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Fixing Your Scrum
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Fixing Your Scrum

by Ryan Ripley, Todd Miller
January 2020
Intermediate to advanced
242 pages
6h 5m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Not Taking the Initiative

Scrum Master:

Is everybody busy enough today?

Developer:

I’m waiting on some feedback from the tester before I do anything else.

Scrum Master:

Grab another item from the sprint backlog and start working on it. We all have to stay busy.

If this conversation sounds familiar, you’re not alone: Todd has done this too and he’s not proud of it. It’s a trap that can happen in any sprint when we, as Scrum masters, view ourselves as task masters whose job is to keep everybody busy. This often results from outside pressures—frequently from management trying to make sure everyone is working at maximum capacity. It’s common for management to think that sprints are about getting as much work done as possible, and that the most effective ...

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