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How to Sweeten a Bitter Manager, a Micromanagement Survival Guide

Xebia

Are you a developer who has to put up with a bitter manager? A Scrum Master struggling to survive under the tyranny of micromanagement? A Product Owner who feels like they’re being sucked dry by an overbearing Agile coach? Or maybe a manager, leader, or coach who wants to understand how to support their team better?

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How to Utilize your Scrum Master Part 2: Master of Scrum Ceremonies

Gorilla Logic

“ My Scrum Master scheduled all these meetings, but they are taking time away from my actual work!”. I’ve seen some people struggle with the amount of meetings that revolve around an Agile implementation, but these spaces where the team members come together are priceless. Scrum ceremonies are where the magic happens!

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Why 47% of Agile Transformations Fail!

scruminc

A good time was had by all at Scrum Day India 2020. A recent Forbes survey indicated to me that about 47% of Agile Transformations fail and 77% of Agile Transformations are Scrum transformations so most of the failures are due to bad Scrum. Why Scrum Works - Decision Latency. was well received. Successful.

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Which Companies Use OKR? Take A Look At These Successful Companies

Luis Goncalves

From a team of 30 people to now a giant tech corporation with over 70,000 employees, Google is one of the hallmarks of OKR as an organisational goal-setting methodology. The company used to adopt the “rank and yank” system wherein managers had to identify their least productive team members through a yearly evaluation. Take The Test.

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Transforming to an Agile Mindset, Part 1

Accenture

Experienced Agile coaches and consultants have regularly observed that the greatest impediment to transforming organizations is transforming the mindsets of its members. It is easy to train Agile practices such as Scrum and get people started working in teams. So that is what a lot of folks do, they do the easy stuff.

Agile 108
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No Fighting In This (Agile) Dojo with M. David Green

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

How can we train teams to consistently produce quality code without negatively impacting productivity? David Green, discuss Agile Dojos and how they can make teams more effective. Dojos provide a six-week training ground where teams focus on recognizing and replicating value by pairing, mobbing, and swarming. Episode 46.

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Making Software Development Teams Hum with Ron Lichty

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Is your team running so smoothly that it hums? In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Ron Lichty, discuss what makes high-performance teams versus what makes low-performance teams. Most teams already know which category they fall into, but the solution to a low-performing team isn’t always clear.