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| Barry Overeem

The 11 Advantages of Using a Sprint Goal

March 6, 2016

When facilitating a Scrum Master training, the Sprint Goal is a topic that often causes a good discussion. Participants question the background, purpose and advantages of using a Sprint Goal.

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| Clementino Mendonca

About self-organizing teams

March 3, 2016

Question from a budding Scrum Master, who is transitioning from a background as a traditional project manager:

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| Ravi Verma

(WHY) WILL AGILE WORK THIS TIME?

March 1, 2016

BURNING QUESTION

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| Barry Overeem

The 5 Most Common Pitfalls of the Scrum Events

February 29, 2016

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| Hiren Doshi

Feedback on the Professional Scrum Foundations Workshop

February 28, 2016

This video captures the feedback from the students on the Professional Scrum Foundation workshop facilitated in India.

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| Barry Overeem

Characteristics of a Great Scrum Team

February 24, 2016

Scrum is a framework within which people can address complex problems, and productively and creatively develop products of the highest possible value. It's a tool organizations can use increase their agility.

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| Hiren Doshi

Scaled Professional Scrum using the Nexus Framework - Feedback

February 21, 2016

This blog is the feedback on Scaled Professional Scrum using Nexus Framework and over 50 practices from the participants who attended my SPS workshop in India. [embed]https://youtu.be/hC6H5MtsClY[/embed]

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| Dave West

Working with a web development company using Scrum

February 19, 2016

I am sure it would not come as a surprise, but our website (www.scrum.org) needs a major refresh.

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| Barry Overeem

The 28 Characteristics of a Great Scrum Master

February 17, 2016

The Scrum Master is responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and enacted. Scrum Masters do this by ensuring that the Scrum Team adheres to Scrum theory, practices, and rules.  The Scrum Master is a servant-leader for the Scrum Team.

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| Barry Overeem

The 25 Characteristics of a Great Development Team

February 15, 2016

Recently I wrote an article about the characteristics of a great Product Owner. It gave me the idea to do the same for the Development Team and Scrum Master.

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| Jerónimo Palacios

How to start a Nexus in practice?

February 10, 2016

Nexus and SPS have been online for a while. There are organisations around the world giving it a try and, of course, there are questions about how to set up and begin using Nexus in an organisation.

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| Jerónimo Palacios

9 keys to understand the Nexus Integration Team

January 25, 2016

After downloading and studying the Nexus guide, you have questions about how the Nexus Integration Team actually works, so here are some keys to understand the role and its fit within the Nexus.

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| Barry Overeem

The 18 Characteristics of a Great Product Owner

January 19, 2016

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| Barry Overeem

The #1 Characteristic of Agile DNA

January 10, 2016

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| Gunther Verheyen

What Product Ownership might entangle

January 5, 2016

What is a 'Product Owner'?

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| Barry Overeem

Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule

January 1, 2016

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| Gunther Verheyen

The Agile Paradigm (wishing you a great 2016)

December 29, 2015

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| Barry Overeem

How to Build a Scrum Team with Contractors?

December 26, 2015

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| François Desrosiers

Base donnes Agile - Dbuter le voyage !

December 18, 2015

Comme on l'a vu durant la présentation, l'Agilité a des impacts à tous les niveaux et touche même les bases de données. Pour être capable de travailler efficacement dans un contexte Agile, le DBA doit ajuster sa manière de travaill

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| Gunther Verheyen

Product Backlog, not a story card hell (the Scrum.org PSPO program)

December 14, 2015

At some occasions we stop to look back. We see the trail we left behind, the bigger picture, the impact we made. Small or big. We think of the impact we hoped to make, small or big.

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| Louis-Philippe Carignan

Fourth iteration of my upcoming book

December 14, 2015

After almost a year, I am now publishing the 4th iteration of my upcoming book So You Want To Be A Hero : Soft skills at the core of Agile software development.

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| Fredrik Wendt

10 Product Owner Questions

December 10, 2015

This is a list of 10 questions a Scrum Master may ask a Product Owner, in order to help coach them in their role. Of course, not all questions may apply based on your specific context.

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| Barry Overeem

So What is Agile Really About?

December 8, 2015

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| Barry Overeem

A Projects Nightmare

December 6, 2015

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| Louis-Philippe Carignan

The positive retrospective

December 1, 2015

According to the Scrum guide, sprint retrospectives are "an opportunity for the Scrum Team to inspect itself and create a plan for improvements to be enacted during the next Sprint."

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| Dan Sloan

The 5 Traits of Real Agile Leadership

November 27, 2015

Inspiring Lessons From the Life Journey of Mr. Warrick Dunn __________

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| Ravi Verma

Can You Help Me Write A Story...?

November 24, 2015

It is my favorite time of the year - Fall, the season of thanks, reflection and resolutions.

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| Barry Overeem

Team Culture over Project Culture

November 24, 2015

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| Dan Sloan

7 Ways to Boost Your Ability as a Scrum Team Member

November 18, 2015

Where do you spend your days in the workplace? Are you living in the Scrum-oriented trenches of your organization, like the vast majority of us?

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| Barry Overeem

Commitment versus Forecast

November 13, 2015

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| Dan Sloan

5 "Secrets" of a Great Agile Leader

November 11, 2015

Are you considered an authoritative "leader" in your organization? Do you spend your day at the top of the tower or in the trenches?

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| Barry Overeem

The 9 Smells of an Organization

November 6, 2015

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| Paul Kuijten

How do you scale Agile? Wait! Wrong question!

November 6, 2015

A lot of people talk about scaling Agile. It’s all the rage nowadays. Everyone wants to scale Agile. But what does that actually mean? What does it imply? What are the underlying assumptions? Capital-A Agile

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| Barry Overeem

Scrum: A Five-Headed Meeting Monster?

October 30, 2015

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| Barry Overeem

The Scrum Master as a Teacher

October 25, 2015

The role of a Scrum Master is one of many stances and diversity. A great Scrum Master is aware of them and knows when and how to apply them, depending on situation and context.

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| Barry Overeem

Is Scrum an Asperger's Friend or Foe?

October 22, 2015

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| Kate Terlecka

The Daily Scrum in a scaled environment

October 22, 2015

Before I begin, I have to make sure you’re not fixed on a misconception. The Daily Scrum is not a status meeting, nor a report back to the team. It’s a planning event.

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| Simon Reindl

The Role of a Professional Tester in an Agile World

October 20, 2015

An agile development team is cross-functional, meaning that as a collective the team has the capability of building a potentially releasable increment (the working software).

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| Patricia Kong

When do you use Nexus?

October 20, 2015

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| Ravi Verma

V-P-C + V-W-R: Boosting Sustainable Profit with a Modern "Scrum"-Petitive Strategy

October 20, 2015

WYGAT WEED WHACKER

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| Dave West

Southern Fried Agile - It is gravy for your brain

October 19, 2015

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| Gunther Verheyen

Turn Pair Programming into a daily practice

October 12, 2015

A lack of defined engineering practices, standards and tooling is an often observed problem in software development, regardless of whether Scrum is used.

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| Dave West

Why I joined Scrum.org

October 2, 2015

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| Joshua Partogi

Who is the Professional Scrum Product Owner

October 1, 2015

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| Barry Overeem

The Box of Transparency

September 29, 2015

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| Barry Overeem

Daily Scrum - Tips & Tactics

September 26, 2015

Although the Daily Scrum seems to be a simple and straightforward event, I still encounter a lot of teams struggling with it. In this blog post I'll share my tips & tactics.

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| Gunther Verheyen

Scrum, complexity and Universal Truths

September 23, 2015

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| Barry Overeem

Is Your Scrum Team a Set of Pawns or Players?

September 23, 2015

Update: after receiving some valuable feedback, I've added the third lesson learned. 

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| Cesario Ramos

Multifunctional Learning & the reusable Sprint Backlog

September 20, 2015

Have you ever seen a Sprint Backlog that can be reused across Sprints? I have!

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| Barry Overeem

A Common Pitfall With User Stories

September 16, 2015