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How self-management makes your Sprint Retrospective more effective (48)

December 7, 2023
A self-managing team is a fundamental part of effectivity. How can this happen during your Sprint Retrospective? Check it out!
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How Self-Management Makes your Sprint Review More Effective (47)

November 30, 2023
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November 23, 2023
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November 16, 2023
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How can the Scrum Master live the Scrum Values even better? (44)

November 9, 2023
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October 26, 2023
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October 19, 2023
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October 12, 2023
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October 5, 2023
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A Powerful Practice for Estimating Product Backlog Items

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How the Scrum Values Direct your Behavior During the Entire Sprint (38)

September 28, 2023
Scrum Values make the use of Scrum successful. How can you and your Team live these values during the entire Sprint? Check it out!
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| Steven Deneir

How Do You Deal with the Drowning Details During Product Backlog Refinement?

September 27, 2023
Teams tend to get in the nitty gritty details of expectations. A waste of valuable time. This blog posts provides a simple practice to start dealing with this.
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How the Scrum Values Direct your Behavior During the Sprint Retrospective (37)

September 21, 2023
Scrum Values make the use of Scrum successful. How can you and your Team live these values during the Sprint Retrospective? Check it out!
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How the Scrum Values Direct your Behavior During the Sprint Review (36)

September 14, 2023
Scrum Values make the use of Scrum successful. How can you and your Team live these values during the Sprint Review? Check it out!
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How the Scrum Values Direct your Behavior during the Daily Scrum (35)

September 7, 2023
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How the Scrum Values Direct your Behavior During Sprint Planning (34)

August 31, 2023
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How the Scrum Master supports Adaptation (33)

August 24, 2023
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How the Developers support Adaptation (32)

August 17, 2023
Are your Developers really making VALUABLE adaptations towards the next Product Goal? In order to minimise deviations from agreed goals? Each of the Scrum Accountabilities has a role to play. So do the Developers. Check it out!
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How the Product Owner supports Adaptation (31)

August 10, 2023
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How the Increment supports Adaptation (30)

August 3, 2023
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How the Sprint Backlog Supports Adaptation (29)

July 27, 2023
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How the Product Backlog supports Adaptation (28)

July 20, 2023
How does your Product Backlog support adaptation in order to minimise deviations from agreed goals? Each of the Scrum Artifacts serve to adapt. So does the Product Backlog. Check it out!
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How the Sprint Itself Supports Adaptation (27)

July 13, 2023
How does your Sprint in its totality support adaptation in order to minimise deviations from agreed goals? Each of the Scrum Events serves to adapt. So does the Sprint itself. Check it out!
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How the Sprint Retrospective supports Adaptation (26)

July 6, 2023
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| Steven Deneir

How the Sprint Review supports Adaptation (25)

June 29, 2023
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How the Daily Scrum Supports Adaptation (24)

June 22, 2023
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How Sprint Planning supports Adaptation (23)

June 15, 2023
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How the Scrum Master Supports Inspection... (22)

June 8, 2023
How can the Scrum Master detect undesirable variances in progress towards agreed goals? Each of the Scrum accountabilities participates in one or more inspections. So does the Scrum Master. Check out our tips!
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How Developers can support Inspection... (21)

June 1, 2023
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Inspection and the Product Owner (20)

May 25, 2023
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Inspection and the Increment (19)

May 18, 2023
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May 11, 2023
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May 4, 2023
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How the Sprint itself supports Inspection (16)

April 27, 2023
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How the Sprint Review supports Inspection (14)

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How the Daily Scrum Supports Inspection (13)

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How Sprint Planning supports Inspection (12)

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How the Scrum Master Can Help Raise Transparency (11)

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How the Developers can Help Raise Transparency (10)

February 23, 2023
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How the Product Owner can help raise Transparency (09)

February 16, 2023
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| Steven Deneir

The importance of Transparency and the Increment (08)

February 9, 2023
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| Steven Deneir

The importance of Transparency and the Sprint Backlog (07)

February 2, 2023
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| Steven Deneir

The importance of Transparency and the Product Backlog (06)

January 26, 2023
How does the Product Backlog supports Transparency? Transparency being one of the core underlying concepts of the Scrum framework. How can you use the Product Backlog to raise transparency?
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| Steven Deneir

The importance of Transparency during the entire Sprint (05)

January 19, 2023
How does the Sprint itself supports Transparency? Transparency being one of the core underlying concepts of the Scrum framework. What happens during your Sprint that could raise transparency?
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The Importance of Transparency during the Sprint Retrospective (04)

January 12, 2023
Empiricism is one of the underlying concepts of the Scrum framework. Scrum is founded on empirical process control, and transparency is the first of the three pillars. How does this show during Sprint Retrospective?
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The importance of Transparency during the Sprint Review (03)

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Empiricism is one of the underlying concepts of the Scrum framework. Scrum is founded on empirical process control, and transparency is the first of the three pillars. How does this show during Sprint Review?
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| Steven Deneir

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