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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Teamweek

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Keep reading to discover the definition and responsibilities of a Product Owner and 30 product owner interview questions that will help you accurately assess candidates’ technical skills and personality traits. A Product Owner is a person who’s part of the scrum team. What does a Product Owner do?

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 29, 2024

( Japanese version・日本語版 ) When picturing an effective and truly agile product development team, one often imagines a software development team, pushing some software to production every day, maybe multiple times a day, ala Amazon. The problem with this way of thinking is that risk builds up over time.

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Scrum.org

JULY 10, 2018

Often I hear people say that Scrum does not take care of risk: there is no risk log, risk is not on the agenda of the Sprint Review or Retrospective as a standard agenda-item. The Development Teams need to be accountable for the quality of the product and how it's made. That's a risk right there!

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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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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It’s a visual tool that makes it easy for project managers and their teams to see how much work has been done and how much work is left. It’s used for tracking work in a project schedule or during a sprint in a scrum. Scrum teams working in an agile environment use a burn up chart to help them measure progress.

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Planio

MAY 8, 2023

On average, IT projects come with more complexity and risk, and can quickly fall to pieces without proper due diligence, management, and leadership. Similar situation: IT project managers manage specific types of costs, including development hours, software licenses, and hardware items. And that’s no simple job.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Product features and stakeholder requirements constantly change, and your initial product development plan might look very different as the project evolves. Agile release planning, also known as scrum release planning, is an alternative to the traditional waterfall approach. How do you create a scrum release plan?

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 4, 2024

One of the secrets to unlocking your team's full potential lies in embracing the core values of the Scrum Framework. Imagine leading a team that thrives on commitment, radiates courage, maintains focus, values openness, and respects each other profoundly. What is the Scrum Framework?

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 9, 2018

By now, most organisations are using Scrum, however, many of them feel like the agility of their organisation has degraded, and they might be right! Inclusive Scrum is about looking at the full value chain and organizing your Product development effort around that. Whereas low agility Scrum might actually hurt your agility.

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The IIL Blog

MAY 9, 2018

The Nuts and Bolts of Agile and Scrum. Agile and Scrum: What’s the difference? It seems like almost every company, regardless of their industry, is practicing Agile and Scrum in some way and at some level of proficiency. If you’re new to Agile and Scrum, you may be scratching your head wondering first, what are they?

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Scrum.org

JUNE 23, 2020

Conversation : Developers, exploring the card, communicate with the Product Owner, in order to gain knowledge about the business domain and to be able to offer valuable ideas for implementation. Many important aspects bypassed the developer’s attention turns into re-work of existing features. How to Fill a User Story Canvas.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 21, 2024

Here are four prominent examples which you may also consider as agile methodologies and frameworks: Scrum Scrum is one of the most widely used agile frameworks. It divides projects into sprints, typically two to four weeks, where teams focus on delivering specific, prioritized work.

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Wrike

APRIL 12, 2023

When it comes to managing projects, Scrum and Project Management are the two most commonly utilized approaches. In this article, we will explore the differences between a Scrum Master and a Project Manager and provide insights into their roles, responsibilities, and skill sets.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 1, 2022

Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. You can observe implicit coordination in Scrum teams when you look at how work moves across a Scrum board, or on- and of the Sprint Backlog. This is also why the Scrum framework includes the Definition of Done.

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Proofhub

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Since the digital landscape is always evolving, you need to periodically review and refine your site’s design, ensuring it remains fresh, user-friendly, and in line with current trends. This is where the power of regular project reviews and updates truly shines. Instead of viewing risks purely as threats, turn them on their head.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 28, 2019

have been doing Scrum trainings for a long time. During the last years, I have stressed even more the importance of understanding the nature and purpose of the Scrum Framework just at the begginning of the classes. This is, by no means, accepting distorted or flaccid applications of Scrum.

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MPUG

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Before we start, it’s important to note that you don’t have the current project manager do this (he/she may be too close to the effort and won’t be objective anyway). It is a best practice to have a 3 rd party person do this assessment. Step 2 – Determine how the development methodology was completed. Have they been resolved?

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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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Scrum.org

AUGUST 19, 2018

In the previous article, we have discussed how Scrum Masters need to master many things. In this article we are going to discuss one of the stances that the Scrum Master need to master, that is the facilitation stance. So we can also say that the Scrum Master is partly responsible for poor decision generated by the group of people.

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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. In case you’re wondering what is meant by ‘stakeholders’ as used within Scrum, check the article “ Actual stakeholders?

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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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LiquidPlanner

DECEMBER 10, 2019

With the popularity of Agile, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), and Scrum, organizations are asked to justify the project manager’s role on a project. Scrum purists reject the idea of adding a project manager to the team as the team should be able to solve all the problems with the help of the product owner and scrum master.

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International Institute for Learning

MARCH 29, 2023

By Cyndi Snyder Dionisio You can have an awesome schedule and a great risk management plan, but those won’t get the project done. Determining your team members may be easier than figuring out whether you need a project sponsor, a product owner, or both. The product owner is usually in close proximity to the team.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 18, 2020

On November 22nd, 2019, I gave the closing keynote at Scrum Deutschland, a talk called ‘The Four Things You Do To Prevent Value Delivery.’ Work (or sometimes even a transformation) is ongoing, and the organization wants a second opinion on risk or improvement factors. . Background. It’s worth a read. And there we had it.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Settle in, make yourself a brew and enjoy learning from people who actually live scrum day in day out. . This second post in the ‘Agile ADHD’ series from me, Sally Waters, and my husband Francis, is all about the details of how we implement Scrum at home. Nothing helped with this until we tried Scrum. Very inspirational. .

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International Institute for Learning

APRIL 19, 2023

They build on lean-agile thinking, and standard Scrum, Kanban, and DevOps practices. They offer practitioners tools to extend and mature their agility beyond the team to programs and the broader enterprise. Disciplined Agile is methodology agnostic and supports Scrum, Kanban, Program, and continuous delivery lifecycles.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

TL; DR: ChatGPT Product Owner Job Interview A few weeks ago, I ran a simulated job interview with ChatGPT for a fictitious Scrum Master position. Admittedly, I would not have invited this “interviewee” for an interview with other team members; however, the interview produced some remarkable answers.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

What are the limitations and risks of metaphor? In fact, the more closely we look at the world, the less it resembles a stage. The same metaphor that helps us gain an initial grasp of a new subject can lead us far astray from a deep understanding of that subject, if we cling too closely to the metaphor. What is a metaphor not ?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 2, 2020

TL; DR: Scrum Stakeholder Anti-Patterns. Learn how individual incentives and outdated organizational structures — fostering personal agendas and local optimization efforts — manifest themselves in Scrum stakeholder anti-patterns which easily can impede any agile transition. Common Scrum Stakeholder Anti-Patterns. The Sprint.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In reality, Agile and DevOps are closely intertwined, each complementing the other to achieve optimal results. Customer collaboration: Unlike the waterfall approach, where requirements are defined upfront and rarely revisited, Agile encourages regular interactions with customers throughout the development process.

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Binfire

AUGUST 27, 2017

Today the majority of projects in IT industry use variants of the Agile method like Scrum, Kanban or Extreme programming to manage projects. More and more, the Agile project management method is associated with scrum, since scrum has become the de facto standard for the Agile method. This is very close to my heart.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 12, 2020

TL; DR: 70 Scrum Master Theses. The following 70 Scrum Master theses describe the role of from a holistic product creation perspective. The theses cover the role of the Scrum Master from product discovery to product delivery in hands-on practical manner. The Role of the Scrum Master. It is not a mere management role.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 15, 2023

EARLY RETURN ON INVESTMENT (Video Timestamp: 6:37) So the second piece that I wrote about kind of closely related to the first piece was this idea of early return on investment. So the ideas of faster time to market and early return on investment are really closely related in this conversation.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

This promotes cross-functional collaboration and minimizes the risk of bottlenecks or misunderstandings that can hinder the progress of new product development initiatives. Mitigate risks and make informed decisions throughout the product development lifecycle. There’s no better time to start than now.

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Binfire

APRIL 7, 2017

Today the majority of projects in IT industry use variants of Agile method like Scrum, Kanban or Extreme programming to manage projects. How much planning do you need before start of a development? No planning on the other hand could also cause gave risks to the project and even may cause the project to fail.

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