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Facilitation Tips for the Sprint Review

Scrum.org

How often have you thought: "This Sprint Review is useless and boring!" or "We are just reviewing. internally what we already have seen before as a Scrum Team. How can you avoid poor Sprint Reviews? Interestingly, the fundamental objective and outcome from the Sprint Review are often omitted or. Let's skip.

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What does it take to launch agile software? Q&A with Jordan Husney, CEO and Founder of Parabol

Rebel’s Guide to PM

For much of the early 2000’s, large companies would shudder at the thought of operating a team in an agile way. The value derived from holding a retrospective is proportional to the talent of the facilitator, and the intimacy of the team. If the facilitation is poor: it’s going to be a bad meeting.

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What is servant leadership? How to empower your Agile team

Planio

People don’t leave bad jobs - they leave bad managers. So, it only makes sense that to keep your team together and happy (and avoid project failure ), you need to level up your leadership game. Servant leadership is a leadership philosophy that focuses on empowering and supporting team members. Be a team protector.

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5 Reasons Engineers Need to Develop Project Management Skills

LiquidPlanner

Here’s a lesson I’m thankful I learned early in my career: successful engineering projects rely more on non-technical skills than technical skills. It’s not that the technical skills aren’t important – they are. cited that $122 million was wasted for every $1 billion invested due to poor project performance.

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Develop your project leadership skills in the new year

Susanne Madsen

What better time to consider how you can continue to develop as a project leader and sharpen your saw. Review the past year A good place to start is to look back at what happened last year. Reviewing your achievements reminds you of how far you have come and what you have learnt. ​A new year is upon us.

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8 Steps to Build and Manage a Remote Engineering Team

Planio

As Phil Freo , head of product and engineering at the fully remote startup, Close.io, told us: “When recruiting, it was hard to stand out in Silicon Valley among all the other tech startups hiring. But like anything that seems too good to be true, hiring a remote engineering team is filled with potential issues and downsides.

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How delivering the live virtual Professional Scrum Master II class surprised us

Scrum.org

On Thursday, June 4th we tested the audio, video, and made the first introductions during the ‘technical startup’. Together with 15 participants, we met every afternoon for four hours to dive deep into the services that Scrum Masters provide to the Development Team, their Product Owner, and the organization. Closing words.

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