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Converting a Project Manager of a team into the Scrum Master – does it work ?




Scrum involves 3 primary roles, which are primarily the Scrum team, the Product Owner, and the ScrumMaster. For teams that have transitioned over from other models of software development such as Waterfall, there are a number of other people involved who suddenly find a different role. When you consider the case of Software Project Development, [...]



Some doubts regarding the role of a ScrumMaster – get status in the meeting or running it




A recent conversation I was having with some colleagues left me confused. My concept of the role of the ScrumMaster from past projects, from training, and from theory relates to the ScrumMaster being one of the key contributors of the project, but not as the traditional manager sense. In the traditional sense, the Project Manager [...]



Learn about Scrum – Why does Scrum fail – A case of not getting the Daily Scrum correct




In this post (and in a few other posts), I am going to be writing about some of the reasons as to why Scrum could fail. A lot of Scrum practitioners claim that typically it is not Scrum that fails, it is the people implementing it who fail. In this particular case, it is certainly [...]



Some problems with the usage of Burndown charts to measure status, or to measure progress




Scrum is touted as one of the modern new techniques that can get rid of all the problems that people have faced with earlier techniques such as Waterfall (and if one goes by correct theory, Scrum is primarily a Project Management technique, not a broad Project Development methodology. However for those people who are passionate [...]