Agile development is all about building a collaborative, empowered team that delivers value to the customer. However, upper management may prioritise traditional metrics like deadlines and budgets in some organisations over team dynamics. As a Scrum Master, balancing these priorities and ensuring the team remains psychologically safe while meeting management’s expectations around estimation is essential.

Scrum is the most popular Agile framework. According to Digita.ai’s 16th annual report, 87% of organizations using an Agile framework use Scrum. That’s up from 58% of Agile teams using Scrum, as documented in the 14th annual State of Agile report. 

Hiring a Scrum Master? Unfortunately, most Scrum Master job descriptions are not suitable and may not attract the right talent. In this video, PST's Jason Malmstadt and Gregory Crown will provide some helpful ideas and things to consider to help you get started with writing a good job description that will attract the best candidates.

Unerfahrene Scrum Master glauben, sie müssten möglichst viele Facilitation-Techniken kennen. Dem ist nicht so. Klar, du findest viele hilfreiche Moderationstechniken im Internet. Aber das heißt nicht, dass du auch jeden Ice-Breaker oder Energizer verwenden, jedes lustige Bildchen malen oder andere Moderationstechniken einsetzen solltest. Um zu entscheiden, welche Technik wirklich funktioniert, lasse dich von fünf Grundsätzen leiten. Welche das sind, erkläre ich dir im Artikel:

Bring Scrum Masters together and see where they can help and support each other

Como tudo na vida, a rotação do Scrum Master tem seus prós e contras. Cada equipe deve avaliar suas próprias necessidades e escolher se terá um papel fixo ou rotativo. Independente da decisão tomada, é imprescindível cultivar uma dinâmica de aprendizado. Algumas vezes será necessário testar as duas abordagens por um tempo para depois concluir sobre o que é mais benéfico e apropriado para o seu contexto.

There are many myths about Scrum Masters out there. They can be the most difficult accountability to define in concrete terms. In this video, PST's Jason Malmstadt, Gregory Crown and Robert Pieper will debunk 5 of the myths and answer the question: What does a Scrum Master do?

Learn more about how an acceptable project management tool turns into a bureaucratic nightmare, what the reasons for this might be, and what we can do about it.

Was macht eigentlich ein Scrum Master in der ersten Woche in einem neuen Team? Es wird viel über Scrum geschrieben. Allerdings findet sich über dieses spezielle Thema nichts. Wenn du weiterliest, erhältst du einen Einblick in meine erste Woche als Scrum Master in einem neuen Team.

Mindful Scrum Mastery is applying mindfulness principles and techniques to Scrum. Mindfulness involves paying attention to your thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations. Mindfulness has improved focus, reduced stress, enhanced creativity, and fostered a positive mindset.

Para ayudar a tu organización a desarrollar sus capacidades de cambio, puedes seguir los siguientes pasos.

Ich war schon immer ein großer Verfechter davon, dass Expertise mit Erfahrung gleichzusetzen ist. Jedoch ... … ist es gefährlich, Ratschläge zu geben, ohne die Situation genau zu kennen. Schnell werden Meinungen zu Tatsachen. Um dem entgegenzuwirken, interviewe ich regelmäßig meine Kunden. Dabei musste ich 3 harte Lektionen über Interviews lernen.

Welche das sind, erfährst du in diesem Artikel.

Agile was born in software development and has been widely adopted in IT and Product organizations to the point that there's little argument that product/technology organizations should operate using agility principles. More recently, other functions, such as Marketing, have adopted these agility principles and practices. These are useful stopgap measures on the journey toward real organizational agility. The next frontier in expanding the scope of agility is tackling the complex challenge of developing the company as the Product people use Scrum to manage.

ハイテクスタートアップ企業であるか、規制の厳しい業界の大手企業であるかによって、スクラムやアジャイル開発に対する反応は大きく異なる

スクラムマスターは「ジュニアアジャイルコーチ」であるという誤解は解く必要があります。スクラムマスターは多くの人が思っている以上に幅の広くて、面白くて、難しい仕事です。

Each Scrum Event serves Inspection, the second pillar of Empiricism. So does the Sprint Review. How? Find out ...

Developing Agile capabilities within an organization requires unlearning ineffective practices and aligning the company’s structure, processes, people practices, and reward systems. The importance of these different components to reinforce each other is illustrated through the analogy of developing a healthy lifestyle.

Die Verbesserung, die ich am Scrum Guide vornehmen würde: Ich würde das Wort „Meeting“ aus dem Scrum Guide verbannen und es durch „Workshop“ ersetzen. Warum? Dies erfährst du in diesem Artikel.

​​​​​​​Agile coaches have long recognized that busyness does not necessarily equal success. Checking off a to-do list does not mean you are adding value.  You might accomplish many organizational tasks, but the activity likely has little benefit if these tasks don’t contribute to the company’s goals, support operations, or customer satisfaction.

The necessity of experimentation

At scale, many teams can use the shared platform functionality. When that can be done on a self-service basis, it supports autonomy and improves product delivery flow. But when the platform group holds all the power and the teams need to request the product group to develop product-specific functionality themselves, it can create a bottleneck in the development process. By eliminating reciprocal interdependencies and creating a commodity platform, product groups can focus on their unique features and the platform can provide the necessary functionality without getting in the way. It’s a win-win situation for everyone involved, and collaboration and smart processes can keep everything running smoothly.

Professional Scrum Trainer, Matt Dominici's "grumpiest take" on Scrum: focusing on the negative effects of clapping during Sprint Reviews.

This is part 2 of the Series ' Effective Stakeholder Engagement. In this, we have covered How to understand stakeholders better and also how to group them so that we can engage them better.

Vergiss, was du über Produkt-Ziele gehört hast. Ignoriere die Ratschläge, dass Ziele SMART, FAST oder ein OKR sein müssen. Denn Fakt ist: Diese Methoden bewahren dich nicht vor den typischen Fehlern, die in der Praxis passieren. Welche das sind, erfährst du, wenn du weiter liest!

The lack of a standard and evidence-based mechanisms to measure performance and agility leaves many organizations in the dark regarding what activities are needed to not only lead to agility, but what activities leaders should support and promote help to make enterprise agility sustainable, repeatable and scalable. This is where Agile OKRs come in.

Communicating effectively with Product Owners starts with understanding their accountability and focusing on key elements such as benefit, investment, and time frame.

What is an Increment? Does it always have to be releasable? Does it always need to be related in a Sprint? How does the Definition of Done relate to the increment? In this video blog, I’m going to talk about the increment – arguably the most important thing in Scrum.

A simple format for the Sprint Retrospective to create a shared understanding with one of the foundational Liberating Structures

Schon lange, bevor Scrum nicht mehr richtig funktioniert, sind die ersten Probleme in Scrum Events zu erkennen. Wenn sich eines dieser Probleme bereits in deinem Team anbahnt, dann betrachte es als ein Warnsignal. Auf welche Warnsignale du unbedingt achten solltest, erfährst du in diesem Beitrag.

Each Scrum Event serves Inspection, the second pillar of Empiricism. So does the Daily Scrum. How? Find out ...

Lernen Sie, wie Sie mit ChatGPT Workshops für agile Praktiker wie Scrum Master oder Product Owner erstellen können.

If you have people in product development or product management, in Scrum for example, if you have a Product owner who’s supposed to be on the hook for maximizing value … what is the productO

Some tips on how Product Owners can stay focused on their product goal by effectively saying "No"

Über die Jahre habe ich viele Mentoren gefunden. Wenn ich zurückblicke, dann sind diese Beziehungen das Geheimnis meiner Weiterentwicklung als Scrum Master und jetzt als Professional Scrum Trainer. Hier sind sechs Schritte, die auch dir helfen, einen Scrum-Mentor zu finden:

In today's fast-paced and highly competitive business environment, a team's success depends on many factors. One of the most important factors is psychological safety.

Agile means something different for every organization. Start-up companies need to find the sweet spot between absolute chaos and overbearing process & control. Professional Scrum and Kanban can help teams and organizations do just that!

In this article I share the case of mitosis – splitting a large team of 19 people into two independent feature teams working from a single Product Backlog. After the division, I helped the teams create a common identity and agree on norms of conduct. This case is just an episode of Agile transformation in a business unit of several hundred people.

Who makes and maintains the Sprint Backlog? Who Creates the Sprint Goal? Do you need a Sprint Goal every Sprint? Can you have more than one? Watch this video to find out

The Scrum values help create a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement, guiding the team toward better results and a more satisfying work experience. I’ve written and talked a lot about the Scrum values over my consulting and coaching career because I’ve seen how they can galvanize teams to achieve their best work. I’ve also seen how they are often misunderstood. I hope this article will provide an easy way for readers to learn about the importance of the Scrum values and find helpful links to other Agile Socks posts for those who want to dive deeper.

What is throughput, the role of Product Backlog items in ascertaining throughput and how do we measure throughput.

What is the best way to address recurrent problems that are identified at Retros? Those ones that you actually spend a lot of time trying to overcome but eventually come up again.

In this vlog, we're going to tell you about a company that failed spectacularly... and then turned it around with a 'Scrum Reboot'!

Learn how to use ChatGPT to create workshops for agile practitioners such as Scrum Masters

Who are the Quality Assurance (QA) experts in the Scrum Team and what do they have to do with guardian angels? Who is responsible for the quality of your product? What practices can you use to positively impact collaboration within the Scrum Team and the quality of solutions created? You will find it out in this blog post!

Hast du dich jemals gefragt, welche Auswirkungen Stellenanzeigen für „Junior-Scrum-Master“ auf unsere Branche haben?

Effective Stakeholder Engagement is key to the success of the product and one of the essential skills all product people should have. This article is part 1 of the Effective Stakeholder Engagement series. In this we will learn effective ways to identify stakeholders.

With the widespread adoption of Scrum, variation in how teams practice Scrum has inevitably evolved. At the same time, some organizations that have turned to Scrum wonder if they are getting its full benefits. So, how do you know if Scrum is working? In this article, I outline 3 questions that can help determine if you're getting value from Scrum. Your answers might point to adjustments you can make to your practice to improve outcomes. 

How does the Product Goal relate to a Product Backlog and what is the point of it all? I'll explain in this vlog!

No es raro que las personas hagan la transición de una profesión a otra, o que las personas desempeñen múltiples roles simultáneamente. Esto también es cierto en el caso de los coaches de vida que se hacen pasar por agile coaches. Déjame hablar un poco de qué razones llevar a ese cambio de profesión.

This post continues my ongoing series revisiting the principles behind the Agile Manifesto. This time we are focussing on the following Agile principle – “The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.”