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Mind The (Scrum) Gap!

Scrum.org

I’ve been part of the Scrum community for about 12 years. In this period, I’ve noticed a clear pattern in the majority of Scrum-related threads on social media like LinkedIn, Medium, Twitter, and so on. As a community, we excel at putting our fingers on the sore spots of what teams and organizations do wrong.

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What does it take to launch agile software? Q&A with Jordan Husney, CEO and Founder of Parabol

Rebel’s Guide to PM

For much of the early 2000’s, large companies would shudder at the thought of operating a team in an agile way. The value derived from holding a retrospective is proportional to the talent of the facilitator, and the intimacy of the team. If the facilitation is poor: it’s going to be a bad meeting.

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Agile Principles - Become More Effective

Scrum.org

This time we are focussing on the following Agile principle – “At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjust its behavior accordingly.” But it was a surprisingly rare practice in most organisations I encountered before Scrum & Agile became more widespread. Motivation levels increase.

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How To Measure The Success Of A Scrum Master?

Scrum.org

In this blog post, we focus on one specific question that was raised: “How to measure the success of an Agile Coach or Scrum Master?”. In short: it’s very difficult to measure because even if a team or organization is successful, are they successful because of your contribution, or despite it? The Purpose Of A Scrum Master.

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The Influencer (A Preferred Product Owner Stance)

Scrum.org

What is an Influencer? These gentlemen are in all the top-10 lists of being the ‘the best’ Politician, Influencer, world changer, etc. So before diving into the Product Owner taking an Influencer stance, let’s first inspect what an Influencer is. The Influencer is also referred to as the Politician.

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Building an Effective Agile Transformation Consultant Team

Leading Agile

In that post, we discussed the different roles and responsibilities your coaches should have, and we asserted that it takes more than just a couple Agile Transformation Consultants teaching people Scrum to affect change. Rather, it takes a team of consultants performing their duties at multiple levels of the organization.

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Scrum Mastery: 5 Steps to Improve Team Process

Scrum.org

This is the third in a series of posts exploring Scrum Mastery. In our first post, we introduced the 4 dimensions of Scrum Mastery. In the second post, we explored how to grow a strong team identity. Now we will explore the team process dimension. How do you work as a team to maximize the benefits of Scrum and agility?