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How To Run Effective Scrum Meetings

Xebia

Many people however, dislike one core element of Scrum: the meetings. Scrum meetings are often time consuming, boring and ineffective. Meetings run overtime, discussions keep going in circles and decisions are rarely made. As the scrum master, you have the power to make the team meetings more effective. of complaining.

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What is the Purpose of a Sprint Retrospective in Scrum and How Do You Run One Effectively?

Exadel

What is a Sprint Retrospective? The Sprint Retrospective is an integral part of the Sprint. Successful Agile software development can’t be done without an effective Sprint Retrospective. This information should be taken into consideration for the next Sprint. Step 1: Set the Stage.

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Agile Retrospectives

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

The goal of this post is to give teams a solid introduction on how to have not-sucky Sprint Retrospectives. Retrospectives are explicitly part of Scrum – “ The Sprint Retrospective is an opportunity for the Scrum Team to inspect itself and create a plan for improvements to be enacted during the next Sprint.”

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Exploring Scrum’s Horizons: Expanding Possibilities in Regulated Industries

scruminc

He had recently taken command of an alphabet soup of a unit EODMU2 (Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 2). This was approximately 2 years ago and began my journey learning about Agility and the Scrum framework. By conducting rigorous Retrospectives, I know how my actions impact team happiness.

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Two Key Things for Sprint Retrospective Facilitation

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

Retrospectives are a critical element in Scrum but they won’t work well if your team hates them. A Sprint Retrospective needs someone to facilitate and keep it on track to encourage effective discussion. Step back from advocacy (which does have a small place outside of the retrospective) to neutrality. Remain Neutral.

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Scrum by Example – Same Old Song in Sprint Retrospective

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

The World’s Smallest Online Bookstore team has just come out of their Sprint Review. For those who’re keeping score, the team committed to a Sprint Goal: Have basic reader review system in place so book buyers can see a variety of opinions about a book. By Sprint Review time they’d completed five of the seven. What went well?

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How to Prepare for a Scrum Master Interview

Exadel

Often, candidates come to an interview and don’t know the difference between Sprint Review and Retrospective, or don’t care about old and new editions of the Scrum Guide. What is a Daily Meeting and how should it be managed? What would be your agenda for Sprint planning? What are the Product goal and Sprint goal?

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