Xebia

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Scrum is a popular way of working in teams. Many people however, dislike one core element of Scrum: the meetings. Scrum meetings are often time consuming, boring and ineffective. It’s no wonder people flinch when they hear “Scrum” But it doesn’t have to be that way. Here are some tips on how to do that.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

MARCH 15, 2021

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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InfoQ Culture Methods

DECEMBER 24, 2020

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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scruminc

MARCH 18, 2019

On March 8, 2019, in Tokyo Japan, I attended the press conference for the formation of Scrum Inc.’s s new joint venture, Scrum Inc. This joint venture is out to change the way of work in Japan and reignite the spark of innovation in this beautiful country with a rich and ancient culture. We called it “Scrum Ba at Night”.

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Luis Goncalves

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The moment you start using Scrum, you will encounter a lot of technical terms that you have to be familiar with. As you continue incorporating Scrum in your agile team, you will realise that this framework is the best way to complete a project and develop a product that your customers want. This is owned by the Scrum Product Owner.

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Luis Goncalves

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Scrum is a framework for developing, delivering, and sustaining complex products. The Scrum Guide defines the roles, events, artifacts and the rules that define this framework. Not all product development frameworks have a certain set of values like Scrum. The Scrum Values. The first Scrum value is commitment.

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Agile42

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The Product Owner is a member of the Scrum Team, hence they are a full participant in the Sprint Retrospective. The Sprint Retrospective is about reflection and improvement and because Scrum is rooted in the Toyota Production System (TPS), continuous improvement is an important value. This one is easy!

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scruminc

JULY 23, 2021

Scrum Values: Have the Courage to Lose Sight. This is a common cultural milestone for many organizations wanting to become more Agile in how they operate. It’s no coincidence that courage is one of the five Scrum Values. . This is where the other Scrum values come into play. It’s cultural.

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scruminc

MARCH 1, 2021

Scrum Success: Embracing The Ability To Adapt. We have seen this change as the Scrum implementation at this client continues to grow. These hospitality Scrum Teams have successfully tackled these challenges. What Agility and Scrum give them is the ability to adapt. by Jack Harmening, Kendra West | March 1, 2021 | Blog.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

OCTOBER 12, 2021

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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Toptal

MAY 8, 2019

Scrum is easy to introduce but hard to master. Left to its own devices, Scrum creates false hopes and undercuts many of the expected benefits. Scrum teams need to continually improve their process and work culture to reap the rewards of an Agile transition.

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CIO

MARCH 7, 2023

Assemble a team of Scrum coaches, and they’re likely to debate how much empowerment self-organizing teams require, when to estimate user stories, and whether sprints remain relevant when devops teams are automating deployments with CI/CD. Today, many CIOs must determine which agile tools to use and where to create practice standards.

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scruminc

JULY 31, 2020

Scrum Spotlight: Raising Thousands of Dollars for the World Health Organization and Colors of Change. by the Scrum Inc. Last month, trainers from the Scrum Inc. As a team, they delivered a unique Scrum Master Workshop with all proceeds donated to the World Health Organization and Colors of Change Organization.

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DevOps.com

JULY 2, 2019

If you have been in a scrum team (or even an agile software development team), you most certainly have had or heard about sprint retrospectives or gone through them. The post How to Rethink Sprint Retrospectives to Shape a Better Culture appeared first on DevOps.com.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

AUGUST 4, 2022

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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scruminc

APRIL 24, 2020

What Happens to Managers in Scrum? . Each episode will explore organizational Agility and Scrum patterns, tactics, and techniques that drive real-world success. Each episode will explore organizational Agility and Scrum patterns, tactics, and techniques that drive real-world success. There’s a word missing in the Scrum Guide.

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DevOps.com

AUGUST 28, 2023

In this week’s #TheLongView: Scrum sucks, sources say; and here comes the Linux 6.5

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scruminc

MARCH 15, 2021

Improve Pipeline Generation With Scrum. Monotype , an on-demand digital typesetting and typeface design services company and longtime client, implemented Scrum in their sales teams to maximize their pipeline, improve team culture, and find opportunities to enhance prioritization during the pandemic.

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Invid Group

JANUARY 3, 2024

4 Reasons to Use SCRUM in Software Development in 2024 BY: INVID In the ever-evolving realm of software development, staying at the forefront is essential for success. SCRUM stands out as a methodology that has significantly reshaped the industry, making it a crucial element that could elevate your development strategies.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) explained The Scaled Agile Framework encompasses a set of principles, processes, and best practices that helps larger organizations adopt agile methodologies , such as Lean, Kanban, and Scrum , to deliver high-quality products and services faster.

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Gorilla Logic

AUGUST 13, 2021

Angela Marcela Jerez Olago — Scrum Master. Angela is one of our amazing Scrum Masters here at Gorilla Logic. She has a wide range of experience from IT, to Backend, to now as a Scrum Master. I worked 4 years in IT, 8 years as a Backend Developer, and 5 years as Scrum Master/BA. Are you Gorilla material?

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JULY 7, 2021

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. By Leigh Griffin.

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scruminc

JULY 23, 2021

Should A Product Owner Attend The Daily Scrum? Should Product Owners attend the Daily Scrum? We’ll start by examining the Scrum Guide, then delve deeper via pragmatic real-life experience. Scrum Guide: The Rules of the Game. . Promoting quick decision-making is an essential reason for holding Daily Scrums. .

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InfoQ Culture Methods

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

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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InfoQ Culture Methods

AUGUST 24, 2022

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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scruminc

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Steel and Sticky Notes Part 2: Lean, Scrum, and a Priority Culture . Lean is one of the foundations of the Scrum framework. Scrum stands on the shoulders of Lean to help companies and teams achieve more, innovate, deliver. . Your Structure is Your Culture. And your culture defines your limits.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

But after two years of what students alleged to be poor leadership and a culture of silence, they were set on making this incident the last time Awodele retaliated against a boot camp attendee. Because of the culture of silence MTBF created, there were few negative reviews online about Awodele or the company. ServiceNow said the same.

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CIO

APRIL 2, 2024

Underpinning these initiatives is a slew of technology capabilities and strategies aimed at accelerating delivery cycles, such as establishing product management disciplines, building cloud architectures, developing devops capabilities, and fostering agile cultures.

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Evolution4all

AUGUST 5, 2018

Blame Culture. There are clear roles for Product Owners , Scrum Masters , and Team Members, but nothing for Agile Managers. At that time I was Scrum Master , and the team was recruiting a developer; of course, we all looked for senior developers. I believe this is partly the result of the previous problem.

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scruminc

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

It is amazing to think that this year marks the 25th anniversary of the presentation of the first paper on Scrum. It’s even more amazing to think about all that the Scrum community has accomplished using the framework Ken Schwaber and I first officially described at OOPSLA back in 1995. . A Clearer More Universal Scrum Guide.

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Allen Holub

JANUARY 23, 2021

A culture of accountability, we’re told, is essential to running a business. The word “accountable” appears all over the 2020 Scrum Guide, as if it’s somehow an Agile notion instead of capitulation… The post #NoAccountability appeared first on Allen Holub.

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CIO

APRIL 23, 2024

SAFe Agilist The SAFe Agilist certification works best for a program or project manager , Scrum master , team lead, release train engineer, change agent, or others who are part of a Lean transformation. The 45-question exam tests candidates’ ability to: Facilitate Scrum events. Support PI execution.

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James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

This is a transcript of my keynote presentation for the Regional Scrum Gathering Tokyo conference on January 8th, 2025. Just like real Agile and real Scrum is too extreme for most companies. This is a matter of changing organizational culture, and organizational culture isnt easy to change. This is a big cultural shift!

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scruminc

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Scrum@Scale for Organizational Success: Insights from a Scrum of Scrums Master by Brian Hackerson | November 29 , 2023 | Blog In American football, being “ahead of the chains” means the offensive team has effectively advanced, making subsequent plays easier and achieving the goal more attainable.

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scruminc

JANUARY 26, 2022

Adaptive and Resilient Supply Chain Management: How John Deere Uses Scrum To Create Supply Chain Solutions In The Midst Of Disruption. by the Scrum Inc. Introductory Note: John Deere is working with Scrum Inc. This blog is an excerpt of an upcoming case study that examines John Deere’s Agile culture, approach, and success. .

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InfoQ Culture Methods

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Although many organizations use Scrum, the majority struggle to grasp both the purpose of Scrum as well as its benefits. They do Zombie Scrum; it looks like Scrum from a distance, but you see that things are amiss when moving closer.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

This is a critical consideration because, at the heart of Scrum, we’re attempting to grow a group of people into a resilient, high-performing team. There are many ways micromanagement can show up in a Scrum environment. Runs Daily Scrum instead of facilitating the Team as they conduct the meeting.

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