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How to Fail as an Agile Coach in Scrum

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Scrum defines three specific accountabilities within the Scrum Team: the Developers, the Product Owner, and the Scrum Master. Scrum Guide 2020. When it comes to the Scrum framework, these three roles with their accountabilities are the minimum required to deliver a potentially “done” Increment. Scrum Guide 2020.

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Product Management - Why a Product Owner needs to go beyond Scrum

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When I started to hear about agile and this role called Product Owner in Scrum, I was excited. To be effective the Product Owner also needs to explore the wider product management area and needs to go beyond Scrum. So, I became a project manager. I found projects were driven by plans focused on process compliance rather than value.

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Top 10 Challenges Faced by Scrum Masters and Ways to Overcome them

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. The portrayal of a Scrum Master on a Scrum Team is barely the same as the role of the traditional Project Manager. Scrum Masters have their own ways of not being an overlord in the traditional sense and are more focused on being the facilitator at the same level as others on their team. Difficulty in sustaining the Time-Box.

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How to help Scrum Teams embrace self-management

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Embracing self-management can be challenging for teams transitioning to Scrum. Scrum Masters play a critical role in helping their teams embrace greater autonomy. Getting everyone on the same page Every Scrum Team member needs to understand the framework and its benefits. They are also more successful. That includes leadership.

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Don't Use Scrum! (Too Many Darned Meetings) Try This Instead.

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. When we introduce Scrum to some companies, sometimes the question arises - "Why are there so many meetings in Scrum? I've been answering this question verbally for so many years, I thought it was time to write a blog. So here's my answer - don't use Scrum! Scrum might not be for you. Scrum might not be for you.

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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

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Plus, we’ll get into scrumban, a combination of kanban with scrum. Scrum teams use pin boards with user story cards and during a sprint (short iteration working on tasks) each user story (tasks) is written on a card. These cards are the sprint backlog and are placed on a board for the scrum team to choose which user story to work on.

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10 Success Factors To Resolve Zombie Scrum

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In December 2020, Johannes Schartau , Christiaan Verwijs , and I published the Zombie Scrum Survival Guide. We wrote it to help readers understand why Scrum so often descends into Zombie Scrum and to offer practical and down-to-earth help. Zombie Scrum isn’t something you fix with one simple experiment. What happened?

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