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Lean Startup and Scrum

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I remember the first time I heard about Lean Startup. A member of the audience asked, “What do you think about Lean Startup?”. Honestly, I had not heard of Lean Startup. After the conference, I bought Eric Ries’s book - Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses.

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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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Which Scrum Events Are Time Boxed?

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Scrum is a framework within which teams work together to deliver products in complex environments. The Scrum framework includes five events: The Sprint Sprint Planning Daily Scrum Sprint Review Sprint Retrospective. Each of the five events in Scrum is time boxed. The Sprint is the most frequently forgotten Scrum event.

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Can Scrum work for hard deadlines?

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If you’ve ever wondered whether Scrum can work for hard deadlines, the answer is – yes! Not only can Scrum work in these situations, but in my experience, using this agile framework increases the probability of meeting challenging deadlines. Lean Thinking. Let me demonstrate these concepts with a story. Empiricism. The Result.

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Value Creation in Scrum: Shift Left

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TL; DR: Value Creation in Scrum. As a tactical framework, Scrum is good at delivering Increments into customers’ hands. As we work in iterations, we probably do that several times per month, mitigating risk by closing feedback loops. As a result, value creation in Scrum is not as straightforward as you might have thought. ??

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Where does Scrum Master END and Agile Leader BEGIN? Differences/similarities

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Before we talk about the comparison and contrast between Scrum Master and Agile Leader, people often compare and contrast Scrum Master and Agile Coach, and they often ask me, what’s the difference? The oversimplified answer is $200 per day because a scrum master should be working at an organizational level.

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What Comes Next After Scrum?

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Since I first started working with Scrum in 2005, I have wondered what would eventually come along to replace it. Scrum has now been around for over 25 years, so surely something else would emerge? The usage of Scrum has continued to grow. Entire industries including Banking, Insurance and Pharma have adopted Scrum.

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