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Great meeting you this week at Agile Alliance 2024 #Agile2024

A very educative video ..thank you

This template is chef's kiss 😙🤌

Maria, I have a question for you. I just started working for a new company (8 days ago). They are using JIRA to keep a list of all their projects and track to a completion date. They do not use Agile (i think waterfall). They do not want to use agile. They are not recording tasks. They do not have employees assigned to tasks. They are asking me "How can we use JIRA more effectively?" i'm not sure where to start. What are your thoughts? Any suggestions?

This video is aligned with present thinking. People have been using Scrum for 30 years and everybody is an agile master at this point with hardly a day in agile that doesn't look like any other day, and hardly a team in agile.that doesn't look like any other team. So it is a good time to step back and think about what are we actually trying to achieve, and this seems to be a desirsble direction.

The half of scrum badly and using jira quote actually came from the creator of agile, Andy Hunt

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Why so much negativity against SaFe from your prospective?

after 5hrs im still insulted 🤬

your microphone is insulting me.....🤬

Thank you!! :)

Very nice! Thank you. Miro is great!

Insightful! I loved many parts of this podcast, especially the courage to speak beyond hierarchies.

Hehe, bull*4it management. I am adopting this term now :) It's funny how people say that waterfall is dead and then they spent days planning. And hamster stays trapped in a wheel.

Scale Agile Framework is just Waterfall with an Agile Skin. It's prescribed, project management, gnatt chart release planning with some Agile buzz words laid over it and some agile offices and team structure like Product Owner and Scrum Master; but it's not Agile. What SAfist call chaos, is the adaptability of Agile and having a flatter control structure; but when you need the power and control of demanding what's going to be done, and by what deadline, that just won't do. We had senior VP a couple years ago try to bring SAFe to our organization; which was basically him telling the team's what they must deliver by each release based on his business initiatives. I was so glad when we came back for the next release planning and he was gone. Don't know if him leaving was related to his SAFe attempts; but doesn't matter, cause Scalable -Waterfall- Agile went with him.

Nice work Maria! Your analysis is really interesting and insightful. I think companies generally, especially big tech, saw a rapid expansion due to the flood of money during government stimulus as a result of covid. During this time, everything that was virtual become super accelerated, physical building costs went down, and hiring went up. With it, came a glut of managers, including agile peoples to meet the demands of the software projects (because physical projects were not as easy). With a glut, comes a drop in quality. SAFe became more popular, because of the minimal impact on having to make any real organisational structural change, and with it a cadre of “ceremony” evangelists. After 2-3 years, and having COVID pass, companies are looking at their crazy hiring practices as normality returns, and some of these people are expected to return to the office, which means costs go up. It’s time to shed again. To increase profitability, as you rightly said, cost cutting begins and the easy target is people. Managers will always go first, as they are non essential. Middle managers will be first in line, and that’s precisely where Agile peeps fit. I’ve not seen any company (bar one) I’ve worked for in the last 6 years show a strong ability to focus, mobilise its human assets and strategy in a way to maximise value. I think there’s still massive opportunity for companies to leverage much of what the best of the Agile community has on offer. However, as has been rightly pointed out, there is such an over saturation of text book purists, that the whole “people and interactions over processes and tools” has ironically been lost. Great work, interested to see how your new project goes!

Great timing, Maria! I just see it now that you have posted this today, immediately signing up ✨

It was such a great pleasure exchanging with you, Maria! Your channel rocks!

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Thanks for sharing!

Like reason to Flat earth earthers

Small note- The Certified ScrumMaster Certificaiton is provided by the Scrum Alliance, not the Agile Alliance. Agile Alliance does not provide certifications.

Great content as usual, thanks for creating and explaining things in such a great way

I love that you invite challenging your views ;) I have a slightly different view on the PSM as you do ;) The main difference is that for a PSM you do not have to visit a training of a vetted expert. Everyone can offer preparation training and you can to the test even with only self studying. Scrum Alliance CSM (not Agile Alliance ;) ) requires to visit a training with one of the few Certified Scrum Trainers. They questions in the PSM test might be "tougher" or more ambiguous, but I have witnessed it numerous times that people with a PSM visited a CSM and stated afterwards that they now understood more than before if hey had done self study or visited a non PST training. So my advice, if you take a PSM, at least make sure you visit a training with a PST.

Great overview for starters and experienced professionals!

Very informative video. I'm going to try this? Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Have a great day. 🗓 👍 Wow 800 likes 💃

I've been on both a "Kanban" team that just set up status swimlanes and got going on the work, and a Kanban team coached by a professional that helped us understand the actual Kanban model, with WIP limits and techniques like mobbing (or is it called swarming?) to push "stuck" items forward. The feeling of teamwork was night and day. Chris Stone is a great source of retro ideas!

I started my countdown timer…How long before companies finally realize they need to go back to Waterfall because ALL their work is budget locked, time locked, scope locked.

Why she is talking like a teenage tictoker..! Closed the video in 10 seconds. That was irritating.

"... why simplify if we we can complicate things ... ?" Yep, that's too often the way of Scaled Agile. I like the paradigm, and have seen it work well, but the nomenclature works against adoption. (For me, the website is ... off-putting.)

Sad to say scaled agile doesnt make sense. Sorry.

It's not just hated by "agile practitioners." It's hated by every engineer that is subject to a looney bin style way of project management, which is what this is.

Suggestion: Please drop the jokes and the quips, you're wasting the viewers time too much!!

hahaha you're funny! seriously, i love your videos ❤

Thanks! I like this method for getting initial points of reference for estimates. Every team I've been on that tried story points failed because they used time equivalencies as their initial reference point. This resulted in story points just being a measure of time rather than actually being relative estimates for effort/complexity.

do you still see value in story pointing/velocity/burndowns?

Always enjoy your videos, learn something new. Looks like a great setup. My company went from ‘we call it Kanban (but is it really? Or just a corral of cats running around?)’ to Scrum to SAFe and now something between SAFe and vanilla Scrum, with a few Kanban elements (like WIP and cycle time).

Your face when you say 'Waterfall' hehe

Congratulations to your new setup! Amazing Video. Clear, intertaining and with a bit pepper as always 💛

Where I find DoW really helps are the policies. How do we deal with blocked cards, how do we deal with emergencies, what if we are at wip limits, etc. Helps teams deal with these issues without needing to have long discussions about them. Love hearing what you guys are discussing. Seems very on par with what was taught in PSK

I played that game in my PSK course. Its pretty eye opening isn't it. WIP limits ftw =)

I love Kanban. We have gone from scrum to scrumban and now a few teams have gone to full kanban. The hardest thing I find is getting team members to care or buy into flow optimization

Will you ever come to the states?

One of the best explained videos on Sprint Planning. Thank you for sharing.

Wonderfully explained in a very easy language..Thank you for sharing

Hey Maria. Thanks for your content. It really resonates with my experience of PI plannings. I do believe safe would benefit from simplification, starting with replacing jargon by meaningful words :)

We use Easy Agile which sits on top of Jira, so if you link dependencies in Jira (or Easy Agile) it is reflected in both. You can capture PI Objectives there (as well as link Jira epics and/or stories for filtering), plus your normal Jira board filters are available. It also has milestones to make things like release deadlines easily visible. It’s not perfect (have to use a separate whiteboard to ROAM risks) but it has been helpful when doing draft and final plan presentations, and during the execution of the PI for the RTE to refer to during SOS meetings.