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India’s Jal Jeevan Mission of tap water access continues to be one of the great, unsung stories of human development. Almost 79 million households have been provided with access to a tap water connection since the program’s launch in August 2019, bringing the total to 111 million, or 56% of rural households in the nation. How is this possible? AGILE Infrastructure! 

Here are the 7 Tips To Become a Successful ScrumMaster: Understand The Scrum Framework Develop Your Leadership Style?  Be A Strong Coach Understand The Business Build a Culture of Continual Improvement Gain Experience Get Certified! 

We recently received a letter from Mike Cohn which reads:  Back in 1975, Fred Brooks managed the IBM OS/360 project. This was one of the first software projects to be notoriously late. In fact, it was a year late. Brooks was asked, I suspect with shock and incredulity, “How does a project get to be a year late?” Brooks replied famously, “One day at a time.” I believe that daily scrums help our projects from having similar fates. By meeting daily, issues are raised sooner than they would be any other way. And that helps prevent the day-at-a-time slips that led to Brooks’ project being a year late. But, do we really need to meet every day? Yes, most teams do. I do believe there are two exceptions to a daily meeting: The first applies only to teams that are widely distributed across time zones–say when 8:00 am for some team members is 8:00 pm for others. You might not want to hold daily scrums on Friday if it means some team members will have to attend on a Friday night. The second time you may not need a daily scrum is on sprint planning day. ​​Sprint planning usually ends with some discussion that mimics a daily scrum—what tasks from the sprint backlog will each person work on initially? That might make a separate daily scrum redundant. Many teams believe there’s a third instance where they don’t need daily scrums: when they “talk a lot, anyway.” Talking frequently isn’t the same thing as a daily scrum. First of all, the daily scrum may be the only time each day when everyone participates in the discussion. Most other conversations include just a subset of the team. And secondly, when a team does talk frequently outside the daily scrum, the daily scrum will be extremely short. And so it’s hardly worth complaining about. Daily scrums are an important inspect-and-adapt activity. Aside from a couple of times when skipping the daily scrum makes sense, holding a daily scrum every working day will help you succeed with agile,

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How do we best assess Scrum Team Maturity? Look for these 3 KPI's: Does the team truly understand velocity?  How are relationships within the team?  Are they holding meaningful Retrospectives?

What is your vice?  A man who prosecutors said broke into a U.K. industrial park to steal almost 200,000 chocolate Easter eggs has pleaded guilty to theft and criminal damage. Prosecutors said Tuesday that Joby Pool, 32, used a metal grinder to break through a gate at an industrial park in Telford, central England, on Saturday, then used a stolen semi truck to tow away a trailer loaded with Cadbury Creme Eggs and other chocolate goods worth more than 31,000 pounds ($38,000).

I often get asked about high performing teams and how to get there. Here is a list of The Top 7 Techniques That Help Teams Achieve High Performing:  Team Alignment Clear Communication Small Team Size Seamless Alignment - GROW Cross-Functional Meetings Mutual Accountability Celebrate Success

There has been LOTS of Buzz around The Stable Framework. This is your chance to hear answers to multiple questions we have been asked including:  Why do we need another framework?  How are Stable certifications different than the rest?  What industries benefit the most from Stable?  Where do you envision Stable fitting into the current project management landscape?  Will Stable replace traditional project management? 

Have you ever wondered why smaller teams feel much more personal than larger teams, even when they’ve only been together for a short time? Compounding might have something to do with it. Compounding is a term that’s often used in investing. It’s the principle underlying the exponential growth of the value of an investment portfolio. Earnings from previous investments are reinvested and are used to generate extra income. Sometimes called the hockey stick principle, where an investment grows slowly but starts to speed up over time. I realized that this principle also applies to teamwork. https://jorrit90.medium.com/the-compounding-interest-of-smaller-teams-91074105b474

Presidents Day is one of 12 federal holidays in the US, celebrated each year on the third Monday of February. In 2023, Presidents Day falls on Monday, Feb. 20. The holiday was first established as Washington's Birthday in 1879 to honor President George Washington. It was commemorated on Feb. 22 until 1971, when it was moved away from Washington's actual birthdate to give federal workers another three-day weekend. After that, it was more commonly known as "Presidents Day." Depending on where you live, though, it may alternately be spelled "President's Day" (to acknowledge Washington) or Presidents' Day" (to include Abraham Lincoln, born on Feb. 12). According to the National Archives, Presidents Day will never fall on George Washington's actual birthday, since the latest the third Monday in February can fall is Feb. 21.