sprint review
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How To Give Constructive Feedback
Giving accurate, constructive, and regular feedback is essential if you want to build a well-functioning team. Everyone needs to know what they’re doing well and what they could improve on in order to progress. As managers, if we’re too blunt, we discourage and demotivate our employees. On the other hand, if we’re too forgiving, nothing…
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Burndown and Sprint Review
In Scrum, we have what is called a burn down chart. This chart is a graphical representation of work that is left to do for the sprint iteration. It is often used in Agile software development. However, burn down charts can be applied to any project containing measurable progress over a period of time. Typically,…
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The Product Owner Role
The Product Owner role is an intensely important role. This individual is what I consider to be a “Value Driver” to the product. Meaning, Product Owners are the ones who drive value into the products and projects that they are working on. The Product Owners ensure that the right product is going to be built…
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What is Project Management?
“At its most fundamental, project management is about people getting things done.” Dr Martin Barnes, APM President 2003-2012 To understanding what project management is, we must first understand what a project is. A project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result. Each project will have a set of objectives…
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What is a Project Plan?
As project managers, we know that project plans comes in varying degrees of complexity. The one absolute thing in order to deliver a project on time is having a good project plan. So what is a project plan? There are a lot of components that go into any project. Components, such as when, why, what…
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The Sprint Retrospective
No matter how great you think your Agile team is, there is always, yes always, opportunity to improve. In order for an agile team to look for improvement opportunities, the team should set aside dedicated time at the each sprint to deliberately reflect on how they are doing and to find ways to improve. This…