Agile

The Detriments of Context Switching

Here is a great article on the detriments of context switching: https://blog.rescuetime.com/context-switching/ Research has shown that we lose 20% of our productivity when switching between contexts. We all know the experience of switching between different tasks, projects, tools, etc. We may not always be aware of how detrimental it is when it happens too often. …

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Professional Scrum Master Certification

I earned the Professional Scrum Master I certification from Scrum.org today. The exam for this certification consists of 80 questions and has a one hour time limit. It was tougher than I expected. The questions that direct you to pick the best answer or the two best answers were tricky. There were several questions that …

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Have You Read the Scrum Guide?

(I originally posted this article at work for my colleagues.) Many of us are now working on Scrum teams, some starting recently and some for many months and more. Some of us have joined already existing, well-functioning Scrum teams. Some of us are founding members of teams that are trying to figure it out as …

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