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What to do if your scrum teams becomes too large

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What to do if your scrum teams becomes too large

Split it.  Never let a Scrum team get too large.

With size comes slowness which is why your teams should be small, powerful, and fun. 

Double digit team sizes kill productivity?  Great Scrum Masters help their teams split into smaller teams.

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What is Scrum

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What is Scrum

This is accomplished by having three roles on your teams

  • Scrum Master
  • Product Owner
  • Developer

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Boost Your Gig Rate with Scrum

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Boost Your Gig Rate with Scrum

Scrum is a tool to get more done and add more value to any team.  How?  Scrum iteratively builds better products through delivering incremental releases and talking to real customers as you make progress. Level up your agile and get professional training. Scrum Master Certification What does this have to do with your gig rate? Everything. Gigs pay based on your: qualifications experience salesmanship Qualifications let you earn more from your gigs Would you pay more to have your dental work done by a dentist?  Yeah, me to.  I'd definitely pay more to have a qualified dentist work in my...

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How to hire the right product owner

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How to hire the right product owner

ABSTRACT: Picking the right product owner involves finding a person who can do three critical activities.  Level up your agile and get professional training. Scrum Master Certification An effective product owner is able to: align to organizational goals  network effectively actively listen Before we explore the components of effective product owners, let's do some background.  The product owner in The Scrum Framework is, " is responsible for maximizing the value of the product resulting from work of the Development Team"- source, The Scrum Guide p.6 You will notice that these three activities above are observable.  This is key because picking a product owner isn't...

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