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Look at the limitations of deterministic estimates and innovative approaches for effective decision-making via the Agile practices such as Scrum & Kanban. Learn to handle complexity while keeping projects on track.
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🚀 Diving deep into the world of Story Points! 📊 Ever wondered about their true value and how they fit into the bigger picture of team performance? Dive into my latest article where I unravel this enigma. Let's journey together from the subjective realm of Story Points to the tangible metrics of thro...
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Case Study
This case study covers how Omega Software shifted from a Waterfall approach to Scrum by using Scrum in order to implement it.
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Podcast
In this episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, Dave West chats with Helen Swift from Simplyhealth, a health solutions provider about how they implemented using Professional Scrum with Kanban in their organization after the Professional Scrum with Kanban training course. They talk about the tran...
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We have seen many Scrum teams attempt to resolve challenges by giving up and moving to Kanban. However, the decision to switch from Scrum to Kanban typically arises not from Scrum shortcomings, but rather from challenges in its implementation. In this episode, Jeff and Mike explore misguided reasons...
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Explore 8 red flags indicating incomplete Kanban adoption. Enhance your team's agility with Practicing Kanban
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In my opinion, the section on the definition of workflow in the Kanban Guide is probably the most important section. If you don’t understand your definition of workflow, many other things don’t work that well in the Kanban Guide as a result. If you don’t get that part, it’ll be difficult to really m...
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A brief explanation of why limiting Work in Progress gets more value delivered.
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What is release planning? When is it done? How do we manage stakeholder expectations and answer the infamous "when will it be done" question? How do we forecast? What numbers and methods can we use to forecast more accurately?
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The concept of limiting work in progress revolves around the principle that focusing on fewer tasks at a time leads to better outcomes. In a Scrum context, this involves setting a cap on the number of user stories, features, or tasks that the development team is actively working on during a sprint. ...
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If you are not getting the value you hoped for from your Scrum transformation, try adding a couple of Kanban practices to your Scrum implementation.
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A Comparison of Traditional, Guided, Immersive, and Flipped Learning Approaches to accelerate your knowledge retention.
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Case Study
This case study explores how a financial organization used Scrum with Kanban to optimize their customers' experience, deliver value and boost team morale while optimizing their Scrum Events, metrics and more!
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Agile means something different for every organization. Start-up companies need to find the sweet spot between absolute chaos and overbearing process & control. Professional Scrum and Kanban can help teams and organizations do just that!
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What is throughput, the role of Product Backlog items in ascertaining throughput and how do we measure throughput.
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3 Practices to Break out of Cruise Control and Drive Change
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Todd, Ryan, and Prateek discuss throughput and why it is the most suitable flow metric for Sprint planning.
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In this article, we will discuss how limiting Work in Progress can help teams deliver a done increment which meets the Sprint goal.
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When will Scrum die? Some people would say it's already dying. There's so much inauthentic, Scrum being done, unprofessional, Scrum being done in the world. Whereas Scrum is part of what I call water Scrum fall, where it's put within a predictive deterministic system. We're predicting when work will...
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Scrum and Kanban are two different frameworks. But did you know that your Scrum Team can use some of Kanban’s crucial elements to optimize workflow and deliver value sooner? Combining Kanban with your Scrum practice doesn’t involve replacing events, accountabilities or artifacts. It’s about inte...
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How can we use Monte Carlo Probabilistic Forecasting to set expectations in scrum?
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As a new Scrum Master what are some of the things you might want to consider to help you on the amazing journey ahead.
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In this vlog, PST Joshua Partogi explains the flow of an effective Sprint Retrospectives with Kanban metrics.
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Scrum with Kanban includes a definition of workflow, four practices, and four measures. The first practice is visualization of the workflow. The visualization of that workflow is essentially the Kanban board.
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Every Scrum Team, at some point, will struggle with how to facilitate the Daily Scrum. By using a Kanban Board and Flow Metrics, Scrum Teams can better collaborate on their work, visualize progress towards the Sprint Goal, and form the best plan possible for the day.
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In this blog, Mark Kachanov shares a step-by-step guide to introducing WIP limits to a team based on a real-life example.
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If you are an agile leader - do you know whether your teams are currently operating at a sustainable pace? Do you care? Would you rather not know because you’re afraid of the answer?
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Supposedly, Confucius said once: "Let’s start fixing the nation with fixing the concepts first". Whether he really said it or not, nobody can be sure. But what is important, I would like to specify the meaning of Kanban. Very often people understand it in their own way and when two people talk to ea...
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This workshop was delivered on 2nd September 2021 and focused on introducing the core concepts of Kanban & Flow.
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Podcast
In this episode of Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer, John Coleman answers the audience's burning questions about Scrum and the challenges their teams are facing. He answers questions about Product Goals, Sprint Goals, Refinement, Team Dynamics, Performance metrics, Scrum with Kanban and more!
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Case Study
This case study explores how a Formula Student Team At University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hildesheim/ Holzminden/Gottingen used Scrum with Kanban as the frameworks for its program and complete its car building initiative despite the Covid-19 Pandemic.
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As you know, in Scrum Guide 2020 there is no more prescriptions on how to run the Daily Scrum.
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Webcast
By combining Professional Scrum with Kanban principles and metrics we have a phenomenal opportunity to ask the right questions sooner, solve the right problems faster and measure more of what matters. In this webinar, Professional Scrum Trainer Jim Sammons discusses the Professional Scrum with Kanba...
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In this episode of the Agile Wire, Professional Scrum Trainer Julia Wester joins fellow PSTs Jeff Bubolz and Jeff Maleski to discuss a variety of topics including Flow efficiency and Flow debt.
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There is a new a new Scrum Guide out - version 2020. What has changed for Scrum teams practicing Kanban?
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There is no need to choose between Scrum and Kanban, but certain myths have led some to believe this is the case. It’s time to debunk them once and for all.
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In business, the quest for predictability is universal. We all want to grab hold of the reality we face everyday and, somehow, bend it to our will.
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So you have a couple of Scrum Teams that are working in adjacent areas and you're starting to face some challenges in delivering value in a coordinated integrative way.
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With the launch of the Kanban Guide for Scrum teams in 2018, its 4 flow metrics have gained more popularity amongst the Scrum community.
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A typical Kanban board shows a series of steps or activities that work passes through. Does this mean that Kanban is only suitable for "linear" processes? Scrum is a proven strategy for addressing complex adaptive problems, so if Kanban is linear, is it an unsuitable complimentary practice to add to...
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Agility is not a state. Agility is an ability to change and respond to an environment you're in as an organization. Once you realize that a binary Scrum-not Scrum stops making much sense.
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Podcast
This podcast tackles some of the question: Scrum vs. Kanban? How about Scrum and Kanban. Why would you want to use both? Scrum is based on Empiricism, Kanban is based on Flow, Flow enhances Empiricism and Empiricism enhances Flow. Take the best Scrum teams and the best Kanban teams and take an avera...
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During this virtual event, Louis-Philippe explained the Kanban metrics for Agile or DevOps teams. Although the Kanban delivery strategy is highly recommended in DevOps mode, unfortunately, its metrics are hardly used in our profession. Louis-Philippe therefore wishes to share its value with particip...
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The COVID19 pandemic gives us plenty of opportunities to think about uncertainty, complexity, and how to deal with those using Empiricism.
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The Old Farmer’s Almanac is the oldest continuously published periodical in North America. It was first published in 1792 by Robert B. Thomas who wanted an almanac “to be useful with a pleasant degree of humor. Many long-time Almanac followers claim that its forecasts are 80% to 85% accurate.
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in today's vlog I am sharing with you how to use Scrum with Kanban.
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In this article, we shall investigate why the learning and development of multi-functional specialists in Scrum is the core of organizational Agility and value optimization. Many Development Teams are not collaborating as real teams, but as a collection of narrow specialists focused on "their" tasks...
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The emergence of the Kanban Guide for Scrum teams has given new metrics and practices to Development Teams on how they can augment their Sprint Backlog to manage their work.
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Whitepaper
The 4th survey “Status Quo (Scaled) Agile” now gave some interesting answers helping organizations to position their own agile activities and helping to define an appropriate strategy where and how to use the agile on team level or scaled agile on the level of programs or organizations.
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One of the things leaders often say they want most is predictability. Predictability is defined as the consistent repetition of a state, course of action, behavior, or the like, making it possible to know in advance what to expect.
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