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Lean Startup and Scrum

Scrum.org

Performed correctly, Customer Discovery is a customer-centric, scientific process that puts evidence behind an assumed product-market fit. Lean Startup and Scrum Reis and Blank talk about using these ideas to build and scale a business, but the ideas hold true at the product or even feature level. OK, that was interesting - so what?

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Product Discovery for Scrum Teams

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Product Discovery for Scrum Teams While Scrum excels at building and releasing Increments, it does not guarantee that those are valuable—garbage in, garbage out. Scrum teams can equally make things no one is interested in using at all. Get notified when the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book is available !

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Scrum For Startups: Finding the Sweet Spot

Scrum.org

In the Winter of 2016 - 2017, I changed jobs. I had been working as an Agile Coach at a 60-person technology start up here in Toronto, Canada and after helping them to stabilize their value delivery process, I wanted to get some experience as a Coach within larger companies. And that makes complete sense.

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5 Tips To Re-Energize Your Daily Standup Meetings

Rebel’s Guide to PM

When I started working for White October we followed the conventional “scrum” format, where the team get together, share what’s new, what’s challenging and what’s happening, and everyone gives feedback and makes suggestions to unblock each other. These make the daily scrum fun!

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Scrum: A Brief History of a Long-Lived Hype

Scrum.org

Scrum has been around for a while, they say. The Scrum Guide holds the definition of Scrum, they say. The first, official version of the Scrum Guide was released in February 2010. So, how was Scrum defined before 2010 then? What else happened along the road to the way that Scrum is defined and represented?

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The 8 Stances of a Scrum Master ?-? Brazilian Portuguese Edition

Scrum.org

Last year, I’ve had the opportunity to collaborate with the Portuguese speaking Scrum community in Portugal and Brazil. By contributing to Agile Portugal , Scrum Day Brazil and by providing a workshop for Emergee , I’ve experienced their passion, enthusiasm, and willingness to learn more about Scrum. .

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Understanding Agile

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Joining the scrum. It’s known as the “scrum”. Scrum is one of several Agile frameworks (and the one that we’re focusing on in this article) that uses precise roles, agile ceremonies and meetings , and events to deliver the final product in a specific time frame. A version of this article first appeared in 2016.

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