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Useless Agile Metrics

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TL; DR: Useless Agile Metrics Ideally, a metric is a leading indicator for a pattern change, allowing your Scrum team to analyze the cause in time and take countermeasures. What if these useless agile metrics lead you in the wrong direction while providing you with the illusion that you know where your team is heading?

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“Agile Is Just for Software” and other Scrum Myths

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Scrum is the most popular Agile framework. According to the latest State of Agile survey from Digital.ai, 90% of teams who are using an Agile framework are using Scrum. SAFe is a separate framework designed for scaling Agile practices to larger organizations. It is deliberately incomplete.

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13 Reasons to Choose Agile Project Management Methods

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Are you thinking about introducing agile processes to your project management methodology? You’ve a few case studies, you’ve perhaps even seen agile working effectively at other companies. Additionally, it may not be enough for you to know that agile methods are a logical addition to your toolset at work. So why choose agile?

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In-Depth: The Evidence-Based Business Case For Agile

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What is the business case for Agile teams? We think we do well to base our beliefs about Agile more on evidence. This post is our attempt to bring an evidence-based perspective to the business case of Agile teams. Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams.

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The Scrum Master Salary Report 2024

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The Scrum Master Salary Report 2024 is the fifth edition of the industry survey after 2017, 2019, 2022, and 2023. By the way, the average salary of the participants in the survey is $87,800, with a standard deviation of about $46,400. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 42,000-plus subscribers. ?

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Blog Series: From Scrum Master to Agile Leader - Part 1 - Exploring the Gaps in Scrum Mastery

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This stifles the advantage that Scrum and Agile can bring to teams and organizations. . Professional Scrum revolves around the accountabilities, events, and artifacts of Scrum, and recognizes that its foundation is built on values and principles of people who work together to optimize value, build discipline, and influence culture.

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How Do I Measure Success as a Scrum Master?

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We have a survey item that specifically speaks to this question: how do I measure success as a Scrum Master? After all, this is the entire point of Scrum, and it’s what enables those business agility benefits. Are we bringing an Agile Mindset and embodying an empirical approach? Does our team have high morale?

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