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Agile Engineering Practices like TDD & ensemble programming are key to succeeding with Scrum & realizing benefits like faster ROI, reduced risks, increased visibility, high quality & improved adaptability. Does your team struggle to adopt these practices? bit.ly/3Jza5Rh

In Scrum, we build products and features iteratively and incrementaly by repeatedly going over what we just built and improving on it from Sprint to Sprint.

The 2023 Global Scrum Gathering is coming up in less than 2 weeks! Join us to connect, share, and learn from a great lineup of talks & workshops, and don't miss @FadiStephan's talk on creating an effective Definition of Done #gsgpdx23 ow.ly/m5ap50NTKfV

Join us on 10/3 at #AgileDC for a full day of great presentations on all things Agile. Make sure to catch @FadiStephan presenting on 6 Tips for Effective Product Backlog Refinement. Find out more at ow.ly/5qzv50KT93s and see you there! #AgileConference #ScrumConference

@AgileDC is back on Monday 10/3! Join DC thought leaders and practitioners from government, not-for-profits, and private industry for a full day of great talks, workshops, and networking. Get your tickets at ow.ly/lnwp50KGgMJ #AgileDC #ScrumConference #AgileConference

If you are an aspiring Agile Coach or Scrum Master in search of a deeper dive into facilitation and coaching techniques, then this A-CSM weekend class with @FadiStephan is for you! Grab your spot here: ow.ly/aBsn50KGbnO #agilecoaches #scrummasters #acsm

What are the top 5 reasons teams struggle with delivering a Product Increment at the end of every Sprint? Find out in this article by @FadiStephan: kaizenko.com/top-5-reasons-…

#scrum #agile #Motivation #SelfOrganizing #SelfManaging

Interesting research on delegation and how to encourage delegating when it’s beneficial and reduce it when it’s not. Find out more in this HBR article. hbr.org/2016/08/resear… #scrum #ScrumTeam #SelfOrganizingTeam #SelfManagingTeam #Delegation

#Empiricism #Simplicity #Agility #Scrum #CustomerFocus

Lean learning ensures that employees not only learn the right thing, at the right time, and for the right reasons, but also that they retain what they learn. Find out more in this HBR article by Steve Glaveski hbr.org/2019/10/where-… #lean #LeanLearning #EmployeeDevelopment

How do you scale Scrum beyond 1 team and stay true to Scrum and the Agile values and principles? Find out more about Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) in this video: youtube.com/watch?v=1BZf_O… #scrum #agile #agility #less #LargeScaleScrum

#agility #scrum #vuca #BuildMeasureLearn #InspectAdapt

In this HBR article, Hubert Joly presents three types of levers companies can use to profoundly shape an effective culture and allow their strategy to come to fruition. hbr.org/2022/06/does-y… #scrum #agile #ProductOwnership #Vision #Strategy #Culture

Fun time - Have conference call gotten better since are shift to remote work with zoom or teams? youtube.com/watch?v=kNz82r… #scrum #collbaoration #IndividualsAndInteractions #FaceToFace

Airbnb's latest announcement on party-bans has important lessons on product ownership, stakeholder management and business strategy. Find out more in this article in Inc. by Justin Bariso. inc.com/justin-bariso/… #scrum #productownership #StakeholderEngagement #CustomerFocus

#Impericism #inspectadapt #affinityestimation

The terms MVP or MMF are often used interchangeably, but are they really the same thing and if not so what is the difference? kaizenko.com/mvp-vs-mmf #scrum #mvp #mmf #buildmeasurelearn

Much of leadership boils down to turning adversaries into allies. In this @HarvardBiz article, Laura Huang and Ryan Yu discuss three persuasion strategies leaders can employ when faced with a disagreement in the workplace. hbr.org/2020/07/how-to… #Scrummaster #changemanagement