So, you have decided to use scrum for your product development, but you’re not quite sure where and how to start or what are the critical items you need to address before starting. As you prepare for the new year, it’s a great time to pause and make sure you begin with clear purpose and expectations in your next endeavor.
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Uncover the Hidden Priorities that Make You Ineffective
Many organizations and teams mistakenly justify context switching as both parallelization and talent resource optimization. Although their goal is efficiency, unknowingly these “hidden priorities” result in not only loss of efficiency (accomplishing things quickly), but also loss of effectiveness (accomplishing the most valuable things). This article examines the hidden priorities in context switching vs. parallelization.
Next Time You Hire a Scrum Master, Try Something Like This
Finding a qualified scrum master for a team can be challenging. Unlike traditional interview approaches, where uncertainty is quite high about whether the candidate will fit and do the job well, an agile approach to interviewing works really well. Here is an approach...
The Importance of Auditing Your Current Project Management Process
As an executive team, it can be hard to get the accurate information you need to make effective decisions. An agile assessment (audit) can give you that valuable insight. It will also show the changes you need to make as an organization to improve project outcomes.
Drastically Decrease Defects Using Scrum
Scrum improves the quality of your product development cycle. Explore how you can drastically decrease defects using scrum as your framework.
Be Careful What You Measure: 10 Metrics For Agile Teams
Before you start implementing measurements on performance or output, consider the consequences of the metrics you come up with before implementing them.
Registration is Open for Veterans Free/Discounted Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) Class
Veterans can register for free or discounted Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) classes. Start your Agile career today with Platinum Edge.
Capitalize More Costs With Agile Development
Capitalization is much higher with agile techniques The United States Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) outlines three general categories for determining capitalization, each falling under either the “what” or the “how” of product development: Preliminary...
Sprint Planning 101 for Agile Teams
Set Your Agile Project Up for Success Your department is busy, and as hard as it can be to make the time, it's in those moments that it is good to get back-to-basics, setting your agile project up to succeed. Whether you're new to agile techniques or well acquainted...
Transition to Scrum With Experienced Scrum Masters
Scrum is a widely used framework for continual improvement and efficiency. Learn how to transition to scrum with scrum masters.
Why Your Organization Needs Trained Scrum Masters
Scrum is a simple yet incredibly powerful framework that helps teams demonstrate and deliver value to customers in short cycles, enabling transparency of progress, frequent feedback and inspection, and immediate adaptation to change. Scrum is simple to understand, but...
Three Things Agile Teams Need to Get Right
When you work in companies of various sizes, in varied industries and in different parts of the world, repeating patterns stand out among the diversity. A pattern we've noticed is when clients get these three things right—1) dedicated & collocated teams, 2)...