Scrum.org

MAY 19, 2020

This post is an excerpt from the book we’re writing, the ‘ Zombie Scrum Survival Guide ’. The thumbnail description of Zombie Scrum is that it looks like Scrum, but without a beating heart. The same goes for Zombie Scrum. With the Scrum Guide as a checklist, you’d say that the team is doing ‘Scrum by the book’.

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SCRUM Software Review Development Team Review Closing 238

Scrum.org

AUGUST 17, 2020

TL; DR: Scrum Master Interview Questions (1). Scrum has proven time and again to be the most popular framework for software development. Given that software is eating the world , a seasoned Scrum Master is nowadays in high demand. Scrum is not a methodology, but a framework.

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SCRUM Technical Review Software Review Agile 230

ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Scrum Methodology. What It Is: Scrum is a short “sprint” approach to managing projects. The scrum methodology is It’s ideal for teams of no more than 10 people, and often is wedded to two-week cycles with short daily meetings, known as daily scrum meetings. It’s led by what is called a Scrum master.

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Technical Review Prince2 Manufacturing Lean 483

Scrum.org

APRIL 1, 2022

Long has spoonfeeding solutions and off-the-shelf feature descriptions prevailed in many development teams. Although some issues might have been fixed, I rarely see the full potential of a Scrum Team being achieved. Going all-in on predefined features fails to capitalize on hidden ideas in the brains of team members.

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Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Innovation Leadership 208

Scrum.org

JANUARY 27, 2020

Many teams and organizations struggle to get the most out of Scrum. In my previous post “Don’t blame “agile” for existing problems” I shared my analysis why agile or Scrum itself often gets the blame. In this first post out of three I will focus on what the most common mistakes are with Scrum that lead to dysfunctional Scrum.

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SCRUM Development Team Review Closing Executing 195

Scrum.org

JULY 25, 2022

Read the English version of the 2020 Scrum Guide and EBM Guide carefully several times. . Read the Scrum Glossary carefully . Go through the following open assessments several times until you pass them with 100% in less than 10 minutes. Please note that the book is based on the Scrum Guide 2017.

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Certification Development Team Review 2017 2020 167

Scrum.org

DECEMBER 19, 2019

They create Spreadsheets with questions/measures to assess how well these teams, groups and branches are complying with the standard way of working. They send out Agile Coaches to assess, train and coach the teams, groups, and branches to work according to the standard process. Scrum Patterns.

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SCRUM Development Team Review 2017 2019 122

Digite

MAY 15, 2018

This article is the fourth in a series of “Kanban and Scrum – Stronger Together”. In the most recent post in Steve Porter’s series, Yuval Yuret presents Scrum in a manner that is intended to educate Kanban teams. Disclaimer. First off, I have to say that I’m not 100% certain how I feel about Yuval’s blog post.

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Development Team Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM 93

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 17, 2022

As project managers, it’s important that we know how to best support our development teams (and vice versa), especially in Agile environments. A lot of the points below relate to teams in Agile environments , but can apply to any type of project team. Elisa Cepale. Secret #4: Facilitate prioritization.

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Technical Review Development Team Review Risk Management Agile 394

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Today, the 18th of November 2020 Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland released an update to the Scrum Guide. One team focused on one product. One main thing to also remember, Scrum is still Scrum and although these changes were made, the cores of Empiricism, Inspection, and Adaptation remain at its heart. Less prescriptive.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

On November 18, 2020, Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland released an updated version of the Scrum Guide. In this blog post, I will share what you need to know about the 2020 Scrum Guide. I will start with the most important things you need to know, and then I’ll get into a little more nuance for the Scrum nerds.

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2020 SCRUM Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 202

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Long has spoon-feeding solutions and off-the-shelf feature descriptions prevailed in many development teams. Although some issues might have been fixed, I rarely see the full potential of a Scrum Team being achieved. Going all-in on predefined features fails to capitalize on hidden ideas in the brains of team members.

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Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Innovation Leadership 160

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

What is a Scrum Master? What are the differences between a Scrum Master and Project Manager? Isn’t a Scrum Master some kind of an Agile Project Manager? There is almost no overlap between the role of Scrum Master and the position of Project Manager. What is a Scrum Master? What a Scrum Master does.

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SCRUM Prince2 Risk Management Development Team Review 203

Scrum.org

MAY 20, 2020

. As a Scrum practitioner you may have read the famous paper The New New Product Development Game published by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka in Jan’ 1986 issue of HBR. The paper was inspired by the game of Rugby, the way ball passed within the team as it moves as a unit up the field.

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SCRUM Development Team Review Energy Defining 174

Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 15, 2024

Exploring Agile methodologies provides teams with flexible, efficient, and collaborative approaches to software development and project management. Beyond Scrum , several Agile frameworks were developed to address the unique needs and challenges of projects and teams.

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Software Review Technical Review Agile SCRUM 52

International Institute for Learning

JANUARY 25, 2023

By Roman Pichler The Need for Guidance and the Lack of Transactional Power Product success is not something you can achieve on your own as a product manager or Scrum product owner. For example, the marketer has to create the marketing strategy, and the development teams have to design and build the product.

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Development Team Review Leadership Influencer SCRUM 52

Kiron Bondale

JULY 25, 2021

But what about changes to the team’s way of working (WoW)? Whether a team uses a scheduled cadence for reviewing their WoW such as the use of retrospectives in Scrum, or they use a just-in-time approach they will come up with improvement ideas. Some of those ideas will be all or nothing.

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Software Review Cadence Development Team Review Risk Management 207

Scrum.org

JUNE 11, 2021

The Product Owner is a critical role in Agile and Scrum. And although the Scrum Guide doesn’t give much guidelines around great product ownership, the role is still absolutely necessary for great Agile and Scrum Teams. A Product Owner guides the efforts of their Scrum or Agile Teams. Scrum Reading List.

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Lean SCRUM Certification Development Team Review 218

Scrum.org

AUGUST 15, 2022

Join Stefan in one of his upcoming Professional Scrum training classes ! ?? ?? ???? Advanced Professional Scrum Master Online Training w/ PSM II Certificate — September 6-9, 2022. ?? ?? What [shall we] do when a product requires many development teams? What would be the 3 or 4 first steps in a 5000 ppl organization?

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Agile Planning Software Review 2022 173

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Scrum is easy to understand, yet difficult to master. The Scrum Guide says so and it's true. If you have worked with Scrum in your organization you probably recognize it also. It's not difficult to start with Scrum. The good thing about Scrum is that the framework is lightweight and therefor it's not difficult to start.

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SCRUM Development Team Review Lean Risk Management 131

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 12, 2020

As per Scrum Guide – The Sprint Goal is an objective that will be met within the sprint by implementing the Product Backlog , and it guides the Development Team on why it is building the Increment. The scrum team discusses what can be done based on the definition of done and crafts the Sprint Goal and forecast their work.

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Planning Technical Review Development Team Review Software Review 251

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 12, 2020

I facilitate daily standup meetings for our support team. When I started working for White October we followed the conventional “scrum” format, where the team get together, share what’s new, what’s challenging and what’s happening, and everyone gives feedback and makes suggestions to unblock each other.

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SCRUM Agile Energy Development Team Review 352

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

During the last year and a half, I was working as a Scrum Master with a team that was working on a product with a history of about ten years. When I started working with the team, they finalized a platform migration and were still struggling with a lot of remaining work. The Scrum with Kanban Beta class.

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SCRUM Development Team Review Estimate Defining 112

Scrum.org

AUGUST 13, 2019

The first part contains my personal journey in becoming a Scrum Master, the second part includes recommendations for new Scrum Masters. Part 1 — Becoming a Scrum Master. Nine years ago I changed my title from Project Manager into Scrum Master. Do you have any recommendations for my Scrum Master journey?”.

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SCRUM Certification Telecoms Agile 114

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 18, 2019

As project managers, it’s important that we know how to best support our development teams (and vice versa), especially in Agile environments. Approaches you might consider in an Agile environment are Scrum, Kanban or Scrumban , but there are others. This is a guest post from Elisa Cepale. Elisa Cepale.

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Technical Review Development Team Review Risk Management Agile 394

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

During the last one and a half year, I was working as a Scrum Master with a team that is working on a product with a history of about ten years. When I started working with the team, they finalized a platform migration and where still struggling with a lot of remaining work. The Scrum with Kanban Beta class.

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SCRUM Development Team Review Estimate Defining 104

Scrum.org

JANUARY 15, 2020

This post is an excerpt from the book that we’re writing, the ‘ Zombie Scrum Survival Guide ’. The Scrum Framework urges teams to involve stakeholders. But many Scrum Teams struggle to do so. We also introduce the other 5 symptoms, which will be explained in more detail in the book.

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Development Team Review SCRUM 2020 Risk Management 141

Scrum.org

JULY 1, 2019

In many organisations I see Scrum not producing its anticipated value. But there also is a universal anticipated value of Scrum. The Scrum Guide says about Scrum's purpose: “A framework within which people can address complex adaptive problems, while productively and creatively delivering products of the highest possible value.”.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Over my 15 years of experience with Scrum, I’ve observed velocity-driven and capacity-driven sprint planning as our ways of working when we figure out the amount of work the development team can take during a sprint. Having defined throughput, let’s imagine a Scrum team running on 2-week sprints.

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Planning Development Team Review SCRUM Closing 157

ProjectManager.com

MARCH 4, 2022

The scrum methodology was developed as a response to rigid project management approaches such as the waterfall method, which didn’t adapt to the needs of agile product and software development teams. We’ll explore the scrum methodology in-depth, but before that, let’s start with a simple scrum definition.

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Scrum.org

JULY 21, 2020

What has always struck me in this discussion is the fact that Scrum is a tool useful to accomplish one primary task: delivering value to customers of emergent products in complex environments while mitigating an organization’s exposure to risk at the same time. Seriously, how hard can Scrum be if the manual comprises of 18 pages, right?).

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Software Review Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Engineering 181

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. How much time should they spend with their team or with stakeholders? From our own quantitative research with 1.200 Scrum Teams , we know that teams are more effective when they are more aware of the needs of their stakeholders.

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2014 2008 Technical Review 2019 206

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

TL; DR: Scrum Anti-Patterns GPT Can a Custom Scrum Anti-Patterns GPT align teams with Scrum principles? Dive into how leveraging custom GPTs might offer a novel path through Scrum’s common hurdles, focusing on creating actual customer value in the face of organizational and team-level challenges. ?

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SCRUM ChatGPT Technical Review Development Team Review 175

Scrum.org

JULY 29, 2019

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? What about business value metrics, I ask?

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review Software Review 141

Agilemania

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

To get such negative reviews after putting so much effort into writing an entire article. The picture below describes the fast feedback approach you can use while writing the article: 0 Just like the above example, the agile team also uses this fast feedback loop in Scrum to ensure the product development process is heading the right way.

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Agile Technical Review Development Team Review SCRUM 59

LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

These teams struggle with Agile practices as business analysts author reams of business requirements only to have a development team write the user stories. Business representatives assume the product owner role but only check in with their team at the sprint review. The development team is distributed.

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Agile Software Review Development Team Review Certification 144

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 8, 2018

In Scrum, Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of product being developed by Development Team. Communicative and Collaborative - As a Product Owner, the person will need to communicate with diverse set of stakeholders including Development Teams.

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Development Team Review SCRUM Budget Leadership 123