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

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Your Scrum team is consistently failing to meet commitments, and its velocity is volatile. How would you address this issue with the team? If a Scrum Team is exhibiting a volatile velocity, consistently failing to meet their forecasts, it suggests that velocity is being used as the prevalent metric for measuring that team’s progress.

SCRUM 222
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The Project Manager (A Misunderstood Product Owner Stance)

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The Project Manager is typically concerned with day-to-day progress of the Development Team. They rarely (or never) miss a Daily Scrum, they’re involved during the Daily Scrum and it might just be that they’re asking individual team members what they’ve done, what they’re going to do and if there’s anything blocking them.

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Scrum Master Interview Questions: Scrum Anti-Patterns

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Scrum has proven time and again to be the most popular framework for software development. Scrum Anti-Patterns: From Product Backlog to Sprint Review. More critical, however, is when the Scrum Master decides to keep the team in the dark about principles and practices to secure his or her job.

SCRUM 197
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Using Scrum to Help with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) - Part Two

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When we started back in July 2017 it was a standard ‘task radiator’ borrowed straight from the boards at work: The columns on this were: Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, In Progress, Needs Review (I think that was the first to go!), In a team of two, we no longer need to consult very much about how much something should be worth.

SCRUM 124
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Newbies’ Guide to Scrum Project Management 101

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The term Agile refers to a way of managing projects that incorporates constant improvement, scope flexibility, team involvement, and delivering crucial quality products. This method often results in low-quality products due to delays in milestones, financial issues and lack of prioritized characteristics for the products.

SCRUM 132
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In-Depth: Stable Or Fluid Teams? What Does The Science Say?

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Recently, the concept of “fluid teams”, “dynamic reteaming” or “ad-hoc teaming” has gained traction in the Agile community. Although the concept has many different definitions, a characteristic they share is that members move in and out of a team during its lifetime. The need for fluid teams.

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Scrum Master Interview Questions (3): Daily Scrum and Sprint Retrospective

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Would you recommend formal Daily Scrums for all teams, no matter the size or experience level? Daily Scrums are an important part of Scrum, but not all Daily Scrums need to be formal — a Development Team should not have a Daily Scrum for the sake of having it; it serves a different purpose than ticking off a box on a checklist.

SCRUM 160