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What makes the difference between a GOOD Scrum Master and a GREAT Scrum?Master?

Scrum.org

Understanding the role became a little bit easier after the 2017 update of the Scrum Guide, when the Scrum master’s services to the Product Owner, the Development team and the whole organization were described more explicitly. The Scrum Master helps everyone change these interactions to maximize the value created by the Scrum Team.”.

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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

Scrum.org

They interviewed 55 practitioners and observed hundreds of Scrum events to categorize the activities that Product Owners spend their time on. Kristinsdottir, Larusdottir & Cajander (2017) followed and interviewed Product Owners at Spotify. All Hands to the Pumps: The Product Owner Role in Small Companies Lero Technical Report: 2017.

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Money is important, but it is not what drives me

Gunther Verheyen

Money was not what drove my wife and I when I gave up my position as software engineer and aspiring project manager in favor of running a bookshop (1996). If it was money that drives me, I would be speaking at events only when offered large sums of money with no other intent than entertainment and self-promotion.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. February 2017. “A

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

Herding Cats

Optimism bias - a cognitive bias that causes a person to believe that they are at a lesser risk of experiencing a negative event compared to others. Software engineering economics is about making decisions related to software engineering in a business context. A final Thought . Kirchler, D. Andersson, C.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. February 2017. “A

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

Herding Cats

Optimism bias - a cognitive bias that causes a person to believe that they are at a lesser risk of experiencing a negative event compared to others. Software engineering economics is about making decisions related to software engineering in a business context. A final Thought . Kirchler, D. Andersson, C.