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The Modern Guide to the Daily Scrum Meeting

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

Many people who attend Scrum training courses start with the impression that the Daily Scrum is the whole of Scrum. Others think the Daily Scrum centres on three questions (this was true a long time ago). This guide to the Daily Scrum meeting was created to address these misconceptions as well as answer common questions.

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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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What is a business analyst? A key role for business-IT efficiency

CIO

Business analyst job description BAs are responsible for creating new models that support business decisions by working closely with finance and IT teams to establish initiatives and strategies aimed at improving revenue and/or optimizing costs. Business analyst skills The business analyst position requires both hard skills and soft skills.

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Scrum Anti-Patterns: Micromanagement

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

Scale: Team and/or across multiple teams. People new to Scrum often struggle to understand boundaries of control between being an effective manager, ScrumMaster, or Product Owner. This is a critical consideration because, at the heart of Scrum, we’re attempting to grow a group of people into a resilient, high-performing team.

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Sprint Goals Provide Purpose

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

If your Sprints are merely about ticking off items on a scattered work list without having a shared understanding of why they’re important or what purpose they serve, your Development Team will struggle to keep focus in the short-term and will take longer to become highly effective in the long run. Why Do We Have Sprint Goals?

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Coach your Architects in Agile Architecture!

Xebia

Some companies ignore architects in their transformation, some will upskill their architects, and some will make the DevOps teams responsible for the architecture. The scrum masters are concerned with the agile process on a team level. Well before, architects did their job in a waterfall organization outside the teams.

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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. 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. B y the standards of many teams this is remarkably good. and implemented the changes.