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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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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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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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Effective, Agile Risk-Taking in Today’s Competitive Business Landscape

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Now, they must discover innovative ways to deliver enhanced value to customers while differentiating themselves from competitors. That means taking calculated risks that can lead to either success or failure. Leadership and Scrum True agility for companies goes beyond fancy methodologies and rituals.

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Exploring Estimation Approaches: What is the Right Fit for Scrum Teams!

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Estimation is a complementary practice Scrum Teams use in Product D evelopment. Different Scrum T eams may use different estimation approaches, depending on their context, preferences, and goals. Let’s explore some of the complementary estimation approaches used by Scrum T eams, and discuss their pros and cons. ?

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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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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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