Somewhere along the line, people and organizations seem to have lost a certain sense of pragmatism. Job requirements are more focused on theoretical knowledge, rather than certain (work)life skills. In other words, we need to focus more on solving challenges, and less on flashing around theoretical achievements.

As a facilitator, your purpose is to hold the space to allow the people in the event to achieve the agreed outcomes. This will require distance from the participants as the focus is on helping the people work through the agenda to deliver the outcomes. This is the first of a four part series.

During refinement, the team discusses what we will deliver with each Product Backlog item. Although it's easy to drift into sorting out how we will deliver each PBI during these discussions, planning at this stage is a mistake. 

Die wichtigste Aufgabe als Facilitator ist nicht, zu facilitieren. Stattdessen solltest du deinem Team die Groan Zone erklären. 99 % der Scrum Master machen den Fehler, dass sie ihr Wissen und ihre Erfahrung mit Gruppendynamik nicht mit ihrem Team teilen. Dadurch zwingen sie ihr Team bei der Moderation von Scrum Events vom Scrum Master abhängig zu sein. Teilst du hingegen dein Wissen über die Groan Zone mit deinem Scrum Team, dann wird Facilitation eine Fertigkeit jedes Teammitglieds. Damit stärkst du wirksam die Fähigkeit zum Selbstmanagement. Selbstmanagement zu fördern, ist der eigentliche Auftrag jedes Scrum Masters.

What if a Generative AI can not just answer questions but also learn while constantly improving its model? Wouldn’t that lead to the long-run obsolescence of many knowledge workers, for example, Scrum Masters, agile coaches, product managers, and Product Owners?

En una brillante conversación que hemos tenido hoy con un grupo hemos llevado adelante esta conversación sobre si un product owner es distinto de un product manager. ¿Quieres ver cómo es la diferencia?

Life is complex, and unpredictable, and we all have to deal with it daily. The Personal Scrum System helps people find success in their lives by setting and achieving Goals.

Stakeholders want to know when things will be done, and rightfully so. But what if they demand their features to be delivered on scope, on time, and on budget? The tried-and-tested iron triangle might not be the best approach...

No matter what the future brings, building a capable and resilient organisation is the need of the hour. At tryScrum, our mission is to help organisations become capable and resilient. In this blog, I will share my experience of some of the tenets that helped organisations I worked with. This model aims to show you what to strive for and how to get started to become a high-performing organisation.

Use "Discovery & Action Dialogue" and learn how to ask questions that include different perspectives, and to identify specific and actionable solutions.

In this vlog, PST Joshua Partogi explains Scrum using visualisation in under 7 minutes but without cutting down its core principles

Every Scrum event has a maximum allowable time period to carry it out, called a timebox.  While Scrum events have a maximum amount of time, they do not have a minimum amount of time. Let’s look at all of the event timeboxes and how they make Scrum Teams more effective.

Learn more about how the Agile Fluency Model® helps you to understand how agile teams advance their mastery of agility.

„Niemand hat dich gebeten, zu kommen!“ Jeder erfahrene Scrum Master wurde wohl schon einmal mit einer solchen Aussage konfrontiert. Betrachten wir ein beliebiges Produkt. Dann sehen wir: Entwickler entwickeln das Produkt. Designer stellen sicher, dass es eine gute Nutzererfahrung bietet und toll aussieht. Der Product Owner vertritt die Probleme und Wünsche der Kunden. Marketer kümmern sich darum, dass die Menschen vom Produkt erfahren. Der Vertrieb hilft potenziellen Kunden, ihre Kreditkarte zu zücken und das Produkt zu kaufen. Und der Kundensupport sorgt dafür, dass bei Kunden über die Jahre kein Frust entsteht. Was sonst braucht man in der Produktentwicklung?

In this vlog, Professional Scrum Trainer, Andreanna Marshall discusses some simple ways you can transition to the Scrum Master role.

En esta serie de cuatro artículos, con la que inicié esta newsletter, quería compartir un modelo de agilidad de negocio basado en aumentar y acelerar las etapas mediante las cuales se descubren ideas de innovación, se priorizan, se ejecutan y se validan. En el primer artículo hablé de como acelerar el descubrimiento de opciones de innovación. En este segundo, hablaré de cómo acelerar y hacer más efectiva la priorización de estas opciones.

In this vlog, PST Joshua Partogi visualises what the Scrum Master do all day using the 8 Scrum Master hats.

In this vlog, PST Joshua Partogi shares the accountability of a Scrum Master and the challenges behind it.

Dentro de un Sprint se busca aprender con diversas formas para conectar con el cliente a través de UX, pero siempre combinando con el trabajo necesario para entregar un incremento de producto terminado y evaluar el impacto medible en los clientes (outcomes) en cada Sprint. El desafío en Scrum con UX es identificar formas de desarrollar un enfoque de UX emergente que ayude a la entrega de producto en cada Sprint buscando el rimo adecuado de cada tipo de trabajo.

Get to know your new Scrum Team now! Explore these 7 facilitation tips to start your Scrum Team.

Bedarf es eines Systems, welches potentiell wertvolle Arbeitsaufgaben für das Produkt-Backlog identifiziert?

In this vlog, PST Joshua Partogi breaks down the 8 hats the Scrum Master wears as a true leader who serves. This topic is discussed in the Professional Scrum Master course with case studies.

​Real-life risk-taking is different from theory and Scrum can help with it.

Let’s look at how as a Scrum Master, you can facilitate a self-organization session, because the most empowered Scrum Teams determine the structure and organization of the team.

Value creation in Scrum is not as straightforward as you might have thought. You need a product discovery system feeding the Product Backlog.

Im letzten Jahr habe ich über 40 Workshops für Scrum Master, Product Owner und Führungskräfte durchgeführt. Willst du ein Geheimnis wissen? Ich benutze jedes Mal das gleiche Vorgehen. Egal, welches Thema oder Publikum, ob online oder in Präsenz. Der Lernerfolg eines Trainings wird nur durch einen Faktor bestimmt: wie gut du als Trainer es schaffst, die Teilnehmer einzubeziehen. Wenn du weiterliest, teile ich mein Vorgehen mit dir.

In this vlog, PST Joshua Partogi shares a simple guideline that he used to help teams improve their Sprint and to get them out of mini-waterfall.

Seguro que si trabajas en la empresa privada habrás oído hablar del Project Manager e incluso puede que en tu lugar de trabajo contéis con uno de ellos. También me apostaría alguna cosa, que en tu organización tenéis Product Owner y Project Manager. El tridente de la duplicidad de responsabilidades y roles. Pero, ¿realmente sabes en qué consiste este perfil profesional y cuáles son sus tareas y competencias?

No matter how much a Scrum Team plans, there are times when someone asks them to undertake unplanned work mid-Sprint. In this article, we will discuss how to handle unplanned work in Scrum.

¿Cómo acelerar la generación de ideas de innovación? Estas ideas pueden ayudar: 👉 Habilitar todos los canales de feedback 👉 Empoderar al front office 👉 Experimentar de manera continua 👉 Liderazgo centrado en el usuario

Was sind bewährte Scrum Werkzeuge und Praktiken, die ein absichtlich unvollständiges Framework erweitern, ohne dessen Grundprinzipien zu missachten oder zu negieren?

Though, there is no universal definition of what is an Agile Coach. I want to define, Someone who developed deep expertise to help people, teams, and organisations enable better customer outcomes by focusing on an organisation’s internal and external orientation.

Is your organization having trouble instilling self-management? Then this is the article for you!

Three simple Retrospective formats based on the Liberating Structures “Conversation Cafe”, “Troika Consulting”, and “Discovery & Action Dialogue”.

Scrum is a framework for developing and sustaining complex products. But could it be used by individuals to help them in their personal and professional lives?

In today's vlog, PST Joshua Partogi share his experiences why Developers hate Scrum so much so you can avoid these factors happening in your company.

A look at proven tools and practices enhancing a purposefully incomplete framework without defying its first principles.

In this vlog, PST Joshua Partogi share his opinions on how to be a Scrum Master without any prior experience.

Selbstmanagement passiert nicht einfach so. In einer neuen Situation greifen Menschen meist auf bereits Bekanntes zurück. Deshalb gleicht das Daily Scrum bei neuen Teams häufig eher einem Statusmeeting. Wie du ein Statusmeeting in ein Daily Scrum verwandeln kannst, erfährst du hier:

Dealing with complexity requires a diversity of expertise. Learn it from the team that builds functional quantum computers.

El User Story Mapping es un ejercicio visual que ayuda a los gerentes de productos y sus equipos de desarrollo a definir el trabajo que creará la experiencia de usuario más placentera. Se utiliza para mejorar la comprensión de los equipos de sus clientes y para priorizar el trabajo.

If you Google "Agile Project Manager" you'll find a lot of stuff out there, much of which is inconsistent. There are job descriptions asking for one, there are classes to learn how to be one, but the definition is still not clear nor is it consistent with agile development ideas or the Scrum Framework. Watch this video with Professional Scrum Trainers Jason Malmstadt, Greg Crown, and Robert Pieper to find out more what is meant by the term "Agile Project Manager".

What does your Team optimize for? Optimizing for adaptability requires certain types of teams, is your team set up in line with the goals of your organization? You can use this canvas to plot a team’s current position and then evaluate how it can improve. It gets more fun when you plot many teams relative to each other on the canvas and use that information in an overall retrospective to find the balance that works for you.

Der brandneue Product Owner & Product Manager Salary Report 2022 ist verfügbar: Wie schneiden Sie im Vergleich zu mehr als 500 anderen Peers ab?

Using a product over a project mindset allows for lean requirements engineering. Just in time specifications allow for an iterative and incremental product discovery and delivery.

I gotta say, refining work items is usually, by far, the Scrum Team’s least popular activity.  No one gets up in the morning saying, “I can’t wait to refine the Product Backlog!” In this article, we will discuss five reasons why refining your Product Backlog is worth the time.

The brand-new Product Owner & Product Manager Salary Report 2022 is available: How do you compare to 500-plus peers?

Have you ever come across a Product Owner that has been fully empowered to make all the decisions needed for the product, without any constraints? It's pretty rare. A donut can help your Product Owner in gaining more decision-making power.

Product-Ownership ist nicht einfach: Es gibt die unterschiedlichsten Anforderungen an das Produkt. Das Product Backlog ist überladen mit Features. Stakeholder aus Entwicklung, IT, Marketing, Sales und Betrieb haben alle eine Meinung, was als Nächstes getan werden muss. Nur leider sind sie niemals einer Meinung. Wenn diese Situation auch deiner Realität entspricht, dann lies weiter.

What are the different categories of product owner? This episode goes outlines all the different types of product owners as well as the characteristics/pros and cons of each by considering them against the definition of a product and how you may deliver value. Join me as I also bust a common myth: product management being taught at Product Ownership classes.