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Having a Definition of Ready: Harmful or Helpful?

Leading Agile

Mike Cohn’s August 2016 article, The Dangers of a Definition of Ready describes certain problems that can occur when a team uses the concept of a Definition of Ready. He writes: You can think of a Definition of Ready as a big, burly bouncer standing at the door of the iteration. He’s right. Maybe in theory it could.

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The Agile Transformation Coach: Understanding the Roles and Responsibilities

Leading Agile

Is an Agile Transformation Coach any different than being an Agile Coach? When most people think about Agile Coaches, they tend to think about a person who comes in and assists the teams with things like: Learning Scrum, SAFe, LeSS. If that’s your definition of an Agile Transformation Coach, you’d be right—but only partially.

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Encapsulation vs Orchestration: Dependencies in Agile

Leading Agile

Dependencies will stop Agility dead in its tracks. In the presence of dependencies, you’re never going to achieve the level of Agility you desire—unless you do something about them. Theoretically, you could have two teams that meet most of the criteria of an Agile team. And that limits our ability to be Agile.

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Fresh Agile Voices – Episode 2 – Raven Cashaw

Vitality Chicago

In our October 2020 newsletter, we launched a new segment called “Fresh Agile Voices”. So we launched Fresh Agile Voices which feature brief interviews of agile coaches that include people of color, women, and others who are experts in agility. Tell us a little bit about how you got into agile ways of working.

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What is the Optimal Number of Members of an Agile or Scrum Team?

Vitality Chicago

A question that I get frequently is what is the optimal number of members for my Agile or Scrum Team ? Second, for those of you who demand a specific answer up front, here it is – the optimal number of members for an agile team is 5 or 6 people. What is the Composition of an Agile Team? Is Your Team a True Agile Team?

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Escaped Defects

Leading Agile

“In an agile world, baking quality in—defect prevention—is the norm, or at least it should be.” Teams that have established Definitions of Done, (DoD) including code quality standards and testing standards and automation throughout enjoy a different existence than the vast majority of teams that I have encountered.

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How To Choose The Right SAFe Certification For You

Agilemania

Scaled Agile Framework is rising in popularity. And to further testify the benefits of SAFe, 37% of the organizations use SAFe as per the 15th State of Agile Report. The path to these SAFe jobs are the SAFe certifications offered by Scaled Agile. . Why and how business agility is the need of the hour for enterprises?