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How Do You Justify A Scrum Master's Salary...?
July 26, 2021
When we introduce Scrum to an organization, many people are skeptical of the monetary benefits and ROI of the Scrum Master position. The question I am often asked is - "How do you justify the salary of the Scrum Master?"
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Abandoning Scrum: Can a Scrum Team Decide to Quit Scrum?
July 26, 2021
Can a Scrum Team simply decide to abandon Scrum? After all, the Scrum team is self-managing, according to the Scrum manual, also known as the Scrum Guide. So, let’s explore this question at the very heart of team autonomy.
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The Importance of Clear Accountability in Scrum
July 25, 2021
A Scrum team consists of three clear accountabilities: one Scrum Master, one Product Owner, and Developers. Often, when working with a Scrum team struggling with excessive conflict or a lack of trust, I find the culprit is a lack of clarity around each of these accountabilities. Even with the best intentions, the Product Owner can become too focused on the upcoming Sprint and not focused enough on the bigger picture. The Scrum Master can become overly protective of the team, and the Developers - wishing only to please - can take on too much work, jeopardizing the Sprint Goal.
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10 Success Factors To Resolve Zombie Scrum
July 25, 2021
In this blog post, I share 10 success factors that emerged from a community meetup. These factors helped Scrum practitioners prevent or fix Zombie Scrum in their team and organization.
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[VLOG] Do you have a Scrum Team or a Feature Factory?
July 24, 2021
In the past few months I have heard several of my clients said that Scrum does not work and ask me to fix it.
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13 Reasons Why The ROI Of Your Agile Training Died! (And How You Can Save It The Next Time)
July 23, 2021
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Linking Strategy to Everyday Work — John Cutler at the Agile Camp Berlin 2021
July 22, 2021
TL; DR: Linking Strategy to Everyday Work w/ John Cutler — ACB21
In this highly engaging speaker session from the Agile Camp Berlin 2021, John Cutler delves into the advantages of linking strategy to everyday work: Motivation, inspiration, se
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Your Daily Scrum: Is the Scrum Master Role an Entry Level Job?
July 22, 2021
On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: Is the Scrum Master Role an Entry Level Job?
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4 Ways Organizations Use Goals Poorly (and How EBM Can Help)
July 22, 2021
I am often asked how to create better goals. This comes up at the team level, and it also comes up for the wider organization. When we are dealing with complexity, there is no one right way, no perfect template, and no best practice. And I find it helpful to look at the goals people are using today, explore the benefits those goals are giving them, and identify if there are unintended consequences of how they are using goals. In this post, I will share some common patterns I have noticed that lead to using goals poorly.
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Metas, métricas y empirismo usando gestión basada en evidencias
July 21, 2021
He sido un defensor del marco de gestión basada en evidencias (Evidence Based Management, EBM) de Scrum.org durante algunos años.
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The Evidence-Based Management (EBM) Train-the-Trainer (TtT) Experience
July 21, 2021
Professional Agile Leadership – Evidence-Based Management (PAL-EBM) is the newest course in the Scrum.org portfolio. To prepare the launch and our trainer community for this one-day workshop, we ran several train-the-trainer events. I enjoyed participating in one of those, and I am glad to share my experience with you.
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Time to Market - It’s Not Just About Speed
July 21, 2021
When I’m describing the Key Value Areas (KVAs) of Evidence-Based Management, I find Time to Market is often misunderstood to mean “just go faster.” We need to scrub off the scent of “we know what we need to do, we just need to do it faster.” In complexity, goals and execution have a lot of unknowns, and things emerge as we do the work. So, we will be unsuccessful if we choose to follow a plan, even if we do it faster.
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Professionalism, Leadership and EBM
July 21, 2021
The role of an agile leader is to create and foster an environment where empiricism thrives to support the delivery of value. Evidence Based Management supports this, by providing a framework to link goals and objective measures to provide insights in to how effectively the organisation is working.
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Introducing the PAL-EBM Training Class
July 21, 2021
Today, Scrum.org launches the new Professional Agile Leadership - Evidence Based Management ™ (EBM) training course.
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Taming the Zoo with EBM – How Evidence-Based Management Helps Solve Common Stakeholder Challenges
July 21, 2021
Discover how EBM solves many challenges for Product Owners.
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Making Measurement Meaningful with Evidence-Based Management
July 21, 2021
EBM provides organizations with an opportunity to use empiricism to improve customer outcomes by delivering greater value. It helps to improve collaboration by elevating conversations from opinion-based discussions to evidence-based discussions and decisions. EBM may feel awkward at first, but it will be rewarding. The seeds of learning and changing are there.
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Pitfalls (challenges) of implementing EBM
July 21, 2021
We have now launched a new Scrum.org course – Professional Agile Leadership – Evidence-Based Management (EBM), and it is an exceptional occasion to share my experience with implementing the framework.
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Success of Implementing EBM
July 21, 2021
Previously, I have described some challenges with the Evidence-Based Management implementation. There are plenty of challenges regarding the process of applying Evidence-Based Management, there are also great results.
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Management: Evidence vs. Confidence - EBM
July 21, 2021
One personality trait we look for in managers is confidence. And rightfully so: It is needed to be able to make decisions and stand by them in adverse circumstances.
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Beware of the Unintended Consequences of Incentive Plans.
July 21, 2021
In industries ranging from financial services to consulting and defense, we can find countless examples of how organizations employed incentive plans that produced behavior not aligned to the organization's desired strategic goals.
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The Slippery Slope from Personal Task Assignment to Lack of Team Ownership and Commitment
July 21, 2021
Sprint Planning is an important event that has a significant impact on the team’s effectiveness and productivity during the Sprint.
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Gestión Basada en Evidencia de Scrum.org
July 21, 2021
La Gestión basada en evidencia de Scrum.org es un marco de trabajo que provee un enfoque empírico para mejorar continuamente el valor entregado a los clientes, las capacidades organizacionales para entregar ese valor y los resultados de negocio en un entorno de alta incertidumbre.
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[VLOG] How To Shift From Self-Defeating Pseudo Agility to Authentic Evidence Based Agility
July 20, 2021
More than 10 years of helping organizations travel on the path to Agility have taught me some hard lessons about what differentiates the organizations that practice self-defeating pseudo agility from those who practice authentic, evidence based agility.
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Como a transformação digital está ajudando a reter e contratar talentos em um mercado cada vez mais competitivo
July 19, 2021
A contratação de profissionais da área de Tecnologia da Informação está cada vez mais difícil. De acordo com dados da Associação Brasileira das Empresas de Tecnologia da Informação e Comunicação (Brasscom), até o ano de 2024, o Brasil precisará de 420 mil profissionais de Tecnologia da Informação (TI). A Brasscom alerta ainda que o país forma, aproximadamente, 46 mil profissionais por ano.
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When the Management Ignores Self-Management— Making Your Scrum Work #16
July 19, 2021
TL; DR: Ignoring Self-Management — Undermining Scrum from the Start
There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone.
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Agile Leadership: How to Close the Knowing-Doing Gap
July 18, 2021
How should leaders ensure that they and their teams execute against what they know? Check out this blog post for some key ideas
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What is a Manager’s Role in Scrum?
July 16, 2021
There is one frequent question that I encounter in my workshops. There is a piece of information that is missing in the Scrum Guide. Interestingly, It is regarding the managers. Where is the role of Manager in Scrum?
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Nuestro análisis de la agilidad en 2021 a partir del 15th Annual State of Agile Report
July 16, 2021
Ha salido el ’15th Annual State of Agile’. Cómo sabes es un reporte sobre la agilidad en el mundo. Te dejamos el link de nuestro análisis del 2020 para que puedas comparar.
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Tobias Mayer on Agility
July 16, 2021
There are loads of blog posts, articles and podcasts about agile - what it should be, what it should do, how it should look? The problem is that a lot of what’s out there is hypothetical and not based on field experience.
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[VLOG] How To Use Scrum With Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)
July 16, 2021
Hey. What's happening awesome people? I hope you are having an awesome week. Ever since the Scrum Guide was updated in November 2020 and the Product Goal has been introduced, I have worked with several Scrum teams in early 2021 to connect their Objective Key Results with the Product Goal.
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Sustainable Agility at the Enterprise Level — Jorgen Hesselberg at the Agile Camp Berlin 2021
July 15, 2021
TL; DR: Sustainable Agility at the Enterprise Level w/ Jorgen Hesselberg — ACB21
In this highly engaging speaker session on sustainable agility from the Agile Camp Berlin 2021, Jorgen Hesselberg delves into the root cause of failing agile tra
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Overview of the Nexus Framework for scaling Scrum
July 14, 2021
When scaling Scrum, we balance cost and effort with benefits and advantages. Costs and effort come from adding teams. Benefits and advantages come from delivering more value in the same amount of time.
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What Makes Scrum Teams Effective? A scientific investigation of 1.200 Scrum teams
July 14, 2021
A scientific investigation of ~1.200 Scrum teams to identify core factors and offer evidence-based guidance on how
to support and diagnose Scrum teams
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How A Scrum Master Can "BE" A Co-Active Scrum Coach
July 13, 2021
As you walk this path, remember that just like Scaled Professional Scrum is Scrum, Co-Active Scrum Coaching is Co-Active Coaching. All the cornerstones, contexts, principles and practices of Co-Active Coaching must be upheld in Co-Actives Scrum Coaching.
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Scrum Success Principles and Indicators — 51 Scrum Master Interview Questions (5)
July 12, 2021
Scrum Master Interview: Demand Creates Supply and the Job Market for Agile Practitioners is No Exception
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Five Essential Things Needed for Agile Transformation
July 12, 2021
If someone can give you the answer easily for: What is Agile Transformation? And how do we do? I bet that they don’t completely understand the question or don’t have enough experience. Transformation or change in a group or organization is always a challenge. It is complex work and needs a lot of effort.
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How To Measure The Success Of A Scrum Master?
July 12, 2021
Reflections and findings triggered by the experience interview with Jimmy Janlén.
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What happens to Product Backlog Items that you can’t complete by the end of the Sprint?
July 11, 2021
The purpose of the Sprint is to deliver a ‘Done’ increment which meets the Sprint Goal. At the Sprint Planning event, the Product Owner and the Scrum Team collaborate together to create a Sprint Goal - which describes why the Sprint is valuable - after which the Development team selects Product Backlog Items which describe what will be delivered and creates a plan for how to deliver them.
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¿Qué es esto de la agilidad de negocio?
July 10, 2021
El mundo está cambiando más rápido que nunca y cada dia nos hace más falta la agilidad de negocio.
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6 Tips for Leaders as a Coach
July 10, 2021
Follow these six coaching tips and notice the change you can bring to your organisation.
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The Four "Meta-Questions" Behind All Scrum.org Scrum Assessment Questions
July 8, 2021
I might have had an epiphany as I was teaching one of my recent classes. OK, maybe two.
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How to Win with Agile Resistant Teams — Agile Camp Berlin 2021
July 8, 2021
In this highly engaging speaker session from the Agile Camp Berlin 2021, Scott Weiner shares a case study on how to master an agile transition by creating agile resistant teams based on common sense, team autonomy, and the psychology of metrics.
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Whitepaper : The Stages of Scrum Mastery
July 8, 2021
Good Scrum Masters are passionate.
Great Scrum Masters are dispassionate.
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[BLOG/VLOG] UX the Foundation of Agility
July 7, 2021
My experience tells me that IT industry has some huge problems! First, there are many products for a lot of money that do not make sense. Second, products are created that solve the right problems in the wrong way. Third, products are created that solve the right problems in the right way but are not "sexy" in the eyes of users.
All these 3 problems are addressed by the so-called User Experience. Although I must say that this is an often confusing concept. Many people hearing User Experience mean User Interface, and this is only a part of the truth! UI design is included in UX, but UX is a much, much broader concept.
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60 Questions for the New Scrum Master — Take them to the Team!
July 6, 2021
What has served me well over the years is a combination of observation and asking questions. Congratulations on your new Scrum Master position! Now what?
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Can Scrum Work for Hard Deadlines?
July 6, 2021
If you’ve ever wondered whether Scrum can work for hard deadlines, the answer is – yes! Not only can Scrum work in these situations, but in my experience, using this agile framework increases the probability of meeting challenging deadlines.
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The Roots Of Agile Suffering
July 5, 2021
After more than a decade of helping organizations travel on the path of Agility, it feels more like traveling on the path of Agile Suffering.
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[VLOG] How To Create An Outcome Focused Product Goal
July 3, 2021
Ever since Scrum Guide was updated last year in November 2020, throughout early 2021 I have been inspecting and adapting with several Scrum Teams on the most effective Product Goal.