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Daily stand-up meetings have become a common ritual of many teams, especially in Agile software development. However, there are many subtle details that distinguish effective stand-ups and a waste of time.
Whether your team is wondering what Scrum is, comparing it to other methodologies, or trying to implement big changes, this article is for you! Check out the links to popular DZone articles for everything you need to know!
Understanding Scrum, XP, Lean, and Kanban
Craig Larman and Bas Vodde discuss team and management changes, breaking barriers and habits, gatherings, coaching and community, and continuous improvement.
Was sind die Aufgaben des Scrum Masters?
LeSS is Scrum—Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) isn’t new and improved Scrum. And it’s not Scrum at the bottom for each team, and something different layered on top. Rather, it’s about figuring out how to apply the principles, purpose, elements, and elegance of Scrum in a large-scale context, as simply as possible. Like Scrum and other truly agile frameworks, LeSS is “barely sufficient methodology” for high-impact reasons.
Over the past 18 months I’ve encountered a number of teams where it is standard practice to have a code freeze late in the iteration. The reason given for this was “to allow QA to test what we created during the iteration.” I’m sorry, but I have to be blunt here – this isn’t agile
TL;DR: We have created the Retro Kit. It can be downloaded by following this link. Retro Kit… but why? Historically at Spotify there has been an Agile Coach attached to each team. That coach has, among other things, helped the team to improve their processes. A central piece to that improvement are regular retrospectives where…
Essays und Praxisberichte über Scrum, Agile, Kanban und Change Management
Evergreen is an automatically updating rolling distribution system for Jenkins. It consists of server-side, and client-side components to support a Chrome-like upgrade experience for Jenkins users.
Through our studies we have found that lack of true product ownership is one of the main causes of Zombie Scrum. This is puzzling as the…
I've been a mediocre Extreme Programming practitioner for about 18 years. I say this because my practice has never gotten any better than any team I've ever been on, and I've never been on a team that was ever focusing on Extreme Programming (XP).However, I'm in the midst of
The Elephant Carpaccio exercise is a great way for software people to practice & learn how to break stories into really thin vertical slices. It also leads to interesting discussions about quality and tech practices.
The exercise was invented by Alistair Cockburn. We’ve cofacilitated it a bunch of times and we encourage people to run it everywhere.
This is a detailed (shu-level) facilitation guide based on how Alistair runs it plus some minor adaptations from Henrik.
The exercise takes 90-120 minutes, and scales well. We normally do it with 10-20 people but have also done it with groups up to 30.
Explore Scrum’s ceremonies and when they occur during sprints. Agile iterations are more impactful if you understand the timing and purpose of the key events.
Keep a copy of this poster as a reminder of the value in Scrum Values. Recently adopted into the 2016 Scrum Guide, this poster is also free to download.
For each metrics, I will explain what it is, how to collect, when to use it, and things to keep in mind.