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32 Scrum Stakeholder Anti-Patterns

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Too bad, when nowadays diversity, autonomy, mastery, and purpose become the driving factors in a highly competitive environment where more of the same for everyone is no longer creating value. Flow disruption: The Scrum Master allows stakeholders to disrupt the flow of the Scrum Team during the Sprint. The Sprint. Nice try #1.).

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21 Sprint Retrospective Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

The Scrum Master encourages the Scrum Team to improve, within the Scrum process framework, its development process and practices to make it more effective and enjoyable for the next Sprint. By the end of the Sprint Retrospective, the Scrum Team should have identified improvements that it will implement in the next Sprint.

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Agile Management Anti-Patterns — An Introduction for Aspiring Servant Leaders

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Using the budgeting process as a Stage-Gate® to exercise control through the back door : The budgeting process is hard to align with agile requirements like the longevity of teams. Instead, the management ought to provide the teams with goals and guidance on how to achieve these, along with funding sufficient to meet the objectives.

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In-Depth: Stable Or Fluid Teams? What Does The Science Say?

Scrum.org

Recently, the concept of “fluid teams”, “dynamic reteaming” or “ad-hoc teaming” has gained traction in the Agile community. Although the concept has many different definitions, a characteristic they share is that members move in and out of a team during its lifetime. The need for fluid teams.

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Do you have a CRACK PO? (and a book review)

Kiron Bondale

toxic culture, poor compensation) which are preventing you from attracting them, and in a pinch, contracting might be the way to go. Development team members are also valuable, but talent across most skill areas is available for the right price and with the right culture in place.

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Working Remotely? This Will Hit You Next!

Scrum.org

Despite the rapidness of the change, moving to remote worked surprisingly well for many teams, because they were used to some degree of remote work before. Especially development teams and technology firms in general have many years of experience with allowing their workforce to do their jobs from wherever and whenever they like.

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From Servant Leadership to Shared Leadership

Leading Answers

This is part one in a series on leading agile teams from the Beyond Agile book. We will examine what leadership entails and how it applies to agile teams. We can create backlogs and release plans all we like, but until there is a motivated team with a shared vision of the end goal, it is like trying to push a rope—ineffective.