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The Origins of Scrum Might Not Be What You Think They Are (Wisdom from Rafael Sabbagh)

Gunther Verheyen

In the summer of 2019 I got in touch with O’Reilly Media about their ambition to add a book about Scrum to their “97 Things” series. As the title of the series suggests, the idea was to collect 97 essays in the book, to be provided by people from around the world. 8 People contributed 3 Things.

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Scrum Master Interview Questions (2): From Product Backlog to Sprint Planning

Scrum.org

And that demand causes the market-entry of new professionals from other project management branches, probably believing that reading one or two Scrum books will be sufficient. An excellent suggestion on the part of your candidate would be for the Scrum Team to participate in gathering qualitative signals by taking part in user interviews.

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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

Scrum.org

From our own quantitative research with 1.200 Scrum Teams , we know that teams are more effective when they are more aware of the needs of their stakeholders. Unger-Windeler and her colleagues (2019) also investigated what Product Owners do in many different organizations and concluded that “no Product Owner role is like another”.

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Scrum Master Interview Questions (4): From Metrics to Kicking off Scrum to Scrum Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

Your candidate should not align themselves with the fallacy that a team’s adoption of Scrum is working only because a Scrum Team’s forecasts and velocity are aligned. Cooking the agile books is easy to do ! Trends derived from these polls are great points for discussion during a team’s Sprint Retrospectives.

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Scrum Master Interview Questions: Scrum Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

And that demand causes the market-entry of new professionals from other project management branches, probably believing that reading one or two Scrum books will be sufficient. Scrum Anti-Patterns: From Product Backlog to Sprint Review. Lack of support : The Scrum Master does not support team members who need help with a task.

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Scrum Patterns - Putting Scrum into practice

Scrum.org

They create Spreadsheets with questions/measures to assess how well these teams, groups and branches are complying with the standard way of working. They send out Agile Coaches to assess, train and coach the teams, groups, and branches to work according to the standard process. You probably do not want this.

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70 Scrum Master Theses

Scrum.org

On the one side, they address typical Scrum events such as Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and the Sprint Retrospective. When a weak Development Team meets a commanding Product Owner, focusing on shipping new features, the team may end up as a feature factory, churning out new code while neglecting the technical foundation.

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