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.

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.

I work in “the transformation business”. The Agile transformation business to be more precise. The value I aim to deliver is: Improve the internal organisation of companies so that they get better at making their dreams come true.

One continuing problem we see with many of today’s business leaders is that they rarely adopt Agile at the leadership level. It’s not that they are resistant to the idea of creating an Agile organisation. Most understand the value of agility at the level of the project/delivery teams, but all too of...

Peer Recruiting is the new hiring: Shortly, all creative, technology-based organizations will need to abandon the command & control structures that served the industrial world of the 20th century so well. Instead, they will reorganize themselves around autonomous teams to deal with the complexity an...

Why perfect is the enemy of good - using lean change to apply agile in context

Recently, I have been discussing some reasons why Agile Transformation may fail or go slowly. In this blog, I am presenting some success factors that might help your organization move toward Agility.

The audiobook of the Scrum Guide 2020 is a 22-minute long MP3 file. We are planning to make it available on other platforms, too.

In the previous article, Agile Transformation – Success Factors part 1, there was a strong focus on key levels that should be taken first into consideration. That was a high level overview.

Use the do-it-yourself workshops to improve how your Scrum Team uses Product- and Sprint Goals.

November 2020 was the launch of the Scrum Guide update. It seems like only yesterday but was over 3 months ago...

The Agile Culture gap is the nr. 1 cause for immature Agile implementations. You should read this blog if you want to understand how culture affects Agile transformation.

Scrum has proven to be an effective product delivery framework for all sorts of products. However, Scrum is equally well suited to build the wrong product efficiently as its Achilles heel has always been the product discovery part.

TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. These are my lessons learned on making ‘agile’ — including Scrum as a framework — work in a fast-growing start...

With the Scrum Team Survey, you can create transparency with your team around five core questions: Are you building what stakeholders need? Are you shipping fast enough?...

We created 8 do-it-yourself workshops to help Scrum Teams engage and involve their stakeholders. Give it a try, and let us know how it went. Let’s unleash organizational superpowers, together!

A simple model to better understand why and when something is valuable to your team and its stakeholders (in commercial organizations)

Like a job ad for a Scrum Master position, the equivalent for the Product Owner position also reveals excellent insight into an organization’s progress on becoming agile.

Here are some simple examples of Product Goals, Sprint Goals and the relationship between them.

For many people, the traditional project management methodologies (see PMI / PRINCE2) are the root of the problems that birthed Waterfall. I assert that this is the tip of the iceberg.

I sat, as an observing consultant, in my third Retrospective of the day. I noticed high energy and openness as the room's buzz showed me signs that this team was genuinely collaborative...

On November 23, the book “The Zombie Scrum Survival Guide”, written by Christiaan Verwijs, Johannes Schartau, and Barry Overeem officially launched. In this book, they dive deep into what causes Zombie Scrum; something that looks like Scrum from a distance but lacks a beating heart. During the Scrum...

Imagine Developers arriving at the Daily Scrum feeling like they want the monotony of it to end. They wish they hadn't had to bother to attend in the first place.

This blog post describes some lessons that I learned from facilitating a retrospective in a real prison for a group of my cellmates, political prisoners.

My teams want to use Agile/Scrum - is that aligned with the fact that we’re using EOS® in the organization? My teams use Agile/Scrum, can we use EOS®?

As of January 10, 2021, Scrum.org has renamed the former Professional Scrum Developer Training (PSD) to Applying Professional Scrum for Software Development (APS-SD). At the same time, the Professional Scrum Foundations (PSF) training has also been renamed to Applying Professional Scrum (APS).

In this webinar, Ram Srinivasan and Dr. Gervase Bushe introduce a research-based, and time-tested model that explains how teams and leaders can build effective partnerships where people learn from each others' collective experience and collaborate better.

There have been a few changes in Scrum Guide 2020, and I am really excited. These changes focus on ‘Values’ within the framework of Scrum...

Der Nexus Guide -- der Leitfaden zur Skalierung von Scrum -- wurde aktualisiert! Der Nexus Guide 2021 enthält weniger Vorschriften, Erklärung von spezifischer Terminologie und einen Ergänzender Theorieabschnitt.

There is no need to choose between Scrum and Kanban, but certain myths have led some to believe this is the case. It’s time to debunk them once and for all.

Many organisations wrestle with the seeming incompatibility between agile and release management, and they struggle with release planning and predictable delivery.

Just take a second to imagine a professional environment where every individual connects and donates their intellectual capacity to the fullest...

Liberating Structures has increased in popularity. In this blog, Professional Scrum Trainer Chee-Hong would like to share 13 out of the 33 (more will follow) microstructures of Liberating Structures that he often use in his Scrum class to trigger bottom-up discussions. Digitalised, completely fr...

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.

The Evidence-Based Management Guide describes not only a Strategic Goal but also an Intermediate Strategic Goal that is needed to evaluate and adapt your progress towards your intended visions of your product.

In this webinar, Leslie Morse and Professional Scrum Trainer Evelien Roos explore how hierarchy within agile coaching roles may impede your organizational agility, shine a light on how you may be inadvertently marginalizing key contributors in your organization, and provide inspiration for ways mult...

10 examples of how to use Liberating Structures during and after the Daily Scrum.

A summary of the updated 2020 Scrum Guide™ and how team structures will change moving forward.

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.

In this post, we describe one tiny experiment that can create big shifts in how teams experience the Scrum Events and the decisions they make during them.

A free do-it-yourself workshop to help Scrum Teams articulate the paradoxical challenges they face and find imaginative solutions to navigate them.

By Christiaan Verwijs, Johannes Schartau, Barry Overeem - Zombie Scrum Survival Guide is for Scrum Masters, Scrum practitioners, Agile coaches and leaders, and everyone who wants to transform Scrums promises into reality.

The Scrum Guide Reordered 2020 is based on about 95 percent of the text of the Scrum Guide 2020, extending its original structure by adding additional categories, for example, on self-management, commitments, or accountability.

One interesting change to the Scrum Guide for the 2020 release was the change of the term Self-Organizing to Self-Managing. This blog discusses the change.

Today, the 18th of November 2020 Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland released an update to the Scrum Guide. If you are interested in an overview of what has changed, read about the seven main changes described with some context.

The more Scrum Teams are empowered to make and own decisions about their work, the more benefits they will realize.

A reflection on four key changes in the 2020 Scrum Guide, why they were made, and why that is a big deal

One of the more challenging aspects of Product Management is to create a tangible relationship between the work we do today and the business strategy. Product Goals are an often overlooked mechanism that can help you in this area.

Ideas on how to use Powerful Questions virtually and help teams find their own solutions to persistent problems.

This article shares examples of the power of transparency and how it can be used to create breakthroughs in performance.