How to Fix Bad Agile
.MP4, AVC, 1280x720, 30 fps | English, AAC, 2 Ch | 59m | 729 MB
Instructor: Doug Rose
.MP4, AVC, 1280x720, 30 fps | English, AAC, 2 Ch | 59m | 729 MB
Instructor: Doug Rose
More than 80% of software products are delivered using an agile mindset, but the reality is that there is a lot of bad agile. Many agile coaches will tell you that bad agile is only good agile unoptimized, so this course walks you through five ways to optimize your agile team and enhance key processes.
This course shows you how to keep standups, retrospectives, and product reviews productive, as well as how to keep the processes stable while allowing room for improvement. Next, it offers tips to improve your estimation and planning, while staying focused on the purpose behind the user stories. This course teaches you how to engage product owners, democratize scrum masters, and transition successfully to a cross-functional team. It also explains how to appease milestone managers and make sure that the product owner maintains ownership of the product. Finally, this course covers how to collaborate with the rest of the organization and keep your team together.
Learning objectives
- Examine the reason for sprint reviews and explore ways to avoid empty product reviews.
- Reaffirm what the agile mindset means and how it is different from an agile framework.
- Examine the purpose of planning poker and explore methods to avoid poor planning poker.
- Identify how to avoid disengaged product owners.
- Recall that agile has no milestones and identify methods to appease milestone managers.
- Explore ways to ensure that people on an agile team are never viewed or treated as resources.
- Reinforce that successful product releases, not story points, are what matters to an agile team.