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Facilitation Exercise for Scrum Team Accountabilities

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In this blog post, I'll share with you an exercise to help make transparent expectations of each Scrum Team member, by driving conversations about what team members already understand and where there are potential misunderstandings that need to be changed. The Scrum Guide no longer mentions Scrum Team roles.

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The Scrum Mythbusters Exercise

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The Scrum Mythbusters exercise helps you address the common myths and misunderstandings about Scrum and helps teams discover how Scrum is intended as a simple, yet sufficient framework for complex product delivery. . Scrum Mythbusters is one of the first exercises we start the Scrum.org Professional Scrum Master II class with.

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Adopting Agile is an Exercise in Change Management

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Based on the classroom exercises, you’re excited to try new concepts and apply the magic cure-all that will solve all waterfall-based project problems. The development team should know what needs to be done, so just call the customer when it’s ready. Adopting Agile is an Exercise in Change Management.

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Scrum Master Interview Questions (4): From Metrics to Kicking off Scrum to Scrum Anti-Patterns

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Another common cause for a Scrum Team to consistently fail in meeting their forecasts is that the team’s Product Backlog items are being poorly prepared, thus making the work items difficult for the team to estimate. Trends derived from these polls are great points for discussion during a team’s Sprint Retrospectives.

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Faking Agile Metrics or Cooking the Agile Books

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TL; DR: Faking Agile Metrics — An Eye-Opening Exercise. Imagine you’re a Scrum Master and the line manager of your team believes that the best sign for a successful agile transformation is a steady increase in the Scrum Team’s velocity. Moreover, if the team fails to deliver on that metric something is wrong with the Scrum Team.

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Development Team Anti-Patterns

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TL; DR: Development Team Anti-Patterns. After covering the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, this article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact. The Role of the Development Team in Scrum. Do you want to get this article in your inbox?

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Delphi Technique In Project Management (How to + Example)

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My development Team Lead – John. He might point out some risks in estimation and real-life benefits. Here you will need to exercise the ability to analyze the feedback. Moreover, you can assess the openness of stakeholders to the idea you research. First of all, I decided on whom should I ask. What’s next?