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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.

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The Third Of Four Things You Do To Prevent Value Delivery

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On November 22nd, 2019, I gave the closing keynote at Scrum Deutschland, a talk called ‘The Four Things You Do To Prevent Value Delivery.’ A new product had been developed to replace an older, third party solution that was no longer tenable. First off, it’s important to note that bureaucracy isn’t bad. Background.

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Moving Beyond Velocity

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In my role as an Agile coach and Scrum trainer, I get the chance to talk to a lot of Scrum Masters and teams. When I ask them about what their team is measuring, the most common answers I hear are velocity, story points, and burn-down charts. Team health? I often failed to help developers understand its true purpose.

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How to Streamline Product Development With Project Management Tools

Wrike

In the product development process , many internal teams have a hand in bringing a concept to market. For example, design teams, engineering teams, and marketing teams all play a part in this life cycle. Set a more realistic product development schedule. However, that’s a myth.

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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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Project Management Tools and Techniques That Really Work

nTask

Your decision about which one to choose should arise from the project specifics that the brief contained, the complexity level that project boasts, the nature and qualification of the team involved in the development and countless other factors. Agile Project Management.

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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.

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