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Is There Any Value for Scrum Masters in Jira Align?
As a Scrum Master, your focus is on your individual team. Accomplishing the work and striving for continual process improvement. You’re concerned with maturing the team, learning, and growing. Additionally, you must facilitate the balance...
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3 Ways Disciplined Agile Will Change Your Team Forever!
Recently, I have been studying Disciplined Agile (DA) quite a bit. Despite having implemented DAD (Disciplined Agile Delivery) over 10 years ago, I was intrigued by how this approach has evolved over this period of...
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SAFe in a Nutshell – The Simplest Way to Understand SAFe
SAFe is the most popular framework in use today to guide an organization’s efforts to scale agile practices beyond the team level. But, when people look into it for the first time, this is what...
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A “Day in the Life” of a Product Manager
Over the last 15 years, I can count 5 days that I looked at the time and thought, \"man, this day is going slow\" (and yes, I keep track). It’s both a good thing and...
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Agility in a Remote Environment: Top Tips for Scrum Masters
As Scrum Masters, we are used to dealing with an ever changing, complex environment. How can Scrum Masters, in the current day and age, continue to do their job more effectively? One of the key...
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A “Day in the Life” of a Product Owner
The team-level Product Owner arguably has the most difficult job on the product team. Since we are all friends here, let’s just assume she does. She is the connector of the business to tech, design...
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Conducting Remote Program Increment (PI) Planning: 4 Critical Steps for Release Train Engineers
We all have a checklist we use to prepare for a virtual Program Increment (PI) Planning. It may include activities such as setting up the tool, setting up a virtual meeting, holding timebox and taking...
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The Power of Portfolio Level Reporting in Jira Align (Part 3 of 4)
Please note: This is one in a four-part series on the powerful reporting capabilities offered through Jira Align (formerly Agilecraft) by Atlassian. The series will cover Jira Align reports of specific value to agile practitioners...
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The Power of Team Level Reporting in Jira Align (Part 1 of 4)
This is the first blog in a four-part series on the powerful reporting capabilities offered through Atlassian Jira Align (formerly Agilecraft). The series covers Jira Align reports of specific value to agile practitioners at the:...
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A Woman’s Place is in the Scrum Team (Not the Kitchen!)
By: Liza Ridgway, Director of Agile Services It’s 2018 and women are still the “biggest source of untapped talent,” said one of the speakers at the WITI Summit last summer. Research continues to show...
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5 Scrum Values and Beyond
Last year early in July, Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland, the co-creators of Scrum formally added the 5 Scrum Values to the Scrum Guide. The 5 Scrum Values are as follows. I won\'t go until...
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What’s the Difference Between a Good and Bad Agile Product Manager?
Whether you\'re looking for someone to fill the Product Manager role for your new project, or you\'re a product manager looking to brush up on your skills and add more value to your team and...
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