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Scrum by Example – Is Your Scrum Team a Victim of Scrummerfall?

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

Is your Scrum team struggling with questions about who owns quality? Is testing way behind development? Are team members claiming no time for retrospective because they’re focused on delivery? If half his team is going to be absent, is there any point in Steve holding a Sprint Retrospective?

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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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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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3 force multipliers for digital transformation

CIO

Examples are initiatives to improve both customer and employee experiences or others that deliver a combination of innovation and security enhancements. Here’s an example of a non-multiplying initiative; a sequential phased delivery familiar to CIOs. Apply agile when developing low-code and no-code experiences.

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Superhero Scrum Masters; helpful or bottleneck?

Xebia

His weakness is kryptonite, a green crystalline material. The Superhero Scrum Master is no exception. The Superhero Scrum Master is the first one to dive into any impediment to resolve it. A developer has feedback on someone else, but is too afraid to tell it? The Scrum Team is like a kid, trying to learn to ride a bike.

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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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Bobidi launches to reward developers for testing companies’ AI models

TechCrunch

In a 2018 report , Gartner predicted that 85% of AI projects will deliver erroneous outcomes due to bias in data, algorithms or the teams responsible for managing them. ” To test models, the Bobidi “community” of developers builds a validation dataset for a given system. the number of edge cases). per hour.