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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

Have you ever had friends or family ask, “I know you’re called a scrum master, but what does that mean? 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. What do you actually do ?”

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35 Fleshed-Out Scrum Master Interview Questions and Answers [2020]

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From the desk of a brilliant weirdo #1: Are your hand shivering and pouring yourself with sweat right before your scrum master interview? If so, this “ Scrum Master Interview Questions and Answers ” article can, without a doubt, boost your confidence up and put your worries at rest.

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Scrum Anti-Patterns: Micromanagement

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

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. Management sometimes does this too.

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Growing great upcoming ScrumMasters

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My colleagues in Finland have been in touch for a couple of years with Maria Paasivara , working as an adjunct professor at Aalto University in Helsinki and researcher in multiple subjects including globally distributed software development, distributed agile development and software project management.

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32 Best Jira Alternatives For Agile Project Management Teams In 2020 [Free & Paid]

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Or if you are just browsing the web for a great project management tool, this guide will ease your final decision. If you are new to it, Jira is basically used for project management, specifically for bug tracking. It’s an agile project management tool (from 2002) built for software developers and owned by Atlassian.

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The Top 29 Asana Alternatives In 2020 [The Ultimate Breakdown]

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Without further ado: Asana Some people love Asana because of its simple UI, tons of great features and effective project management. When the Asana app was released in 2008 by Dustin Moskovitz, one of Facebook co-founders… Asana took the project management market by storm. Sync tasks across projects. Copy projects.

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Team Management: How Successful Managers Manage Their Teams

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A weakness is something you despise doing, something that drains the energy out of you, something that you’d avoid doing at all costs. Be curious and eager to learn You can take team management courses, or any other kind of team management training you can get your hands on. Features: Kanban and Scrum boards.