Remove When Is It Time to Stop Using Scrum
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When Is It Time to Stop Using Scrum?

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TL; DR: When Should a Team Stop Using Scrum? When is the time to look beyond Scrum? outlive their utility sooner or later; why would Scrum be an exception? Scrum is a tool, a helpful practice but neither a religion nor a philosophy. Setting the Context of Using Scrum To Your Benefit.

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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

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Kanban and scrum are agile project management methodologies that can be used for similar purposes, but each has its unique pros and cons. As a project manager, it’s important to understand the difference between kanban and scrum so you can determine the best approach for your team. What Is Kanban?

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This is how Scrum improves your risk-taking process

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If someone flips a coin 99 times and gets tails each time, what’s their probability of getting heads on the 100th flip? We would just adapt our risk-taking strategy accordingly. In this article, we will discuss a few principles of real-life risk-taking and ultimately how the Scrum framework can support them. 1.95m each?

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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. Some tools and practices have proven highly effective in supporting Scrum’s application and reaping its benefits. And then there are others — the Scrum trap. Preorder the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now for delivery in January 2024!

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Experiments, Practices, and Strategies for being a Remote Scrum Master

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Being an effective and successful Scrum Master requires a wide variety of skills, knowledge, and experience. This variety is captured in the stances of a Scrum Master. The Scrum Master is expected to act as a teacher, impediment remover, facilitator, coach, mentor, and change agent. What does remote facilitation look like?

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Has Agile Stalled?

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I have witnessed the growth of Scrum, the rise of DevOps, the impact of XP, the expansion of SAFe, and the growing connection to professional coaching. Scrum was being used, and they had seen much success, but they found its growth hard. Their issues were less about Scrum and more about change in general.

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36 Scrum Stakeholder Anti-Patterns

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TL; DR: Scrum Stakeholder Anti-Patterns. Learn how individual incentives and outdated organizational structures — fostering personal agendas and local optimization efforts — manifest themselves in Scrum stakeholder anti-patterns that easily impede any agile transformation to a product-led organization. ????

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