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How To Run Effective Scrum Meetings

Xebia

Scrum is a popular way of working in teams. Many people however, dislike one core element of Scrum: the meetings. Scrum meetings are often time consuming, boring and ineffective. It’s no wonder people flinch when they hear “Scrum” But it doesn’t have to be that way. Here are some tips on how to do that.

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CSM certification: Costs, requirements, and all you need to know

CIO

The Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) certification , available through the Scrum Alliance , is an entry-level certification aimed at providing professionals with an awareness of the methodologies and values of Scrum, including team performance, accountability, and iterative progress.

SCRUM 190
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ACM Queue Magazine: How To Improve Your Scrum

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ACM Queue Magazine: How To Improve Your Scrum. The lightweight nature of Scrum makes it flexible, adaptable, and easy to understand. . However, as we wrote in the Scrum Guide, ‘Scrum is easy to understand but difficult to master.’ If you want to attain high-performance, you need to go beyond ritual.

SCRUM 94
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Psychological Safety And Scrum Teams: How To Create A High-Performance Environment

scruminc

Psychological Safety And Scrum Teams: How To Create A High-Performance Environment. Why is it so important for teams to create a shared understanding of what psychological safety means to them and how to support that environment? . Here’s how to do it: . The term, the myth, the legend, the… buzzword? .

SCRUM 59
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Team Leadership in the Age of Agile

Speaker: Roy Osherove, Technology and Leadership Consultant

As a senior software leader, you spend much of your time trying to optimize your team's performance – from increasing delivery rate and velocity to reducing defect rates and waste. To do this, you've learned a wide variety of techniques and methodologies - SCRUM, Kanban, TDD, DevOps, self-organized teams, and much more.

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How to get your CFO to buy into a better model for IT funding

CIO

I needed an outside perspective on whether it was well-suited to the environment at Rest and how to get started.” For us to agree to funding for the year ahead, we needed a better way to show how the persistent teams would enable us to deliver the benefits identified in the strategy,” O’Sullivan says. “We

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Onboard New People Without Losing Scrum Team Magic

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

Agile teams have been struggling since the earliest days with how to bring new people on to a team. I will focus instead on the challenges of bringing someone new onto an effective Scrum team, specifically. No one is at fault – people simply don’t know how much to trust the new person. It will pay off. Ashforth, B.

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