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The Sprint Increment Is Dead

By Yuval Yeret|2022-12-14T17:25:22-05:00October 1, 2018|Scrum|

The Sprint Increment Got Us HereIf you’re a veteran of the software industry, you probably remember those days where we released to production/GA every couple of months. Heck, many of the companies I meet these days still work that way.If you’re also an experienced Scrum practitioner, you probably associate the time you started to use Scrum with the time you started to release more frequently. The Sprint Increment that had to be potentially releasable caused you a lot of pain as [...]

Scrum and Kanban — Stronger Together

By Yuval Yeret|2022-12-14T17:26:34-05:00June 30, 2017|kanban, Scrum|

Over the years we at AgileSparks have been leading the charge when it comes to creating mashups and hybrids of approaches such as Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, LeSS, whatever. Mashups and hybrids can be very attractive as they can be an excuse for taking what you like from each approach and leaving behind the hard stuff. In mashing up approaches you need to make sure whatever set of practices you end up with is cohesive and effective. Coming up with the [...]

Explaining MVPs, MVFs, MMFs via the Lean/Agile Requirements Dinosaur

By Yuval Yeret|2022-12-03T20:02:21-05:00December 30, 2012|Agile, Product Ownership, Scrum|

I’ve been using a visualization that people find useful for understanding the relationship between the various Lean/Agile requirement containers. Some people call the full model a dinosaur. Others are reminded of the snake who ate an elephant from “The Little Prince”. (I’m sure there is a good connection to elephant carpaccio somewhere in here …) The first step is to understand that for a new product there is a unique value proposition hypothesis. This is the area where your product/service will [...]