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The average Scrum Master may work with two or three teams at a time. If you are comfortable with limiting your role to organising meetings, enforcing timelines and responding to difficulties raised by staff, you can achieve this by working part-time. The team is likely to still exceed your organisation’s expectations from before Scrum was introduced, and it is unlikely that a disaster will occur.

Explore practical virtual meeting cards to help you manage your time, tasks and interactions effectively in a remote working environment. Make your online meetings easier and more effective.

Looking for proven facilitation techniques to help you run effective and engaging meetings? This download is a collection of practical tips and tools to help you organise and moderate workshops and team meetings. Learn how to prepare for your role as a facilitator, how to handle difficult situations and how to support your group in achieving its goals. Find out how facilitation can improve communication and collaboration in your team.

Many efficiency guides will tell you what you need to do to increase your effectiveness. More time for sport, connecting with others or education. Meanwhile, Toyota, the leader in the Lean approach, says the opposite. To increase your efficiency you need to do less. You need to find waste and then systematically remove it.

Agile engineering practices is a misleading name. It suggests that only engineers should pay attention to them. Of course, there are many practices that are primarily aimed at engineers, but improving the process and paying off technical debt, requires approval from ‘those at the top’. The problem is that the decision-makers do not always see the value in refactoring and paying off technical debt. Rather, what matters to them is money, budgets, ROI, and delivering value to stakeholders.