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Agile Anti-patterns or How to Mess up as a Scrum Master

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If we have always to remember that it is more important to be Agile than to do Agile, there are still many organizations practicing Scrum in a “cargo cult” mode. In this article, Mark Haynes describes, with a facetious bias, some of the common anti-patterns of Scrum Masters. share share tweet share 

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