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Scrum by Example – How Sprint Planning Mistakes Can Derail a Team

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

This resulting plan is created by the collaborative work of the entire Scrum Team.”. The Guide goes on to say that the team is expected to cover three topics: Why is the Sprint Valuable? So let’s peek in on our World’s Smallest Online Bookstore team that you’ll recall from other blog posts.

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Scrum by Example – Don’t Let Sprint Review be a Missed Opportunity

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

When last we left our World’s Smallest Online Bookstore team, their Sprint was rocky. To have an effective Sprint Review story, let’s assume that they magically wound back the clock (shazam!) The team set “Have basic reader review system in place so book buyers can see a variety of opinions about a book” as their Sprint Goal.

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How To Maximize An Agile Team – Don’t Give Up On Scrum

Modus Create

When I first attended Scrummaster training, I went in wide-eyed and excited to learn all of the secrets behind this amazing “new” agile project-management strategy called Scrum. But my employer had just paid for me to go through the training, and I was expected to help improve their development processes.

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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. Steve has to think fast. It takes five minutes.

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Book review: Escaping the Build Trap by Melissa Perri

Wolk Software Engineering

A couple of days ago I finished reading Escaping the Build Trap by Melissa Perri and, as usual, I would like to share a review with the community. I picked up this book because the author was a speaker at an event in Ireland. I also enjoyed that the author doesn’t seem to be a blind believer in Scrum. 9 Organizing your team.

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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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8 Powerful Team Collaboration Strategies: The Ultimate Guide

Codegiant

From the desk of a brilliant weirdo #1: If you struggle with team collaboration, then this article will show you how to use 8 powerful team collaboration strategies to put your team on the same page. So if you want to improve your team collaboration, check out Codegiant ?—?a Let’s get down to brass tacks. CareerBuilder.