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Facilitation Exercise for Scrum Team Accountabilities

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For example, I've seen Project Managers transition to Scrum Masters yet hold on to budgeting and forecasting, assign work to Developers, and provide status reporting to stakeholders. Several years ago an Agile coach ran this exercise for my Scrum Team, and since then I've used it with many teams.

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Inspiring Product Development with Sprint Review Canvas

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A Sprint Review is perhaps one of the most difficult elements in the product development with Scrum. Therefore, during the first three years in this role, all my sprint reviews were limited to showing the results to the Product Owner. Since then, the Sprint Review became something special to me. . Team Voice.

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Remote Agile (Part 7): Sprint Review with Distributed Teams

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TL; DR: A Remote Sprint Review with a Distributed Team. This seventh article now looks into organizing a remote Sprint Review with a distributed team: How to practice the review with virtual Liberating Structures, including and giving a voice to team members, stakeholders, and customers.

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15 Sprint Review Anti-Patterns

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TL; DR: 15 Sprint Review Anti-Patterns. Answering this question in a collaborative effort of the Scrum Team as well as internal (and external) stakeholders is the purpose of the Sprint Review. Given its importance, it is worthwhile to tackle the most common Sprint Review anti-patterns. Are we still on the right track?

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Agile Management Anti-Patterns — An Introduction for Aspiring Servant Leaders

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Using the budgeting process as a Stage-Gate® to exercise control through the back door : The budgeting process is hard to align with agile requirements like the longevity of teams. General Agile Software Development Anti-Patterns. Actively participating in Daily Scrums is reserved for Development Team members. (It

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21 Sprint Retrospective Anti-Patterns

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No matter the frequency of your retrospectives you should always watch out for the following Sprint Retrospective anti-patterns from the Scrum Team, the Development Team, the Scrum Master, as well as the organization: Sprint Retrospective Anti-Patterns of the Scrum Team. Sprint Retrospective Anti-Patterns.

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Scrum Master Interview Questions (1): Scrum Master Role

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A Scrum Team’s communication with stakeholders should not be run through a gatekeeper (e.g. solely through the Product Owner) because this hurts transparency and negatively affects the team’s performance. There is greater respect among stakeholders for the product delivery teams. Question 03: Impediment Remover.

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