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Why Having a Tech Lead or Manager as Scrum Master is a Bad Idea

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

Tell them that the role of ScrumMaster is as a servant-leader, coach, and facilitator, navigating the dynamics of the team to ensure Scrum practices are followed and value is delivered effectively. Servant Leadership: prioritizing the needs of the team and helping others to perform as highly as possible. What do you actually do ?”

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Debunking Sustainable Pace with Dr. Jeff Sutherland

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Jeff Sutherland and JJ Sutherland | October 4 , 2023 | Blog In the ever-evolving landscape of Agile methodologies, the term “sustainable pace” has often been relegated to the realm of buzzwords—misunderstood, misapplied, and at times, even misused as an excuse for mediocrity. In a meeting at Snowbird, Utah, U.S.

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Rezilion raises $30M to help security operations teams with tools to automate their busywork

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Security operations teams face a daunting task these days, fending off malicious hackers and their increasingly sophisticated approaches to cracking into networks. That also represents a gap in the market: building tools to help those security teams do their jobs. It’s time for security teams to embrace security data lakes.

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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.” It’s Not a Post-Mortem.

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How to Sweeten a Bitter Manager, a Micromanagement Survival Guide

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Are you a developer who has to put up with a bitter manager? 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? Mostly though, it is demotivating and, therefore, bad.

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Unlocking the Power of AI with a Real-Time Data Strategy

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Titanium Intelligent Solutions, a global SaaS IoT organization, even saved one customer over 15% in energy costs across 50 distribution centers , thanks in large part to AI. With organizations looking for increasingly sophisticated ways to employ AI capabilities, data becomes the foundational energy source for such technology.

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High Developer Effectiveness: key factors

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In this article I would like to analyze how to achieve high developer effectiveness based on our experience as well as recommendations of well-known software development companies and experts like Martin Fowler. First of all, what is High Developer Effectiveness? 25 factors of a high developer effectiveness .