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Facilitation Exercise for Scrum Team Accountabilities

Scrum.org

In this blog post, I'll share with you an exercise to help make transparent expectations of each Scrum Team member, by driving conversations about what team members already understand and where there are potential misunderstandings that need to be changed. The Scrum Guide no longer mentions Scrum Team roles.

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Faking Agile Metrics or Cooking the Agile Books

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Faking Agile Metrics — An Eye-Opening Exercise. Imagine you’re a Scrum Master and the line manager of your team believes that the best sign for a successful agile transformation is a steady increase in the Scrum Team’s velocity. Cooking the Agile Books — A Simple Exercise.

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Adopting Agile is an Exercise in Change Management

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If you’re fresh out of Certified Scrum Master training, you are likely invigorated to start applying the Agile and SCRUM based techniques to your next project. Based on the classroom exercises, you’re excited to try new concepts and apply the magic cure-all that will solve all waterfall-based project problems.

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

Scrum.org

If you are looking to fill a position for a Scrum Master (or agile coach) in your organization, you may find the following 47 interview questions useful to identify the right candidate. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 30,000-plus other subscribers. Agile Metrics.

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Stories about Stories in Agile Development

MPUG

Also, in software development, requirement change is the rule, rather than the exception. Stories in Agile Development replace requirements. The remaining work happens when the story is developed. This leads to the concept of epics in Agile development. It’s an extension of the user story concept.

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12 Reasons Organizations Adopt Agile

Leading Agile

Companies that adopt Agile never do it just for the sake of adopting Agile. They do know that Waterfall wasn’t working, so Agile will fix those problems, right? They think if they do the “Agile stuff,” they will make quicker progress to achieve their goals.

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New PM, New Choices

Leading Answers

It would be easy (and wrong) to classify all construction projects as candidates for traditional approaches, and all IT projects as needing an agile approach. Likewise, there are defined, repeatable IT projects that can (and have been) successfully managed using meticulous planning, detailed estimation, and formal change control procedures.