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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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The Standing Ovation

Todd was a Scrum master for a team whose organization had never done Scrum before. At the end of the sprint review, stakeholders were so impressed at seeing working software after a mere two weeks of work that they stood up, clapping and cheering for the Scrum team. The team walked out of the event with their heads held high, feeling euphoric. During the sprint retrospective, the Scrum team was still riding high off the impression they had on the stakeholders. Team members couldn’t think of many improvements to suggest because of their heightened sense of optimism. They decided that they should just keep doing what they did the last sprint.

Two sprint reviews later, the euphoria wore off quickly, as stakeholders from the ...

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