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Moving Beyond Velocity

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In my role as an Agile coach and Scrum trainer, I get the chance to talk to a lot of Scrum Masters and teams. When I ask them about what their team is measuring, the most common answers I hear are velocity, story points, and burn-down charts. What about business value metrics, I ask? Team health? And that's important!

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The Sprint Planning Checklist

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How dare you: Agile is a mindset, not a methodology. There is no one-size-fits-all approach, and what else could you possibly cover with a checklist, the mother of all standardized processes? Then sign up for the Food for Agile Thought newsletter and join 27k other subscribers. TL; DR: Scrum Sprint Planning Checklist.

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Product Owner Anti-Patterns — 33 Ways to Improve as a PO

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For example, run a Retrospective with teammates and stakeholders on how the team is doing regarding figuring out what is worth building. ???? You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 35,000-plus subscribers. ?? TL; DR: Scrum Master Anti-Patterns. Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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27 Product Backlog and Refinement Anti-Patterns

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Scrum is a tactical framework to build products, provided you identify what is worth making in advance. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 35,000-plus subscribers. ?? TL; DR: 27 Product Backlog and Refinement Anti-Patterns. The Product Backlog According to the Scrum Guide.

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Product Backlog Refinement: How to Succeed as a Scrum Team

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Consequently, refinement is about creating alignment among all team members about the Why, the What, the How, and probably even the Who regarding the upcoming work for the Scrum team’s Product Goal. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 35,000-plus subscribers. ?? Source : Scrum Guide 2020.

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28 Product Backlog Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

Scrum is a simple, yet sufficient framework to build emerging products, provided you identify in advance what is worth building. During Product Backlog refinement, items are reviewed and revised. The PO is the only person to decide what tasks become Product Backlog items. TL; DR: 28 Product Backlog Anti-Patterns.

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Webinar Recap: Want To Be A PMI-ACP? The Primary Steps to Take

MPUG

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. The MPUG activity code for claiming that with PMI is on the screen now. He frequently writes on Agile topics, bringing in innovative practices.

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