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Scrum Methodology: Roles, Events & Artifacts

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The scrum methodology was developed as a response to rigid project management approaches such as the waterfall method, which didn’t adapt to the needs of agile product and software development teams. We’ll explore the scrum methodology in-depth, but before that, let’s start with a simple scrum definition.

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How Poor Facilitation Of The Scrum Events Can Cause Zombie Scrum

Scrum.org

In the past years, Johannes Schartau, Christiaan Verwijs, and I wrote many articles on Zombie Scrum. Heck, we even wrote a complete Zombie Scrum Survival Guide ! I’d like to believe that since our book, Zombie Scrum completely disappeared. But Zombie Scrum is still present in different shapes and forms. Zombie Scrum?

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Unlock the Power in the Five Scrum Events

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A Scrum Event is a meeting. Given the poor reputation that meetings have, maybe it's not a surprise. Rather than replicate the name and pain of meetings, the Scrum Events are designed to replace them and be all that you need. The power of the Scrum Events is in the way they're time-boxed and in their purpose.

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Development Team Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Development Team Anti-Patterns. After covering the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, this article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact. The Role of the Development Team in Scrum.

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Good Scrum Master; Bad Scrum Master

Scrum.org

As many scrum masters set out on their journey, they are often as new to their role as their manager. This post (inspired by Ben Horowitz author of “The hard things about hard things”) is for scrum masters, and people who work with scrum masters, and explores what good and bad looks like.

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Don’t confuse Scrum with “An Implementation of Scrum”

Scrum.org

Scrum was introduced in 1995. Since then, as more people, teams, and organizations have started using Scrum, the framework has grown into the most used method for agile product delivery. And as the popularity of Scrum started to grow, many misinterpretations of the framework grew with it. The power of Scrum.

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Nine Sprint Goal Principles to Get Your Scrum Team Going

Scrum.org

In Scrum, the Sprint Goal serves as the spotlight that provides transparency to the Sprint Backlog, as the flag that allows the team to rally, and the one thing that provides focus and cohesion. The following nine Sprint Goal principles point at critical issues any Scrum team needs to consider on its path to excellence. ????