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Professionalising the Scrum Master Role

Agile Alliance

The global pump manufacturer Grundfos is experimenting with implementing Agile techniques for the development of hardware and software components. This article describes how the authors guided and supported the professional development of the Scrum Masters role and competencies, with an emphasis on challenges encountered and lessons learned.

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How to Scale Scrum to Larger Projects

DevOps.com

The popularity of agile methodologies has grown significantly among developer teams, compared to sequential software development approaches. have adopted Agile in their software development lifecycle. According to the same report, 63% of Agile teams use Scrum, making it the most popular Agile framework. […]

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Scrum master certification: Top 13 certs for agile pros

CIO

The agile methodology, which facilitates collaboration between stakeholders, teams, and customers during software development, is fast gaining prominence in today’s enterprises. What is Scrum? What is a Scrum master? They also oversee Scrum teams, which consist of the product owner, the developers, and the sum master.

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What is a Scrum master? A key role for project success

CIO

Scrum is a powerful framework for implementing agile processes in software development and other projects. This highly adopted framework utilizes short iterations of work, called sprints, and daily meetings, called scrums, to tackle discrete portions of a project in succession until the project is complete. Others do not.

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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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Influencing software quality as a Scrum Master

Xebia

The quality of the software is a responsibility of the entire team. Scrum Masters serve a key role in achieving both aspects. A Scrum Master serves the team by coaching members in self-management and cross-functionality, helping them focus on creating high-value increments, and removing impediments. Want to know more?

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7 ways doing Scrum wrong hurts software quality

TechBeacon

When quality issues arise, many Scrum teams look to testing and technical development practices to address the problems. What they often miss is that poor implementation of Scrum has directly contributed to their quality issues.

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Success Story: Swiss Insurtech Company Hires a Remote CTO from Ukraine

Ability to build, scale and shrink the team very fast, combined with the very best software engineering talent, made it a perfect mix of reasons why the company has made these decisions. Swiss Insurtech startup decided to go the 2nd way and found a trusted partner to build a dedicated development team in Ukraine.