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    <description>&lt;pre&gt;Hi dears,
This is a really useful group, as there are many experienced scrum coaches among members. But this long approval process is really bad. I would like my posts to be published at least a few hours after I write them, not a week later! This long approval times, breaks the continuty of the discussions, as I am not aware of the other answers to a specific post, until you approve them all together. 

What is the problem that cuase these long delays? If you managers don't have time, please add some more managers! Please count on me in anyway that you think I can help, too.

Regards,
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    <description>&lt;pre&gt;Hi dears,
This is a really useful group, as there are many experienced scrum coaches among members. But this long approval process is really bad. I would like my posts to be published at least a few hours after I write them, not a week later! This long approval times, breaks the continuty of the discussions, as I am not aware of the other answers to a specific post, until you approve them all together. 

What is the problem that cuase these long delays? If you managers don't have time, please add some more managers! Please count on me in anyway that you think I can help, too.

Regards,
Alix



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    <title>Require experienced Scrum Master</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.scrum.general/56137</link>
    <description>&lt;pre&gt;Hi Friends,

We at Kronos in Noida centre are looking for an experienced scrum master.
If interested you can search and apply online at
http://www.kronos.com/careers/international-careers.aspx. The details are
given below for ready reference.

Do feel free to ask for any details required.

All the best,

Ajay Rawat.




  Scrum Master

*Job ID *

2013-7010

*Location *

IN-UP-Noida

*Category *

Engineering

*More information about this job:*

*Corporate Overview:*

Kronos is the global leader in workforce management solutions that enable
organizations to control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve
workforce productivity. Tens of thousands of organizations in 100 countries
– including more than half the Fortune 1000® - use Kronos time and
attendance, scheduling, absence management, HR and payroll, hiring, and
labor analytics applications.  Kronos customers include enterprises large
and small across diverse industries worldwide including retail,
hospitality, healthcare, manufacturing, public sector, services, and
distribution.

Kronos is a privately held company and was founded in 1977. Headquartered
in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, Kronos employs more than 3,500 people
worldwide.

Kronos is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

*Responsibilities:*

Managing Scrum Processes and deliveries through Scrum model for Web
applications in a geographically distributed environment.



1. Adapt their leadership style to the maturity and capacity of team

2. Ensures all impediments are identified and removed for the Scrum team

3. Drives all Scrum Meetings (Planning, Retrospective/Review, daily
standups etc.)

4. Accountable to ensure stories are broken down to actionable granularity

5. Ensures done definition is clearly identified and followed by team

6. Ensures teams achieves the sprint commitments

7. Ensure information coming from the team (budget, velocity, impediments,
risks) is propagated clearly and efficiently to the leadership teams and
other scrum teams as required

8. Acts as a buffer between the Team and Distracting influences

9. Responsible for the Scrum process, ensuring best judgment is applied
when using or adjusting the process to the team’s context, to ensure that
the benefits for Kronos and the team are maximized

10. Use the team retrospective to continuously strive to retrospect, adapt
and improve in order to maximize the team output in terms of quality and
content

11. Drives and encourages the team to challenge itself to achieve
continuous improvements

12. Participates in Scrum of Scrums to coordinate and facilitate projects
where there are multiple dependencies

13. Improves the lives of the scrum team by facilitating creativity and
empowerment Ensures dependencies and away stories are identified and
communicated to the appropriate teams

14. Works across the global organization to ensure the success of people
and projects in every geography



*Qualifications:*



Graduate / Post Graduate in Computer Science / IT / Electronics &amp;amp;
Communication or related field with excellent academics from reputed
college.



- 8-12 yrs of experience in IT / Software Industry, Experience in working
with MNC, and should have handled one or more projects at the same time

- 3 to 5 yrs of managing Scrum Processes and teams

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

- Strong software development / testing background is a must.

- Excellent people management skills

- Team mentoring, not an autocratic leader, open to ideas &amp;amp; allowing the
team to take initiative



*Soft Skills:*

- Self motivated, pro-active, initiative to learn and show high levels of
creativity and innovation to evangelize new ideas

- Should possess excellent problem solving capability and ability to
approach problems in a thoughtful and practical manner

- Must have the ability to drive a plan to completion combined with good
written and oral communication.

- Good communication skills.



*Apply for this job:*

   - Apply for this job
online&amp;lt;https://international-kronos.icims.com/jobs/7010/job?mode=apply&amp;amp;apply=yes&amp;amp;hashed=58168622&amp;gt;
   - Refer a friend to this
job&amp;lt;https://international-kronos.icims.com/jobs/7010/referral?hashed=0&amp;gt;
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    <dc:creator>Ajay Rawat</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2013-05-13T11:29:03</dc:date>
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    <title>How to motivate team members Individually?</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.scrum.general/56136</link>
    <description>&lt;pre&gt;Dear Sir/Madam, 


We have just started applying Scrum in our firm (a Software developer firm). I was wondering how we should motivate team members in scrum, when we emphasize on team rather than individuals. What should the top managers do for motivating a team member who has a brilliant performance in the team, while the compensation and awards in Scrum seems to be applied to the whole team equally? 


Regards, &lt;/pre&gt;</description>
    <dc:creator>Ensieh Mohseni</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2013-05-06T10:20:01</dc:date>
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    <title>Definition of Done: Code Review practices</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.scrum.general/56105</link>
    <description>&lt;pre&gt;Hi,

I'm trying to come up with a list of different ways of doing code reviews as they relate to a Scrum definition of done.

In practice, I've seen:

* A scheduled meeting for a code review, several show up and review code

* Paired Programming
* Live review by one other programmer just before code commit.
* Code review published to code review system (like Atlassian Crucible, etc) with deadline by which reviewers can submit feedback.
* Code review published to code review system (like Atlassian Crucible, etc) where code cannot integrate until one person says "ship it"
* No code reviews
* Code reviews only on special occasions or in certain parts of the code

What other code review type practices have you seen?

 
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Charles Bradley
Professional Scrum Trainer
Scrum Coach-in-Chief
ScrumCrazy.com&lt;/pre&gt;</description>
    <dc:creator>Charles Bradley - Professional Scrum Trainer and Coach</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2013-04-23T00:57:59</dc:date>
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    <title>CSM?</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.scrum.general/56075</link>
    <description>&lt;pre&gt;Hello,

I am new to the Scrum master certs.  I  see the ISI scrum-institute.org having their own certification.  What is the industry standard?  Does it really matter where you get the CSM cert as long as you have the experience?

Many thanks!



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    <dc:creator>mwallastein</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2013-04-17T17:36:23</dc:date>
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    <title>Scrum works on a team with multiple projects?</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.scrum.general/56062</link>
    <description>&lt;pre&gt;Does Scrum works on a team with multiple projects?

On a 1 team with 1 project we have perfect scenario.

But in my organization we have 31 development teams. Each team has 20 to 50
projects at same time.

This happens because each team has a big system to take care, and this big
system has a set of sub-systems. A project is created to make evolutions or
correct erros in each sub-system and i can not make, until now, a project
to make a evolution on a several sub-systems in the same time, this is a
goverment limitation.

So my question is - Scrum works in this scenario? How can i deal with
several projects on a team? With a team who has 15 projects, i cant do 15
sprint plannings... this is a crazy!

Please, help me here guys.

Thanks

Leo

&lt;/pre&gt;</description>
    <dc:creator>Leonardo Nunes</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2013-04-13T23:40:58</dc:date>
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    <title>What is Scrum?</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.scrum.general/55995</link>
    <description>&lt;pre&gt;I've been pointed to this group because of the Scrum discussion. I recognize many of my friends here. My comments will be somewhat limited though, perhaps as limited as my knowledge of the German language.

Jeff and I are committed to improving the profession of software development, to making software and our jobs better. We formulated, released, and have evangelized Scrum since the beginning to achieve these goals.

We will be updating Scrum again this summer, and it will have just one home for both of us, "TheScrumGuide.org" . Note "The," as in there only one definition of Scrum.

We have found a vast amount of work to be done for our profession to do better. We have managers to re-educate into how to be agile, and how to manage most effectively We have organizational cultures to transform. We even have a vast pool of people who call themselves software professionals that don't understand basic concepts, theory, practices and tooling.

We have a lot of work to do. Scrum is a simple framework to keep that work focused. The more time that is spent quibbling about Scrum, the less time is available for the really important work. 

Best,
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    <dc:creator>kschwaber</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2013-04-12T21:50:19</dc:date>
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    <title>example of large scale development + team self organization</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.scrum.general/55967</link>
    <description>&lt;pre&gt;Lately we've been hearing a lot about prescriptive approaches to large scale development (such as "Scaled Agile Framework") that compromise Agile principles.  While waterfall/agile hybrid approaches may be slightly better than what was happening before, are those compromises really necessary?  

This article by Craig Larman is recommended reading for anyone doing Scrum in a company with more than 10 people.
http://scrumalliance.org/articles/514-how-to-form-teams-in-largescale-scrum-a-story-of-selfdesigning-teams

One thing I like about his approach is that even if the teams self designed the same way a manager would have designed them, now the teams own the decision.  Teams are more likely to self manage when they've chosen each other rather than being assigned to each other.

--mj
http://scrumtrainingseries.com/Intro_to_Scrum/Intro_to_Scrum.htm



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    <dc:creator>Michael James</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2013-04-05T19:36:03</dc:date>
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    <title>-4/4/2013 1:05:36 AM-</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.scrum.general/55966</link>
    <description>&lt;pre&gt;http://www.prefabricadosomega.com/tuvjc/kqg.cyhp?ns    

      
 

    

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    <dc:date>2013-04-04T00:05:49</dc:date>
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    <title>sprint tangle</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.scrum.general/55959</link>
    <description>&lt;pre&gt;Two weeks ago I stepped into a Team during the their Planning Day and over
the next few days helped the Developer/Scrum Master, who had been
none-too-gleefully inhabiting two roles for several months, transition back
into a full time Team member role.  I'll be spending a few sprints helping
this Team step up their practices while the company looks for a Scrum Master
to backfill.  Then I'll move on to another Team in the org.

 

This org has a pretty rough reputation and a high turnover rate.  Quite a
bit is broken, including the way the backlog is built stories are written,
groomed, and tasked, and commitments are made.  At this point, I'm looking
for a way to salvage the sprint, boost the Team's morale, and not break
Scrum.  The current state of things is such that rapidly improving across
the board is the best goal.  Okay, maybe not completely everything at once,
but you get my drift.

 

The org is aligned such that reasonably renegotiating what is in the sprint
is not synonymous with failure.  And, on Planning Day, I did the
step-in-front-of-a-speeding-train move of pointing out the Team's right to
not accept stories that are not ready to bring into the sprint, which
drastically cut the commitment they were poised to make.  However, what has
become clear in the last couple of weeks is that the Team is at sea about
what it needs to know to actually do work on a story.

 

As of last Thursday, it became clear that, while we can measure our newly
minted Done Criteria against the state of the stories to determine how close
to done we actually are, the original stories are not necessarily in line
with the work that needed to be done.  So, for instance, one story was
structured such that it really focused on doing a requirements doc and
getting signoff from the business.  Now the Team understands that the entire
cycle happens within a given sprint and the only person they need signoff
from is the Product Owner.

 

Tomorrow we'll be actively engaging with the Product Owner WRT how to
renegotiate to salvage the sprint.  What I'm struggling with is where the
line is in the muddle between maintaining appropriate quality controls and
integrity and fostering the success that is possible.  At the most extreme,
this could come down to re-casting stories and tasks at this point.

 

Keep in mind that this work group has had a practice of backwards
engineering story points based on actual hours at the end of the sprint,
assuming stories span sprints, and doing most of the testing outside the
sprint in an IV&amp;amp;V fashion-among other things.

 

Thoughts?  This Team seems poised for failure again, but they've been
learning and applying things like real troopers for the last week and a
half. It seems regrettable that the sprint should be a total failure, AND
learning is necessary.

 

--- Jean

 


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Jean Richardson

Azure Gate Consulting

~ Repatterning the Human Experience of Work

 

AzureGate.net

(503) 788-8998

Jean&amp;lt; at &amp;gt;AzureGate.net

 

 

 

&lt;/pre&gt;</description>
    <dc:creator>Jean Richardson</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2013-04-01T03:56:45</dc:date>
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    <title>Is agile suitable for my project?</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.scrum.general/55949</link>
    <description>&lt;pre&gt;Many a times, you must have come across a question. Is Agile suitable
for my Project?
There are many studies done. For example

1.Boehm and Turner(Balancing Agility and Discipline) that indicates
various parameters such as Personal , Dynamism, Culture for Agile
Suitability
2.Michael Sahota (An Agile Adoption and Transformation Survival Guide)
where he talks about culture of an organization that make it suitable
for Agile/Kanban/XP to adopt.

Considering that "Agile" is defined by the Agile Manifesto (4 values
and the 12 principles), I think all projects can be done with Agile.
What do you think?

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    <dc:creator>Ashish Mahajan</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2013-03-19T16:54:26</dc:date>
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    <title>Sprint Goal and user stories</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.scrum.general/55948</link>
    <description>&lt;pre&gt;Hi!

Maybe you could help me understand something about how to use the sprint
goal when the backlog is described with user stories. The Scrum Guide says:

 "The Sprint Goal gives the Development Team some flexibility regarding the
functionality implemented within the Sprint."

I understand that the goal is crafted after the dev team has selected the
functionality they forecast to deliver by the end of the sprint. I also
understand that the team may negotiate with the PO the scope of the sprint
backlog as they learn more about the product.

Having said that, I have 3 questions:

1) How often stories are added/removed from the sprint in the teams you
work with?

2) Should every story be linked to the sprint goal?

3) How would you relate the sprint goal with the delivery of stories
according to the definition of done?

Regards
&lt;/pre&gt;</description>
    <dc:creator>Gercel Silva</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2013-03-12T23:50:53</dc:date>
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    <title>FW: 3/14/2013 11:53:41 AM</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.scrum.general/55945</link>
    <description>&lt;pre&gt;
http://www.perazayciaauditores.com/apv/ye 



 3/14/2013 11:53:41 AM .


dan capper&lt;/pre&gt;</description>
    <dc:creator>dan capper</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2013-03-14T10:53:42</dc:date>
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    <title>Online "Fist of Five" tool?</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.scrum.general/55944</link>
    <description>&lt;pre&gt;Does anyone know of an online "fist of five" tool that operates like the http://planningpoker.com web site?

(Yes, I know you can use planningpoker.com by assigning the 5 values to point values)

Any other ideas for distributed teams wanting to do a fist of five that do not have access to videoconferencing? (some companies block or don't allow these things)

 
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    <dc:creator>Charles Bradley - Professional Scrum Trainer and Coach</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2013-03-13T14:41:06</dc:date>
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    <title>Appreciative Inquiry - Any pointers?</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.scrum.general/55941</link>
    <description>&lt;pre&gt;Hi All,

I'm interested in hearing peoples experience applying appreciative inquiry as a "positive deviance" approach to change..

I'm reading the seminal paper  by Cooperrider and Whitney, and I'm finding their arguments very compelling.

The particulars of my current consulting assignment is a small company with a strong blame culture. This conflicts with their espoused values which can be summarised as a "can do" attitude. Most people "don't do"  and look for reasons why the "can't do". I am pretty certain that this behaviour as emerged in response to blame.

I think AI could really help here, by removing the focus from problems and problem solving (and hence blame) and focusing instead on achievements, especially achievements that followed from people taking risks.

I'ver identified several such examples, and I have individuals willing to tell their story.  I'm open to advice on where to take this.

Thanks in advance.

Paul.





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    <dc:creator>PAUL</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2013-03-10T11:08:14</dc:date>
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    <title>Release Cadence - Shipping is hard</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.scrum.general/55935</link>
    <description>&lt;pre&gt;The current information and data available to organizations contemplating
Scrum, Agile, Kanban, XP, etc. have grown very stale.  For the most part,
the same practices, frameworks, methodologies and trends show up year after
year with little exception.  The question is no longer if Agile is the
place to be, but how to get there.  I think we are in need of an evolution
in our discussion of Agile.

In recent years, we've seen examples of different, often very frequent,
deployment cadences as a competitive advantage. Working incrementally and
iteratively is one thing - convincing leaders to validate assumptions
accumulated over the course of iterations turns out to be quite another.
 The question for each team becomes what is appropriate and how do we have
this conversation with empirical rather than anecdotal evidence?

Today I opened the Release Cadence Report
survey&amp;lt;http://releasecadencereport.com/survey&amp;gt;to move the needle
towards what I hope is a more useful conversation than
the state of Agile.  The report will be publish freely so that everyone can
look at the relationship between Release Cadence and things like Market
Capability, Employee Satisfaction, Patterns &amp;amp; Techniques used to achieve
the cadence, Methodologies, and more.  With it, I hope that we can start
talking about how companies have navigated their way to successful products
as opposed to iterated their way towards challenged projects.

You can fill out the survey at http://releasecadencereport.com/survey.

ps. I hope this message is acceptable to the list.  I'm a coder by trade
and simple want to stop arguing with customers over 20 iteration minimum
viable products :)
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    <dc:creator>Ryan Cromwell</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2013-03-04T22:01:15</dc:date>
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    <title>Scrum in Data Warehousing?</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.scrum.general/55921</link>
    <description>&lt;pre&gt;I have a client who is considering using Scrum in Data Warehousing(I won't be involved in that).  He knows how to use Google, but I was wondering if anyone had any *highly recommended resources*  for using Scrum in DW(books, blogs, ec).  He is fully aware of the Hughes book(which got a negative review from someone I trust), and I also have some info on Scott Ambler's work in this area.

Anything else that you would *highly recommend*?

 
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    <dc:date>2013-03-03T06:50:44</dc:date>
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    <title>Can someone explain the benefit to de-coupled story and task estimates?</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.scrum.general/55914</link>
    <description>&lt;pre&gt;Just started with a team that I am new to, but they have been together for
awhile.


Background:

When Planning, each story is given a "story" estimate based on (perceived)
size and complexity. The scale for this is based on Fibonacci and almost
every story seems to get a "3" or "5" with an occasional "8". This team is
good about breaking anything larger into multiple stories. The team then
adds tasks under these stories which are estimated in "narwhals". The
"story" points are used in velocity/capacity/sprint planning but the daily
burndown is displayed in task ("narwhal") estimates and completed.


On a side note, the tool we are using isn't effective in providing me or
the team much prior velocity tracking  on earlier sprints primarily due a
bad habit I hope to break on this team - a lot of issues being moved
forward in the past and no good way of telling what moved where. What I do
have is the most recent sprint data (both "story" estimates and "narwhal"
actuals).


When I go into the story details from the sprint, I can see that "story"
estimates of 3, 5 and 8 may have taken anywhere from 3 to 20+ narwhals to
actually complete. The team completed stories worth 36 "story" estimate
points and logged completed tasks worth 75 narwhals.


I have worked with quite a few teams in the past and used different
strategies from tracking hours, points or what not, but we have always
burned-down and sprint planned using the same scale. Before I bring this up
in our retrospective, I wanted to get a better handle on what the expected
advantages of having a separate scale may be, as to me it adds complexity
and appears to be a less reliable metric.


Using the  Fibonacci is working well for the team to prevent large or
ambiguous stories from making the sprint so I do see great value in using
it for that purpose. What I fail to understand is why you would want to use
the Fibonacci values for sprint planning capacity rather than the number of
task estimate points ("narwhals") the team has been completing on prior
recent sprints. What am I missing here?

Cheers,

Doug Sims
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    <dc:creator>Doug Sims</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2013-03-01T19:49:42</dc:date>
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    <title>Airplane exercise</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.scrum.general/55910</link>
    <description>&lt;pre&gt;Hello,

I have conducted a Scrum Training for my team and they were very enlightened to see the benefits of scrum through the "Airplane exercise". They were able to relate all the concepts of Scrum through their experience of that exercise. But, this was a class room training session.


I now have got an opportunity to present this training to a distributed team. They are all not working in the same team. And this is more of a know-how session for them. They will be joining the presentation online. I have almost dropped the plan of having any practical sessions for them, where they can actually experience the results of Scrum. But, none-the-less, I thought of asking at this forum if there were any ideas/suggestions that I could use in my online session to help the participants get a feel of Scrum techniques, viz., time boxing, finding impediments, and the improvements seen on removing impediments.

Please share your ideas/suggestions for this online exercise that I could have for the participants.

Thanks in advance
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    <dc:creator>SARFRAAZ AHMED</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2013-02-28T04:05:15</dc:date>
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