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The scrum guide has been thoughtfully crafted and frequently updated to help teams and organizations be more successful. While aimed primarily at individual teams it also speaks volumes to the type of environment organizations can create to help their teams to thrive.

In this episode of Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer moderated by Patricia Kong, PSTs Simon Flossmann and David Spinks answer your burning questions about Scrum and the challenges you or your teams may be facing when using Scrum, particularly within the Scrum events and other scenarios when it may be...

An exploration of what scientific studies and a large dataset of Scrum teams tell us about the benefits of agility

Pratiquez Scrum professionnel ! Autrement dit, quelle différence entre une application mécanique de Scrum et une qui inclut des valeurs et principes qui guident toutes décisions ?

​​​​​​​Scrum Teams that understand the “why” behind the Scrum framework can better increase value delivery to the organization. Internalizing the purpose behind the events, artifacts and accountabilities of Scrum allows the team to get the most benefit from them.  In this article, we will discuss th...

Suppose you are looking to fill a position for a Scrum Master (or agile coach) in your organization. In that case, you may find the following 73 interview questions helpful in identifying the right candidate.

Wie stehen Produktvision, Produkt-Ziel und Sprint-Ziel in Beziehung zueinander? Wie können sie einfach erstellt werden? Und wie sind Vision und Ziele definiert? Wenn du dir eine dieser Fragen stellst, dann lies weiter! Lass uns damit beginnen, die letzten beiden Fragen zu beantworten:

Reflections and findings triggered by an experience interview with Daniel Vacanti.

Indicator's of a team's health that's beyond velocity

Muitas pessoas que estão começando sua jornada como Scrum Master ou estão dentro de Scrum Teams, possuem dificuldade para entender o que é o Definition of Done (DoD), e a sua verdadeira importância. Na maioria das vezes, acabam confundido com critérios de aceite, ou limitam o compromisso a um simple...

Cuando empecé a trabajar, unas de las primeras cosas que me pidieron fue profesionalizar la construcción de software. Esto me lo pidieron como el 2010. Siempre pensé que pasaria de moda, que las máquinas montarían el software solas. Pues esta semana del 2022, me han pedido volver a definir una int...

In this Introduction to Facilitating the Sprint Retrospective video, you'll learn step-by-step how to guide your team through a Sprint Retrospective with techniques such as the Prime Directive, the Perfection Game, Dot Voting and Affinity Mapping so that your team can leave the Sprint Retrospective ...

Interestingly, so many organizations have revenue or profit as their Product Goals as well as Strategic Goals. Some organizations do not consider using Product Goals at all. Or they are not aware of this need.

Kein Scrum-Team war jemals in der Lage, die Vorteile des Frameworks in vollem Umfang zu nutzen, ohne das Sprint-Ziel zu einem Eckpfeiler seiner Bemühungen zu machen. Die folgenden neun Prinzipien weisen auf kritische Punkte hin, die jedes Scrum-Team auf seinem Weg zur Exzellenz berücksichtigen sollt...

In this article, I’ll explore the need for and the attributes of an agile business operating system related to Private Equity (PE) portfolio companies. It hopefully helps leaders of such companies and PE professionals focused on the operations side expand their perspective on what “Agile” and "Agili...

We interview the world's first Scrum Cow. As it turns out, Scrum has become very popular on the farm and cows everywhere are performing stand ups on a regular basis! Watch to learn moooooooore! 

Kurt Bittner, PST Ron Eringa and PST Laurens Bonnema join host Dave West for a discussion on some of the topics in the new book, The Professional Agile Leader: The Leader's Journey Toward  Growing Mature Agile Teams and Organizations. (25:49 Minutes)

In this webinar, Patricia Kong and PST David Spinks discuss the group dynamics involved in decision making and how facilitation skills can help a Scrum Team navigate through periods of frustration, confusion or disengagement to reach true alignment on their collective decisions.

Many people choose to do things efficiently, because they probably assume that it is the best way to be successful and that it is the best way to get the highest value with the least amount of effort. But substituting efficiency for effectiveness makes things worse instead of better. The fact is tha...

Here are my observations made after teaching Scrum using Minecraft Education for approximately 3 years. Minecraft is used to create a world (metaverse?) in which students are asked to develop a product. The immersive nature of the platform replicates the workplace and invites students into refle...

Improving Employee Engagement with Professional Scrum (Questions 7-9 of Gallup's Q12 Survey)

Improving Employee Engagement with Professional Scrum (Questions 4-6 of Gallup's Q12 Survey)

Agility and self-organisation were beaten to a stalemate by hierarchy and command & control. We must fight back but can't do that while continuing to frame complex red practices in a complicated blue context.

In this article I will focus on both the theoretical aspects of true leader who serves as well as practical.

No Scrum team has ever been able to reap the benefits of the framework without making the Sprint Goal a cornerstone of its efforts. The following nine principles point at critical issues any Scrum Team needs to consider on its path to excellence.

​​​​​​​According to the 2020 Scrum Guide, “The purpose of the Sprint Retrospective is to plan ways to increase quality and effectiveness.”  Scrum Teams must take the Retrospective seriously to achieve these outcomes.  In this article, we will look at four tips for getting the most from your Sprint R...

Lohnt sich der Besuch einer Konferenz noch? Können wir nicht bereits alles im Internet lesen? Geben wir in die Amazon-Buchsuche „Scrum“ ein, dann erhalten wir 10000 Treffer. Auf dem Scrum.org-Blog wurden allein im Juli 60 Artikel zu Scrum veröffentlicht. Und auf YouTube erscheinen jeden Tag mehr ...

Des del punto de vista de agilidad, no debemos olvidar nunca que en 2001 el Agile Manifesto fue concebido para el desarrollo ágil de software. En las organizaciones modernas, hay una lucha constante con las que tienen éxito o fracasan en su capacidad para desarrollar, entregar y aprovechar el softw...

What is Large Scale Scrum (LeSS)? LeSS is a de-scaling framework. Also referred to sometimes as a scaling framework, but it's really aimed at simplification and it's designed for product development. This article explores what large scale scrum is about as well as its events. https://linktr.ee/jo...

Motivation matters! If you have a suitably motivated team, who are empowered, resourced and focused they will likely overcome most obstacles in their way.

In diesem inspirierenden 44. Hands-on Agile-Meetup stellte Allan Kelly eine Sache klar: Das Produkt-Backlog war eine großartige Idee, bis sie es nicht mehr war. Erfahren Sie mehr über Allans Lösung für übergroße Produkt-Backlogs.

Bien que de nombreuses personnes pratiquent Scrum, le pratiquer efficacement exige quelque chose de plus que de simplement suivre les mécanismes et les principes fondamentaux du cadre. Scrum professionnel aide les équipes à se défaire de cette habitude mécanique et routinière lorsqu'il s'agit de Scr...

Scrum and Digital are not the same things, but often Digital Transformations comprise some sort of agile change. In this blog, Dave West discusses a recent Dare To Lead Podcast where the overlap between Scrum and Digital was apparent. He discusses the six elements of a digital strategy and their rel...

The Mid Sprint Check-in, Demo, or Review: these meetings make Scrum much less effective while giving the illusion of control and predictability and may be masking other problems. Does your Scrum Team need another meeting?

In this Introduction to Facilitating a Sprint Review, you will learn a facilitation technique that can help turn the Sprint Review into a more engaging and collaborative session so that you can gather valuable feedback from stakeholders to determine future adaptations of your product. (5:51 Minutes)

In this vlog, PST Joshua Partogi explains the differences between project management and product management and how to use Scrum from a product perspective.

In this article, we will discuss how limiting Work in Progress can help teams deliver a done increment which meets the Sprint goal.

The backlog was a great idea until it wasn’t. Many successful teams deliver backlog items daily, but their backlogs aren’t getting smaller. Learn more about Allan’s remedy for oversized product backlogs in less than an hour.

Die Chancen stehen gut, dass dein Team jeden Sprint erneut vor folgendem Problem steht: Einerseits möchtet ihr die Einträge im Product Backlog vor dem Sprint in Story Points schätzen, um die Komplexität der Arbeiten besser zu verstehen. Andererseits sollt ihr gegenüber dem Kunden ein Datum angebe...

En cada formación, en cada consultoría, en cada acompañamiento y en cada día que estoy ayudando equipos surge esta pregunta. ¿Es Scrum para mi organización?, y la respuesta muchas veces deja indiferente al preguntador. La respuesta se basa en el Cynefin o en el Stacey Chart. En artículo siguien...

El liderazgo Ágil es fundamental para dar soporte al proceso de cambio y de otros tipos dentro de una organización. El líder ágil se puede ver desde varias perspectivas, pero su centro es la responsabilidad del crecimiento de las personas y el foco en la mejora de la entrega de valor y los result...

In this podcast series within the Scrum.org Community Podcast hosted by Scrum.org CEO, Dave West, he interviews Google Career Certificate graduates to learn about their experiences before, during and after the program. In this episode, Dave interviews Joanne Cheng, Project Manager at DoubleDown Inte...

An effective Daily Scrum is crucial to a healthy Scrum Team. So why is it so often boring, ineffective, and unhelpful? Jason has an idea on how to make it better, drawing inspiration from an unlikely source: American Football teams.

Der Zweck dieser anonymen Scrum Master Gehaltsumfrage 2023 ist es, einen klaren, datengestützten Benchmark zu erstellen, der es allen Mitgliedern der agilen Gemeinschaft ermöglicht, zu verstehen, ob ihre Vergütung angemessen ist. Der Bericht wird kostenlos sein.

Improving Employee Engagement with Professional Scrum (Questions 1-3 of Gallup's Q12 Survey)

The Scrum framework is not a set of work instructions; instead, the framework is a guide within which teams learn how to work together to deliver value to the organization and discover which complementary practices work best for them.  However, some see Scrum as a rulebook and take the guidelines to...

Between Agility and Better Business Outcomes is Employee Engagement

Are you in the market for a new Scrum Master or Agile Coach? Do you need any help in preparing questions for the job interviews? Here is a short video with 10 questions I would like you to consider based on what I have learned about the art and craft of Scrum Mastery and Agile Coaching from Scrum.or...

Is having specialists on Scrum Teams a good or bad thing? Find out as we discuss the pros and cons of specialized skills on a Scrum Team.