Agile Terms Without Theatre

Agile vs. theater How do you tell real agile from agile theater? The test is whether learning changes the work. Sprint What is the practical purpose of a sprint? A timebox for creating a usable increment and learning from it. The timebox matters because it forces a near-term inspect-and-adapt point. Ceremony overload We have standups now, so we are agile. The team still ships large batches quarterly. Your line Standups help only if they expose blockers to a working increment. What user feedback will this sprint produce? Equating meeting cadence with adaptive delivery. It reconnects the ceremony to working software…

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