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The #1 challenge for teams after scrum training is writing small, well-scoped, testable stories.

Net Objectives

While you can take a course and then pay for coaching after the workshop to learn this is not just expensive but wastes the time of your staff and often produces resistance. . Most Scrum courses teach story writing w/ "As a I want so that I get ". This is good in that it tells you what you want and why.

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No Fighting In This (Agile) Dojo with M. David Green

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Coaches like Green help them to hone their skills and go through rituals more effectively. The results will be more engaged team members, scrum masters, and a way of working that converts skeptics and naysayers into Agile evangelists. Engaged scrum masters are essential for long-term change (26:49). Show Notes. David: Sure.

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AoAD2 Practice: No Bugs

James Shore

Take a coach interested in trying Agile, assemble a team of novices, shake well, and bake for three years. This is how it turns out: The GMS team delivered this product after three years of development, having encountered a total of 51 defects during that time. Test-Driven Development. Test-Driven Development.

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Kick start your Agile Transformation Journey (and be a Digital Disruptor)

Capgemini

This can be achieved using methodologies like Scrum, Kanban, SAFe®, DevOps etc, leading to responsive business prioritization and short delivery iterations. Coaching can be an effective tool here, but bringing on board new talent is also useful, especially top and middle managers.

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AoAD2 Chapter 4: Investing in Agility

James Shore

There’s a wide variety of help available: occasional mentoring; training; help with process design and implementation; and full-time (or near-full-time) coaching. The most effective help you can get is to hire experienced practitioners to coach each team full-time. The same goes when hiring consultants and coaches.

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Scrum by Example – How to Handle Production Support Issues in Scrum

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

Today, our ScrumMaster and their Team grapple with these issues, to help you understand how they affect a Scrum Team and what you can do to prevent them from dragging you down. Scrum by Example is a narrative-style blog series designed to help people new to Scrum, especially new ScrumMasters. 3] [link]. [4] 4] [link].

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AoAD2 Practice: Whole Team

James Shore

Hi, I’m your Scrum Master,” she says. Broadly speaking, these skills can be grouped into customer skills, development skills, and coaching skills. This might be a product manager or senior developer. Development Skills. Until then, development on an Agile team looks similar to development on any other team.