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The Zombie Scrum Survival Guide

Scrum.org

An article by Johannes Schartau , co-author of the Zombie Scrum Survival Guide. It was early 2008 when an Agile Coach sat alone in an office in Western Europe. This concerning dynamic seemed to drain all life from his Scrum Team’s members. The Zombie Scrum Resistance at work (or pretending very much to be).

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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

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Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. 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. The Scrum Guide seems pretty clear about what Product Owners are accountable for.

2014 214
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The Truth About Sprint Zero (and why Ken hates it)

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If you've heard of Scrum, you've likely heard of Sprint zero. This article explains what Sprint zero is and how it is used in Scrum. I'll also explain why the phrase 'Sprint zero' annoys Ken Schwaber, one of the co-creators of Scrum. How does Scrum use Sprint Zero? Scrum teams don't do big design up-front.

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In-Depth: The Evidence-Based Business Case For Agile

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And we share results from our own analyses based on actual data from stakeholders and Scrum teams that we collected through the Scrum Team Survey. Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. We collected the data through our Scrum Team Survey. We worked with Prof.

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Hello and I am here.

Stepping Into Project Management

There's no team behind it, no editor, and no brainstorming sessions- mostly been me running this since 2008 along with a full-time job and a family. So, since we are just on time to start this weekend, I thought we could relook at the couple of articles I have posted in the community. Quiet Quitting: How Agile can help combat that 3.

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Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Leading to Failure

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Scrum has proven to be an effective product delivery framework for all sorts of products. However, Scrum is equally well suited to build the wrong product efficiently as its Achilles heel has always been the product discovery part. How that is supposed to happen is nowhere described in the Scrum Guide.

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Basis of Estimating Software Development

Herding Cats

Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Large, Multisite, and Offshore Product Development with Large-Scale Scrum , Craig Larman and Bas Vodde, Addison Wesley, 2010. Scaling Lean & Agle Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum , Craig Larman and Bas Voode, Addison Wesley, 2008.