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Product Discovery for Scrum Teams

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TL; DR: Product Discovery for Scrum Teams While Scrum excels at building and releasing Increments, it does not guarantee that those are valuable—garbage in, garbage out. Scrum teams can equally make things no one is interested in using at all. Get notified when the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book is available !

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What Is My Scrum Master Doing All Day?

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The presence of a Scrum Master goes beyond facilitating Scrum Events and meetings and resolving impediments. The Scrum Master encourages the team to embrace change, not as a challenge but as an opportunity for growth and innovation. Transparency and Trust: The Scrum Master helps the team focus on their work.

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Remote Work and Scrum

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David Solomon cites the collaborative, innovative, apprenticeship model of Goldman Sachs as not working well in a remote, distributed manner. And what does this mean for remote Scrum Teams? For many Scrum Teams finishing tasks is less important than delivering value toward the Product Goal and Sprint Goals. So is this true?

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The Power of Adaptability: Why Defining Requirements Up Front Doesn't Align with Scrum

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In the realm of agile methodologies, Scrum stands as a guiding beacon, promoting flexibility, collaboration, and incremental progress. Central to Scrum is the delivery of value in small, usable increments. Scrum teams deliver value incrementally. Scrum thrives on the concept of inspect and adapt.

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The Scrum Trap: How Unfit Practices Will Harm Return on Investment

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TL, DR: The Scrum Trap Scrum is a purposefully incomplete framework. And then there are others — the Scrum trap. Let’s look at what practices and tools for collaboration and team building are not helpful when used with Scrum. ? Preorder the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now for delivery in January 2024! ?️

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Lean Startup and Scrum

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After the conference, I bought Eric Ries’s book - Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses. Lean Startup and Scrum Reis and Blank talk about using these ideas to build and scale a business, but the ideas hold true at the product or even feature level.

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Why psychological safety enhances the abilities of the Scrum Team

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Although some issues might have been fixed, I rarely see the full potential of a Scrum Team being achieved. Agility, and predominantly the Scrum framework, has been accepted by the vast majority of corporations that work in complex domains by now. You can’t bully your way into innovation. Failure should be productive as well.