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WIP is not the only variable to consider when controlling work in progress. If your Team is utilizing Kanban, you may find this article interesting and useful. https://lnkd.in/gyzHgs8K

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Could you use a quick intro on how your team can be more successful with your testing? Janet Gregory & my _Agile Testing Condensed_ book is a great place to start. The (nice short) ebook is available in many languages (Español coming soon!) And it has many references for anything you want to dig into more deeply. https://lnkd.in/gTD6qfh English version available in print from Amazon. #AgileTesting #HolisticTesting We're so grateful to our translators, who are all leading practitioners in agile and testing!

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I have a question for game testers. I've been in QA for almost 30 years. Through those years, I've occasionally considered working in the game industry, but every time I've mentioned it to someone, the response was nearly always "Game testing is miserable. You work long hours, get no appreciation, and the pay is crap." Of course, none of these thoughts ever came from an actual game tester, just people who have heard about it. So I am asking game testers ... Is it as bad as described, and you have to love the art of it to put yourself through the pain, or is it a realistic career with the usual highs and lows? #gaming #gametesting #gamingqa #gameqa

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The Topic of this Session will focus on Product Management

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The Scrum Sessions Podcast's latest episode is out. Gereon Hermkes and I conclude our Agile Pet Peeves Series with the Scrum Master's pet peeves. https://lnkd.in/g-_8ifEJ Please subscribe, like us, and give us feedback! The Scrum Sessions are still on hiatus. I plan to bring them back int he second half of the year. #scrumsessions #scrumsessionspodcast #agile #scrum #transformation #scrumatscale #raskere #teamflow #scalingdoneright #businessagility #agileleadership #scrummasters #safe #less #leadershipdevelopment #productowners #productmanagement #leadership #lean #agilecoaching #leanagile #agiletransformations #agilelearning #leanstartups #podcast #productmanagers Bob Schatz, DMgt. Claus Reestrup Joanne Tierney Agile Education by Scrum Inc.���

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Ted Lasso could be the best Scrum Master in the World! Apple TV's Ted Lasso gained millions of fans when we got introduced to the lovable, patient, wise and charasmatic football coach main character, Ted Lasso. After binge watching the show; I realised that Ted Lasso's personality and lessons he used in the show could be a benchmark for how a Scrum Master should behave and coach their teams... SPOLIER ALERT; This talk would showcase snippits of the show; so go and watch all three seasons before the the talk next week so that you would appreciate the references! (You can thank me later!!). But its okay if you did not watch the show: I would show enough snippets to make the reference relatable…. 😉 Come and learn the 11 Lessons Ted Lasso can teach you as a Scrum Master.

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Elevate Your Test Automation Strategy with Expert Insights! Join Robin Gupta on the TestGuild Automation podcast episode as he delves into the critical balance between automation and quality. Discover why having meaningful conversations and performing detailed assessments is essential before choosing your tools—be it Selenium, Playwright, or Cypress.io. Robin shares his insights on overcoming beginner challenges with Selenium and why open-source solutions can save you from reinventing the wheel. You’ll also learn advanced techniques, such as dealing with shadow DOM and the nuanced debate over page objects. Plus, hear about Robin’s new book on Selenium WebDriver, designed to be an approachable guide for beginners. Don’t miss this episode filled with practical tips and continuous improvement strategies. Listen now and transform your testing practices! 👇👇👇 https://lnkd.in/eNyEzUmX #testautomation #automationtesting #Selenium #SeleniumWebDriver #opensourcetools #opensourcesolution #softwaretesting #testguildpodcast

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I'm seeing a lot of these "expert answers" about frontend development and what does HTML, CSS, and Javascript do. So many of them over complicate it: HTML is content authoring. You are writing a document and should use the tools and formatting available to make it as clearly understood as possible. Most people should be able to write some HTML much like most people can post dross on social networks. However there is a big difference between a coherent, semantically correct HTML doc and some div/span catastrophe. The latter is more like the local racists latest rant with no punctuation, swimming with spelling mistakes, and they've tied themselves in knots over the fact there was once a rainbow flag in Morrisons. CSS is not just about making things "look nice". Yeah it'll make things look better but it's main purpose should be to improve usability, legibility and make your content more understandable. Finally Javascript - Javascript is usually unnecessary and I reckon 90% of the internet could do without it. A lot of the things that Javascript has introduced has made the internet worse, less stable, and less accessible. It's main purpose has been to make frontend development more like a programming discipline, rather than the design discipline it originally was. This is coming from someone who has built their career around frontend development 🤷‍♂️

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I'm excited to be speaking at Agile+DevOps conference this year. My talk is called: "Becoming the Bottleneck: How to embrace the challenges of testing in an Agile environment -- A tale of woe and despair!"

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I am excited to share that I have successfully passed the Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I) certification from Scrum.org. This certification validates my knowledge of the Scrum framework and my ability to support and enable value creation and delivery. Earning PSPO I shows my understanding of how to bridge the gap between strategy and agile product management in order to create valuable products using Scrum.

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There's lots of talk about agile and Scrum's imminent demise...is it true? Here are some thoughts from Mike Cohn on the subject.

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I often get asked “what is the dev manager’s role in agile?” 1. Focus less on what the team is doing and more on what they’re becoming. 2. Help remove obstacles and let them figure out the most efficient way across the finish line. Be a partner to your Scrum Master. They’ll know your people much better than you will. The SM can help you understand how to help your people

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Looking to improve a struggling Scrum team, I should tell you fix the biggest problems first, queue a long list. The deeper improvements, all require a team that is engaged enough to care. So I look for low hanging fruit. Meeting Hygiene is often a winner. If we can either kill or repair meetings and buy back time, many team members will be happier to engage in improvement work. #EffectiveScrum https://buff.ly/4b2qFDH

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Check out my new Skill Badge from Scaled Agile Inc! Through this SAFe® Skill I am able to demonstrate methods for coaching teams, identify practices for team collaboration, and model trust-building behaviors with stakeholders.

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🌟 Calling all Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters! 🌟 Have you implemented Agile Guilds within your organization? I'd love to hear about your experiences! As a Scrum Master, I'm exploring the concept of Agile Guilds as a means to enhance collaboration, learning, and growth within Agile teams. If you've had experience with Agile Guilds, I'd greatly appreciate it if you could share: -How you structured and organized guilds within your organization -Effective activities/initiatives for promoting collaboration and learning -Challenges encountered and how you overcame them -Measurable impact on teams and the organization Let's connect and learn from each other's experiences! Feel free to comment below or message me directly. Together, we can empower Agile teams to thrive. #AgileGuilds #ScrumMaster #AgileCoach #KnowledgeSharing #ContinuousLearning #Collaboration

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For scrum story points are not required. However, where teams go off the rails, they think that nothing is required other than slapping tickets on a board, maybe. Scrum is the practice of empirical process control. This requires gathering data to show the history of what the team has accomplished over time. That way, any changes introduced by the team will have the data to empirically prove if the change had a positive impact. As for developers not liking story points, I disagree wholly. I have run a number of exercises working through relativistic estimation and pointing. The primary driver of pointing is creating empirical estimates based on the relativistic equivalence of prior work completed. Then, showing how to do the data analysis for future work estimation and resource planning. I have had a number of teams change their fate just through the collection and analysis of their data. Where your average scrum master falls down is that they can't show how story points are used or how you can leverage it for resource planning. Story points like data have no feelings, and if you embed them with such, then that is not scrum.

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Keynotes: ➡ AI's role in agile practices. ➡ How AI can supplement, not substitute, the human element. ➡ Introduction to different AI tools. ➡ What is the CARE framework? ➡ Difference between AIagent and AIcopilot. ➡ Ethics and Security aligning AI systems.

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