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Celebrating one year of Scrum Boosters!

Xebia

History In 2014 I started at Xebia in the business unit Agile Consultancy and Training (ACT). Together with Laurens Bonnema we formed a group who had experienced a lot of bad Scrum, fake Scrum, Scrum […]. The post Celebrating one year of Scrum Boosters! The post Celebrating one year of Scrum Boosters!

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What is the Recommended Scrum Team Size?

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

The Scrum Guide offers very limited guidance, suggesting 3-9 people per team (exclusive of ScrumMaster and Product Owner), without giving reasons or context for those numbers. While this is primarily about Scrum, the lessons are applicable for any work that is collaborative and knowledge-based. Clear Roles and Responsibilities [ 8 ].

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Why Less Communication is Better!

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Jeff (Bezos) got up and said, ‘No, communication is terrible!’” Alan Deutschman, 1 Aug 2014, Fast Company. A properly implemented Scrum radically reduces the need for communication while assuring the right communication happens. In Scrum we have leveled the playing field as the Product Owner is not the superior.

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Like a breath of fresh air.

Agile42

The supremely talented musical and comedy duo (trio if we count Joe, the cello) impressed us for the first time in the 2014 Scrum Gathering mingle evening where Dave Sharrock and I have been the chair. We deserve a break, you deserve a break, and it is time for all of us to take one, kindly provided by our beloved Carrington-Brown.

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Agile Bonuses – The Damage They Do

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

From working with Scrum and Kanban teams, I know that bonuses are counter-productive anywhere team members are doing knowledge work and their work is interdependent. Since others are doing the same thing, your cooperative Scrum team starts to have competition between members. positive link) Competition between team members.

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Wardley Mapping Mondays – Communication

Cory Foy

Recreating Scrum using Kanban and Explicit Policies. December 2014. November 2014. October 2014. April 2014. March 2014. February 2014. January 2014. Contact him today at foyc at cory foy dot com! You can also find him on: Worth Reading. Change your organization, or change your organization.

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Meet the Coach: Giuseppe De Simone

Agile42

I attended my first Scrum training is 2009 and encountering Scrum has been a life-changing experience for me. I got so inspired by all of them and learned so much in those three months that I realized that Scrum could be a concrete actualization of my beliefs in a humanized and productive personal and working life.