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Agile vs Scrum: Differences & Similarities?—?The Complete Review [2020]

Codegiant

Agile vs Scrum: Differences & Similarities?—?The The Complete Review [2020] From the desk of a brilliant weirdo #1 : If you are using Scrum it’s safe to say that you are also using Agile. On the other hand, if you are using an Agile framework, that may not necessarily be Scrum. In Scrum, you have three main roles?—?the

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Future Perspective for Change: Why Backcasting Helps Get You Where You Want to Be

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

The exercise starts off with the facilitator asking the attendees to imagine a moment several years into the future, when their world of work is much better now. Just by changing the opening question, this exercise can also work well for a Product Vision too. Identifies and helps prioritize preferred outcomes.

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Quality Assurance outsourcing in the World of DevOps-Best Practices for Dispersed (Distributed) Quality Assurance Team

Trigent

Focus on the right capability: While organizations focus to a large extent on bringing capabilities across development, support, Q A , operations, and product management in a scrum team, paramount from a quality perspective would be QA skills. Best practices for ensuring the effectiveness of distributed QA teams.

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Outsourcing QA in the world of DevOps – Best Practices for Dispersed (Distributed) QA teams

Trigent

Focus on right capability: While organizations focus to a large extent on bringing capabilities across development, support, QA, operations, and product management in a scrum team, paramount from a quality perspective would be QA skills. The challenge is to find the right skill mix.

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

Codegiant

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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How to Manage 6 Challenging Personality Types in Meetings – Part 2: The Swoop-and-Pooper

Modus Create

Over the next two days, I walked Tim and Mark through some structured exercises to brainstorm different markets. We noted potential customers they could target and problems the new product could solve. Many of us work in small scrum or design teams. Tim and Mark seemed very sharp, so I didn’t think it would be a problem.

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The Two Sides of Teams

LeanEssays

Historically, someone with the role of business analyst, project manager, or product manager made the critical decisions about what to build. While the technical team might question or push back on product decisions, too often the ideas and priorities were expected to come from outside. That is what teams do.