Eine hohe Produktqualität ist Dreh- und Angelpunkt von Scrum. Der Massstab von Produktqualität in Scrum ist die „Definition of Done (DoD)“. Wer aber ist verantwortlich dafür, dass die Produktqualität erreicht wird?

Ein Produkt für Kunden verfügbar zu machen ist der einzige Weg für ein Unternehmen, mit diesem Produkt Wert zu generieren. Erst wenn ein Produkt am Markt verfügbar ist, sind Kunden bereit, Geld dafür zu bezahlen. Wer aber entscheidet, ob ein Produkt released wird?

What is up awesome people! In this vlog I will be sharing why the Product Backlog in Scrum is not only consists of User Stories and why it is not prioritised.

Do you need an emergency fund as a change agent—whether you are acting as Scrum Master, Product Owner or agile coach—

Late in the second day of my PSM classes, I usually do an exercise with my students about skills and traits.

Without skilled developers, the Scrum Framework is no more than lipstick on a pig.

Agility is not a state. Agility is an ability to change and respond to an environment you're in as an organization.  Once you realize that a binary Scrum-not Scrum stops making much sense.

In my daily life as a Scrum Master, I witness many crazy situations. I want to share my discoveries via this comic series featuring Koos Coach, the silly Scrum Master struggling to understand and master Scrum.

What’s up awesome people. I hope you had a great week and ready for the weekend. In this [2 Minutes FAQ] video, I will answer the frequently asked questions: How can the Scrum Master make the Scrum team more self-organised?

El objetivo de Scrum es maximizar la entrega de valor a través del aprendizaje de los clientes. Scrum se basa en el empirismo y si queremos potenciar sus beneficios se requiere que exista foco en le entrega de valor de negocio. Scrum es una herramienta para lograr la agilidad empresarial. 

In our Professional Agile Leadership training, we talk about changing your organisations hiring practices to hire more of the right sort of pe

Your Sprint Planning Meetings don’t have to be a chore. Your Sprint Backlog doesn’t have to be a mess. Do short backlog refinement meetings twice a week and sleep a lot.

On many occasions in the recent past, working with distributed agile teams has amplified existing organizational, technical, and cultural challenges in many organizations.

Part of the role of being a Scrum Master is to be a coach; to the team, the organisation and the individual.

 

Starting from today, I am going to start a new series on my channel which I will call the 2 minutes FAQ series.

The Siren song of SAFe

I've been using a visualization that people find useful for understanding the relationship between the various Lean/Agile requirement containers. Some people call the full model a dinosaur. Others are reminded of the snake who ate an elephant from "The Little Prince". (I'm sure there is a good connection to elephant carpaccio somewhere in here ...). In this article I'll explore this model and connect it to the stances of the Scrum Product Owner. 

In light of the new normal and the last 20 years of technological progress, we need to 

As more and more organisations move towards a higher degree of agility, they inevitably also move towards DevOps practices like Continuous Delivery to facilitate shortening the feedback loops.

In this blog post, we share our experience, recommendations, and lessons learned by providing the online PSM II class.

Habits first and then progress follows! There is a huge power in the little things.

Many organizations I have seen in my life does not care for their Development Team. Join me in a short analysis of why that happens and what - in fact - is a Development Team.

A Sprint Review is perhaps one of the most difficult elements in the product development with Scrum.

Lors de mes formations Scrum ou en coachings d'organisations, il n’est pas rare que les participants expriment leur souhait d’accéder à davantage de contenus Scrum de qualité en français. Cette série « Le meilleur de Scrum » contribue à répondre à ce besoin en proposant des traductions d’une sélection d’articles de référence écrits par d’autres PSTs de chez Scrum.org.

TL; DR: Results of a Test of Using Unhangout to Host Virtual Barcamps Last week, 30-plus attendees of the 24th Hands-on Agile meetup ran a virtual Barcamp experiment w/ MIT’s Unhangout, an open-source platform for organizing attendee-driven v

Extremes are everywhere - with nutrition, training, health, mindset, software, hardware, frameworks, business, competition , process, tools and people etc.

A few years ago, I became acquainted with a lady running a charity for a child who was having medical bills pile up. She was holding a charity bazaar to raise money for the child's family.

Personal Fitness and Business Agility have a lot in common. Both are about bringing small, sustainable changes in your day to day behaviours, habits and mindset.

Cuando queremos construir una buena base de conocimiento a partir de una historia de usuario, entonces necesitamos hablar sobre las personas, las necesidades de las partes interesadas, el contexto del uso del producto, el dominio comercial, las restricciones, la disponibilidad de datos, etc.

What's up awesome people. I hope you are all having a great week.

Commitment is key. Commitment is somethins every team, every manager, every organization wants and needs. Commitment promises better results, engaged people, good relationship with work and many other benefits. The problem is that it can be misunderstood. 

The Spotify "model" pops up as either advocated practice (especially by large consulting companies) or some sort of a hoax and hated practice. I wrote this text few years back, but it appears to be valid more than ever. Join me in discovering 10 lessons from my "spotify" encounters.

La idea de este video es obtener algunas prácticas concretas de trabajo en línea, desarrollar algunas habilidades y reunirse nuevamente y compartir nuevos conocimientos y preguntas.

Many organisations don't really want to change how they do business and believe that they can continue in the way they always have while still getting better at delivering software. They are wrong!

Scrum está dirigido a un único Producto producido por un solo Equipo Scrum. Dos equipos, y a veces tres, pueden usar Scrum para desarrollar un solo producto. Pero a medida que se agregan más equipos, los equipos necesitan un poco más que Scrum para administrar sus dependencias entre equipos para garantizar que puedan ofrecer incrementos de productos que funcionen.

Like most tools, if you want to run successful training in Microsoft Teams you need to do some homework and some configuration before your class.

Usually conversation between developers and Product Owner goes around acceptance criteria just to negotiate scope of requirements for one user story, but knowledge and context are not conveyed in the same structured way. User Story Canvas can help Scrum Team to fix these problems by focusing team to confirm more complex aspects.

With the new normal, I have been delivering all of my 

TL; DR: The Agile Movers & Shakers Interview w/ Ryan Ripley Today’s guest is Ryan Ripley. Ryan is a Professional Scrum Trainer (PST) with Scrum.org.

For many years, many of us have had strong opinions about the importance of having teams that are co-located.

Would like a tool that delivers better product and customer outcomes and actually pays for itself? Read on.

If you were in my class, you probably remember the exercise, where participants list roles, artifacts and events in Scrum.

At many customers I visit, I see a lot of effort being put into classification and managing bugs.

Something very close to my heart is helping folks understand the origin of the practices that are commonly used in management today. I feel that only with an understanding of history can we figure out how to change the future.

One of the most asked question in my PSPO class is "What is the difference between Product Manager and Product Owner?", "Who has higher authority than the other?". There are many blogs, articles and youtube videos on the internet that compares Product Manager and Product Owner.

Experiments, practices, and strategies that help Scrum Masters prove their value to the organization.