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What do you call a Product Owner with no authority?

Kiron Bondale

In 2003, Barry Boehm and Richard Turner coined the acronym C.R.A.C.K. K nowledgeable – Do they have sufficient product domain knowledge but also the organizational savvy to know who to engage, influence or persuade? If I had to pick the most common weakness I’ve observed, it was a lack of availability.

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Thinking By Sprinting: What Cognitive Science Tells Us About Why Scrum Works

Scrum.org

Their paper provides useful insights into why the Scrum Framework might be so effective when it comes to managing complex work. Their article inspired me to apply the same insights to Scrum and to extend it with my own. A powerful example of the above can be witnessed in termite colonies (Camazine, 2003).

2002 199
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Is Blue-print Thinking Limiting The Potential Of The Agile Community?

Scrum.org

Do you start a new Scrum team by explaining the roles, artifacts, and events? Do you rarely consider how to build coalitions and persuade people in power to support your work with Scrum? Are you thinking about the psychological needs of people and how to motivate them to work with Scrum? How can we expand their influence?

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Why is Cognitive Diversity important? How to promote it?

Scrum.org

Your Scrum team has NO innovative idea to solve the customer problems in many Sprints? In recent years and until now, my work associated with supporting and building high-performance innovation teams by applying Scrum. I found that three main factors influence how to make a high-performance team. Cultural intelligence (CQ).

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5 Agile Methodologies for Project Managers that are not Scrum Framework

Project Pulse Journal

Beyond Scrum , several Agile frameworks were developed to address the unique needs and challenges of projects and teams. It encourages continuous delivery and improvement without the fixed iterations of Scrum.

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In-Depth: How To Create Better Work Agreements For Your Team

Scrum.org

Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. You can observe implicit coordination in Scrum teams when you look at how work moves across a Scrum board, or on- and of the Sprint Backlog. This is also why the Scrum framework includes the Definition of Done.

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Do you have a CRACK PO? (and a book review)

Kiron Bondale

In 2003, Barry Boehm and Richard Turner coined the acronym C.R.A.C.K. Scrum Masters) might be worth their weight in gold, but they are out there. (If the title of my article for this week has you confused gentle reader, fret not – I’m just merging two distinct topics into a single post). Good agile leads (a.k.a.