How The ScrumMaster Develop a Team
This video describes the role of a Scrum Master and the journey an agile team and the Scrum Master is on. It uses a 2D chart to describe the correlation between the team maturity and the level of self-management.
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Mixup Testing Between Scrum Teams
There are a lot of benefits with having the testers in the Scrum teams working side by side with the developers, and not in a separate test team. However, there are also some negative aspects that can endanger the quality of the work the testers are doing.
What Does Self-Organizing Team Really Mean?
“Self-organizing team” may be the most over-used, mis-understood, vague, and mis-leading phrase of the decade. So what is a self-organizing team? How are self-organizing teams different from other teams? How can managers and team members get the self-organizing mojo going? What are the challenges that self-organizing teams face? In this …
Managing Agile Team Competency
Going Agile can confer a number of benefits to an organization, but all too often those promised benefits aren’t fully delivered. Do you have the visibility you need to understand progress and make timely market-focused decisions? Do your teams ship on a frequency your customers can, and want, to accept? …
Leading a Self-Organizing Scrum Team
Leading a self-organizing Scrum team can be a fine line. One of the challenges of agile development is coming to grips with the role of leaders and managers of self-organizing teams. Many would-be ScrumMasters and agile coaches go to the extreme of refusing to exert any influence on their teams …
Collaborative Leadership
When members of a development project are asked to become a self-directed agile team, some claim that leadership and leaders are obsolete. Or, is a different type of leadership exactly what agile teams need to truly flourish? Whether you are a senior manager, product owner, customer, ScrumMaster, or an individual …