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Scrum Mastery in 300 Words

by Stefan Wolpers | 2020-01-20 Agile and ScrumAgile Transition

TL; DR: Scrum Mastery

How to make Scrum work? Read on to learn more about my top three objectives for Scrum Masters striving to achieve Scrum Mastery.

Scrum Mastery in 300 Words — Age-of-Product.com

Technical Debt & Scrum: Who Is Responsible?

by Stefan Wolpers | 2019-02-28 Agile and ScrumAgile Transition

TL; DR: Technical Debt & Scrum

If technical debt is the plague of our industry, why isn’t the Scrum Guide addressing the question of who is responsibly dealing with it? To make things worse, if the Product Owner’s responsibility is to maximize the value customers derive from the Development Team’s work, and the Development Team’s responsibility is to deliver a product Increment (at least) at the end of the sprint adhering to the definition of “Done,” aren’t those two responsibilities possibly causing a conflict of interest?

This post analyzes the situation by going back to first principles, as laid out in the Scrum Guide to answer a simple question: Who is responsible for keeping technical debt at bay in a Scrum Team?