Scrum Artifacts allows teams and organizations to iteratively and incrementally deliver valuable products of “Done” working releasable software within a Sprint. Key focus areas are Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog & Increment. Scrum defines three artifacts: Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, and a potentially releasable product increment. Artifacts defined by Scrum are specifically designed to maximize the […]
Scaling Scrum allows teams and organizations to excel iteratively and incrementally deliver valuable products of “Done” working releasable software within a Sprint. Key focus areas are Definition of Done, Definition of Ready & Scaling Scrum. Scaling Scrum – Definition of Done The Definition of Done is a formal description of the state of the Increment
Key focus areas for Developing People and Teams are Facilitation, Leadership Styles, Coaching, and Mentoring. All Scrum Team roles must effectively use Scrum and continuously improve their Scrum implementation to increase the benefits and adapt as new challenges arise. Embracing these challenges by continuously Developing People and Teams results in motivated and dynamic high-performing teams
Managing Products with Agility results in products that provide valuable business outcomes, increased flexibility to respond to change, and greater transparency for investment decisions in product development. Key focus areas are Forecasting and Release Planning, Product Vision, Product Value, Product Backlog Management, Business Strategy, Stakeholders, and Customers. Managing Products with Agility – Forecasting and Release
Evolving the Agile Organization includes concepts and tools for measuring and enabling business agility through Evidence-Based Management (EBM). It also examines the importance of Organizational Design and Culture, which includes human factors, processes, and structures in the organization that can promote or inhibit agility with Scrum. Key focus areas are Emergent Software Development, Managing Technical
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Developing and Delivering Products Professionally with Scrum results in high-quality software products delivered iteratively and incrementally with relatively high frequency. Key focus areas are Emergent Software Development, Managing Technical Risk, Optimizing Flow. Developing and Delivering Products – Emergent Software Development Emergent Software Development is the process of producing deliverables without defining the design or architecture
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Test Driven Development (TDD) is a software development approach in which developers write tests before they write code for new features. The code is changed to make the tests pass and subsequently, is refactored to meet the functional and non-functional requirements. This sequence of steps is repeated until all test cases for all features pass and can
Linked Issues in Jira will help teams to manage the developed code, estimate the scope of work, and monitor the general and individual employee progress. Issues within a project or even several projects correlate with one another. Oftentimes, you can’t resolve one issue without affecting the other somehow. That is the reason why we are
Scaled Professional Scrum (SPS Practice Assessment) with Nexus helps you to gain an understanding of how to scale Scrum using the Nexus Framework and launch structure, staff, and manage large Agile projects using Scrum. The SPS Practice Assessment questions are designed to help you prepare and practice for the Scrum.org Scaled Professional Scrum Assessment. There is
PSM II Practice Assessment Questions contains 260 Questions – 1 set of 20 PSM II Questions in Practice Mode, 8 sets of 30 PSM II Questions in Real Mode & 1 set of 30 Questions out of the 260 Questions in Random Mode. Paid Membership will provide access to all PSM I & PSM II
The great thing about modern society is that we’re always exploring new and better ways to do things. The more we learn about human behavior, the better we’re able to construct more efficient and effective ways of working. One of these ways of working is Agile, and it’s taking the world by storm. Agile initially
Product Owner plays a vital part in guiding the development of a successful product. However, there are Product Owner Stances that should be adopted to maximize their effectiveness and contribute to the product’s overall success. There are preferred & misunderstood Product Owner Stances. There are six key preferred and six key misunderstood stances of a product
There are five levels of Product Owner Maturity in an organization: The Scribe, The Proxy, The Business Representative, The Sponsor & The Entrepreneur. A competent Product Owner not only possesses a deep understanding of the product vision but also exhibits a high level of maturity in executing their responsibilities. Based on the authority and responsibility,
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PSPO II Certification deals with more practical aspects of the Product Owner role. You have 60 minutes to answer 40 multi-choice questions, the content though is mostly focused on the practical application of Scrum and the ways of maximizing product value. Several of the questions contain small case studies, they describe situations and ask you
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Kano Analysis Model is a Lean Six Sigma tool that helps us prioritization of product features, and we can understand the trend of satisfaction level of our customers. Most of the prioritization techniques are based on business values & over a period of time, almost all features expected by the user will get categorized as
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Welcome to the PSD Practice Assessment Practice Mode. This is Part-I of 680 Questions – 1 set of 40 & 4 sets of 80 PSD Questions in Practice Mode. Paid Membership will provide access to all mock exams (680 Questions – 1 set of 40 Questions in Practice Mode, 4 sets of 80 Questions in
College and university students are busy with loads of projects and assignments. Fortunately, there are many effective study strategies that will help you in your academic routine. Scientifically Proven Tips for More Effective Studying at College Staying on top of your college coursework can be tough when you have a lot of other responsibilities. Many
The file having Header and Trailer needs to be sorted but standard sort parameters will sort all records including header and trailer. So either exclude these from sorting or rearranges them after sorting. To avoid these additional steps we can use ICETOOL to sort detail records while keeping header(s) and/or trailer(s) in place. Let’s go
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SPLICE normally requires reformatting the records of two or more data sets so they can be JOINED. In other words, SPLICE specified fields together from records that have the same specified numeric or character field values (duplicate values) but with different information. Because SPLICE overlays the WITH fields from the overlay record to the base
Product Ownership for Product Managers & Product Owners contains the most frequently asked questions that you might face in an interview & this will help you competently crack the interview. Product Manager Interview Questions and Answers – Part I: Click Here Product Owner Interview Questions and Answers – Part I: Click Here Product Owner Interview Questions and
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MoSCow prioritization technique plays a key role in Agile Project Management. In traditional projects, teams balance the ‘triple constraints’ of Scope, Time, and Cost. For Agile projects, however, the emphasis is on continuous value realization for the end customer. The triangle structure can be reused, but with a set of different vertices, namely – Value,
JIRA Backlog Refinement otherwise called JIRA Backlog Grooming is a key process in Scrum. Product Backlog Refinement is a regulated process where product owner and their teams review and prioritize items to be developed, and then escalate them from the product/project backlog to the sprint backlog. The priorities for these items are set based on
FILEAID is an interactive software product that increases data processing productivity in both program development and daily file and records maintenance. It is a data manipulation program that consolidates the functions of many standard IBM utilities. FILE-AID combines the data and file processing of the following nine IBM utilities into one tool.These utilities are IDCAMS, IEBGENER,
Many times LOW VALUES are present in the input file and the job abends. For a quick fix, developers have to replace LOW VALUES with SPACES or any other value like ZERO. Let’s take a look at the solution to the below-mentioned issues. How to replace all LOW-VALUES (X’00’) in a file with SPACE (X’40’).
Using SORT DATE Functions you can dynamically insert the date, like ‘yyyy-mm-dd’ or any format instead of a constant date like ‘2021-01-01’. There are multiple Date Functions by which you can reformat input dates. By using INREC, OUTREC, and OUTFIL statements to insert the current date or past date, or future date in a variety
