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Scrum Sprint Commitment Rant

Background Scrum teams often finish sprints out of breath, out of quality, and out of joy. You also see teams that start the sprint full of numbing fear, set a low bar and that low bar becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Add to that Product Owners, Scrum Masters and managers all spending precious time worrying about …

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Want my elevator-pitch answer to what is Kanban for a Scrum rookie?

  Our coaching team at agilesparks runs into this question a lot.  Many of the teams we are working with are familiar with Scrum and using it. Other teams are just now going into Scrum.  Since kanban is becoming a hot buzzword, we often get asked – so what is this kanban thing? How is …

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