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How Can You Know Whether Your Scrum Masters are Effective?

Agile Alliance

I had the opportunity to speak with Sarah Baca at Agile2019 where she reported on her experiences assessing team performance and Scrum Masters’ competency. Sarah is a people manager of Scrum Masters at Express Scripts.

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Tips for building top performer teams

Perficient

There’s no doubt that every Director or Manager wants a high-performance team that delivers the best results and allows them to focus on building new business opportunities. But where does the secret for building high-performance teams lives? Remember that micromanagement is not an effective way to achieve top performance.

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Continuous Value Justification in Scrum

SCRUMstudy

A key aspect of Scrum is its ability to quickly adjust to chaos created by a rapidly changing business model. In projects with ambiguous user requirements and significant potential for frequent changes, Scrum provides considerable advantages over other development models. Earned Value Analysis (EVA) is used for this purpose.

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How Agile Meetings Impact Arousal Levels and Team Productivity

Apiumhub

In Agile environments, maintaining focus is crucial to achieving optimal performance, especially in complex tasks like software development. Whether in physical activity or intellectual work, there is a strong correlation between the right level of arousal and optimal performance. References Robert M. Yerkes & John D. Pink (2009).

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Team Leadership in the Age of Agile

Speaker: Roy Osherove, Technology and Leadership Consultant

As a senior software leader, you spend much of your time trying to optimize your team's performance – from increasing delivery rate and velocity to reducing defect rates and waste. To do this, you've learned a wide variety of techniques and methodologies - SCRUM, Kanban, TDD, DevOps, self-organized teams, and much more.

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Responsibilities of Scrum Roles in Business Justification

SCRUMstudy

To perform a proper business justification, it is important for an organization to create a viable Project Vision Statement prior to starting any project. The Scrum Guidance Body may provide guidelines and recommendations related to business justification techniques and confirming benefits realization and so forth.

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A brief Overview of The Initiate Phase in Scrum

SCRUMstudy

Initiate phase, as defined in A Guide to the Scrum Body of Knowledge ( SBOK Guide ), is applicable to the following: Portfolios, programs, and/or projects in any industry. It is also important to realize that although all processes are defined uniquely in the SBOK Guide , they are not necessarily performed sequentially or separately.

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