scruminc

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Over the years, I have heard from teams the need for a tool that helps accelerate their learning and application of Scrum. Scrum Essential Cards, capture the key ideas behind Scrum, providing an easy hands-on reference to make that happen. The cards add hands-on exercises and games to enhance the learning experience.

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Exadel

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Let’s start with the definition of Sprint Retrospective from the Scrum Guide : “The purpose of the Sprint Retrospective is to plan ways to increase quality and effectiveness. The Scrum Team inspects how the last Sprint went with regards to individuals, interactions, processes, tools, and their Definition of Done.”

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Have you ever had friends or family ask, “I know you’re called a scrum master, but what does that mean? Tell them that the role of ScrumMaster is as a servant-leader, coach, and facilitator, navigating the dynamics of the team to ensure Scrum practices are followed and value is delivered effectively. What do you actually do ?”

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Apiumhub

JANUARY 12, 2023

In the list of activities in the Scrum software development life cycle ranked by their popularity amongst developers, “attending meetings” is perhaps locked in a perpetual battle only with “writing documentation” for the position of last place. This is, of course, merely reciting from the doctrine of Scrum. Introduction.

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CIO

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Exam fee: $1199 Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) Certified ScrumMaster is an entry-level certification offered by Scrum Alliance that is designed to validate your skills and abilities using Scrum, a popular agile development framework. For more information, see “ CSM certification: What you need to know.”

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Gorilla Logic

OCTOBER 25, 2021

How are they beneficial for scrum teams? By the end of the article, you will have learned several best practices for writing and implementing valuable sprint goals for scrum teams that you can use for the betterment of your organization and its products. During planning sessions, our scrum teams write the sprint goal collaboratively.

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scruminc

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Which Scrum Master Credential Is Best For Me? They have tasked you with getting the teams ready to Scrum. A little research takes you to the Scrum Guide. A Scrum practitioner needs to know the ‘how’- how is the role administered out in the field. What is the Scrum Master actually accountable for?

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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. I walked them through an exercise right there on the CEOs dining room table. If you did this exercise with your leadership team, youd probably get different answers. How are you measuring productivity?

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QAspire

APRIL 14, 2013

Hansei ( meaning self-reflection) is an important part of Japanese culture – an exercise undertaken to look at past mistakes, outline the lessons and pledge to act on those lessons. It is not just an intellectual exercise but also an emotional one. It will be a feel-good exercise and nothing else.

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scruminc

JULY 23, 2021

Psychological Safety And Scrum Teams: How To Create A High-Performance Environment. The Scrum Values of Commitment, Focus, Openness, Respect, and Courage supports this kind of environment. However, as often said in regards to Scrum, the Scrum Values are easy to understand, but difficult to master. .

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scruminc

APRIL 12, 2019

A properly implemented Scrum radically reduces the need for communication while assuring the right communication happens. The roots of Scrum lie in fighter pilot training and that training was based on the work of John Boyd, the world’s greatest fighter pilot. Hermann Balck crossing the river Meusse in 1940.

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Codegiant

AUGUST 14, 2020

Agile vs Scrum: Differences & Similarities?—?The The Complete Review [2020] From the desk of a brilliant weirdo #1 : If you are using Scrum it’s safe to say that you are also using Agile. On the other hand, if you are using an Agile framework, that may not necessarily be Scrum. In Scrum, you have three main roles?—?the

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CIO

MARCH 11, 2024

Acknowledging these challenges and complexities, how can one pressure-test their spreadsheet exercise against the realities of execution? For one, they have an infrastructure delivery team archetype, which consists of a nearshore engineering delivery manager, a scrum team, and both a nearshore and offshore delivery team (i.e.,

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Knowing that it will or might happen, he could have a short reset exercise ready to go that will cool tempers and improve relations so the Review can continue and the conflict can get resolved, rather than postponed. Consider attending one of our Certified ScrumMaster workshops , where we discuss the how and why of Scrum, not just the what.

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Luis Goncalves

JANUARY 31, 2018

I met several Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches that facilitate Agile Retrospectives without knowing this concept. Note that this exercise also often reveals what people are worried about, which is valuable information regarding what needs to be addressed). Agile Retrospective Format. Working with Me Or Evolution4all.

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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. . CEO JJ Sutherland nails it in this section of The Scrum Fieldbook : “Your structure is your cul­ture.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

In Scrum, Product Backlog Refinement is an essential meeting of the Product Owner and the Development Team to gain clarity and a shared understanding of what needs to be done through discussion and sharing of ideas. As a result, the Team repeats the whole exercise for the Story to “Use a gift card.”

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Codegiant

AUGUST 20, 2020

From the desk of a brilliant weirdo #1: Are your hand shivering and pouring yourself with sweat right before your scrum master interview? If so, this “ Scrum Master Interview Questions and Answers ” article can, without a doubt, boost your confidence up and put your worries at rest.

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Evolution4all

APRIL 30, 2019

Now it can be a community of Product Owners looking for a new approach to work with their Scrum Teams or a network of Developers sharing their new scripts to automate their work. And this is where leadership skills are exercised in this type of community. In ancient times, members of a tribe had to learn to survive.

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CIO

MARCH 6, 2023

Then he broke up those distinct, independent teams and created Scrum teams staffed by product owners , business analysts , solution architects , front-end developers, back-end developers, and testers. And he hired agile coaches to work with his IT team. He adds: “It’s really about unleashing human talent.

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Agile42

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

How often do our SCRUM teams encounter challenges like these and yet they struggle to respond or move forward? Also, just like any other exercise, make sure the teams retrospect and apply the learnings to become a high performing team! WOW, unplanned and unscripted. Many of us think that we can't do improv.

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Openxcell

MARCH 1, 2023

This exercise helps in resolving and clarifying the customer’s anticipations and requirements for the project development team. Amongst them, the most popular agile methodologies are Scrum, Kanban, Crystal, Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM), Lean, Extreme Programming, and much more! What is Agile Methodology?

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Xebia

MARCH 19, 2024

A Scrum Master struggling to survive under the tyranny of micromanagement? Exercise increases your energy level, and meditation can help you ground yourself—whatever works for you! Turn your micromanagers into sweethearts again! Are you a developer who has to put up with a bitter manager?

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CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Along with replacing project teams with product teams and reimagining its PMO to be more of a coaching resource, USPTO adopted agile practices in earnest, including daily scrums, working in sprints as opposed to project plans, and embracing DevSecOps processes, Holcombe says. Jamie Holcombe Jr., CIO, USPTO.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

OCTOBER 29, 2018

How to Be an Effective Manager in Scrum. Scrum Team Titles. When managers don’t reconsider their role and titles, their lack of action implies that Scrum changes the Team but not Management. Scrum Management Titles. I was recently approached by a client who asked about effective Agile Organizational Structure.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full The Real Job Of Leadership by Starbucker on November 4, 2010 The concept of execution in the business world is a multifaceted exercise, especially from the perspective of the leader. It also puts our hearts in play.

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Agile42

JUNE 4, 2018

I had heard about Scrum and I already had started using Kanban by myself in my previous position. Now my team consisted of the ideal number of team members for Scrum. As part of my small talks with my friends and my colleagues, I starting telling them about Scrum and asking if they knew it and if they used it.

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CIO

DECEMBER 16, 2022

And then do the same exercise with an eye on the future, he adds. A typical fusion team may include roles such as product owner, scrum master, developers and domain experts. Fusion teams are multidisciplinary that blend technology and business domain expertise and share accountability for business and technology outcomes.

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Net Objectives

JULY 11, 2018

While it's useful to bring in someone who can actually help with the work, such as a technical or ATDD coach, when it comes to Scrum or Agile coaches it's usually better to grow your own.There are several reasons for this: . it is harder to learn your own environment and product that it is to learn the essential understandings of Scrum.

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Accenture

OCTOBER 29, 2018

It is easy to train Agile practices such as Scrum and get people started working in teams. But then I began to see the whole context, and on the second day when we reviewed the practices like Scrum, they made sense to me, how the behaviors reinforce everything we covered that first day.”.

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Modus Create

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Most daily standups revolve around these three famous scrum questions: What has been done yesterday or since the last daily meeting? Whether you are a product owner, product manager, or scrum master, it’s essential to understand that the primary goal of standups is to help the development team. It’s held at the same time every day.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

In Scrum, Product Backlog Refinement is an essential meeting of the Product Owner and the Development Team to gain clarity and a shared understanding of what needs to be done through discussion and sharing of ideas. As a result, the Team repeats the whole exercise for the Story to “Use a gift card.”.

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CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

The User Stories at the core of Agile/Scrum development style are essential for translating customer intent into feature development. Done right, it’s an exercise in customer discovery: technical debt allows for faster exposure of opportunities. (Cloud compute spend is another form of technical debt; more on that in a future post).

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

OCTOBER 26, 2021

– The rounds of open discussion are off-putting for quieter team members, especially in a team new to Scrum. The post Scrum by Example – Same Old Song in Sprint Retrospective first appeared on Agile Pain Relief Consulting. These team members haven’t yet found their place of safety. Online description: [link]. [3]

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Evolution4all

MAY 2, 2019

They exercise their own subscription and should never be forced to join. With my team, I built 5 main products: High Performing Teams , Scrum Team Coach , Scrum Master Mentoring , Organisational Mastery and the External Business Accelerator. I have discussed more of these details here. #4.

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Agile42

APRIL 10, 2020

Rally around a goal In Scrum, this would be the sprint goal. Ease them into the exercise with pre-filled templates. The beauty of the small daily commitment enables team members to say, “I should have finished X, but Y and Z stopped me”, provides the opportunity for other team members to assist with support or escalation.

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Evolution4all

APRIL 25, 2019

Apart from the reporting relationship, a typical company follows a top-down approach in all other matters, from exercising control and authority to communicating. With my team, I built 5 main products: High Performing Teams , Scrum Team Coach , Scrum Master Mentoring , Organisational Mastery and the External Business Accelerator.

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