Scrum.org

APRIL 27, 2020

It is planned by the Product Owner that the increment that will be inspected tomorrow will be released at the end of the Sprint Review. The Scrum Master says, "The team stays until 9:00 p.m. Is this behavior really aligned with the sustainable pace advocated by the Agile Manifesto and Scrum's values ? .

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 1, 2024

At your next Sprint Retrospective, why not work with your Scrum team to identify a New Year's Resolution? Focus on improving your Scrum game in 2024 with one of these five resolutions to enhance collaboration within your team and deliver value sooner to your customers. 4) Try Scrum. 3) Try Flow Metrics What is it?

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

"The Development Team consists of professionals who do the work of delivering a potentially releasable Increment of "Done" product at the end of each Sprint." - The Scrum Guide. The Scrum Guide is markedly ambitious in the standard of professionalism it demands of a team.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 3, 2020

Dependencies are an epidemic in software development. There could be many reasons why - perhaps your organization has adopted an Agile framework, but you're not yet structured to support sustainable teams. The team model in Scrum is designed to optimize flexibility, creativity, and productivity.” - K.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 25, 2022

How sustainable is your pace as a developer? This has always been a huge struggle for us and most of the teams we’ve been part of. Unfortunately, many developers and development teams still burn more hours than are probably good for them. What is a sustainable pace? Talk about stress with your team.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 5, 2020

In this blog series I would like to address topics that relate to professional team coaching as well as Professional Scrum. In the course of becoming a Professional Team Coach, I noticed a lot of interesting topics for Scrum Masters who want to improve their coaching stance. . There are more ways to contract a team.

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Scrum.org

MAY 17, 2021

One of my customers is hiring for the Scrum Master Role and asked if I had a handy-dandy Scrum Master Job Spec that they could use. Here is my best effort to use the existing job postings, and combine them with the latest version of the Scrum Guide. Professional Scrum Master. . Hiring a Professional Scrum Master.

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The IIL Blog

JULY 24, 2024

Agile (Scrum). An adaptive approach with empowered, self-organizing teams. Gate reviews mark the completion of each phase. Scrum is characterized by a series of design-build-test iterations (sprints), commonly two weeks long. A typical pattern is the overlapping of design with development, and development with testing.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 26, 2018

So how do you scale Scrum to the limit? Meet Peter, he’s a product owner of a new team starting on the greatest invention since sliced bread. In order to meet demands while adding new features, Peter needs to either get more value out of his teams and if that is no longer possible, add more team members.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Question: During an Enterprise Agility Transformation, there is often a tendency to strive for quick, short term financial gains, or other performance improvements; can you provide examples on how to find that balance to achieve longer-term sustainable growth? DW - That is true at the enterprise, department, product, and team level.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 1, 2022

Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. You can observe implicit coordination in Scrum teams when you look at how work moves across a Scrum board, or on- and of the Sprint Backlog. This is also why the Scrum framework includes the Definition of Done.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 12, 2020

If you’re having a similar question about the Scrum Master vs the Project Manager, then check out this blog. The Product Owner is one person (not a committee) responsible in the Scrum Framework for maximizing the value. The Product Owner also shouldn’t track and measure team progress. What is a Product Owner?

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 25, 2019

Welcome back to the Scrum Master blog series with yours truly. As we enter the new year, we are seeing Scrum becoming the most commonly used framework to manage complex product delivery in the industry. For example at iPrice , the company that I currently work with, we have set the bar high for the Scrum Master role.

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Scrum.org

JULY 6, 2023

Outcome-Driven Roadmaps: A Key to Scrum Success For professionals holding certifications like Professional Scrum Master or Professional Scrum Product Owner , the Scrum framework provides a perfect environment for outcome-driven road mapping. Goals should always align with the bigger picture.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Agile, in this context, is now a widely used term, and the Agile Manifesto has given rise to a plethora of new approaches since its creation, many of which claim the manifesto as their impetus and driving force—including Scrum. . In Scrum, teams determine the frequency of value delivery by the length of the Sprint.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 28, 2019

have been doing Scrum trainings for a long time. During the last years, I have stressed even more the importance of understanding the nature and purpose of the Scrum Framework just at the begginning of the classes. This is, by no means, accepting distorted or flaccid applications of Scrum.

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Scrum.org

JULY 1, 2019

In many organisations I see Scrum not producing its anticipated value. But there also is a universal anticipated value of Scrum. The Scrum Guide says about Scrum's purpose: “A framework within which people can address complex adaptive problems, while productively and creatively delivering products of the highest possible value.”.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

TL; DR: ChatGPT Product Owner Job Interview A few weeks ago, I ran a simulated job interview with ChatGPT for a fictitious Scrum Master position. Admittedly, I would not have invited this “interviewee” for an interview with other team members; however, the interview produced some remarkable answers.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

One of the key Kanban practices we discuss in the Kanban Guide for Scrum Teams is Limiting Work in Process. . Here are some patterns I found useful over the years when working with Kanban and Scrum teams: The Freeze. The gap between deciding to Limit WIP and actually lowering WIP. Essentially prioritize all work.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 13, 2019

The first part contains my personal journey in becoming a Scrum Master, the second part includes recommendations for new Scrum Masters. Part 1 — Becoming a Scrum Master. Nine years ago I changed my title from Project Manager into Scrum Master. Do you have any recommendations for my Scrum Master journey?”.

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nTask

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Multiple efficient project management frameworks and methodologies have been introduced over the years to ensure effective team management and collaboration in a workplace. Numerous factors need to be considered before selecting the optimum approach for a team and subsequently a project. Let’s begin.

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MPUG

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The Scrum meeting is an essential part of every project’s management, especially one following Agile methodology. It’s considered a valuable source of getting real-time updates, information, and feedback from the development team. It also serves to help keep the field team aligned with the company’s goals and deadlines.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

. Scrum is intended as a simple, yet sufficient framework for complex product delivery. Scrum is not a one-size-fits-all solution, a silver bullet or a complete methodology. Instead, Scrum provides the minimal boundaries within which teams can self-organize to solve complex problems with an empirical approach.

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Project Bliss

MAY 10, 2017

The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation. Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.

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Moira Alexander

JANUARY 12, 2017

Sustainable development is accomplished through agile processes whereby development teams and stakeholders are able to maintain a constant and ongoing pace. Throughout the development process, agile favors the developers, project teams and customer goals, but not necessarily the end user's experience.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Technical debt seems like a topic that resides completely in the domain of a Development Team. And just to be perfectly clear about it: The one thing you should not compromise on - if you are aiming for professional Scrum - is quality! Sure, John - one of the team members had his concerns but he is a pessimistic guy, right?

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 6, 2019

Organizations use Scrum because they hope it can help them become more Agile. Think of delivering value to customers sooner by releasing early & often, decreasing cycle time and lead time, improving team morale, lowering the number of defects, optimizing return on investment and increasing innovation rate. It’s all about strategy.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 14, 2023

Frameworks such as Scrum are meant to support agility. Sprints are short planning horizons and the artefacts and events in Scrum are there to provide greater transparency and opportunities to inspect and adapt based on early feedback, changes in conditions and new information. After all, Scrum is just a framework.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 31, 2020

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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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

It’s same with Scrum. Stay true to the purpose of your Daily Scrum, inspect how the progress is trending towards the Sprint Goal and collaboratively re-plan your work as a unified Scrum Team for the next 24hrs? Raise the transparency of your work and its progress within your Scrum Team. 2) Don’t overeat.

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Teamweek

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Keep reading to discover the definition and responsibilities of a Product Owner and 30 product owner interview questions that will help you accurately assess candidates’ technical skills and personality traits. A Product Owner is a person who’s part of the scrum team. Are Product Owners and Scrum Masters the same?

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TrustRadius Project Management

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

This methodology breaks a software development project into incremental stages, slowing building on successive stages with what are called “sprints”. Overall, both can be beneficial to a software development team. The full scope of the project is agreed upon by the development team and their customers in advance.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 14, 2021

The Nexus group of teams is very similar to the Agile Release Train (ART) construct. In both SAFe/Scrum it is a self-managing team of self-managed teams with a couple of key roles at the team of teams level. . Scrum theory emphasizes Empiricism and Self-management, coupled with Flow in recent years.

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Teamweek

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Keep reading to discover the definition and responsibilities of a Product Owner and 30 product owner interview questions that will help you accurately assess candidates’ technical skills and personality traits. A Product Owner is a person who’s part of the scrum team. What does a Product Owner do?

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Gunther Verheyen

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In the summer of 2019 I got in touch with O’Reilly Media about their ambition to add a book about Scrum to their “97 Things” series. For that reason I did not want any specific Scrum accountability in the title.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Since this forecast lies within the 126 point “budget” indicated by their average velocity, the team might feel bullish about their ability to do the work and to meet any associated Sprint Goal. They run 1000 simulations to assess the likelihood of 125 points actually being completed in their Sprint of 10 working days. days or less.

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TrustRadius Project Management

MARCH 14, 2018

This methodology breaks a software development project into incremental stages, slowing building on successive stages with what are called “sprints”. Both the Waterfall and the Agile methodologies carry their own set of advantages and disadvantages and both can be beneficial to a software development team.

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