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I’m a new Scrum Master – where do I start?
“Daria, I’ve never been a Scrum Master, I passed my certification and now I am starting a new Scrum Master job. What do I do? Where do I start?” These

Agile Metrics for Scrum Masters (1/3): Delivering Done Increment
How can you evaluate your success as a Scrum Master using metrics? Agile metrics is a complicated topic with no one-size-fits-all solution. There are many options to choose from. Where

3 key points to pay attention to as a Scrum Master in the new Scrum Guide 2020
The new version of the Scrum Guide has just been released. It is exciting! Scrum walks the talk by inspecting and adapting itself. So should you as a Scrum Master.

Answering your questions: Operational tasks in Scrum
How do you handle operational tasks in Scrum? That is a question that was asked in one of the previous Lean Coffee session we held. It’s an unusual question, only

Scrum Master, stop talking!
Being a servant leader is hard because you really want your teams to succeed but you can’t just tell them what to do. To compensate for this, we as Scrum

Answering your questions: Understand product, scope and goals
As part of the previous Lean Coffee sessions we’ve answered many questions about the role of a Scrum Master and addressed some challenges together. But we were not able to

How Done is your Definition of Done?
This article has been reposted at Scrum.org Blog as well. In every Professional Scrum class, we talk about Done as an important concept in Scrum. And very often some students

How to Write a Good Scrum Master Job Description
From Bad Scrum Master Job Descriptions… Let’s be honest – I roast companies and recruiters for posting terrible Scrum Master job descriptions. And there are a number of reasons why

Scrum Rules Are There For A Reason
*Blog post originally posted on Scrum.Org It’s interesting how we sometimes accept some rules without questioning them at all, and how some other times we try to bend them to
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