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Acceptance Criteria in Project Management: A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

Well explain by defining the term and detailing what should be included to help the development team produce successful deliverables. Review and Approval Process: Specifies the steps for internal and external review, stakeholder validation and formal approval before final acceptance and project closure.

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Scrum Master Interview Questions (2): From Product Backlog to Sprint Planning

Scrum.org

The ebook provides both questions as well as guidance on the range of suitable answers. An excellent suggestion on the part of your candidate would be for the Scrum Team to participate in gathering qualitative signals by taking part in user interviews. Question 19: Assessing the Value of a User Story. What is its structure?

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Scrum Master Interview Questions (4): From Metrics to Kicking off Scrum to Scrum Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

The ebook provides both questions as well as guidance on the range of suitable answers. The purpose of qualitative metrics is to gain insight into how one or more of an organization’s Scrum Teams are progressing with agile. Trends derived from these polls are great points for discussion during a team’s Sprint Retrospectives.

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Scrum Master Interview Questions: Scrum Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

The ebook provides both questions as well as guidance on the range of suitable answers. Scrum Anti-Patterns: From Product Backlog to Sprint Review. Flow disruption : The Scrum Master allows stakeholders to disrupt the workflow of the Development Team during the Sprint. Question 45: Scrum Master Anti-Patterns.

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A Review Of Scrum For Kanban Teams

Digite

In case you haven’t read Yuval’s post, basically, it presents a map of values and practices in Scrum to Kanban language, and encourages Kanban teams to approach Scrum from a practices point of view. This is probably the set of things that, regardless of the name, Scrum and Kanban teams will have the most in common.

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70 Scrum Master Theses

Scrum.org

On the one side, they address typical Scrum events such as Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and the Sprint Retrospective. When a weak Development Team meets a commanding Product Owner, focusing on shipping new features, the team may end up as a feature factory, churning out new code while neglecting the technical foundation.

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Scrum Master Interview Questions (3): Daily Scrum and Sprint Retrospective

Scrum.org

The ebook provides both questions as well as guidance on the range of suitable answers. Daily Scrums are an important part of Scrum, but not all Daily Scrums need to be formal — a Development Team should not have a Daily Scrum for the sake of having it; it serves a different purpose than ticking off a box on a checklist.

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