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Why Scrum Doesn’t Provide Specific Solutions—And Why That’s a Good Thing! (SGE008)

The Scrum framework does not provide specific solutions.
Scrum encourages teams to find tactics and specific actions elsewhere.
Each team's implementation of Scrum may vary due to different contexts and requirements.
Scrum focuses on the purpose and outcomes rather than prescribing specific tactics.

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How to make your Sprint Planning more meaningful?

Sprint planning meetings in Scrum can be made more meaningful by focusing on continuous planning and adaptability.
The suggested duration for sprint planning is 8 hours for a 4-week sprint, but it may be excessive for some teams.
For a 2-week sprint, allocating an hour or an hour and a half can be sufficient for creating a meaningful sprint plan.
The goal of sprint planning is to start towards achieving the goal with a draft plan, while embracing empiricism and adaptability.

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Dew Drop – October 10, 2024 (#4283)

Announcing TypeScript 5.7 Beta
Windows Dev Chat – October 24, 2024
Enhancing Data Explorer: Custom Columns, Filter History, and Query Views Explained
Generative AI Demystified

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How to Build a World-Class Mobile App Development Team

Building a mobile app development team isn't just about finding people who can code. It's about assembling a group of individuals who can turn your vision into reality—without sending you to the poorhouse.
To build a world-class mobile app development team, you need to fill key roles such as Project Manager, UX/UI Designer, iOS Developer, Android Developer, Backend Developer, and QA Tester.
Strategies like leveraging your network, looking beyond the CV, using niche job boards, attending/hosting hackathons, considering remote workers, and creating a compelling offer can help with hiring top talent.
To build a cohesive team, establish clear communication channels, define roles and responsibilities, foster a learning culture, celebrate successes, and encourage work-life balance.
To maximise efficiency and minimize costs, embrace agile methodology, leverage open-source tools, consider a hybrid team structure, invest in automation, use cloud services wisely, and foster a culture of ownership.
Building a world-class mobile app development team is achievable, focus on finding passionate, skilled individuals, Foster a culture of collaboration and continuous learning, leverage technology and methodologies to maximise efficiency.
A world-class mobile app development team is necessary to execute the mobile app idea to reality and within budget.
Having the right approach to hire the team, Strategy to build a cohesive team, and ultimately maximizing efficiency and minimizing the cost are the key to building a world-class mobile app development team.
The most significant mistakes while building a mobile app development team include focusing too much on technical skills and not enough on soft skills like communication and teamwork.
The key roles in a mobile app development team include Project Manager, UX/UI Designer, iOS Developer, Android Developer, Backend Developer, and QA Tester.

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Iterating/Done Increments in Consumer Goods, Food & Beverage, Pharma/BioTech and Beyond

Working Software. Done Increments. Two related concepts in the agile world that people trying to leverage Agile/Scrum’s empiricism outside of the software/technology space struggle with.
The intent behind these practices is to achieve transparency to validate/invalidate assumptions and manage based on evidence.
The assumptions can be in areas such as desirability, viability, feasibility, or sustainability.
Different industries face different challenges in implementing working increments, but the key is to balance the need for transparency, risk mitigation, and feedback.

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Dominika Bula: How To Grow Self-Sufficient Agile Teams

Dominika shares a story of a self-sufficient team that fully embraced Scrum values, communicated openly, and thrived without her direct involvement.
The team had developed a strong internal support system, understood their code of conduct, and took ownership of their decisions.
For Dominika, the ultimate sign of success is when the team operates independently, learning and growing together.
Dominika recommends the “Circles of Control” retrospective format to help teams identify what they can control and influence, driving actionable improvements.

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Dew Drop – October 9, 2024 (#4282)

Introducing Microsoft.Extensions.AI Preview – Unified AI Building Blocks for .NET (Luis Quintanilla)
.NET MAUI updates in .NET 9 Release Candidate 2 (Rachel Kang)
Passkeys on Windows: Authenticate seamlessly with passkey providers (Katharine Holdsworth)
Scott & Mark Learn to: Trailer (Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich)

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Dominika Bula: Tackling Resistance to Change with Effective Communication, A Scrum Master’s Guide

Dominika Bula discusses the challenges of harmonizing tools across different teams within a project.
Starting with a discovery process is emphasized to understand the current situation before proposing options for change.
Effective communication strategies, involving team leads, and addressing emotional objections to change are shared as important tactics.
The importance of focusing on end-state outcomes rather than just tasks when defining goals for change is emphasized.

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Land Your Dream Role with a Standout Resume for Agile and Project Management!

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Dew Drop – October 8, 2024 (#4281)

Build a static RSS reader to fight FOMO, which will let you avoid social media overload, using a personalized static website generator that fetches your favourite RSS feeds.
Git 2.47 has been released with highlights such as making 'init.defaultBranch' obey the value of 'init.templateDir', Git fetch can now work without any refspec arguments, and more minor changes.
In this tutorial, learn how to create desktop apps with Electron, React, and TypeScript that have the power of writing native apps with web technologies.
A highly debated problem in C++ language is debugging; this tutorial explains how to debug your C++ code with enhanced conditional breakpoints.
Programming Windows: Dave Plummer discusses the state of DevOps and how Microsoft Teams are responding to make it easier to build, deploy, and run apps on the Azure cloud.
Preventing double clicks in Blazor components by implementing filtering to wait for a certain amount of time before allowing a second click.
Learn how to create a load-balanced Web API deployment with Kubernetes, Minikube, and NGINX to ensure scalability, reliability, and smooth traffic to your service.
A hands-on review of Data Structures and Algorithms in JavaScript by Loiane Groner for those looking to improve their data-structuring knowledge.
This Azure Function tutorial explores how to configure an Azure Function with External ID as an identity provider to allow secure user and data authentication for your applications.
This Month in Azure Static Web Apps features nested routes support, Webpack 5 upgrade, and more feature updates and improvements to Microsoft's Azure Static Web App service.

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Why Skipping a Sprint Retrospective Is a Bad Idea?

Skipping a Sprint Retrospective can have negative consequences on team cohesion, innovation, and sustainable development.
The Sprint Retrospective allows for continuous improvement, risk management, and adaptability.
It fosters team morale, culture, stakeholder engagement, and knowledge sharing.
Skipping the retrospective can hinder problem-solving, hinder growth, and harm the product's success.

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Dominika Bula: Building Stronger Agile Teams Through Working Agreements And Deliberate Collaboration

Dominika shares a story about a growing team in a scaling agile environment where new members were joining frequently.
She emphasizes the importance of developing a deliberate decision-making model and the need to differentiate between the Definition of Done (DoD) and a team working agreement.
Dominika recommends Kanban Pocket Guide by Dan Vacanti as a must-read for anyone interested in improving team flow.
She is passionate about Kanban and firmly believes that Agile and DevOps are the perfect combination.

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When Agile Is No Longer Needed

Many organizations are starting to hesitate on Agile transformation.
Some organizations are getting rid of Scrum Masters and reverting to control.
Agile is about people, behavior, and values.
It is important to focus on the real benefits of Agile and measure its impact.

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Agile Talent Solutions: How IT Recruiters Can Maximize Impact with Short-Term Talent in a…

Agile talent solutions are hiring practices that allow companies to bring in expert professionals for short-term, project-based work, without the long-term commitment of a full-time hire.
Agile talent focuses on delivering high-impact results quickly, often on tight deadlines.
Agile talent provides companies with a just-in-time solution for skills and expertise, without the burden of permanent headcount.
Amazon and Tesla have already embraced agile talent solutions, particularly during peak seasons and highly specialized engineering challenges.
The traditional hiring process can take months, but agile talent solutions allow companies to bring in experts within weeks, if not days.
Agile talent gives companies quick access to professionals who are deeply specialized in these areas, allowing them to plug in skill gaps as needed.
Agile Talent Solutions are cost-effective - with agile talent, you only pay for the time and expertise you need.
Agile Talent Solutions are flexible, and give companies the option to scale their workforce up or down depending on project demands.
To implement Agile Talent Solutions, companies should begin by identifying projects that could benefit from it and shift some of their approach to a project-based culture.
Companies must focus on outcomes rather than hours worked, when working with agile talent solutions.

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How Product Leaders Can Apply Product Thinking to Their Organization

Product leaders should apply product thinking to their organization.
Successful product leaders apply product approach to their organization.
They utilize hypothesis, experimentation, and evidence to guide their actions.
Product leaders empower cross-functional teams to solve complex problems.

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