Several years ago, I was the Scrum Master for a team working on a technology product.  Two of the team’s Developers told me they would like to try pair programming.  

Product Owners are a critical role in the Scrum Framework, but what does a Product Owner do? This blog post will discuss the day-to-day activities of this position and explore how these accountabilities create successful projects.

A scenario showing how the scrum framework and metrics can help a team self manage for improvement.

Leadership – 5 cambiamenti fondamentali, analizza le origini dei problemi che bloccano l’innovazione impedendo a certe aziende di rimanere competitive. Ho potuto osservare questi problemi nel corso degli ultimi 20 anni. In alcuni casi, ho contribuito a migliorare la situazione. Molto più spesso,...

Will Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches soon be replaced with a chatbot? In this ChatGPT job interview, I put OpenAI’s latest generative AI to the test.

En este capítulo aprenderás: 1. ¿Qué es Evidence-Based Management? 2. ¿Qué papel juegan las metas y métricas en las organizaciones ágiles? 3. ¿Cuáles son los componentes de Evidence-Based Management (o EBM)? 4. Y más importante, ¿por qué vale la pena aprender EBM?

Este curso te enseñará el marco de trabajo Evidence-Based Management para trabajar con metas y métricas en organizaciones ágiles.

El modelo lógico del proyecto te permitirá entender los tipos de metas y métricas que se pueden usar en el contexto del proceso de creación de valor de los productos o servicios.

Moderation ist im Scrum Rahmenwerk fest verankert. Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review und Sprint Retrospektive sind dadurch bestimmt, dass innerhalb einer vorgeschriebenen Zeitspanne ein Ergebnis erreicht werden soll. Der Scrum Master facilitiert die Zusammenarbeit so, dass das Scrum Tea...

In this vlog, PST Joshua Partogi shares that self-managing teams is not the objective of the Scrum Master and also the larger goal that the Scrum Master need to pursue.

Are you aware that as a human being, you have the ability to convert thought energy into results in the physical world? And of course, you can choose which thought you want to convert. In this "Professional Mind for Professional Scrum" series I will walk you through the marvelous world of the mind t...

Agile approaches like Scrum have long promoted the importance of working at a sustainable pace. This principle was made part of the Agile Manifesto due to a common practice in the software industry where people were(/are) expected to work extra hours in order to meet a deadline. Commonly this was(/i...

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 Review?

What happens when a Scrum Team becomes overwhelmed with requests that stakeholders make directly to the Developers instead of the Product Owner?  

Es gibt eine Herausforderung, bei der ich Euch um Eure Unterstützung bitten möchte: Welches Cover soll es sein – das Rote oder das Blaue?

Professional Scrum Trainer Sander Dur from Xebia joins host Dave West for a discussion about leadership where they delve into topics including the importance of building trust, transparency and psychological safety in Scrum Teams and organizations. (27:35 Minutes)

Are you sick and tired of destroying precious time, money, goodwill, potential and value in the name of "transformation"? Do you want to learn 7 reasons why this keeps happening over and over again? Interested in learning 7 ways to stop this from happening? Watch this video and help your company sto...

Scrum Teams are often given goals with the expectations that they need to be achieved. This anti-pattern leads to waste and disengagement. The article explores the purpose of setting goals in a complex environment.

Being an effective Scrum Master or team member inevitably involves difficult conversations. How we approach challenging discussions can mean the difference between a transformative moment and one that goes sideways. Fortunately, there is a lot we can do to prepare for those times when we need to wad...

Il est fréquent de demander au Scrum Master de tenir le rôle de facilitateur dans les 5 événements de Scrum. Dépassons ce cap pour aller vers des stratégies plus apprenantes, à la fois pour le Scrum Master et pour la Scrum Team.

Im Sommer 2021 nahm ich an einem Werte-Workshop teil. Der Tag endete für mich mit mehr Fragezeichen auf der Stirn, als er begonnen hatte. Nicht die Diskussion über die Werte verwirrte mich, sondern die Frage: Was unterscheidet Vision, Mission, Strategie und Roadmap? Im letzten Jahr habe ich v...

Almost all Scrum Teams use a type of board to visualize their work giving them a better understanding of where they are currently and helping them make upcoming decisions. In this post, we investigate the techniques of effective collaboration on Sprint Board one by one.

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 your Daily Scrum?

What is one of the most important aspects of holding the Scrum Master accountability? If you immediately thought about something like removing impediments and helping the team get to Done, I want you to think of the bigger picture. How you show up as a leader has the biggest impact. Not sure what th...

Grow confidence, celebrate small successes, and build the muscle to get through the hard stuff.

In this video podcast episode, PST Joshua Partogi share his opinion how Scrum Masters stay relevant so they won't be seen as an individual that can be replaced by Artificial Intelligence like ChatGPT.

Originalmente se tiende a asociar Scrum y la Agilidad al desarrollo de software, pero esto no ha limitado la posibilidad de su uso en diversas industrias como, por ejemplo: marketing, manufactura, la industria de la panificación, etc. La figura muestra una lista de industrias que están adoptando S...

Scrum Master mit Personalverantwortung im Team – ein Antipattern? Ich habe noch nie einen Scrum Master getroffen, der diese Idee nicht als Scrum-Antipattern bezeichnen würde. Als Argumente werden dafür meist drei Gründe angeführt:

In this vlog, PST Joshua Partogi share a guidelines as a starting point for agile.

Is your Product Ownership consistently optimizing sustainable, measurable value from your products and services? Or do you feel that Product Ownership is stuck in your company? If you fall in the second category, this video blog is for you! You will learn 6 ways to get Product Ownership unstuck by c...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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 ...