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Learning with Lean and Agile

Posted July 16, 2015 | Leadership |

Both the Lean and Agile worlds encourage and value learning by doing. The Scrum framework pushes teams to engage in an ongoing PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) cycle to continually inspect and adapt how they work and how they develop software.

For Scrum teams, the end-of-sprint review is where they inspect the increment of work they created during the iteration and examine what they have learned about their deliverables. Based on this knowledge, teams can review their upcoming backlog items and adjust when they feel it is necessary.

About The Author
Steffan Surdek
Steffan Surdek is an Agile coach/trainer at Pyxis Technologies. As a coach, he strives to create engaged teams led by inspiring and empowering leaders for the sake of making the software development workplace fun again. Mr. Surdek has worked in IT for over 20 years in collaboration with many distributed teams around the world. He speaks at various conferences and user groups about leadership and agility with distributed teams. Mr. Surdek is… Read More
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