The story of Capital One laying off hundreds of people in Agile roles is making the rounds. I have no direct connection to Capital One, so I can’t comment about what’s going on there. I'll just say that based on what I hear from people who've been involved, the reality is more complex than it seems on the surface. Check out my thoughts about the future of agile roles and agility in general.

En cada interacción que tengo con un equipo ágil, siempre sale la conversación de la velocity y los story points. Siempre siempre siempre, no falla nunca. Y siempre, eso en un punto de inflexión en la relación que tengo con el cliente o las personas que estén compartiendo una capacitación conmigo. Básicamente, unen siempre story points y velocity a Scrum, cosa que no es cierta, ya que nunca han sido mencionados en la guía Scrum. Dejadme explicar porqué recomendamos usar story points ni velocity en tus equipos explicando que son estos 2 conceptos.

Los mejores Scrum Masters nutren y aumentan sus habilidades y experiencia de coaching ágil con el tiempo, enfocándose en varias áreas que sienten que los ayudarán a ser más eficientes y efectivos. Si bien las técnicas de entrenamiento, consultoría, mentoría, entrenamiento, invisible pero presente y facilitación son las herramientas principales del Scrum Master, saber cuándo y cómo usar una herramienta, técnica o enfoque específico es esencial para que un Scrum Master pueda ayudar a entregar valor.

In this vlog, PST Joshua Partogi shares some more insights how does the Scrum Master as a true leader who serves uses the 8 Scrum Master hats through illustration.

Many agile teams are using Scrum. Sometimes in whole, sometimes just part of it. But what is the Scrum Framework? What is its intent? Watch this video to find out.

En este capítulo aprenderás: 1. Que es la estrategia de una organización. 2. Cuál es la diferencia entre creación y despliegue de la estrategia. 3. En qué se diferencia la estrategia tradicional y ágil. 4. El ejemplo de estrategia en el caso de GymTonic.

Let’s harden a popular Scrum Master interview guide in the age of ChatGPT!

Nichts ist alarmierender als eine solche Aussage: „Sprich bitte in der Pause mit der Labertasche, das halte ich nicht mehr aus!“ Wirst du als Moderator eines Meetings von einem Teilnehmer so angesprochen, sollten alle Alarmglocken läuten. Jetzt wird es höchste Zeit, zu handeln. Unerfahrene Moderatoren begehen reihenweise die gleichen Fehler! Willst du nicht als unerfahren abgestempelt werden, lies weiter. Ich verrate dir fünf „schwierige Personentypen“, auf die ich in den vergangenen Jahren gestoßen bin. Und ich zeige dir, wie du Fehler vermeidest, die ich in diesen Situationen gemacht habe.

Help your Scrum team to avoid getting stuck in analysis paralysis by applying Itamar Gilad’s Confidence Meter.

El gobierno ágil es una metodología para gestionar y supervisar proyectos e iniciativas en un entorno ágil. Implica un conjunto de principios, prácticas y procesos que ayudan a las organizaciones a alinear sus metas, estrategias y objetivos con sus esfuerzos de desarrollo ágil.

PSPO Assessment Tips that will help you prepare and get a passing score.

How does the Sprint itself supports Transparency? Transparency being one of the core underlying concepts of the Scrum framework. What happens during your Sprint that could raise transparency?

Card, Conversation and Confirmation. Understand what professional confirmation looks like.

If you look at Scrum Teams all around the world, you recognize a spectrum of productivity from completely passive to fully proactive teams. Productivity is a word that is used to represent the state of our way of working as a team. But beneath it, there is a more fundamental concept called vibration. So, let me walk you through this deep concept.

Nützliche ChatGPT-Prompts für Scrum Master, Product Owner und Entwickler

In this vlog, PST Joshua Partogi shares a structured process on how to start Scrum in a large scale enterprise

ChatGPT is the AI chatbot taking over the Internet (and soon the world). It can write you a poem, spit out code, and summarize articles — but what does it know about Scrum?

The PO must consider the impact of each stakeholder request on the overall goal and vision for the product, as well as the available resources and time constraints. Sometimes the best response to stakeholder requests is "no".

Advanced ChatGPT Prompts for Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and Developers

In a recent webcast (1) I mentioned that Scrum by its nature, assumes psychological safety exists in order for Scrum as a practice to function. Furthermore I would assert that for Scrum to be truly successful Scrum absolutely requires psychological safety to be established both inside and outside of the Scrum Team. My feeling is that within the Scrum Guide, psychological safety is an implied practice, not explicitly mentioned nor referenced as an essential element. But without psychological safety Scrum and the essential people who enact the framework, may function, but cant’t flourish. Before I go there any further, lets delve into a definition of what psychological safety is, and more importantly what it is not.

Las metas estratégicas de Evidence-Based Management son el primer paso para ejecutar la estrategia. En este capítulo del curso EBM te explicamos como definir buenas metas estratégicas y como se relacionan con el marco de trabajo Scrum.

Add a constraint to the length of the Product Backlog and see what happens next.

Verwendet dein Scrum Team eine Definition of Ready? Möchtest du Selbstmanagement, Interdisziplinarität und Agilität in deinem Scrum Team fördern, solltest du dies kritisch überdenken. Lies weiter und du erhältst Argumente, warum du die Verwendung einer Definition of Ready auch in deinem Team kritisch hinterfragen solltest.

Use story points to drive out assumptions, not estimate and forecast. Use flow metrics for that (while ignoring story point values). If you use story points and planning poker for the right thing, they both can be helpful.

Desde siempre el ser humano ha tenido miedo de sus propias creaciones. Las máquinas siempre han vitaminado el esfuerzo humano hasta el punto de hacerlos prescindibles para ciertos trabajos. Ahora estamos llenos de una palabra que es tendencia que es la inteligencia artificial.

Professional Scrum Trainers Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller discuss the change from "estimate" to "sizing" in the 2020 update to the Scrum Guide.

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 Retrospective?

Goal setting is an essential tool supporting agility in complex environments. Various A-B-C formulas lead us to believe it’s a straightforward process, but setting and using goals effectively is challenging. Common pitfalls include not going deep enough with what we aim to achieve and bringing a success-or-failure perspective to the process rather than an empirical mindset. If it feels like your team is missing the mark, consider my top seven tips for setting more effective goals.

In this vlog, PST Joshua Partogi shares what needs to be considered when appointing someone to be the Product Owner and the negative consequences that arise when the Product Owner is not the right person ...

Kann ein großes Sprachmodell, das nicht auf „Agile“ spezialisiert ist, bereit heute ein Sondierungsgespräch für eine Scrum-Master-Stelle bestehen? Werden Scrum Master zumindest anteilig künftig durch einen Chatbot ersetzt?

Professional Scrum Trainers Ryan Ripley and Yuval Yeret discuss the role of the Scrum Master in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and how it differs from the role of a Professional Scrum Master.

Are you sick and tired of wasting your precious Agile "Transformation" budget? What questions could you explore as you send out RFP's, RFQ's, interview partners and write SOW's? Watch this video to learn 9 questions you can ask potential Agile "Transformation" partners so you stop wasting your "Transformation" budget.

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, purtroppo, ho assistito a battaglie politiche, di ego e desiderio di dominare che hanno ridotto le possibilità di migliorare la creazione di valore.

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.

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.

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.

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 Team dieses Ergebnis auch erreicht. Was ist, wenn er nicht zur Verfügung steht? Scrum Master, die ihr Moderationswissen nicht mit ihrem Team teilen, können so schnell zum Hindernis für die Teamarbeit werden. Wenn du nicht zu diesen Scrum Mastern gehören willst, dann lies weiter. Ich verrate dir mein bewährtes Entwicklungsmodell. Es liefert dir eine schrittweise Anleitung, wie du die Facilitation-Fertigkeiten im gesamten Scrum Team entwickeln kannst.

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 that can boost the Scrum Teams spirit of goal achieving.

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(/is) used to mask inevitable inaccuracies in planning, poor management and quality issues.

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?

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 stop sacrificing value at the altar of "transformation".

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 wade through a thorny issue. Let’s look at some strategies for facilitating difficult Scrum Team conversations.