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Refinement Revised

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Product Backlog Refinement is all about a shared understanding between Product Owner and the Development team. During the Sprint the Dev Team has full focus on the Sprint Goal. In Sprint Planning the Dev Team just sits blank at first. We do too little refinement as a team. Who has to be there?

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7 Secrets to Successful Project Manager/Team Collaboration

Rebel’s Guide to PM

As project managers, it’s important that we know how to best support our development teams (and vice versa), especially in Agile environments. A lot of the points below relate to teams in Agile environments , but can apply to any type of project team. Elisa Cepale. Secret #1: Set the pace in the beginning.

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7 Secrets to Successful Project Manager/Team Collaboration

Rebel’s Guide to PM

As project managers, it’s important that we know how to best support our development teams (and vice versa), especially in Agile environments. A lot of the points below relate to teams in Agile environments , but can apply to any type of project team. This is a guest post from Elisa Cepale. Elisa Cepale.

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Kanban/Flow - The Scrum Master's Not-So-Secret Weapon

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The Sprint Burndown Chart that looks awesome but somehow there's still a lot of work dumped on testing towards the end of the Sprint and a scramble to try and get a Done Increment before the Sprint Review. . The Kanban Guide for Scrum Teams for example is a must-read for any self-respecting Scrum Master. I would start there.

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

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The purpose of qualitative metrics is to gain insight into how one or more of an organization’s Scrum Teams are progressing with agile. The interval to test via self-assessment is every 4–12 weeks, with teams of lesser fluency running their tests at the lower end of this range. Question 44: First Steps of a New Scrum Team.

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Create A More Engaging Sprint Review With This String Of Liberating Structures

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Do you frequently find yourself in Sprint Reviews that only consist of a PowerPoint presentation? For such an important part of the empirical process made possible by the Scrum Framework, the Sprint Review often receives the least attention in how it is facilitated. In this post, we share the design for a Sprint Review.

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Scrum Anti-Patterns GPT

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Reassigning Team Members : Frequently moving team members between Scrum Teams disrupts the building of trust and undermines the stability and effectiveness of teams​​. In the absence of this feedback, teams may engage in gold-plating under the assumption that they are adding value.

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