The tryScrum blogs


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    Scrum vs. Traditional Project Management: A Comparative Analysis

    Within the ever-changing field of project management, two prominent approaches have become well-liked options

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    The Evolution of Scrum: What’s New in 2024?

    Welcome to the fast-paced world of Scrum, where the only constant is change. As we step into 2024,

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    5 Must-Read Books according to Venkatesh Rajamani

    Indulge in an adventure this holiday season with the captivating suggestion from  Venkatesh Rajamani, founder of tryScrum

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    The Evolution of Scrum & Complementary Practices: Past, Prеsеnt, and Futurе Trеnds

    As we fast forward to thе prеsеnt day, Scrum has become thе dе facto agilе framework

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    Common Myths of Scaling Agility: Beyond Common Misconceptions

    One prevalent misconception is that scaling Agile simply involves expanding the workforce

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    Demystifying The Role Of Scrum Masters In Navigating An AI-Driven Future

    In the rapidly evolving landscape of technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI) stands out as a transformative force, reshaping industries and business models.

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    Mastering Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO I) with tryScrum

    Welcome to tryScrum, your gateway to mastering the art of Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO I).

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     “Unlocking Success with Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO): A Guide by tryScrum”

    Welcome to tryScrum, where we embrace agility and empower teams to achieve their best potential.

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    The Journey to Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM) with tryScrum

    Welcome to the world of agile mastery, where the pursuit of excellence meets the dynamic realm of Scrum.

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    Becoming a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) with tryScrum: Your Path to Agile Mastery

    Welcome to tryScrum, your trusted partner on the journey to becoming a Certified Scrum Master (CSM).

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     Mastering Scrum: A Comprehensive Guide to PSM I Certification by tryScrum

    Welcome to tryScrum! In our quest to empower aspiring Scrum practitioners, we believe that a solid understanding of Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) certification is fundamental.

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    The Lost Essence of User Story Estimation in Agile

    User story estimation was initially crafted as a compass, guiding teams in expressing the effort to create tangible value.

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    The Power of Certified Agile Leadership: A Winning Combination

    In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, organizations are under immense pressure to adapt and thrive in the face of constant change.

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    Enhancing Agile Teams Success: Mastering Professional Scrum Facilitation Skills

    Agile methodologies have revolutionized the way teams approach project management and software development.

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    Supercharging Your Career with Scrum Alliance Certification

    In today’s fast-paced and dynamic business environment, professionals across various industries are constantly seeking ways to enhance their skills and stand out from the competition.

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    The Advanced Certified ScrumMaster: Elevating Agile Leadership

    Welcome to our blog! Today, we are excited to delve into the realm of Agile leadership and discuss the importance of the Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM) certification.

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    Unveiling the Myth: Comparing Story Points and Hours in Agile Teams

    Story points represent a relative measure for estimating the effort or complexity of Work Items or user stories

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    Agile Contracting in Government: Navigating Regulations and Driving Innovation

    Agile methods emphasise flexibility, collaboration, and incremental delivery, which require a different approach to contracting.

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    Unlock a facilitator in you: Why you should consider the Agile Coaching Skills – Certified Facilitator program

    Facilitation is pivotal in supporting collaboration, creativity, and effective decision-making within groups.

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    Evolving Your Definition of Done in Scrum: A Guide for Agile Teams

    As outlined in the Scrum Guide, the DoD represents a shared understanding within the Scrum Team .

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    Title: Busting the Myth: Scrum and Kanban – Allies, not Enemies

    Scrum and Kanban are often seen as competing approaches in agile working methods.

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    Unleashing Business Agility: How Scrum Helps Your Business Become Agile

    In today’s rapidly changing business landscape, staying ahead of the competition requires organisations to be agile, adaptive, and responsive.

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    7 Leadership Interventions That Can Undermine Scrum Teams’ Success: How to Avoid Them

    As a leader, it’s essential to recognise that specific interventions can harm Scrum teams and their ability to succeed.

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    Acceptance Criteria vs Definition of Done: Understanding the Differences in Product Development

    Two terms often need clarification in the Agile Software Development approach: Acceptance Criteria and Definition of Done.

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    Unlocking the Secrets of Scrum Master Salary: How Much Can You Earn and What Factors Influence Your Pay

    Scrum Masters are in high demand worldwide as companies adopt Agile working methods

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    5 Recommendations for a Successful Agile Coaching Career Path

    Agile coaches typically start their careers as Scrum Masters or Agile team members.

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    Agile Transformation: Strategies for Embracing Agility Across Your Organization

    An agile method is a popular approach to product management that has been proven to deliver results for businesses of all sizes.

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    How to Deal with Estimation Problems in Agile Teams

    Agile development is all about building a collaborative, empowered team that delivers value to the customer.

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    Creating Effective Product Goals and Sprint Goals in Scrum: A Comprehensive Guide

    In this blog, we have focused on the importance of creating effective Product Goals and Sprint Goals, which are aligned with each other and the product’s overall vision.

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    Guide to Launching a Career as a Scrum Master with Limited or No Prior Experience

    Guide to Launching a Career as a Scrum Master with Limited or No Prior Experience

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    Agile Product Development with Scrum: Strategies for Success

    Agile product development with Scrum is a popular approach that emphasises collaboration, flexibility, and continuous improvement.

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    The Scrum Product Backlog: Prioritization Techniques for Agile Teams

    At the heart of Scrum is the Product Backlog, a prioritised list of features and requirements that guides the development process.

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    10 Top Skills every Scrum Master should have in 2023

    In 2023, the role of a Scrum Master is becoming increasingly important. This article explores the 10 top skills every Scrum Master should have to be successful.

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    Why Story points and days don’t always add up?

    In agile development, story points estimate work. But why do they differ in how many days it takes to complete a task? Read on to find out and learn how to improve your team’s productivity.

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    How can the Certified Agile Leader program build an aligned leadership team in your Organization?

    Discover how the Certified Agile Leader Program can transform your organisation by aligning your leadership team towards a common goal.

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    How Scrum Certification can help you stand out in your career and thrive?

    Boost your career potential with a Scrum Certification. Learn how to thrive in your role & stand out in a competitive job market.

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    Uncovering the Silent Killers of Agile and Scrum: How to avoid common pitfalls and ensure success?

    Uncover the silent killers that can impact your project’s success. Ensure your Agile and Scrum implementations are effective and efficient.

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    What are the Essential Components of a Scrum Team and the Roles and Responsibilities of Team Members?

    In this blog post, we’ll take a closer look at the essential components of a Scrum team.

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    Why Scrum Is Hard to Learn (but Worth It)

    Adapting to Scrum: a journey of continuous improvement and team collaboration

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    Building Blocks of Next-Generation Organisations

    Learn about the key components required for creating the next-gen organisations.

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    Is Scrum needed to be Agile?

    “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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    What are the focus areas of an Agile Coach?

    Though, there is no universal definition of what is an Agile Coach. I want to define.

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    Sprint itself is an emerging Strategy

    The most perceptible activity in Scrum is the Sprint.

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    Five Ways a Scrum Master can Improve Team’s Effectiveness

    Scrum Masters can rely on the Scrum Principles and Values to play a vital role in enabling the team to make better decisions.

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    Which of the scrum values is most demonstrated?

    The general line is that successful Scrum relies on the whole team signifying specific values based on the context.

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    What is a Common Misconception About Agile And DevOps?

    Agile and DevOps are designed to deliver faster and sustainable value.

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    Mindful Scrum Mastery

    Mindful Scrum Mastery is applying mindfulness principles and techniques to Scrum.

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    How Is A Plan Driven Development Different From Agile Development?

    If we start talking about plan-driven and Agile, they vary from each other.

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    Sprint Itself Is An Event In Scrum? True Or False? 5 Events In Scrum. 

    Yes, Sprint is itself an event in Scrum. It is an opportunity for the Scrum team to validate its ideas or assumptions.

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    What Differentiates Agile From The Waterfall Methodology?

    Both of them are widespread in the software development field and withstand accurately as well.

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    Do your retrospective suck due to a powerful Product Owner?

    Anyone overpowering affects the whole team’s activity and outcome.

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    What Are Two Behaviors Of An Effective Scrum Master?

    The position of a Scrum Master is one of many perspectives and variety.

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    What Are Real Life Examples Of Agile Methodology?

    A big bummer that many professionals centres on are calling Agile a precise “Methodology.”

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    Which Statement Is True About Iteration Planning?

    Do you ever think about how professionals plan their scrum meetings?

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    In An Agile Environment What Is The Main Responsibility Of A Tester?

    The first thing that comes to mind is who is a tester? What actually does he do?

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    How should work be allocated in the scrum project?

    What fundamental basics do you follow for exceptional performance or to stand out?

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    What is the primary measure of progress in agile?

    Differences in agile and traditional project management approaches?

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    How to Engage Stakeholders in your Sprint Reviews

    This absence of stakeholders can be consequential to the product’s progress .

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    What is One Prerogative of a Scrum Master?

    The Scrum Masters have many prerogatives.

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    Who is Responsible for ROI in Scrum?

    The Product Owner is responsible for the return on investment.

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    Which statement best describes Scrum

    I hypothesise that Scrum, the most popular Agile Framework, will be leveraged to solve complex problems

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    Which statement best describes the Sprint Review

    The most perceptible activity that can take place in Scrum is the Sprint Review.

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    The Next Generation Leaders

    Webinar with Arne Åhlander on NextGen Leaders

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    Building career as a Product Owner

    A step-by-step approach towards becoming a Product Owner.

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    When a Scrum Master Encounters Resistance? | Top 10 challenges of a Scrum Master

    The role of a Scrum Master can be indubitably challenging.

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    The Value of a Scrum Master

    Coming soon!

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    Can you be Agile with fixed-bid Projects?

    The first thing to learn about agile is not to commit to something that you do not know.

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    6 Insider tips to be a good Scrum Master

    A stronghold over your training skills set the tone right for your peers

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    What happens to the UNDONE work in a Sprint?

    What happens to the UNDONE work at the end of the Sprint?

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    Humanising Organisations with Scrum – Series # 3

    Webcast with Steve Porter

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    Humanising Organisations with Scrum – Series # 2

    Webcast with Arne Ahlande

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    Humanising Organisations with Scrum- Episode # 1

    Interview with Mike Cohn

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    How to pass Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) Certification

    One of the most sought certifications in the Agile industry for Scrum Masters is PSM I.

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    How to pass Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO I) Certification

    Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) is a series of certifications from Scrum.org for Product Owners.

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    Three Pro-Tips for Mentoring Conversation

    Mentoring is a choice. Mentoring is not a spare time activity. It is more a relationship.

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    Can a Manager Perform the Role of a Scrum Master?

    Even though it was a “Yes” as per Scrum but not a recommended option.

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    I am a Scrum Master. What’s next?

    The career path of a Scrum Master

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    Is it worth it to become a Scrum Master

    My approach was to ask myself if I can create a positive and long-lasting impact.

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    Scrum Master or Agile Coach-What’s the difference?

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    Do we need a Scrum Master forever?

    Scrum Master moves to serve the overall organization and product owner

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    Episode #1 -Agile Coaching

    Huddle on Agile Coaching

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    Announcing the Scrum Foundations Course

    Scrum Foundations

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    5 Scrum Myths – Busted

    Five Scrum Myths- Busted

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    How to write effective User Stories?

    Stories aren’t the requirements; they’re discussions about solving right.

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    What is Manager’s role in Scrum?

    There is a piece of information that is missing in the Scrum Guide.

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    The Dynamics of Team Coaching

    What is a team Coaching? It comprises more than one person.

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    3 tips to have the right Coaching Conversation

    For comprehending the true essence of the conversation, you need to listen genuinely.

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    6 Tips for Leaders as a Coach

    Leaders play a vital role in building Organisations that are humane and capable.

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    Top 20 Scrum Master Interview Qusetions

    The need for the right blend of Scrum Theory and Complementary Practices is essential.

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    Top 3 things to consider when launching a new Scrum Team

    I hear questions on the best time to launch a scrum team.

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    Top 10 Product Owner Interview Questions

    A Product Owner is an important role that defines the product vision and direction,

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    Challenges for Shared Accountability

    Accountability is typically associated with a single person.

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    Can the Scrum Master and the Product Owner be the same person?

    Scrum Master and a Product Owner at the same time?

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    Who is a Product Owner, anyway?

    The Product Owner is accountable for maximising the value of the product

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    Guide to Building a Career as Scrum Master

    Are you interested in becoming a Scrum Master?

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    Product Owner Certifications PSPO vs CSPO — A comparison

    A Product Owner is a member of the Scrum team

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    Coaching Agile Teams

    The coach helps the team to identify a common purpose.

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    Confessions of a Product Manager

    As a Product manager, I made several mistakes in my career earlier.

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    CSM(Certified Scrum Master) Vs PSM(Professional Scrum Master)

    Which is better CSM or PSM

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    What is Agile?

    Is Agile a methodology or philosophy?

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    My CEC Journey

    I gained my CEC with Scrum Alliance in 2020.

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    Product Goal is a Commitment

    Product Goal is in the Product Backlog

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    A to Z of Scrum

    The soul of Scrum is still the same

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    Cool, Fool, or a Tool?

    The Product board calls this period the golden age of product management.

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    Agile Principles in Organisation Agility - Part 1

    The Principles are more than a guiding force to be adaptable for the ever-changing world

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    True leadership is an attitude

    In what way I can render my Scrum teams a safe environment?

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    Scrum Guide 2020: Scrum Masters are the True Leaders

    Scrum Masters are True Leaders

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    Design Thinking and Law of Parsimony

    The US Navy in the 1960s popularized the concept of keeping things simple (KISS).

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    “Scrum” in IT Services team

    As per the Scrum Guide, Scrum helps people solve complex problems.

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    Niko-Niko practice during COVID-19 Pandemic

    Have you heard of VUCA?

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    Upcoming White Paper: The Stages of Scrum Mastery

    In the beginning, we may not realize how much we need to learn.

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    Kudo Cards — A Management 3.0 Practice

    It’s a way to encourage everyone to offer instant positive feedback.

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    Management 3.0 Practices in Action

    Management 3.0 is not another framework

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    A Tale of Two Leadership Styles

    Many leaders today find it challenging to cope with the increasing pace and complexity of change.

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    Who is a Scrum Master?

    Let’s move away from the discussion around the difference between the Scrum Master and Coach.

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    Scrum Mastering Traps

    Scrum Mastering is a journey.

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    Myth: Velocity is Productivity

    Velocity is just a Complementary & Optional Practice in Scrum

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    Myth: Scrum Master is a Project Coordinator

    “leftover people”