The Scrum Master Salary Report 2017 has found that Australia is one of the highest earning nations for Scrum Masters. Another key discovery was that the wage gap between male and female Scrum Masters is almost non-existent globally.

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In the drive to deliver quality software to the customer faster, moving to a more team-based collaborative approach in projects is becoming increasingly popular. Planit’s Kate Ellery looks at the challenges resulting from team members who display different communication or personality styles.

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Communication is so important to get right within a team (any team!) to ensure that the relationships you are building encourage cooperation and efficiency. Getting communication right results in a cohesive team who enjoy working together towards common understanding or goals. Getting it wrong can result in frustration and conflict, and potentially subsequent failure.

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Planit’s Agile community has recently discussed the topic of combining Agile and Waterfall processes in line with delivery methods that some of Planit’s client projects employ. The focus of this discussion is based around the pros and cons of merging Water and Agile into one hybrid model: Water Agile Fall.

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Cost of quality involves classifying project or operational costs, including prevention, detection, internal and external failure. Agile minimises these costs.

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