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Scrum Anti-Patterns: Micromanagement

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

Scale: Team and/or across multiple teams. People new to Scrum often struggle to understand boundaries of control between being an effective manager, ScrumMaster, or Product Owner. This is a critical consideration because, at the heart of Scrum, we’re attempting to grow a group of people into a resilient, high-performing team.

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Scrum by Example – Team Friction Inspires Working Agreements

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

Working Agreements are a simple, powerful way of creating explicit guidelines for what kind of work culture you want for your Team. In this post we’ll help you understand why these agreements are useful, and how you can help your Team create their own. Paula – the Product Owner of Steve’s Team. Dramatis Personae.

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Cross-functional Team: Composition, Benefits, and Good Practices

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Have you thought about the concept of a cross-functional team? What differentiates it from setting up traditional teams? How can it improve the software development process? In this article, we’ll discuss the characteristics of a cross-functional team, the benefits of having one, and how to build and manage such a team.