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

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

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). Scrum: Novice to Ninja: [link]. So, let’s take one of them, I think you said unit testing, is that right?

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Don’t forget the developers!

Silk and Spinach

In many of them I see a familiar pattern: The managers and business analysts are sent on courses and sent to conferences and given books to read; most of them change their job title to things like Scrum Master or Product Owner; they create their plans using “stories” written on post-it notes, and they organise their projects into Sprints.

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AoAD2 Chapter 4: Investing in Agility

James Shore

Another popular approach is the facilitator-coach , often called a Scrum Master , 3 who leads from the sidelines by facilitating conversations and resolving organizational roadblocks. 3 The name “Scrum Master” originated in the popular “Scrum” method. 4 If you make the investments in this chapter, that is.

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Lean Software Development: The Backstory

LeanEssays

We were in a conference room near the Waterfront in Cape Town. “I my husband Tom declared just before I was scheduled to open the conference. Put the tests into a test harness for ongoing code verification. During its first decade, agile development moved from a radical idea to a mainstream practice.