Short parody of All The Small Things by Blink-182

Short parody of Nothing Compares 2 U by Prince (also performed wonderfully by Sinead O'Connor and Chris Cornell)

When Scrum Teams experience a work quality issue, they sometimes shift the responsibility for quality control to the Product Owner as a solution. Not only is this impractical, but it's also anti-Scrum. Here's why.

Short parody of Your Song by Elton John

Short parody of "I Want To Know What Love Is" by Foreigner

Steve is great, but in terms of Agile leadership, he doesn’t touch sides – in my opinion – to Satya Nadella. You can see the difficulty he created within Apple because all innovation, product development, and so forth stemmed from him rather than a culture of innovation permeating the organization.

In this blog, you'll learn about the Fourth and most problematic thing you do to prevent value delivery in your organization.

Lohnt das $20-Investment für ChatGPT Pro für Scrum Master und Product Owner? Ich habe 3 Experimente durchgeführt. Lesen Sie weiter und erfahren Sie, was dabei herausgekommen ist. Es war keine Selbstverständlichkeit.

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Designing an Agile organisation is difficult without a framework - it involves making trade-offs between various design options. But did you know that your organization's strategic focus plays a crucial role in determining the right trade-offs? By combining the traits of an Agile organization with y...

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I ran three comparisons, using the identical prompt to trigger answers from the new GPT-4 and previous GPT-3.5 models. Read on and learn what happened. It was not a foregone conclusion.

Si eres un profesional de agilidad, entonces sabrás que cuáles son muchos los errores comunes en Agile asociados con este enfoque. Esto se debe a la naturaleza dinámica y cambiante del trabajo ágil. Sin embargo, es importante estar al tanto de los errores más comunes para evitar caer en ellos.

PSTs Gregory Crown, Jason Malmstadt and Robert Pieper discuss four companies that failed to change quickly enough when faced with massive market changes and how that failure led to their downfall.

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In this session of Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer, Joanna Plaskonka and Magdalena Kucharska answered questions focused on the Scrum Master, estimation, user stories, metrics, Scrum events and more! (59:15 Minutes)

Könnten die Prinzipien von "Agile" von Zeno von Citium in Athen des frühen 3. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. definiert worden sein?

How Liberating Structures and servant leadership create an environment for Scrum Masters to find support, offer help, and draw inspiration

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Facilitators can use many techniques, but this does guarantee that the outcome will be reached. Ultimately linking the facilitation pattern to the objective of the interaction, makes the event more effective and helps contribute to team success in achieving their goals.

An effective Product Owner is a strategic agile product manager that ties the Product Vision into the daily work by having a product management entrepreneurial mindset.

When to use Facilitation, Coaching, Mentoring or Teaching We often use the words “coaching,” “mentoring,” “teaching,” and “facilitating” informally. We may say that we're being coached on how to become a better golfer, or that the person managing the agenda in a meeting is the meeting's facilitat...

No hay una receta para decidir como actuar dentro del rol de Product Owner, pero hay algunas situaciones que pueden dañar el enfoque entrega de valor y desviar la razón de ser del rol.

In this episode of the Women in Agile Podcast, learn about how Jill Stott, a passionate agilist, navigated her career to becoming the VP of Innovation at NextUp Solutions. In her conversation with host, Leslie Morse, she shares key learning moments from her career that have allowed her to reach a pl...

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Why do you need to have a Sprint Retrospective? Who should attend? What's the point of it?

Anyone can act as a teacher, helping your colleagues obtain new knowledge or learn new skills. However, if you want to become a very effective teacher, it’s best if you learn a few of the principles of the teaching profession, the skills and traits of a teacher and when teaching can be helpful for a Scrum Team.

Successful Scrum Masters continuously find ways to improve their practice to have greater influence and impact on their teams and organizations. Scrum’s foundational concept, empiricism, which advances learning through experience and observation, can support this kind of growth. In this blog post, w...

In this article, we will analyze the famous “Tribes and Squads” model (also known as a “Spotify model”) in terms of where it fits on the archetype map.

Analyzing the Agile fluency model from the perspective of Org Topologies.

"At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjust its behavior accordingly." What does this mean and why is it important?

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Scrum events create regularity and transparency and minimize the need for meetings not defined in Scrum. The events are the Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, and the Sprint. Often, Scrum events don’t go as planned. Good, lightweight facilitation can help the Scrum Te...

Could the first principles of “Agile” have been defined by “Zeno of Citium in Athens in the early 3rd century BCE?”

A dogmatic approach to Scrum tends to close down discussion and inhibit collaboration. If it’s in the Scrum framework described in the Scrum Guide, it’s there for a reason. But if it is not outlined in the framework, Scrum teams can innovate how to apply Scrum in their unique environment.

La facilitazione permette di guidare persone e team verso obiettivi concordati. Traduzione dell’articolo originale in inglese sul sito scrum.org.

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La regla de una organización sin silos es un concepto importante que debe considerarse y adoptarse en cualquier estructura organizativa. Al eliminar estos silos, permitimos que las personas trabajen juntos de manera más efectiva y eficiente al mismo tiempo que fomenta una cultura de transparencia ...

Do You build "It Right" and at the "Right Time"?

The Definition of 'Done' is probably the most misunderstood concept of the Scrum framework. In this article we will discuss:  What Is the Definition of 'Done'  How it can be used in Scrum Events

Discover the learning objectives in the PSFS course and explore some supporting learning resources.

3 Practices to Break out of Cruise Control and Drive Change

La facilitación permite crear un espacio colaborativo para ayudar a las personas a moverse hacia los objetivos de una manera que se hagan incluyendo la participación conciente, voluntaria y motivada, el compromiso del resultado como equipo y la creatividad de todos.

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There is a lot of information out there about how to prepare for a Scrum Master interview. But, how do you land that interview? What are the qualities, mindset and personality traits needed to be a Scrum Master? Learn more in this episode of the Scrum.org Community podcast. (34:36 Minutes)

This is a recording of a facilitation focused presentation by Patricia Kong, Product Owner of Enterprise Agility at Scrum.org at Beyond Agile Israel 2023. (30:42 Minutes)

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Lassen Sie uns darüber nachdenken, warum die Beantwortung dieser veralteten Daily Scrum Fragen einen negativen Einfluss auf das Scrum-Team hat — Making Your Scrum Work (29).

Systems Thinking is one of the key concepts required for successful agile organization design. It provides a valuable approach to organization design that can help organizations better understand the interrelationships between different elements within the system. By recognizing feedback loops and b...