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Faking Agile Metrics or Cooking the Agile Books

Scrum.org

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. Moreover, if the team fails to deliver on that metric something is wrong with the Scrum Team. Cooking the Agile Books — A Simple Exercise.

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

Scrum.org

Your Scrum team is consistently failing to meet commitments, and its velocity is volatile. How would you address this issue with the team? If a Scrum Team is exhibiting a volatile velocity, consistently failing to meet their forecasts, it suggests that velocity is being used as the prevalent metric for measuring that team’s progress.

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How to Increase Project Productivity: 9 Actionable Ways

Teamweek

Project productivity measures how efficiently and effectively teams complete tasks and reach goals. Project productivity is a metric that shows how successfully teams work and achieve project goals. Measuring project productivity by looking at how effective and efficient teams are is important.

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Moving Beyond Velocity

Scrum.org

In my role as an Agile coach and Scrum trainer, I get the chance to talk to a lot of Scrum Masters and teams. When I ask them about what their team is measuring, the most common answers I hear are velocity, story points, and burn-down charts. Team health? I often failed to help developers understand its true purpose.

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4 Fallacious Reasons to Estimate and Why Those Are Fallacious

Herding Cats

There's a recent post titled Four Fallacious Reasons to Estimate. It lists the usual suspects for why those spending the money think they don't have to estimate how much they plan to spend when they'll be done producing the value they've been assigned to produce for that expenditure. Let's look at each one in more detail.

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A ChatGPT Job Interview for a Scrum Master Position

Scrum.org

I believe I would be a good fit for the role because I have a strong understanding of Scrum and the Agile framework, and I am able to communicate and facilitate effectively with team members and stakeholders. Follow-up question : Why is it beneficial that the team adheres to the values and practices of Scrum?

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Metaphorically Speaking

Leading Agile

In discussing the delivery capacity of a software development team, we can say “velocity” and everyone knows we mean the amount of work the team can complete, on average, in a given time interval , and we don’t mean, literally, va=v+v02. Estimated hours completed? It’s only a metaphor.