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Fostering a Culture of Commitment – Dedicated to achieving Sprint Goals

So, creating a Agile team sounds good on paper, but making this a reality is often harder in most organizations. The hardest part of moving to dedication of team members is first believing that the ...

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The Daily Scrum – It’s Not Your Father’s Status Meeting

The Scrum framework has four key events: 1) Sprint Planning, 2) Daily Scrum, 3) Sprint Review, and 4) Sprint Retrospective. At Sprint Planning, we set a Sprint Goal that binds the team to work ...

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DevOps Story - The Greatest Story Never Told

The DevOps Story Needs to Be Told! There is so much chatter about DevOps these days, but so little clarity about what it really means. The shame of it is that very few of us have really heard the ...

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How does an organization foster a Culture of Commitment?

Now that you are hopefully convinced that you want your organization to be steeped in a Culture of Commitment, how do you infuse the CofC in your company’s DNA? The “Culture of Commitment enabling” ...

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Why is a Culture of Commitment so impactful in an organization?

Having played senior leadership roles in many solutions delivery organizations, we have witnessed both the presence and absence of a Culture of Commitment.

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What does a Culture of Commitment feel like in an organization?

More often, organizations pervert the notion of the Sprint “commitment” with crushing delivery pressure or a lack of a support structure that allows a real commitment culture to take hold. For these ...

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Commitment is Not a 4-Letter Word in Sprint Planning

The Scrum Guide has entirely moved away from using the word “commit” in relation to the Sprint Planning ceremony and favors having the Development Team “forecast the functionality that will be ...

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