Sat.Dec 10, 2022

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No, trust should not be a Scrum value and here’s why

Scrum.org

Trust among Scrum Team members is essential to enabling agility. Virtually everyone agrees with this statement. We intuitively know that if we don’t trust one another, we won’t be able to work collaboratively and productively. Trust is so important that some propose it should be one of the Scrum values. Let’s unpack what defines trust and how, although it does not sit among them, the Scrum values help build trust among team members.

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Review Agile

Henny Portman

Agile by Rini van Solingen and Maarten Kossen was originally published in Dutch. This first English version could be seen as a third edition (see below for the differences between this and the second Dutch edition). The book starts with a warning that agile is more than a mindset, it is a philosophy, followed by 22 chapters, in which the authors show that it is easy to understand, but very difficult to apply at first.

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Actively do nothing: Five powerful questioning techniques to remain curious

Scrum.org

(this blogpost is available in german, too). Does the following situation ring a bell? You as an Agile Leader, a Product Owner, a Scrum Master or Developer enter a room and observe a situation. A single look, a single sentence, a small wink makes you think you perfectly know what is going on. But: is this really true? Is this really the way to handle the situation?

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