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Scrum Master Skills We Rarely Talk About: Change Management

Scrum.org

During one of the recent training sessions, a participant posed an intriguing question: "What are some lesser-discussed skills that a Scrum Master should possess?" In these posts, I aim to share my insights and experiences regarding skills that are often overlooked in discussions but hold significance in becoming an effective Scrum Master.

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How you can define your product group

Scrum.org

We prefer to define a product as broad as practical because that gives adaptability and speed. Therefore, we first define the whole product with all its parts, and then we redesign to improve their interactions. How To Define the Product. You can define your product using the following two steps: Step 1.

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What Your People Need to Succeed in Change Management

Leading Agile

The core of change management is helping an organization prepare, support, and apply changes to an organization. In execution during an Agile Transformation, it looks different depending on how the organization is going about this change. How Change Management is Typically Implemented. Culture First.

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Comparing Agile Methods: Scrum, Kanban and Scrumban

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Today I’m partnering with Eylean to give you an overview of three agile methodologies: Scrum, Kanban and Scrumban. Scrum, Kanban and a method that blends the two (turning Scrum Kanban into Scrumban) are all quite different. Scrum is a way of managing the work within defined timescales called sprints.

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Where to Start with Scrum? Is Value Stream Mapping Your Answer?

Scrum.org

Whether teams are new to Scrum or refining their methods, this remains a challenge. The answer lies in the transformative potential of Value Stream Mapping within Scrum. Instead, Scrum makes these challenges transparent, allowing teams to recognize and address them. Welcome to the first post.

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100+ Project Management Terms: PM Terminology Explained

ProjectManager.com

Check back often, as this list of project management terminology is ever-evolving, just like project management itself! Find a term you want defined that isn’t on this project management glossary? Business Plan A formal document that clearly defines the business goals of a project and how to attain them.

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Scrum Tools and Practices to Enhance an Incomplete Framework, Part 1

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Scrum Tools, Part 1. The Scrum framework is purposefully incomplete, […].” ( Source.) This half-sentence is probably one of the more often misinterpreted statements of the Scrum Guide. On the one side, it defines the necessity to enhance Scrum with other practices and tools.

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