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Scrum Master – why your Scrum doesn’t work (3/3)

Scrum.org

Many teams and organizations struggle to get the most out of Scrum. In a previous post “Don’t blame “agile” for existing problems” I shared my analysis why agile or Scrum itself often gets the blame. In this third post out of three I will focus on what the most common mistakes are with Scrum that lead to dysfunctional Scrum. But this time we take the perspective of the Scrum Master.

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The Complete Guide to Project Milestones: Definition, Purpose, Identification & Tracking Progress

Teamweek

But what exactly are project milestones? How are they different from deliverables or a bunch of tasks? What are the best practices for identifying project milestones? In this article, we’ll cover everything you need to know about milestones. What is a project milestone? How are milestones different from deliverables and tasks? Reasons why milestones are critical to project planning.

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June 25, 2020: Exploring Virtual Open Space Events w/ MIT’s Unhangout

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Exploring Virtual Open Space Technolgy — A Live Virtual Meetup on June 25, 2020. How do we run a virtual open space event or BarCamp with a large number of participants? Principally, we could use break-out rooms for organizing the sessions. The question is, though, how do we ensure that the law-of-two-feet still applies? By making everyone a co-host?

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Teaching OKRs to Executives w/ Andrew Young

Leading Agile

Listen to the SoundNotes Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to SoundNotes on: Apple Podcasts. Google Play. Spotify. Soundcloud. RSS. This week in LeadingAgile’s SoundNotes, we’re focusing on Objectives and Key Results. Andrew Young joins Dave to talk about this history of OKRs, why they have become such an important part of how we track and measure performance, why they matter to Executives, and why teaching Executives about OKRs requires a very specific approach.

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Understand Digital Debt, Form a Team, Set Goals, and Plan Roadmap for Transformation

Understanding digital debt is crucial before digital transformation. Assemble a team to assess internal operations, market pressures, and digital debt's impact. Define future digital vision with measurable goals. Refine hypotheses and conduct market analysis. Develop a roadmap for transformation with defined projects, cost estimates, and governance.

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Want to Overcome Chronic Procrastination? It’s All About Emotion Regulation

Teamweek

Illustration: Jo Zixuan Zhou. You start your morning like you do every other day: with your to-do list. You jot down everything rattling around in your brain and realize that you have a lot to accomplish in a few hours. Time to buckle down, right? But first you grab yourself a cup of coffee and a pastry. After that, you post some recent dog photos to your team’s instant messaging channel before scrolling through social media.

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My “Bird’s eye view in the agile forest” article translated in Russian

Henny Portman

I am pleased to inform you that my featured paper “ A bird’s eye view on the agile forest ” has been translated and published in Russian by the Magazine of COBHET (SOVNET), the Russian Project Management Association, with the title “????? ????????????? ? ?????? ????????????”. To download: [link]. The original paper, which is an extract of one of the chapters of my Book “ Scaling Agile in organisaties (Dutch)”, has been published by PM World Journal, and it received the “2019 PM World Journal Edi

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The Almighty Internet Collects Data About You: Are You Safe?

ActiveCollab

Life is too short for reading Privacy policies. Or is it? We’re bound to service providers via the almighty internet. You pay and accept their terms of use, and they provide a service. Most people never read these terms, and have no idea what is hidden behind the curtain of thousands of words. What sort of data are these companies collecting, and what do they do with it?

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