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What the Best Software Managers for Scrum Teams Do Steve Vaughn shares his experiences as a software manager for multiple Scrum teams. In Steve's eyes, the best software managers hire the right people for the job, give them assignments where they can be most successful, and create a work environment where teams produce high quality systems. |
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What Is a True Agile Coach? Obtaining a Scrum or agile certification typically does not require that a person learn the fundamental differences between coaching, facilitation, and mentoring. This lack of understanding is reducing the quality of coaching to our customers. |
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Why You Need Accountability in a Scrum Development Team Often a developer who questions his team members and follows up with open-action items will be regarded as being rude. However, sometimes you need people to hold others accountable for their actions if you want your team to be successful. |
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Agile Survey Reveals Reasons behind Successes and Failures VersionOne's seventh annual agile survey results were recently revealed. Much to the delight of practitioners worldwide, agile is still growing in popularity for a wide variety of reasons. But not everyone is on board. Learn where agile succeeded—and where it didn't. |
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How to Scale Agile for Larger Teams and Organizations Agile seems suited for smaller teams because of less bureaucracy and management overhead. So how do you implement, run, and achieve success with agile in larger efforts? The success or failure of scaling agile to large teams is based on your organization’s maturity as it applies to agile. |
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The Necessity of a Fifteen-Minute Standup Meeting One of Scrum‘s basic techniques is the fifteen-minute standup meeting. Joe Townsend dives into the why this meeting is necessary, how it can help your agile team, and how you can get more from your fifteen minutes. |
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ScrumMasters vs. Project Managers Joe Townsend explores whether or not a ScrumMaster can be considered a product manager and vice versa. The way the roles are defined (or evolving) should help you avoid potential conflict in your agile organization. |
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Should You Embrace Agile Principles at Home? Families struggling to reach a manageable work/life balance are often looking anywhere for help, but few look toward their employers for guidance when the answer may have been there for decades. We all knew agile benefited more than just software teams, but how many have applied it in our homes? |
