Meeting my match
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Meeting my match

I recently posted on LinkedIn complaining about companies who automatically reject resumes if they don’t detect certain keywords rather than look for experience, and a few moments later I stumbled across ScrumMatch. It wasn’t just Nicos Marcou’s video that triggered my post; I had also been chatting with a couple of iron ring-wearing engineers who…

Adapting Scrum
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Adapting Scrum

That’s not a typo in the title – I see lots of articles about adopting scrum (i.e. getting started) but I wanted to touch on adapting scrum, for those who have been doing scrum “by the book” and are wondering what’s next. The most common start point for groups as they step into the agile…

One More Thing
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One More Thing

In the current (2020) version of the Scrum Guide the word “commitment” is used with regards to the sprint goal – “Although the Sprint Goal is a commitment by the Developers, it provides flexibility in terms of the exact work needed to achieve it.” So what should happen after the team and product owner agree…