Empiricism is one of the underlying concepts of the Scrum framework. Scrum is founded on empirical process control, and transparency is the first of the three pillars. How does this show during Sprint Planning?

Scrum is a lightweight framework for solving complex problems. The mechanics are relatively easy to understand, and your Scrum Master will help you with this. However, it is much more important for a Product Owner to exploit the benefits of Scrum from a business perspective.

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods at InfoQ spoke to Patricia Kong of Scrum.org about the importance and value of facilitation skills for collaborative teams.

There are many ways to facilitate Daily Scrum. In this Introduction to Facilitating a Daily Scrum, you will learn three different techniques along with the benefits and challenges of each. Your team can experiment with these as they see necessary and choose whichever method helps them best focus on ...

What are the characteristics of a Scrum-friendly environment that supports nurturing high-performing Scrum Teams? Such an environment is your north star that your organization can always get aligned against. In this post, you will get a clear and solid image of a Scrum-friendly Environment.

I need your support, dear community. For months, I have been working on turning the popular Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide PDF into a new book from Scrum-org’s Professional Scrum Series, published by Pearson. There is one challenge, though, I like to ask for your support: which cover shall it be — re...

„Als [Rolle] möchte ich [Funktion], um [Nutzen].“ User Stories, die so geschrieben sind, bergen drei große Probleme: 1. Sie ignorieren den Kontext oder die konkrete Situation. 2. Sie verwenden Personas. 3. Sie koppeln die Funktion mit dem Ergebnis für den Nutzer. Hier die Probleme im Deta...

Ha salido la quinta edición del ’The Business Agility Report’. Cómo sabes es un reporte sobre la agilidad de negocio en el mundo. Destaca sobretodo el crecimiento y gran impacto de la agilidad de negocio en todo el mundo conjuntamente con otras tendencias de 2022 que te compartimos en el sigui...

In the heat of "the battle" teams tend to forget why they use the Scrum framework after all and what the foundations are of it. Why do we have Sprint Planning sessions every other week, why does our Product Owner has these or those accountabilities, why did we started using a team board after all, w...

This is the fourth part of the four-part series on conflict. In the first part, we explored why we need conflict. In the second how to establish a space that will be conducive to exploration of ideas. In the third some techniques to review suggestions and ideas. In this post, we will explore a patt...

In Scrum planen wir viel: Es gibt einen täglichen Plan, wenn die Entwickler während des Daily Scrum darüber nachdenken, wie sie heute dem Sprint-Ziel näher kommen können. Natürlich spiegelt das Sprint-Ziel selbst ein größeres Etappenziel wider, das das Scrum-Team für wertvoll hält, um die Probleme s...

9 von 10 Agilisten verbringen ihre Zeit damit, Dinge zu verbessern. Aber was bedeutet „besser“ eigentlich? - Ist es besser, wenn weitere Prozesse zur Qualitätssicherung eingeführt werden? - Ist es besser, wenn weitere Funktionen zum Produkt hinzugefügt werden? - Ist es besser, wenn wir stets...

Sprint Planning is one of those events that even experienced teams don’t use to its fullest potential.  Here’s why. Many teams see the Sprint Planning event as the time for selecting which Product Backlog items (PBIs) they will deliver in the upcoming Sprint.  And that’s it.  There is so much more t...

We plan a lot in Scrum: There is a daily plan when the Developers think about progressing toward the Sprint Goal during the Daily Scrum. Of course, the Sprint Goal reflects an intermediate target the Scrum team considers valuable to solve their customers’ problems. Moreover, there is the Product Goa...

Are you a product owner? Do you need some coping strategies? Here are two tried and tested strategies. First, become a developer and use the notion of a product owner helper from large scale scrum. Secondly, have a speak now or forever hold your silence meeting.

This is the third part of the four-part series on conflict. In the first part, we explored why we need conflict. In the second how to establish a space that will be conducive to exploration of ideas. In this post, we will explore some techniques to objectively review ideas. 

Der Scrum Guide enthält viele Regeln und Empfehlungen, aber kannst du sie unterscheiden? User Storys zu schätzen ist nicht verpflichtend. In Scrum gibt es keine verpflichtenden Best Practices! Scrum ist ein Rahmenwerk und keine Methode. Der Scrum Guide beschreibt deshalb nur das „Was“ und nicht d...

In this article, I will try to give you some ideas on how a Scrum Master can serve the organization and also some practical examples.

El informe sobre el estado de Agile en 2022 es un documento que proporciona una descripción general del estado actual de las prácticas y metodologías ágiles, incluida información sobre su adopción y eficacia. Las organizaciones pueden utilizar este informe para evaluar la eficacia de sus práctica...

Does the following situation ring a bell? You enter a room and immediately get involved in a situation, listen how a problem is described, see a task or read a request. A single look, a single sentence, a small wink makes you think you perfectly know what is going on. This blogpost invites you ...

Let’s unpack what defines trust and how, although it does not sit among them, the Scrum values help build trust among team members.

In this episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, Kurt Bittner guest hosts and has Professional Scrum Trainers Peter Goetz and Thomas Schissler on to talk about the relationship between software architecture and Agile Teams. They discuss common misconceptions Agile teams have about software archit...

Nexus es el marco ideal para escalar Scrum debido a que no modifica Scrum. Es ideal para quienes ya usan Scrum debido a que su adopción se basa en Scrum. Nexus mejora la visiblidad y transparencia de las dependencias entre los equipos, dependencias externas y de otro tipo que elevan el riesgo de no...

This is the second part of the four-part series on conflict. In the first part, we explored why we need conflict. In this post, we explore how to establish clear boundaries at the start of the event to provide the environment that will enable you as a facilitator to navigate through conflict. 

At Scrum.org, we are always looking for ways to improve the impact of our interactions with students. As a result, we are experimenting with a learning format called Flipped Learning. We are beta-testing this format now, and invite you to join the experiment! Your feedback will help us shape the fut...

Vor ein paar Tagen hat OpenAI ein neues Modell einer generative KI zur Verfügung gestellt, welche "Gespräche führen" kann: ChatGPT. Ich dachte, es könnte interessant sein, ChatGPT ein paar Fragen über Business Agilität im Allgemeinen und Scrum im Besonderen zu stellen.

Many organizations struggle with OKRs (Objectives and Key Results). Let's explore how agility principles and practices such as Scrum can help us use OKRs to improve alignment, focus, empowerment, and empiricism in our organization.

This ScrumPulse Webcast moderated by Dave West, CEO of Scrum.org, Tomasz Maj, Expert at McKinsey, and Rishi Markenday, Professional Scrum Trainer, discuss their research and initial findings as presented in the new paper titled - “In pursuit of value, not work.” They will describe how companies typi...

Somewhere along the line, people and organizations seem to have lost a certain sense of pragmatism. Job requirements are more focused on theoretical knowledge, rather than certain (work)life skills. In other words, we need to focus more on solving challenges, and less on flashing around theoretical ...

As a facilitator, your purpose is to hold the space to allow the people in the event to achieve the agreed outcomes. This will require distance from the participants as the focus is on helping the people work through the agenda to deliver the outcomes. This is the first of a four part series.

During refinement, the team discusses what we will deliver with each Product Backlog item. Although it's easy to drift into sorting out how we will deliver each PBI during these discussions, planning at this stage is a mistake. 

Die wichtigste Aufgabe als Facilitator ist nicht, zu facilitieren. Stattdessen solltest du deinem Team die Groan Zone erklären. 99 % der Scrum Master machen den Fehler, dass sie ihr Wissen und ihre Erfahrung mit Gruppendynamik nicht mit ihrem Team teilen. Dadurch zwingen sie ihr Team bei der Mode...

What if a Generative AI can not just answer questions but also learn while constantly improving its model? Wouldn’t that lead to the long-run obsolescence of many knowledge workers, for example, Scrum Masters, agile coaches, product managers, and Product Owners?

En una brillante conversación que hemos tenido hoy con un grupo hemos llevado adelante esta conversación sobre si un product owner es distinto de un product manager. ¿Quieres ver cómo es la diferencia?

Life is complex, and unpredictable, and we all have to deal with it daily. The Personal Scrum System helps people find success in their lives by setting and achieving Goals.

In an Agile Uprising podcast series on Agile Leadership is returning guest Kurt Bittner, co-author of the Professional Agile Leader!  Kurt discusses the satisfaction gap as it relates to transformation, how facts are friendly, and how your customers don't care about your revenue or operational expen...

In this episode of Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer, PST Jay Rahman will be available answers questions on leadership, Product Ownership, Scrum Mastery and more! (58:14 Minutes)

Stakeholders want to know when things will be done, and rightfully so. But what if they demand their features to be delivered on scope, on time, and on budget? The tried-and-tested iron triangle might not be the best approach...

No matter what the future brings, building a capable and resilient organisation is the need of the hour. At tryScrum, our mission is to help organisations become capable and resilient. In this blog, I will share my experience of some of the tenets that helped organisations I worked with. This model ...

Use "Discovery & Action Dialogue" and learn how to ask questions that include different perspectives, and to identify specific and actionable solutions.

In this vlog, PST Joshua Partogi explains Scrum using visualisation in under 7 minutes but without cutting down its core principles

Every Scrum event has a maximum allowable time period to carry it out, called a timebox.  While Scrum events have a maximum amount of time, they do not have a minimum amount of time. Let’s look at all of the event timeboxes and how they make Scrum Teams more effective.

Learn more about how the Agile Fluency Model® helps you to understand how agile teams advance their mastery of agility.

„Niemand hat dich gebeten, zu kommen!“ Jeder erfahrene Scrum Master wurde wohl schon einmal mit einer solchen Aussage konfrontiert. Betrachten wir ein beliebiges Produkt. Dann sehen wir: Entwickler entwickeln das Produkt. Designer stellen sicher, dass es eine gute Nutzererfahrung bietet und to...

In this vlog, Professional Scrum Trainer, Andreanna Marshall discusses some simple ways you can transition to the Scrum Master role.

En esta serie de cuatro artículos, con la que inicié esta newsletter, quería compartir un modelo de agilidad de negocio basado en aumentar y acelerar las etapas mediante las cuales se descubren ideas de innovación, se priorizan, se ejecutan y se validan. En el primer artículo hablé de como acelerar ...

In this vlog, PST Joshua Partogi visualises what the Scrum Master do all day using the 8 Scrum Master hats.

In this vlog, PST Joshua Partogi shares the accountability of a Scrum Master and the challenges behind it.

Dentro de un Sprint se busca aprender con diversas formas para conectar con el cliente a través de UX, pero siempre combinando con el trabajo necesario para entregar un incremento de producto terminado y evaluar el impacto medible en los clientes (outcomes) en cada Sprint. El desafío en Scrum con UX...

Get to know your new Scrum Team now! Explore these 7 facilitation tips to start your Scrum Team.