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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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Scrum by Example – Don’t Let Sprint Review be a Missed Opportunity

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

To have an effective Sprint Review story, let’s assume that they magically wound back the clock (shazam!) 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. Reader can write a review of a book (plain text only).

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

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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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Scrum by Example – Same Old Song in Sprint Retrospective

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

The World’s Smallest Online Bookstore team has just come out of their Sprint Review. For those who’re keeping score, the team committed to a Sprint Goal: Have basic reader review system in place so book buyers can see a variety of opinions about a book. By Sprint Review time they’d completed five of the seven.

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What is Agile? – Agile Principles and Frameworks

Openxcell

This exercise helps in resolving and clarifying the customer’s anticipations and requirements for the project development team. Amongst them, the most popular agile methodologies are Scrum, Kanban, Crystal, Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM), Lean, Extreme Programming, and much more! What is Agile Methodology?

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Collaboration, Over Work in Isolation

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

When I’m working with new Scrum Teams and say that Scrum encourages collaboration among team members, everyone nods and smiles. When I ask them to describe their actual collaboration, I hear about collaboration in Sprint Planning, Review and Retrospective. This suggests that only 10% of a Scrum team’s work is collaborative.

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Agile in Everywhere: Memories of a beginner-level Scrum servant

Agile42

I had heard about Scrum and I already had started using Kanban by myself in my previous position. Since I was an industrial engineer, I already knew about the Toyota production system, lean management, Kanban and continuous improvement. Now my team consisted of the ideal number of team members for Scrum.

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