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YDS: Can the Scrum Team Skip the Sprint Retrospective?
April 23, 2021
On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: Can the Scrum Team skip their Sprint Retrospective?
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Robert Annis and John Coleman discuss the agile manifesto & organizational agility
April 22, 2021
The term organizational agility is everywhere these days, but what does it really mean? Can we even define it at all? Deepen your understanding of the manifesto and why it is essential to implementing healthy agile that delivers meaningful value.
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YDS: How Should a Scrum Team Handle SPIKES?
April 21, 2021
On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: How should a Scrum Team handle spikes? Today's question asks how a Scrum Team should handle SPIKES!?!?!
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A Sprint Review without Stakeholders? Making Your Scrum Work #3
April 21, 2021
TL; DR: A Sprint Review without Stakeholders?
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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YDS: Does a Scrum Team Need Specialists or Generalists?
April 20, 2021
On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: Does a Scrum Team need specialists or generalists? Today's question asks if we need specialists or generalists on a Scrum Team.
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PO Interview Questions — The Product Backlog and Refinement
April 19, 2021
If you are looking to fill a position for a Product Owner in your organization, you may find the following 71 interview questions useful to identify the right candidate. They are derived from my fourteen years of practical experience with XP and Scrum, serving both as Product Owner and Scrum Master and interviewing dozens of Product Owner candidates on behalf of my clients.
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Es Hora de Repensar el "Coaching" en Agile Coaching
April 19, 2021
En enero de 2020, tuve una entrevista telefónica para un proyecto de transformación ágil con un líder de una empresa con sede en Barcelona que estaba interesado en agile coaching.
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YDS: What Does a Scrum Master Care About?
April 16, 2021
On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: What does a Scrum Master care about? Today's question asks what a Scrum Master truly cares about when working with a Scrum Team and the wider organization.
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YDS: How Does a Scrum Team Handle Scope Creep?
April 15, 2021
On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: How does a Scrum Team handle scope creep?
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The Hardening Sprint Fallacy — Making Your Scrum Work #2
April 15, 2021
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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The Coaching Conversation Canvas
April 14, 2021
One of the most often used skills and stances in the daily life of a Scrum Master probably is coaching. I'm talking coaching as in the definition of e.g. the Agile Coaching Institute
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YDS: Which Marvel Superhero Would Be the Best Scrum Master?
April 14, 2021
On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: Which Marvel superhero would be the best Scrum Master?
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3 Tips for Tools in Scrum
April 14, 2021
In my Professional Scrum Training and coaching sessions with teams, I am often asked about Product Backlog management tools. In this post, I'll share my thoughts on tools and 3 tips for using tools effectively in Scrum.
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YDS: Who Creates the Sprint Goal on a Scrum Team?
April 13, 2021
On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: Who Decides the Sprint Length for A Scrum Team?
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YDS: Who Decides the Sprint Length for A Scrum Team?
April 13, 2021
On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: Who Decides the Sprint Length for A Scrum Team? Today's question asks about who decides the Sprint length for a Scrum Team.
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What is Organizational Agility, Really?
April 12, 2021
Have you ever noticed people keep talking about things, but they've not aligned with what their words mean? I have seen agility measured as the number of "agile teams" and the "number of training attendees" more often than I like to admit.
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3 Wide-Spread Scrum Master Failures in 5:31 Minutes
April 12, 2021
TL; DR: Three Wide-Spread Scrum Master Failures
There are plenty of Scrum Masters failures. Given that Scrum is a framework with a precise and concise yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone.
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Improve How Your Scrum Team Uses Metrics
April 12, 2021
4 Do-it-yourself workshops to improve how your team uses metrics and how to measure the things that really matter!
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[VLOG] How To Improve Organisation Agility Using The Scrum Values
April 10, 2021
In this blog, PST Joshua Partogi shares a technique to introduce and improve organisation agility using the Scrum Values.
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"I’m Not Getting Anything Done"
April 9, 2021
I've given the same advice to almost all of my clients -- "you need a clearer Product Backlog", "You're working really hard but you're not getting anything done", and "You need to cut scope, launch your product with a more focused scope, launch it, and then get feedback." ...
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Radical Remote Working
April 9, 2021
Companies have shifted to long-term remote work and employees across many different industries are accepting that the pre-pandemic workplace will not come back. I call this "radical remote".
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YDS: What is the difference between Scrum and Agile?
April 8, 2021
On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: What is the difference between Scrum and Agile? Today's question asks us to ponder the difference between "Scrum" and "Agile". These words are not synonyms. Ryan and Todd explore the definitions of each word and how they are related, but not the same.
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Deciphering Goals
April 8, 2021
This blog aims to shed some light on the underlying forces at play and how good goal setting with well-chosen metrics can help.
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YDS: Help! Our Product Backlog is Out of Control!!!
April 8, 2021
On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: Help! Our Product Backlog is Out of Control!?! Today's question is all about the Product Backlog.
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Keep Your Friends Close
April 7, 2021
“I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.” - Rudyard Kipling
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Scrum I Got
April 6, 2021
Scrum’s what I got, My agile school of thought, Definitely give it a shot
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[VLOG] 4 Reasons Agile Teams Should Reject Hypothesis Driven Delivery
April 6, 2021
When (Patricia Kong - Product Owner of Enterprise Solutions at Scrum.org) taught me how to combine the chocolatey-goodness of Evidence Based Management with the hazelnutty-goodness of Hypothesis Driven Delivery, I was ecstatic! "AHA!", I says to myself.
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App Prototyping with Absolute Beginners – Creating an Understanding of How Empiricism Works among Stakeholders
April 6, 2021
Yes, even absolute beginners can prototype an app. And learn a lot about agile product management, Scrum, empiricism, product design, and user experience along the way.
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YDS: When Does a Scrum Team Create the Definition of Done?
April 6, 2021
On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: When does a Scrum Team create a Definition of Done? Today's question asks when the Definition of Done (DoD is created by the Scrum Team.
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5 Simple Steps to Decentralised Command and Decision-making
April 3, 2021
In an earlier blog post on Servant Leadership, Commander’s Intent and Decentralised Command we discussed the ways in which decentralised command and decision-making has rapidly become a business essential for all.
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Amplifying Women in Agile
April 2, 2021
In this blog post, Leslie Morse talks about the Women in Agile podcast and how Scrum.org is its new sponsor. She also includes the latest podcast episode with Patricia Kong and Dave West.
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YDS: The Difference Between a Project and Product Mindset?
April 2, 2021
On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: What is the difference between a project mindset and a product mindset? Today's question is all about what's going on in our minds!
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[PODCAST] +50agility episode #4 with Gunther Verheyen
April 2, 2021
Hi everyone! The new podcast episode is out, this time featuring Gunther Verheyen as a guest. We are talking about his 2 new latest books, neverending passion for Scrum, overcomming an illusion of agility, becoming better Scrum practitioner and humanizing the workplace. Hope you'll enjoy listening to it and find it useful. Feel free to check previous episodes with fellow PSTs as well.
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YDS: Can We Do Scrum with a Distributed (Remote) Scrum Team?
April 1, 2021
On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: Can we do Scrum with a distributed (remote) Scrum Team?
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The Value in the Scrum Values
April 1, 2021
Somewhere along my journey of Scrum, that started in 2003, I started calling myself an independent Scrum Caretaker on a journey of humanizing the workplace with Scrum. Because there is more to Scrum than ‘process’....
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[PODCAST] What If the Product Owner Doesn't Have Ownership Over The Product?
April 1, 2021
It is quite common to see someone who is called a Product Owner not really have ownership over the product. This kind of Product Owner is often lacking vision and demotivates the Developer. In this video podcast I discussed how we can help the Product Owner take ownership of the product. Enjoy folks.
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YDS: Is It OK to Ignore the Scrum Guide?
April 1, 2021
On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: Is it OK to ignore the Scrum Guide?
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🇫🇷 12 - Éléments associés à Scrum
March 31, 2021
Les éléments associés à Scrum sont des outils, des pratiques et plus généralement des "tactiques de jeu", qui ne sont pas obligatoires en Scrum et se sont révélées utiles au fil du temps.
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Using Scrum for Improving Operations
March 30, 2021
I'm encountering more and more people that are trying to solve different kind of problems with Scrum..
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YDS: Is the Scrum Framework the Right Answer for Everything?
March 30, 2021
On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: Is Scrum the Answer for Everything? Today's question asks whether or not the Scrum Framework is the right answer for all product development.
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YDS: How Does a Scrum Team Handle Unexpected Work?
March 30, 2021
On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: How does a Scrum Team handle unexpected work?
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Product Backlog Defense – Common Patterns of Stakeholder Interference
March 29, 2021
Make no mistake: Your Product Backlog is the last line of defense preventing your Scrum Team from becoming a feature factory; hence Product Backlog defense is vital: Figure out a process that creates value for your customers. Moreover, have the courage — and the discipline — to defend it at all costs.
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¿Cómo está el salario de un Agile Coach o un Scrum Master?
March 28, 2021
Cuando siempre me ha tocado ser un scrum master en una organización, el departamento de recursos humanos está configurando algún tipo de cuadrícula con criterios para acceder al progreso individual.
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"Ship It Fast": What It Means, Why It Matters, And How To Improve
March 26, 2021
What is the common perception of what “ship it fast” means? What seems to be important about shipping fast? And what are ideas to improve the situation in your team or organization? Check the article to find inspiration.
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Scrum Guide 101: Scrum in a Nutshell Requires a Scrum Master
March 26, 2021
In this episode of Scrum Guide 101, let's take a look at "Scrum in a Nutshell" as described in Scrum Guide 2020.
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YDS: How is Risk Management Handled in Scrum?
March 26, 2021
On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: How is risk management handled in Scrum? Today's question asks Todd and Ryan to discuss how the Scrum Framework addresses risk management.
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Don't Cancel Waterfall! Celebrate It!
March 23, 2021
As we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the creation of the Agile movement, is it also time to formally "cancel" waterfall?
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The Simple Guide To Scrum - 1 Pager
March 23, 2021
TheScrumMaster.co.uk has created The Simple Guide To Scrum – 1 Pager. A condensed and visual representation of Scrum on 1 page.
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Scrum Master Interview Questions (4): From Metrics to Kicking off Scrum to Scrum Anti-Patterns
March 22, 2021
Some time ago, someone on Reddit asked whether there would be any other profession that requires attending a 2-day training class and would then pay as well as a Scrum Master job.