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15 Sprint Review Anti-Patterns

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TL; DR: 15 Sprint Review Anti-Patterns. Answering this question in a collaborative effort of the Scrum Team as well as internal (and external) stakeholders is the purpose of the Sprint Review. Given its importance, it is worthwhile to tackle the most common Sprint Review anti-patterns. Are we still on the right track?

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Development Team Anti-Patterns

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TL; DR: Development Team Anti-Patterns. After covering the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, this article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact. The Role of the Development Team in Scrum. Source : Scrum Guide 2017. .

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In-Depth: The Science On Sustainable Pace, Stress, And Motivation

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How sustainable is your pace as a developer? This has always been a huge struggle for us and most of the teams we’ve been part of. Unfortunately, many developers and development teams still burn more hours than are probably good for them. The initial practice was for developers to work no more than 40 hours a week.

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What You Need to Know about the 2020 Scrum Guide

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The Scrum Guide is not updated frequently (the last update was 2017). What is important about Scrum is that it is a framework, and Scrum Teams need to define their process, practices, and tools within the framework. Another key change to the 2020 Scrum Guide is the shift from “Development Team” to “Developers.”.

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21 Sprint Retrospective Anti-Patterns

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The Scrum Master encourages the Scrum Team to improve, within the Scrum process framework, its development process and practices to make it more effective and enjoyable for the next Sprint. By the end of the Sprint Retrospective, the Scrum Team should have identified improvements that it will implement in the next Sprint.

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Working Remotely? This Will Hit You Next!

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Despite the rapidness of the change, moving to remote worked surprisingly well for many teams, because they were used to some degree of remote work before. Especially development teams and technology firms in general have many years of experience with allowing their workforce to do their jobs from wherever and whenever they like.

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Agility and Scrum According to OpenAI’s ChatGPT — Be Surprised!

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Business agility is often achieved through the use of agile practices and methodologies, such as agile project management and agile software development. It gets a bit repetitive; however, the Generative AI adds agile practices and refers directly to agile software development. Let's drill down a bit.

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