The 1 Thing About The Scrum Guide Conference Your Team Wants To Know.

Our first Scrum 3.0 Conference in Chicago last week was the stuff Scrum Practitioners and Agilistas get excited about. It was a full day of experiential learning geared for the complex challenges of an Agile workforce. And the energy and feedback around Scrum 3.0, the most Agile version of Scrum that exists, was clear throughout the day’s events.

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The Secret Behind Building Trust

The issue of trust is everywhere. Trust in our media, our leaders, our relationships. You can’t watch a nightly news broadcast that doesn’t mention how trust is permeating our daily lives. How does the issue of trust impact how we establish working relationships, get along on a Team, and (when you get right down to it) get our job done? What is the secret behind building trust? Read on and find out…

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Using Kanban To Improve Your Team’s Delivery

There’s a misconception out there that metrics will save us. KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators) are the magical saviors of projects and Teams (and budgets if you ask certain influencers). That’s not really the case. Metrics inform decision making. The question is, who’s doing the deciding?

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4 Ways to Adapt Scrum To Your Distributed Team

Scrum with a distributed Team brings its challenges. That’s exactly our reality within 3Back. As a fully distributed Team, we’ve learned that it takes having the right tools in place to adapt Scrum so that your distributed Team has the greatest success.

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Kanban: Deciphering Lead Time And Cycle Time

There’s a misconception out there that metrics will save us. KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators) are the magical saviors of projects and Teams (and budgets if you ask certain influencers). That’s not really the case. Metrics inform decision making. The question is, who’s doing the deciding? Often it’s the metric that’s the decider, rather than the…

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Layering Agility

… keeping things in balance, and knowing what can be manipulated and what can’t. This seminar discusses the different levels of agility found in an organization: writing code, team management, project management

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