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Newbies’ Guide to Scrum Project Management 101

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Some of its approaches, other than Scrum , include Extreme Programming (XP) for quality upfront building, Lean thinking for waste elimination and the Agile Unified Process (AUP) approach to developing business application software using agile techniques. The Scrum team is divided as follows: Product Owner. Development Team, and.

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Scrum Master Interview Questions (2): From Product Backlog to Sprint Planning

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The ebook provides both questions as well as guidance on the range of suitable answers. An excellent suggestion on the part of your candidate would be for the Scrum Team to participate in gathering qualitative signals by taking part in user interviews. Question 19: Assessing the Value of a User Story. What is its structure?

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Scrum Master Interview Questions (4): From Metrics to Kicking off Scrum to Scrum Anti-Patterns

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The ebook provides both questions as well as guidance on the range of suitable answers. The purpose of qualitative metrics is to gain insight into how one or more of an organization’s Scrum Teams are progressing with agile. Trends derived from these polls are great points for discussion during a team’s Sprint Retrospectives.

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Scrum Master Interview Questions: Scrum Anti-Patterns

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The ebook provides both questions as well as guidance on the range of suitable answers. Scrum Anti-Patterns: From Product Backlog to Sprint Review. Flow disruption : The Scrum Master allows stakeholders to disrupt the workflow of the Development Team during the Sprint. Question 45: Scrum Master Anti-Patterns.

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70 Scrum Master Theses

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On the one side, they address typical Scrum events such as Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and the Sprint Retrospective. When a weak Development Team meets a commanding Product Owner, focusing on shipping new features, the team may end up as a feature factory, churning out new code while neglecting the technical foundation.

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Scrum Master Interview Questions (3): Daily Scrum and Sprint Retrospective

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The ebook provides both questions as well as guidance on the range of suitable answers. Daily Scrums are an important part of Scrum, but not all Daily Scrums need to be formal — a Development Team should not have a Daily Scrum for the sake of having it; it serves a different purpose than ticking off a box on a checklist.

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