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🇮🇹 Primo giorno da Scrum Master [E32]

November 27, 2024
In questo episodio Fabio Panzavolta esplora le prime azioni fondamentali che uno Scrum Master dovrebbe intraprendere quando inizia a lavorare con un nuovo team in una nuova azienda. Scopriremo l'importanza dell'osservazione, della costruzione della fiducia e dell'approccio empirico al miglioramento continuo.
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Stepping Into Scrum

November 27, 2024
Starting with Scrum can feel overwhelming. It’s a framework with defined events, accountabilities, and artifacts that might seem rigid or even intimidating at first glance. But here’s the truth: it’s okay not to get everything perfect on day one. The real magic of Scrum unfolds as you practice and improve over time.
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🇮🇹 Decisioni Efficaci Scrum Team [E31]

November 26, 2024
In questo episodio inauguriamo una nuova rubrica "A domanda risposta" dove Fabio Panzavolta risponde alle domande più frequenti che riceve durante le sessioni di coaching e formazione. Scopriremo come un team Scrum può prendere decisioni efficaci, mantenendo i valori Scrum e promuovendo la psychological safety.
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Why Product Vision Matters?

November 26, 2024
The Product Vision outlines what you aim for, inspires and aligns the team toward a common direction, and provides a sense of purpose. It serves as a foundation for all product-related decisions.
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🇮🇹 Superare il concetto di ritardo con Scrum [E30]

November 25, 2024
In questo episodio Fabio Panzavolta esplora come superare il concetto di ritardo con Scrum per trasformarlo in un'opportunità di crescita quando Scrum viene applicato con competenza. Scopriremo come l'approccio empirico di Scrum permette di superare la visione tradizionale delle scadenze rigide, favorendo una gestione più efficace dei prodotti complessi.
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Stop Fighting for People and Start Delivering Products

November 25, 2024
Have you ever felt like your team spends more time battling over "resources" (a.k.a. people) than strategizing over what is the highest value work? You're not alone. Many organizations struggle with this chaos. Many Product Owners are fighting a constant battle over which work is "actually" the highest priority for the organization, juggling dependencies and scrambling for people to do the work.
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Transparency and Autonomy: Two Sides of the Same Coin

November 23, 2024
For a Scrum Team to gain autonomy, they must first show they are trustworthy. And how do you build that trust? By making your work visible. By embracing transparency, Scrum Teams can take greater control over their work and deliver even more value to their stakeholders and organizations.
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Managing Distributed Scrum Teams: Long-Term Strategies

November 22, 2024
In the final part of this series, PSTs Robert Pieper and Greg Crown share strategies for working with Scrum teams across time zones. covering co-located team benefits, reducing communication barriers, and practical solutions like rotating off-hours, fostering cultural understanding, and arranging meetups.
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Be Mindful Of Coaching Hierarchies

November 21, 2024
In large organizations, a Scrum Master’s focus is often a team; the Agile Coach works with multiple teams and their environments, and the Enterprise Agile Coach works with the broader organization. Be mindful of the consequences. It can limit the ability to remove impediments and improve team- and organizational effectiveness.
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Making Sense of Scrum: A Series on Meaning and Impact

November 20, 2024
Words shape how we understand and apply Scrum. This post brings together all entries in the ‘Scrum Guide Explored’ series, diving into the key terms of the Scrum Guide and their professional meaning. Easily navigate through the series, organized by the guide’s structure, and gain deeper insights into how these words drive value, collaboration, and agility.
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🇮🇹 Mindset agile. Perché ci dimentichiamo come si fa? [E26]

November 20, 2024
In questo episodio Fabio Panzavolta intervista Alessandro Bignami, un professionista con oltre 25 anni di esperienza nel mondo del software development, di cui gli ultimi 7 dedicati all'Agile e Scrum. Esploriamo come il mindset agile sia una caratteristica naturale che paradossalmente dimentichiamo con il tempo, e come riscoprirlo possa portare a risultati sorprendenti nei progetti software.
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The Three Keys to Motivation

November 20, 2024
Motivation in professional teams goes far beyond traditional incentives like bonuses or perks. Drawing from software industry experience, I explore three fundamental aspects of motivation that can transform team engagement: product connection, technical craftsmanship, and team spirit. While rarely achieved together, even one of these elements can significantly change how teams approach their work.
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🇮🇹 Intervista - Scrum e torta di mele [E25]

November 19, 2024
🎙️ In questo episodio speciale, Fabio Panzavolta intervista Emanuele Vecchio, sviluppatore software e appassionato di Scrum. Scopriamo il suo percorso di adozione di Scrum, i benefici ottenuti nel suo team e le sfide affrontate. Un'intervista ricca di spunti e riflessioni sul valore dell'empirismo e dell'approccio Scrum non solo nel lavoro ma anche nella vita.
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Myth: Limiting Product Owners to One Scrum Team

November 18, 2024
There’s a persistent myth out there that a Product Owner should only support one Scrum Team. The idea behind this is that having more than one team will stretch the Product Owner too thin, leading to burnout and unnecessary stress. But that’s actually a huge misconception!
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Agile Transformations and the Agile Product Operating Model - The Next phase

November 18, 2024
The Agile Product Operating Model (APOM) is a natural progression for your agile transformation. It provides an ‘in-between’ stage between the whole enterprise change and delivery team change with the idea of products. By aligning to products, you can incrementally change the organization, allowing each product group to adopt a different operating model. Of course, that comes with some challenges, including how products are funded, comfort in parts of the organization operating differently, and where authority and decision-making reside.
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🇮🇹 Empirismo in Scrum [E23]

November 15, 2024
In questo episodio Fabio Panzavolta esplora l'empirismo, uno dei pilastri fondamentali di Scrum. Scopriremo perché l'approccio empirico è essenziale nella risoluzione di problemi complessi e come si differenzia dall'approccio predittivo tradizionale. Vedremo anche come questo pilastro si integra con i tre elementi chiave: trasparenza, ispezione e adattamento.
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🇮🇹 Lean Thinking e Scrum [E22]

November 14, 2024
In questo episodio Fabio Panzavolta esplora il Lean Thinking e la sua profonda connessione con Scrum. Scopriremo come questi due approcci si completano a vicenda e come il Lean Thinking influenza la cultura aziendale, l'eliminazione degli sprechi e la creazione di valore per il cliente.
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Relieving Product Owner’s Burden

November 14, 2024
In my experience, if you have correctly defined the product (or product family), the Product Owner inevitably becomes someone at the Board−1 or Board−2 level (in the worst case). But now that you have a real Product Owner on board, a new problem arises: this person is incredibly busy. How can you relieve their workload? Through delegation. And delegation can be done either to the teams or by creating a Product Owner Team.
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🇮🇹 Che differenza c'è tra Agile e Scrum? [E21]

November 13, 2024
In questo episodio, Fabio Panzavolta esplora le differenze fondamentali tra Agile e Scrum, partendo dalle origini storiche fino alla loro applicazione moderna. Scopriremo come Scrum sia uno strumento pratico per implementare i principi Agile e perché questa distinzione è cruciale per le organizzazioni che vogliono migliorare il loro modo di lavorare.
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There's more to Organizational Agility than the Scrum Guide

November 13, 2024
Let me start by saying that I am not demeaning the Scrum Guide in any way. Teams are empowered - with Scrum - to respond and adapt to complex environments in ways that would have been impossible before. That being said, the Scrum framework "just" guides the interactions of the Scrum team itself.
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Continuous Deployment – Vanity or Transformational Capability?

November 13, 2024
Is Continuous Deployment a bragging right or a game-changer? 🤔 CD isn’t just about speed. It’s about closing fast feedback loops to adapt quickly, learn from real user interactions, and drive outcomes. Without it, product development often becomes a guessing game, relying on assumptions instead of data.
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The Gut Feeling Agile Coach or Scrum Master

November 13, 2024
Gut feelings and intuition might be spot on, but they can be fraught with biases, personal preferences, and wrong heuristics. Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters would be wise to use a more data-informed, evidence-based, and scientifically validated approach to improve team and organizational effectiveness.