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Scrum Team Failure — Scrum Anti-Patterns Taxonomy (3)

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TL; DR: Scrum Team Failure This post on Scrum team failure addresses three categories from the Scrum anti-patterns taxonomy that are closely aligned: Planning and process breakdown, conflict avoidance and miscommunication, and inattention to quality and commitment, often resulting in a Scrum team performing significantly below its potential.

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Help Select the Book Cover of the new ‘Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide’ by Pearson

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For months, I have been working on turning the popular Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide PDF into a new book from Scrum-org’s Professional Scrum Series , published by Pearson. Please join the poll on the book cover of Pearson’s Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide here. The Origins of Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide. TL; DR: Red or Blue?

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Escaping the Feature Factory

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In many large organizations, Scrum teams fall into the ‘feature factory’ trap, focusing more on churning out features than creating real value. Preorder the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now for delivery in January 2024! Preorder the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now for delivery in January 2024! ?️

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Agile Project Management: Principles, Meetings, Values & Tools

ProjectManager.com

Frustrated developers started to introduce new methods, such as Scrum, rapid application development, extreme programming, DSMD, features-driven development and pragmatic programming. Working software over comprehensive documentation. Agile processes promote sustainable development. But things change when executing a project.

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Scrum Master vs Project Manager — An overview of the differences.

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What is a Scrum Master? What are the differences between a Scrum Master and Project Manager? Isn’t a Scrum Master some kind of an Agile Project Manager? There is almost no overlap between the role of Scrum Master and the position of Project Manager. What is a Scrum Master? What a Scrum Master does.

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The 12 Agile Principles: Definitions & How to Use Them

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The agile principles and core values are documented in the agile manifesto , a brief document that defines agile. Agile principles also apply to other project management methodologies derived from agile such as kanban or scrum. Working software over comprehensive documentation. The four agile values are as follows.

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How I ended up becoming a (Professional) Scrum trainer

Gunther Verheyen

In October 2003 my life of Scrum started, albeit not with Scrum. My life of Scrum actually started with eXtreme Programming which we then wrapped in Scrum. Fast forward >> In December 2010 I traveled to Zurich (Switzerland) to attend a PSM class (“Professional Scrum Master”) by Ken Schwaber.

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