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Getting to Ha and Ri (Advanced Teams) - Spotify Engineering Culture...

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More amazing stuff from Henrik Kniberg... Co-author of Lean Mindset and creator of "Product Owner in a Nutshell". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj5y-6AoYfM

Take it to the team!...

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Agile Peeps! Help support this AMAZING new book being written by Geoff Watts... There are lots of resources on Product Owners and Scrum Masters, but the actual Team is under represented, until now! https://lnkd.in/gf3BbU2 hashtag # geoffwatts hashtag # newbook hashtag # agile hashtag # support hashtag # help

How to Run a "Demo" (...Step 1: Call it the right name)

Guest post by Dan Greenberg Are you scrambling to get ready for your big demo? Ask yourself these three questions: Are you about to "present" your product to a big group of people, some of whom are really important bigwigs that you want to impress? Are you nervous? Have you rehearsed? If you answered yes to any of the above, you and your organization have got a problem. The first question I'd ask is - who told us we had to hold this ceremony? Certainly not the  Scrum Guide , where a CTRL-F (or command-F for you mac users) of "demo" only turns up one result, a small bullet point (one of 8) underneath the heading of a ceremony that is actually called a "Sprint Review", where it reads that the development team "demon strates  the work that has been done and answers any questions about the product increment." How did we decide that one bullet point out of eight was now the title and purpose of the entire ceremony, especially when th

DoD brings Agile Anti-Patterns to a new low...

Can someone help me name this Agile-Anti Pattern? "We keep hearing the same problems mentioned over and over in retrospectives. So they are a waste of time, let's stop having retrospectives (or at least limit them to 15 minutes)."