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Add life to your Virtual Meetings

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Add life to your Virtual Meetings

Virtual meetings have never been so hard or so vital. These days with the lack of day to day interactions it becomes much harder to ensure our message is accepted and understood. So if you are finding yourself hosting meetings that are a little lack lustre, where people aren’t learning anything, which result in the […]

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Easy but effective tips for a better Sprint Planning, part 2b: adding resilience

Ever find yourself in a position where sprint surprises are seriously impacting the teams ability to deliver? If you do, then this post is for you. Here we will look at building a teams capacity to respond quickly to future challenges. We will not alter the sprint plan, instead we will develop the teams capacity to […]

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Easy but effective tips for a better Sprint Planning, part 2a: avoiding impediments

Ever find yourself faced with unique impediments for which nobody seems to know the solution? The only course of action seems to be to accept that the impediment is there, escalate it to management, inform stakeholders of delays, then attend the daily scrum regularly to give an update to the team, and when they get […]

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Easy but effective tips for a better Sprint Planning, part 1

“The work to be performed in the Sprint is planned at the Sprint Planning. This plan is created by the collaborative work of the entire Scrum Team. Sprint Planning is time-boxed to a maximum of eight hours for a one-month Sprint. For shorter Sprints, the event is usually shorter.” At the end of the sprint […]

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Easy but effective tips for disseminating information

Often as a Scrum Master you can find yourself having to disseminate large amounts of static information to your team. This type of information could be an introduction or an update to the scrum framework an introduction or update to a scaled agile framework a corporate presentation We can achieve this by making a small […]

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Easy but effective tips for a better daily planning

Try these tips if your daily scrum doesnt resemble how the scrum guide describes it: “Daily Scrums improve communications, eliminate other meetings, identify impediments to development for removal, highlight and promote quick decision-making, and improve the Development Team’s level of knowledge. This is a key inspect and adapt meeting.”

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