Transparency in Scrum teams and Agile organizations

We will discuss the transparency in Scrum teams and Agile organizations. It is a very popular term in Scrum literature and modern Agile trends. Transparency is a sensitive topic to be discussed especially in large organizations.

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Who are the Scrum Developers?

Scrum Developer is a widely used term to describe usually a technical development role that is a part of a Scrum Team.

When organizations are transitioning to Scrum, oftentimes they will try to map existing roles they have in their organizations to roles in Scrum. Scrum only recognizes three roles: Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Development team. In Scrum, the term developer equates to a Development team member.

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What makes a good Product Owner and what do they do?

In our experience helping companies implement Scrum, Product Ownership recurs over and over again as THE BIG issue. In this blog article, we provide some guidance on what makes a good product owner and include a Product Owner position description.

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The Lean Product Development guru Don Reinertsen

When we are talking about Scrum, Agile and Lean product development we always remember Edwin’s stories about the Lean Product Development professional Don Reinertsen. Edwin is Clarus’ founder and CEO. He is an intense Agile advocate with a strong experience in Scrum. Edwin has been accountable for advancing Scrum and Agile to various businesses everywhere in New Zealand.

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Scrum and IT industry problems in organizations

Scrum is easy but big IT organizations and the whole industry still have issues with helping Scrum teams to do their job the better way. At the end processes and poor, Scrum is not helping anyone and the software development and the end product are really weak.

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What is a Scrum Master and their responsibilities. Differences between Scrum Master and Project Manager.

The Scrum project development process is led by the so-called Scrum Master, who is responsible for removing obstacles to the team’s ability to fulfill its product goals and objectives.

The scrum master role has even more modern understanding, especially in the BVOP Scrum Master certification program. The Project Management Academy (PMA) also extends the classical responsibilities of the Scrum Master in their Scrum Master course and adds important activities like risk management and other traditional but very crucial moves for this Agile role.

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