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Raising Climate Awareness in Scrum Teams - a Scrum Master’s Journey

Scrum.org

One of the most exciting outcomes of Scrum being adopted by a team is innovation. The following interview is with Marjolein Pilon , a Scrum Master from the Netherlands. But I know you have some practical ideas for how Scrum and Teams can help. What if all Scrum Teams would do that? Broadly that is described as innovation.

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Learning Scrum using Minecraft Education

Scrum.org

While classes are re-scheduled in the Fall, some of us Scrum trainers are refocusing our energy to help the household while others are investigating how to conduct interactive online training. We can support the world’s desire to learn and grow while providing outstanding Scrum classes online. This is a hard time for all of us.

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Mastering Scrum with Feminine Power

Scrum.org

Scrum and agility create frameworks for diversity. Digitization and software development are firmly in the hands of men. As a software engineer, I am happy that more and more women are finding their way into this future industry. With this, Yang-heavy companies create Yang-heavy software systems.

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Why does Agile focus on values and principles rather than a prescribed set of steps?

Scrum.org

We had to apply significant effort (energy) in order to achieve this. In software that the production line may take the form of an automated build and deployment. We never solve the exact same problem again in software engineering and other creative work. A great example of that are scrum values.

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Thinking By Sprinting: What Cognitive Science Tells Us About Why Scrum Works

Scrum.org

Their paper provides useful insights into why the Scrum Framework might be so effective when it comes to managing complex work. Their article inspired me to apply the same insights to Scrum and to extend it with my own. Why our brain is not built for software engineering. Cognitive paradigms, applied to Scrum / Agile.

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How to Become an IT Project Manager Without Experience

PM Basics

For sure, the easiest way to become a software project manager is by getting a promotion inside an IT company. So, if you are just starting your career, I strongly recommend getting a job on an IT project in any other capacity like QA, Developer, DevOps, Business Analyst, or a Scrum Master. Team Composition on a Software Project.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

“Effort Estimation of Use Cases for Incremental Large-Scale Software Development,” Pareastoo Mohagheghi, Bente Anda, and Reidat Conradi, Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering. Software Development Effort Estimation using Fuzzy Bayesian Belief Network with COCOMO II,” B. 9, Issue 3, No.