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Maximizing Business Outcomes at a Sustainable Pace - A Culinary Analogy

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Have you ever considered how a satisfying meal relates to effective Sprint Planning in Scrum? ?️? By finding a balance, we can avoid the pitfalls of burnout and foster a more sustainable work environment. What strategies do you employ to find that ‘perfect meal’ balance in your Sprint Planning?

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Scrum Team Failure — Scrum Anti-Patterns Taxonomy (3)

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TL; DR: Scrum Team Failure This post on Scrum team failure addresses three categories from the Scrum anti-patterns taxonomy that are closely aligned: Planning and process breakdown, conflict avoidance and miscommunication, and inattention to quality and commitment, often resulting in a Scrum team performing significantly below its potential.

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Sunsetting Scrum Masters

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TL; DR: Sunsetting Scrum Masters In this article, I uncover indicators that a Scrum Master’s or Agile Coach’s journey is coming to a close; they are sunsetting Scrum Masters. Preorder the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now for delivery in January 2024! ? Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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Framing Transformation Strategy from a Learning Perspective: A Shift from Assertion

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Traditional transformation strategies often hinge on assertiveness and top-down directives. Shifting from a stance of assertive imposition to one of continuous learning is a transformative strategy in itself. What Is Transformation Strategy? But what if there's a more dynamic, resilient way? Why a Learning Perspective?

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Why Being a Scrum Master Is Not About the Process?

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Being a Scrum Master is more than framework compliance. Scrum is a lightweight framework that helps teams and organisations to deliver value while managing complexity. A Scrum Master's accountability, therefore, goes well beyond just managing processes. The Scrum Master works with the team to focus on delivering value.

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Embrace a Scrum Revolution: Your New Year's Resolution Guide

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At your next Sprint Retrospective, why not work with your Scrum team to identify a New Year's Resolution? Focus on improving your Scrum game in 2024 with one of these five resolutions to enhance collaboration within your team and deliver value sooner to your customers. 4) Try Scrum. 1) Focus on Incremental Delivery What is it?

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Product Management - Why a Product Owner needs to go beyond Scrum

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It was all about product development, clinical trials, long lead times to market, developing modelling for regulatory approval, intense competition to bring new drugs to market, market research, vision and strategy and business forecasting. When I started to hear about agile and this role called Product Owner in Scrum, I was excited.

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