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A Beginner’s Guide to Scrum Ceremonies

ProjectManager.com

Scrum ceremonies are meetings that are unique to scrum teams. Scrum ceremonies ensure that everyone (the scrum master, product owner and development team) is in-sync. A sprint employs four different scrum ceremonies to ensure proper execution: sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review and sprint retrospective.

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In-Depth: How To Create Better Work Agreements For Your Team

Scrum.org

It may suffice to move an item on the Scrum Board or Kanban Board to “Done” or “Ready for Review”, although a verbal statement is probably clearer for teams where the Scrum Board isn’t visible all the time. Many studies have found that psychological safety has a positive influence on team effectiveness (Edmondson, 2014).

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Scrum Methodology: Roles, Events & Artifacts

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The scrum methodology was developed as a response to rigid project management approaches such as the waterfall method, which didn’t adapt to the needs of agile product and software development teams. For this purpose it defines three roles, a scrum master, a product owner and a development team, made up of several team members.

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The Project Communication Plan

MPUG

The legal department gets involved only to work on contracts or to review documents for legal issues. For example, vendors, suppliers, partners, and the project managers who work for them can belong to your core team. The project sponsor prefers to meet in person to review status, issues, and risks.

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My Journey as a Scrum Master

Scrum.org

In hindsight, I already started writing the paper “ The 8 Stances of a Scrum Master ” around 2011–2014, although it was published via Scrum.org years later. To challenge myself even further, I signed up for doing a presentation at Scrum Day London. Scrum Day London, the first public presentation I’ve done in English.

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

Scrum.org

The need for fluid teams. The notion of fluid teams has been around for a long time, mostly in aviation, healthcare, and the armed forces. Bushe and Chu (2011) identify seven situations that drive the use of fluid teaming in those environments: High turnover among employees, leading to changes in teams. Bradley et.

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Kanban to manage Complex/ Quick Moving Situations

Digite

Starting in 2007 when we moved from being a waterfall shop to 2011 when we adopted Kanban, we have ourselves mastered a number of challenges that the question above presents. Dev Lane for the main dev activity. The Dev board value stream follows a Test Driven Development flow. Our Kanban Journey.