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How To Spot Successful Scrum Masters

Scrum.org

TL; DR: How To Spot Successful Scrum Masters In this article, I unravel the secrets of what makes a Scrum Master not just good but amazingly outstanding. From regularly achieving Sprint Goals, delivering value to customers, and building stakeholder rapport easily, discover the traits that set apart successful Scrum Masters.

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Blog Series: From Scrum Master to Agile Leader - Part 1 - Exploring the Gaps in Scrum Mastery

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As Scrum.org professionals, we have coached, trained and mentored thousands of Scrum Masters and consulted the organizations they work with, and we’ve consistently encountered similar issues that not only limit Scrum Teams from thriving, but also restrict empiricism from working. That’s Mechanical Scrum.

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21st Century Leadership - Prologue

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A number of people inside and outside Scrum.org collaborated with me in 2018 and early 2019, to talk about 21st-century executive leadership. 21st-century executive leadership, what to stop doing . See this survey for exit criteria from step 1. See this survey for exit criteria from step 2. Avoiding the bull-whip-effect.

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5 activities to spice up your next Scrum Sprint Review

Scrum.org

As discussed in a recent article Making the Most of the Sprint Review , it’s an opportunity for the Scrum Team and stakeholders to inspect what was delivered, discuss the progress made towards the Product Goal, and adapt accordingly. Many Scrum Teams opt to have the Developers run the demonstration portion of the Sprint Review.

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Top 10 Challenges Faced by Scrum Masters and Ways to Overcome them

Scrum.org

. The portrayal of a Scrum Master on a Scrum Team is barely the same as the role of the traditional Project Manager. Scrum Masters have their own ways of not being an overlord in the traditional sense and are more focused on being the facilitator at the same level as others on their team. Scrum Master’s role is an Overhead.

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Using Surveys to Improve Scrum Team Success

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Outcome-based metrics are an essential measure of Scrum Team performance. A faster way to take the pulse of a Scrum Team is to (wait for it) ask them. Ask them how it’s going using sentiment surveys at the Sprint Retrospective or through an anonymous survey. But they can be lagging indicators. How are you feeling?

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Is Hybrid Really a Popular Project Approach?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

They are different to my own survey results, that show hybrid is far more widely used. Yes, the base of respondents for the survey was different – PMI reached people in industries that I expect I did not, like construction and telecoms. Finally, only 21% of projects globally were reported as using hybrid methods.

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