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Article: Better Scrum Through Essence

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Scrum is easy to explain and hard to do well. The majority of Scrum Teams struggle to do Scrum well. This article explains how Essence Scrum practices produced by Ian Spence and Dr Jeff Sutherland can help your teams get better at Scrum regardless of the context By Ian Spence.

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Article: Surviving Zombie Scrum

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The book Zombie Scrum Survival Guide by Christiaan Verwijs, Johannes Schartau, and Barry Overeem aims to support teams that are stuck in Zombie Scrum.

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Article: When, Why and How Facilitation Skills Help Scrum Teams

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Effective Facilitation helps Scrum and Agile Teams leverage differences in positive ways, guiding teams to frame their discussions with clear purpose, decisions, outcomes and engagement with one another.

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Article: Talking About Sizing and Forecasting in Scrum

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Scrum Teams can use different approaches to size the effort to deliver a Sprint/Product Goal. The forecast will be wrong. We're moving one Sprint at a time, and refreshing forecasts frequently. Some would say, "Discover and deliver capabilities—review outcomes with the customers and end-users. Learn what can be learned.

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Article: Applying Lean Tools and Techniques to Scrum

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This article focuses on some of the challenges that Scrum is facing and how Lean can be a complementary approach. The topic of waste, a central theme that Lean helps focus on, shows us that Scrum can be improved upon.

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Article: POCs, Scrum, and the Poor Quality of Software Solutions

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POCs and Scrum can play a critical role in implementing Quality software solutions. Scrum short sprints often create an environment most conductive to working reactively to constantly-changing requirements making it hard for developers to prioritize and achieve Quality over the course of the project.

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Article: Changes in the 2020 Scrum Guide: Q&A with Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland

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The Scrum Guide has been updated to make it less prescriptive, using simpler language to address a wider audience. These changes have been done to make Scrum a “lightweight framework that helps people, teams and organizations generate value through adaptive solutions for complex problems”.

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