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From Project Management Professional (PMP)® to Professional Scrum Master

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In my quest for being at my best to serve, I have gone through accreditation processes to become a professional trainer in many of these. While I was already using the Scrum framework since 2001, be it in a Zombie way, it was time to take agility dead seriously. I have successfully passed and facilitated quite a few of these tracks.

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What Does Being a Cross-Functional Team in Scrum Mean?

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A central feature of the Scrum framework is the concept of a cross-functional team. Let's explore this topic in an agile software development context. You have developers who write code, testers who ensure quality, designers who create user interfaces, etc. In Scrum, the emphasis is on collaboration and flexibility.

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Scrum Master Interview Questions (1): Scrum Master Role

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TL; DR: Scrum Master Interview Questions (1). Scrum has proven time and again to be the most popular framework for software development. Given that software is eating the world , a seasoned Scrum Master is nowadays in high demand. Scrum is not a methodology, but a framework.

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What does a Scrum Master do all day?

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When people are first introduced to Scrum, often one of the questions they have is “ what do Scrum Masters *really* do all day? ”. Often, people end up discovering the answer to this question by themselves during the training, or as they start practicing Scrum in their teams. supporting the organization in its Scrum adoption.

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How To Make Product Discovery An Integral Part Of Your Scrum Team?

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Although research shows that these activities are useful in any Scrum team, we also recognize that teams usually start with this as they become more experienced with Scrum. That’s why we created the do-it-yourself workshops. The workshops and experiments are: Generate Insights And Ideas For Your Product With “Design The Box”.

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What Makes Scrum Teams Effective? A scientific investigation of 1.200 Scrum teams

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This post is a non-technical version of an academic paper about Scrum teams that I wrote with Daniel Russo. Daniel is a Professor at the University of Aalborg and is specialized in empirical software engineering. I am an organizational psychologist and Scrum practitioner with a love for survey development and statistics.

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Embracing Uncertainty: Rethinking Project Timelines in Agile Environments

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Creating an Illusion of Control in Fixed Deadlines Complex projects (software development) inherently involve variables that can change rapidly, like requirements, priorities, and even unexpected obstacles. This thought process often leads to a misalignment between expectations and reality.

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