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Facilitation Exercise for Scrum Team Accountabilities

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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. Plan on up to 2 hours for this exercise.

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When will we get there?  How to estimate in Scrum.

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To get to an answer that provides meaningful information, your Scrum Team first needs to decide how to estimate. As the Product Owner, you need to take the data from the estimated Product Backlog items (PBIs) and choose how to forecast a delivery date. Three Ways to Estimate. Exact Estimation. It’s just how it sounds.

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How to create a point system for estimating in Scrum

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One way is to estimate Product Backlog item (PBI) size. In a recent article, we talked about three ways to estimate: Exact estimation, relative estimation, and flow metrics. This week, I’d like to dive a bit deeper into the most popular estimation technique: relative estimation. . 5-point estimation.

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Faking Agile Metrics or Cooking the Agile Books

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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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Why do we need Estimation?

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If our estimates are wrong most of the time, why should we even attempt estimating in the first place? If this is the case, why bother estimating at all? If this is the case, why bother estimating at all? . Estimating can work but only if you understand why you are doing it. Let us understand why we estimate. .

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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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Agile Metrics — The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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TL; DR: Agile Metrics. Suitable agile metrics reflect either a team’s progress in becoming agile or your organization’s progress in becoming a learning organization. At the team level, qualitative agile metrics often work better than quantitative metrics. Also, consider contributing to the Agile Metrics Survey 2020.