Five ways to spot fake Scrum

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Fake Scrum is around us everywhere we go. It’s unavoidable. Just look on the internet for “fake Scrum,” and you’re going to find all kinds of interesting articles that describe Scrum in very weird ways. There are at least five ways you can tell if you’ve got fake Scrum going on. Is Your Scrum Broken?…

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This is a Serious Issue: You NEED a Sprint Goal

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Why are Sprint Goals so important? imagine you’re a football team and you’re out on the field and you have no idea why you’re there. So, you look around and you just start running and somebody throws a ball and every once in a while you hear some cheering from the fans and you go…

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How to Become a Successful Scrum Master in 4 Steps

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If you’re reading this, clearly you wanna be a successful Scrum master. Here are four recommendations I can make on what to do to be great at it. First: we need to master Scrum. Take the words “Scrum Master” literally. a Scrum Master knows their stuff, but let’s avoid being a jerk about it. Avoid…

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