Best Scrum introductions to new Scrum Masters

Angel Medinilla advises on hiring and evolving a great Scrum master along with resources on psychology, coaching, motivational science, communication skills, corporate culture or change management.

The Ball Point Game explains how all systems have a natural velocity and if we want to increase this natural velocity, we need to change the boundaries of the system.

3, 123: Discuss the 12 agile principles and pick one to work on, 9: Team members brainstorm in 4 categories to quickly list issues, 49, 112

(Download the cards & instructions as PDF or PPTX) (Translations of this article: Chinese, French) What is a squad health check model? A lot of companies experiment with ways of measuring and visualizing how their teams are doing. They’re usually called “maturity models”, and involve some sort of progression through different levels. The intent of these…

Scrum is a framework for developing and sustaining complex products. This Guide contains the definition of Scrum. This definition consists of Scrum’s roles, events, artifacts, and the rules that bind them together. Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland developed Scrum; the Scrum Guide is written and provided by them. Together, they stand behind the Scrum Guide.

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NEWS (June 2015): 2nd edition available! Read the online version at InfoQ, or purchase a print version from there.   "Your writing style is great, and the information that you provide is very useful ... Your are an asset to the Scrum community" -- Ken Schwaber (co-founder of Scrum)   "Henrik's book is a starter kit of basic practices that help teams move beyond trying to do Scrum to executing Scrum well." -- Jeff Sutherland (co-founder of Scrum)   "Henrik's book isn't a philosophical explanation of why Scrum works or why you might want to try this or that. It is a description of how one well-running agile team works. Henrik provides a host of good practices along with the necessary context to help us learn better how to do Scrum and XP in the trenches of our own projects." -- Mike Cohn (author of Agile Estimating and Planning)   "excellent document, serving as an adequate introduction to XP and Scrum" -- theServerSide.com   "Henrik goes on to describe some

Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products that Customers Love (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Cohn)) [Roman Pichler] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The First Guide to Scrum-Based Agile Product Management   In Agile Product Management with Scrum

Find out why product owners need a strong ScrumMaster, and why the two roles are fundamentally different and require a clear focus and a distinct skill set.

What is a Scrum Master? Find a brief introduction to the role of the ScrumMaster here.

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ScrumMaster_Checklist_16.pages An Example Checklist for ScrumMasters Michael James

Behind those questions is the assumption that the Scrum Master is not a full time role. The askers of those questions conjecture that you save money by merging two roles or by placing the duty of the two roles on a single person.

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This is basically a 1 day product ownership course compressed into 15 minute animated presentation. There's obviously more to product ownership than this, so...