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What does the Scrum Master do all day?

Scrum.org

We need you right now for facilitating a Sprint Planning for team Cheetah. The team is waiting there excited to start their first Sprint Planning as a new team. Sprint Planning continues …. After finishing the Sprint Planning for team Cheetah, Timmy the Product Owner for team Jaguar just ran to me. Time flew so fast. .

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Cargo Cult Agile — A Checklist to Open the Discussion

Scrum.org

November 19, 2020 : If you use Scrum then join the free Hands-on Agile meetup—it will be worth your time ! Agile frameworks, like Scrum or Kanban, have been on the rise across organizations for many, many years now. 2020 marks the 25th anniversary of the introduction of Scrum.) Feynman! “, page 340.

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Creating the Conditions for High-Performance Development Teams

Leading Agile

In Agile, you only get the full benefits of Scrum and SAFe when certain conditions are met in the organization. Today, Mike Cottmeyer brings in our CTO and one of the main architects of our Studios offering to discuss the conditions that must be present for solid technical practices and software craftsmanship to thrive.

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Scrum for Newbies: How to Use Scrum to Tame Chaos

Wrike

There was precious little time to create the inbound marketing content we were hired for. More specifically, we chose to get our work done using a Scrum framework. How Scrum Helps With the Chaos. We’ve written about Scrum before. Scrum helped us manage that project and maintain my sanity as well.

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How to identify stakeholders? (+Identification Cheatsheet)

PM Basics

Identifying stakeholders allows you to create a stakeholder management plan with ‘targets’ to focus on. You can now think about ways to negate the potential threat they bring, perhaps by contracting the lunch preparation work to them instead. In that case, you must ensure your project is planned and conducted as such.

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Dealing With “Remote Sprawl”: How to Manage Teams, People, and Projects Across Time Zones

Planio

Just like urban sprawl–the poorly planned expansion of cities–creates congestion, places unrealistic demands on infrastructure, and causes environmental damage, many remote companies grow and grow without understanding the dangers of not having a clear plan for working together. We like to call these issues remote sprawl.

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Agile Unplugged: EP01 | Mike Cottmeyer and Brian Sondergaard

Leading Agile

– So, I think one of the interesting takeaways during that time is that you’ll, again, I wish we almost had like a whiteboard. I just don’t see as much of their work as I do the guys that are doing Scrum and LeSS and SAFe and things like that. You just went from director to CTO? You’re CTO, CIO.

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