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Stop normalizing unprofessional behaviour in the name of agility

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In Scrum Events across the world, I hear repeated the phrase “that’s how agile works” when describing behaviours that are both unprofessional and the very opposite of an agile mindset. These behaviours will inhibit agility and are a result of a lack of understanding of the underlying principles.

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Getting Hired as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach

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TL; DR: Getting Hired as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach Are you considering a new Scrum Master or Agile Coach job? Read on and learn how to employ search engines, LinkedIn’s people search, reach out to peers in the agile community, and analyze the event markets in the quest for your next Scrum Master job.

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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

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Kanban & Project Management Kanban project management works in an agile framework. Kanban & Agile Software Development Kanban proved a good fit for the burgeoning software development field, especially those projects that worked in an agile environment that was responsive to change.

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Current State and Future Prospects of Scrum and Agile Development in Japan

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Since I became a Professional Scrum Trainer in November, I have been asked a lot about the current state, and the future perspectives, for Scrum and agile development in Japan, where I’ve worked for the last six years. The local communities and events also grow in size every year. This is important because agile teams are self-managed.

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Top Project Management Conferences of 2022

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What to Expect: This three-day event focuses on the importance of planning, scheduling and how to manage scope. As with most of the in-person events being held this year, the Resource Planning Summit is monitoring the evolving public health recommendations to keep participants safe. Agile & Beyond. Agile is not new.

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Guide to Building a Career as a Scrum Master

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In fact, in my first job, at Hewlett Packard, I was a Software Engineer. You have to locate a team that is new to the Agile framework and try out few things such as: . Practising various Facilitation techniques to facilitate different Scrum events. I had started my professional career as a Software Engineer.

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18 Signs of a Systemic Toxic Team Culture

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Learn more about typical anti-patterns and signs that an organization is causing a toxic team culture, impeding its efforts to become agile. ?? Join the 25th Hands-on Agile meetup on August 20, 2020, to explore the virtual Ecocycle Planning. Then sign up for the Food for Agile Thought newsletter and join 26k other subscribers.