scrum
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What work do you do the whole day?
Recently during on of my CSM classes, one of my participants mentioned this. They were asked this by their manager in their annual performance review “What work do you do the whole day” and I was left wondering , where have I heard this before ? and then came the flashback! Cut back to 1990s,…
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The Agile Education Manifesto
We are discovering better ways to help students at all levels gain knowledge and learn new skills and topics and through this research and observation, we have come to value: Feedforward OVER Feedback Healthy Collaboration OVER Unhealthy competition Agile Learning Culture OVER Comprehensive content Adaptive Learning approaches OVER Rigid traditional approaches While there is value…
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Agile Vendor Management Manifesto
The Objective of this Manifesto is to define guiding principles around the Customer-Supplier working environment with regards to working on Scrum projects. The assumptions made are: Opening Statement The Customers and Suppliers are integrated elements of a working environment in a project. The Customers and Suppliers will work together with a common goal and that…
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Manifesto for Agile Software Development (in Hindi)
चपल संगणक भाष्य विकास के लिये घोषणा पत्र हम निरंतर संगणक भाष्य विकास की उन्नत तकनीकों की खोज कर रहे हैं और अन्य जनों की इस खोज में सहायता कर रहे हैं । इस शोध के आधार पर हम प्रक्रियाओं और उपकरणों की बजाय मानव और उनके पारस्परिक संवादव्यापक प्रलेखन की बजाय सक्रिय संगणक भाष्यआनुबंधिक…
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Father of the Bride: Essentials of the Product Owner’s role
Product Owner’s role is one of the primary roles on the Scrum but as it is with most of the Scrum practices and Agile principles , Everyone interprets it in their own way. As was trying to find examples of a PO’s role, I remembered Steve Martin (who else…..) [And if you are thinking why…
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Be who you are – Essentials of a ScrumMaster’s role
A ScrumMaster is a lot of things – Mentor, Guide, Buddy, Coach, Shoulder to cry upon, Teacher, Specialist and many more .. But, if we think deeper….Can one person really be all of these at once?? I think the nearest super humans we know, who can pull of all of these responsibilities without batting an…
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Is ‘Agile’ a substitute for your messy culture?
800 teams , more than 100 organizations that I have coached to build an Agile culture and practices, but a peculiar thing that I have noted. I probably had not paid attention to this earlier, but as I was looking back and analyzing the pre and post transformation status of lot of my clients, I…
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The various hats of a Scrum Master
Process Champion, Facilitator, Buddy, Coach, Mentor, Ear to listen to, Shoulder to cry upon, The friend you can confess with, The non-judgmental listening box, the savior, the rescuer and more… Well, if you combine all these adjectives , what you get is your Ideal Scrum Master.. but.. but but.. nothing in this world is IDEAL…