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Agile Events: Sprint Review

Posted on 21/08/2012 by Michael Chik

The sprint review is a vital part of agile project management's inspect and adapt cycle. Together with the sprint retrospective they form the core feedback loop between the sprints. The sprint review meeting has two goals: for the team to demonstrate what they have completed and to gather feedback for the product. During the sprint

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Agile Events: Sprint Retrospective

Posted on 20/08/2012 by Michael Chik

Agile project management is, at its heart, an inspect and adapt approach. This means that agile processes don't just encourage but require you to regularly stop what you are doing, assess where you currently are and find ways to improve the rest of your journey towards the project goal. The last of the 12 Agile Principles

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10 Tips for a Great Daily Scrum Meeting

Posted on 18/08/2012 by Michael Chik

The daily scrum meeting is a quick daily meeting that helps the development team members organize their day. During the daily scrum, team members make three statements: Yesterday, I completed… Today, I will… The things blocking my progress are… It's a powerful tool that keeps your project moving. At the same, it is also easy

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Changes to the Certified Scrum Master exam process

Posted on 09/08/2012 by Michael Chik

The Certified Scrum Master (CSM) exam certification process is currently going through some change. Until now, everybody who attended a Certified Scrum Master course and took the exam passed. However, starting from the 1 September 2012 the Scrum Alliance is going to update the exam content, slightly increasing the difficulty, and introducing a pass/fail outcome.

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What is an Agile Development Team?

Posted on 20/07/2012 by Michael Chik

The Development team, also often just called dev team, arguably holds the most vital role in any agile process. While it is the ultimate aim of every scrum master to make his own role redundant and most teams could dysfunctionally continue their work without a product owner, everything comes to a standstill if there is

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