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I love a good analogy and on the way to work today I was struck by the similarities between my journey and the route to a successfully Implementing Scrum.
As I thought more, I realized that there’s one skill you need more than any other to implement Scrum. Not only that, it’s a skill listed as one of the Five Principles of Scrum.
Can you guess what it is yet?
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Scrum is brilliant in theory but in everyday use, niggling little problems keep popping up. How do you deal with them? Welcome to the first in a series of articles discussing Scrum Implementation Issues. Today, we’re discussing the Daily Scrum time box.
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The Scrum Aide Memoir. A single page that lists all of the main elements of the Scrum framework as stated in the definitive Scrum Guide provided by Scrum.org. Find out how to get your copy of this must-have document.
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On 10 Jun 2012, the first student of our Scrum Master training course achieved a score of 93% on his first attempt at the Professional Scrum Master (PSM I) exam. We’re delighted to welcome Dave Carson to the community of Professional Scrum Masters.
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The software project landscape is littered with failures. A recent example in the UK is the failure of the NHS National Programme for IT. At the point the plug was pulled, £6.4bn had been spent with the final bill expected to be £11.4bn. The post mortems are already under way and what they’re finding is not surprising. Large IT contracts continue to make the same mistakes. It’s time for a change.