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Improve Your Scrum Events with a Facilitator's Guide
Great facilitation makes it easier for everyone to participate, collaborate, and find shared understanding to reach their desired...
Chris Belknap
Sep 6, 20224 min read
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How to Prepare for the PSM I Exam
Have you made it your new year's resolution to pass the PSM I exam? If so then here's my advice on how to prepare for it. One of many...
Chris Belknap
Nov 7, 20203 min read
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We Don't Need a Dedicated Scrum Master
If the organization was fully bought in to the power of Scrum, then they'd fully invest in Scrum for their teams
Merrill B. Lamont III
May 4, 20204 min read
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Somebody Stop Me
When making a decision, ask for an instance of disagreement.
Merrill B. Lamont III
Apr 27, 20202 min read
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Challenge the Existence of That Meeting
We have the opportunity to make this meeting serve us.
Merrill B. Lamont III
Apr 20, 20201 min read
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Oh No, A Bug, Now What?
Have all this Scrum stuff work for you, even if it means it becomes... less tidy.
Merrill B. Lamont III
Apr 13, 20204 min read
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Retro your Quarantine
you can inspire your team as you share your retrospective experience from this change in daily life
Merrill B. Lamont III
Apr 6, 20202 min read
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As an Agilist I want to do Disgustingly Agile Things so that I become even more Agile
It's good practice. Or at least self-amusing.
Merrill B. Lamont III
Mar 30, 20204 min read
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Invest in Yourself for Free: Trello, Zoom, Slack
In one week, you can master these tools for yourself, BE the person to help others.
Merrill B. Lamont III
Mar 23, 20202 min read
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Use Slack Better as you WFH
Slack is powerful. Wield its power well.
Merrill B. Lamont III
Mar 16, 20204 min read
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Remote Facilitation Tactics because Coronavirus has you WFH
Connecting will take a little more effort.
Merrill B. Lamont III
Mar 9, 20205 min read
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Does your Daily Scrum feel Awesome?
It should. Here's what I do.
Merrill B. Lamont III
Mar 2, 20204 min read
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Does your Daily Scrum feel like a Status Meeting?
This sucks. Shall we do better? I'll share what I've done.
Merrill B. Lamont III
Feb 24, 20203 min read
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Squiggle Retrospective
So I did what anyone in an interview situation would do: make stuff up.
Merrill B. Lamont III
Feb 17, 20203 min read
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Is My Agile Coach Effective?
First ask: What clear problem are we trying to solve with Agility?
Merrill B. Lamont III
Feb 10, 20203 min read
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On Team Building
Building relationships takes recurring effort.
Merrill B. Lamont III
Feb 3, 20204 min read
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It's OK to do Waterfall in a Sprint, At First
Every context is different, so your Transformation Backlog should be tailored. What can y'all do to get a win for the team?
Merrill B. Lamont III
Jan 25, 20205 min read
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Does a Scrum Master NEED to be technical?
if you, as Scrum Master, know something about the product domain, ensure the team does, too. Be the lowest bar of product knowledge
Merrill B. Lamont III
Jan 20, 20204 min read
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How to Get a Scrum Master Job Without Experience
As life would have it, I ran into that first hiring manager last year. I shook her hand. I had experience now.
Merrill B. Lamont III
Jan 14, 20203 min read
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Getting a New Scrum Team Started (Part 1 of 2)
The Scrum Guide provides no reference or guidance on how to get started with Scrum. That's because Scrum is a lightweight, minimal...
Chris Belknap
Jan 8, 20205 min read
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