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To Sprint Zero or Not
Recently I have been seeing posts on a few forums about the concept of using a Sprint zero in Scrum or stabilizaiton sprints. Too often, the response from the mighty CSTs on high is “that’s not...
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Does ‘Who Makes a Good ScrumMaster’ Have Much To Do With Their Current or...
Recently I’ve read a few blog posts and forum posts discussing, ‘what role do the best ScrumMasters come from?’ One post in particular suggested that perhaps Technical Leads are the best candidates...
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Is Transparency The Key Enabler of Agile?
Transparency IMO is perhaps the key enabler of Agile. It is at the foundation of building trust, the emergent nature of design and the ability to have effective inspect and Tranparency adapt cycles. I...
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Scrum Master as a Secondary Role
Recently I’ve been seeing even more discussions on forums about members of the dev team taking on the Scrum Master (SM) role. I’m beginning to wonder if the traditional resource managers are creeping...
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How Long Should a Retrospective be for a Sprint?
The short-short answer is it depends on the length of the sprint. For discussion purposes I’m going to frame the topic to a one to two week sprint. Generally, for one week cadence teams, I find it is...
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To Estimate or Not? To Track or Not? – Those Are The Questions!
I continue to see discussions on Agile and Lean forums about whether it is good to track this or estimate that. The answers are like most things with Agile and Lean, they are contextual, but consider...
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