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35 Fleshed-Out Scrum Master Interview Questions and Answers [2020]

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From the desk of a brilliant weirdo #1: Are your hand shivering and pouring yourself with sweat right before your scrum master interview? If so, this “ Scrum Master Interview Questions and Answers ” article can, without a doubt, boost your confidence up and put your worries at rest.

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Scrum by Example – Same Old Song in Sprint Retrospective

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

– The rounds of open discussion are off-putting for quieter team members, especially in a team new to Scrum. Our free eBook The Guide to Effective Agile Retrospectives has a good start, and the Retromat has more (>100 activities). 1] Original source – Agile Retrospectives Book – Diana Larsen and Esther Derby.

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The Guide to Effective Retrospectives – Now Available

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

Responding to one of the most common complaints he hears about Scrum done poorly, Certified Scrum Trainer Mark Levison spent this summer applying two decades worth of Agile study and personal observation to write his newest book, The Guide to Effective Retrospectives.

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Red-Yellow-Green Status Reports and Other Models – How They Should and Shouldn’t Be Used

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

Let’s examine these successively abstract models: A little bit abstract: A team’s Task Board, Scrum Wall, or the overall Portfolio Kanban Wall. They summarize the information contained on the Scrum Walls/Task Boards mentioned above. All other images by Agile Pain Relief. These are all first-order models of reality.

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How To Make Distributed Teams Work

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Use These 4 Agile Strategies. In their most recent case study, MOS credits Scrum for the mindset and openness to pivot the direction of their business. Inside this ebook, you will dive deeper into these strategies and learn how to leverage Scrum to ignite distributed teams. How To Make Distributed Teams Work?

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Be Better with Better Data

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

In Scrum, most people instantly think of velocity as the key metric – how much work a team does in a Sprint, usually in the form of number of story points completed. so they still have a place in Scrum. In The Guide to Effective Agile Retrospectives eBook, we mention many sources of data that you could collect for the team.

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Once upon a time (but actually just a few months ago), we published an ebook called The Hitchhiker's Guide to Agile Coaching where we tried to explain our tradition of coaching, which is continuously being adapted to the needs of our clients and our own company. We always focus on delivering value to our customers.