Ryan Ripley
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8 years 6 monthsRyan Ripley has worked on agile teams for the past 10 years in development, scrum master and management roles. He’s worked at various Fortune 1000 companies in the medical device, whole sale, and financial services industries.
Ryan is great at taking tests and holds the PMI-ACP, PSM I, PSM II, PSM III, PSPO I, PSD I, CSM, CSPO, CSP, and CAL1 agile certifications. He lives in Indiana with his wife Kristin and three children.
Ryan blogs at ryanripley.com and hosts the Agile for Humans Podcast.
You can also follow Ryan on Twitter: @ryanripley
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7 Lessons Agile Can Teach Us about LeadershipThe Agile Manifesto contains values to guide teams toward developing better software. But its directives are also about leadership—influencing culture and creating an organization where people can collaborate to meet the needs of their customers. Here are seven lessons the Agile Manifesto can teach us about leadership. |
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Reduce Uncertainty in Agile Projects with #NoEstimates ThinkingEstimation uncertainty in software projects is often not driven by the difficulty of the problem we are trying to solve, but rather by the health of our codebase, the quality of process, and how much discipline we have in our management practices. If you want to improve your estimates, then agile and #NoEstimates thinking can have the biggest impact on your team’s success. |
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Delivering Value with Agile and #NoEstimates#NoEstimates is a challenge to the traditional thinking that estimation is essential to agile development. Ryan Ripley believes there are more interesting tools available to help us determine what value is and when we could realize it, while still staying aligned with the businesses and customers we serve. Learn some other ways to deliver value to your customers. |
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The Values Essential to a Scrum Software Development Practice The Scrum Guide was updated recently to make values an explicit part of the framework: commitment, courage, focus, openness, and respect. When these values are embodied and lived by the team, the Scrum pillars of transparency, inspection, and adaptation come to life and build trust for everyone. Is your team practicing them? |