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In-Depth: How Coherence And Cohesion Are Critical To Scrum

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Do your Daily Scrums feel like a pointless ritual where everyone just lists what they’ve done yesterday, and what they do will do today? In our work with Scrum teams, we’ve been part of teams that had it. So Scrum was doomed from the start. We also explore how these insights create a strong foundation for the Scrum framework.

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Systems Thinking in Organizational Coaching

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This paper is geared toward Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, and change agents that work with large change initiatives. Small changes can produce big results—but the areas of highest leverage are often the least obvious (Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline, 2006). Misunderstanding of the Scrum Master Role.

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Practical Fibonacci: A Beginner's Guide to Relative Sizing

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2006, Jørgensen and Grimstad). The Developers on a Scrum Team size the work they are accountable for delivering (Developers in Scrum include anyone needed to develop the work, including analysts, UX, and quality professionals). Trust the Team and the Process. When more is unknown than known, use relative sizing. .

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Why Agile Engineering Practices in Software Development Are Essential to Achieve Agility

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Frameworks such as Scrum are meant to support agility. Sprints are short planning horizons and the artefacts and events in Scrum are there to provide greater transparency and opportunities to inspect and adapt based on early feedback, changes in conditions and new information. After all, Scrum is just a framework. Sheppard & W.

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How a growth mindset has helped in my journey to become a PST

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A growth mindset is a term coined by Carol Dweck in 2006 in her book mindset Mindset: The new Psychology of success to describe the underlying beliefs people have about learning and intelligence. I will never forget a conversation with my manager Vinicius, the person who gave me the opportunity to become a Scrum Master.

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In-Depth: What a Social Systems Perspective Teaches us About Change

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like choosing for Scrum?—?they These norms range from very basic ones, like attending a Daily Scrum every day, to abstract ones like “work together towards a shared goal instead of working on your own tasks” and “delivery small, working bits of product frequently instead of huge chunks occasionally”. Why Is Change Hard?

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Burnout in Project Management

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Articles are now appearing addressing burnout specifically in a project management environment [Verma (1996), Haynes and Love (2004), Richmond and Skitmore (2006), Pinto et al., 2014), and Jugdev et al., PMs must recognize the signs of stress and burnout as early as possible in the project’s life cycle. Dawood, Shariffah; Pinto , Mary Beth.,