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Scrum: A Simple Guide to Agile Product Development

The Product Coalition

Product Management Technology If you’re unfamiliar with software development, you may not have heard of Scrum. Scrum is an Agile methodology that can help teams work together more efficiently to develop products. The framework consists of Scrum teams, roles, events, artifacts, and rules. Citations: Schwaber, K. Scrum guide.

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Nine Agile Antipatterns That Lead To Disaster

The Product Coalition

Agile antipatterns or scrum antipatterns are (poor) practices that are utilized to enhance a process. Nonetheless, they impede your efforts and slow your progress towards attaining Agile objectives, thereby achieving the opposite effect. List of destructive agile antipatterns and how to avoid them 1.

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Building an Efficient Release Management Process

Split

A streamlined release management process is imperative for mitigating deployment risks and accelerating software delivery. All too often, releases turn into stressful events, fraught with last-minute surprises that disrupt business processes. Effective release management is pivotal for agile software development.

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Sprint Review – Make it Much More Than a Demo…

Agile Velocity

In a previous post in our Scrum Assessment Series , we shared some ideas to help catalyze engaging sprint reviews. Here, we take a deeper dive into the topic of awesome Sprint Reviews. The Sprint Review, just like the Retrospective , is an important feedback loop in a Scrum team’s toolbox. Why is the Review so important?

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Troubleshooting Agile – Jeffrey Fredrick & Douglas Squirrel on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

We’re not designers (except when we are) or engineers (unless we can code) or anything actually, y’know, useful. Jeffrey Fredrick and Douglas Squirrel know this well, and their new book Agile Conversations , focuses on the five critical conversations you’ll have and how to perfect them.

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Calendar Reviews

Mironov Consulting

My product leader coachees and I sometimes do calendar reviews.  We A Quick-and-Dirty Tabulation with Optional Color Coding Applying some Agile 101, it’s handy to understand a problem before we start fixing things.  Perhaps Can we sort events into a few piles and figure out where the time went?  

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Harnessing Monte Carlo Simulations for More Accurate Sprint Planning

Agile Velocity

First, the assignment of story points is subjective and can vary widely among team members due to differences in experience, perception, and understanding of the work. The central idea is to repeatedly simulate an event using varied random inputs, and then use statistics to analyze the outcomes.