to have a successful Sprint Planning meeting, there needs to be an organized, prioritized backlog with a sufficient amount of stories in a…
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Increasing Collaboration and Trust in any Kind of Team
We’ve all had the experience of being in a group where everything is flowing really well, people are aligned, and everyone’s energy is high. Then one person says or does something that seems to pop the bubble, and the flow of good ideas stops. The typical response in these situations is a kind of uncomfortable…
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Measuring Actual Business Value Delivered
The most accurate way to measure the success of any Agile team, is by validating the actual Business Value delivered with the delivery of working software, and measuring performance based on your Key Performance Metrics to see whether your product is performing to expectations. This is something we call a Long , or Customer Feedback…