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“Patience” is the sixth Scrum value.

May 18, 2020
The organizations must truly practice patience while applying Scrum. Scrum does not solve the problems, but it reveals all the problems that deter you from achieving your goals by making it radically transparent. Patiently work on the problems one at a time and very soon you will achieve the Business Agility you desire.

La Restrospectiva del Sprint

May 16, 2020
La Retrospectiva del Sprint es el momento en que el equipo de Scrum evalúa los compromisos de mejora necesarios para mejorar la entrega de valor. Este evento no es el único momento para mejorar porque estas mejoras pueden suceder durante el Sprint. Las áreas de mejora como sugerencia pueden estar asociadas a Scrum, Criterios de terminado, relaciones entre las personas, prácticas ágiles o de ingeniería y mejoras en herramientas a usar. Las discusiones pueden ser llevadas por reflexiones en temas como la mejora de la calidad del producto y los criterios de terminado. Criterios de terminado más estrictos mejoran la calidad y la transparencia del incremento de producto, criterios menos estrictos pueden derivar en aumentar la deuda técnica.
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Agile Still Works

May 14, 2020
It is a time of unprecedented challenge. Firms are experiencing extraordinary disruption.  Productivity is impacted. Delivery has stalled. Leaders worry about survival, remaining profitable and/or competitive in a distributed environment.
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How fast can we recover Inclusively from Covid19?

May 14, 2020
am bracing myself to hear, “Sorry, we have not updated our [insert product] [insert service] for accessibility under new health guidelines” or “Sorry for the inconvenience, please check back to see when we have updated to accommodate accessibility.” Sorry is not inclusive.
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What is Effective Servant Leadership™?

May 10, 2020
During a 20/20 vision on my writings, I discovered clusters of knowledge that are essential to Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches: Genuine coaching techniques, knowledge of psychological principles and above all, understanding and developing “Self” awareness.
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Hiren's Secret Conversation With Covid.

May 3, 2020
*Covid is a fictional character based on my imagination that represents the strain of CoronaVirus that is causing the disease Covid-19. This is just a very simple and sincere attempt to put my knowledge and understanding about Covid-19 to test in this article and I tried making the connection with Scrum. I hope you enjoy it.
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Emotional Agility

April 29, 2020
Emotions are part of the human experience. Emotions are essentially energy in motion (e-motion).  When our emotions are flowing freely, they can bring us energy and provide the fuel for us to transform and grow.
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Forever Employable

April 28, 2020
A number of weeks ago I was chatting to Jeff Gothelf the co-author of Lean-UX and co-creator of our Professional Scrum with User Experience class. He described a project that he is working on which sparked my interest and is something I believe to be relevant to our Scrum community. I wanted to share some of this discussion with you.
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Agile vs. Scrum

April 27, 2020
Have you always wondered about the difference between agile and Scrum? You’re not alone, these words are commonly interchanged for one another but they are not the same thing at all.
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Examples Of Real Sprint Goals: And the reasoning and considerations that shaped them

April 27, 2020
Although most people see the value of Sprint Goals, how to create them is a huge source of confusion and frustration. Is the Spring Goal there before the Sprint Backlog? How do you create a Sprint Goal out of the unrelated set of items at the top of your Product Backlog? And should everything on the Sprint Backlog be related to the Sprint Goal? In this post I work from examples of a real product, and the Sprint Goals we used there, to answer those questions.
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9 Steps To A Great Online Agile Scrum Team

April 21, 2020
As an active agile Scrum Consultant and Professional Scrum Trainer, I am constantly helping a large number of agile teams. Unsurprisingly all the teams I am supporting are experimenting with different ways to make remote working, work!
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Systems Thinking episode #3: Mental Models

April 21, 2020
In this episode, I will try to show how understanding mental models can significantly improve the abilities of leaders like Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches and Managers. This is because Mental Models are at the core of knowledge and learning.