Three simple retrospective formats based on the Liberating Structures "Conversation Cafe", "Troika Consulting", and "Discovery & Action Dialogue"

Fourth blog, in a blog series about the upcoming book: Creating Agile Organizations - A Systemic Approach, by Cesario Ramos & Ilia Pavlichenko.

To date, less than 1500 people have passed the Scrum.org PSM III or PSPO III assessments and gained the associated certifications. This has always struck me as a low number. The post will explore why that might be, why the number should not be so low and why you might want to consider gaining one of...

Immer wieder habe ich es erlebt: Scrum Teams arbeiten an mehreren Produkten parallel. Erstmal sei gesagt, dass es enorm stressig für die meisten Mitarbeiter:innen ist an mehreren "Baustellen"  gleichzeitig zu arbeiten.

Recently I was asked to answer some questions for a journalist on how to structure IT organizations. The questions were interesting and I wanted to share my responses here.

A detailed description of how the Scrum Master role embodies 6 stances, and why I don’t consider “servant leader” and “manager” valid stances anymore

In this session, Eric Naiburg, Chief Operating Officer for Scrum.org, provides an overview of the Scrum framework. He’ll discuss how Scrum enables agility, and how an empirical process can empower teams that use it. You’ll learn about the empirical process in Scrum where decisions are made based ...

With the rapid increase in the adoption of Scrum and other Agile frameworks over the past several years, I’m not surprised that a few misconceptions and myths about Scrum have surfaced.  While many more organizations embrace Scrum, many individual practitioners have not undertaken formal training.  ...

The 2020 Scrum Guide provides only the necessary guidelines within which teams use Scrum to deliver value. Sometimes, myths about the guidelines of the Scrum framework can result in teams adopting practices which do not add value to the Scrum Team. By exposing these myths, you can help accelerate th...

Scrums größte Stärke ist dessen Einfachheit, welche aber auch die Quelle vieler Mythen und Fehlinterpretationen ist.

Misconceptions about Refinement—the process of adding detail, order and size to individual Product Backlog items can be highly detrimental to a team's ability to deliver value to the business frequently. In this article, we will discuss some of the most common myths about Refinement in Scrum.

Myth 1 – Scrum is a Methodology To bust this first myth, I would prefer to differentiate between the concepts of methodology and framework. Methodology vs. Framework A specific methodology is a well-defined set of principles, concepts, tools, and associated practices that guide processes to...

Even a well-set team with clear objectives may fail to finish each thing when the Sprint ends.

In this vlog, PST Joshua Partogi shares how Sprint Review is often misunderstood as a demo or showcasing or an acceptance testing session. In this vlog, he busts myths around Sprint Review and how a Sprint Review should look like according to Scrum Guide 2020.

In a recent episode of Your Daily Scrum, Professional Scrum Trainers Todd Miller and Ryan Ripley debunk a general myth in Scrum circles: Creating a High Performing Scrum Team is NOT the Goal!

Learn from Johanna Rothman how to adapt your leadership style for agile success as a manager in an agile organization in this 54-minute long video from the Agile Camp Berlin 2021.

This workshop was delivered on 19th August 2021 and focused on introducing the core concepts of Scrum & Empiricism. I used a combination of Liberating Structures, Microsoft Teams, and Mural to deliver an interactive session.

On a recent episode of Your Daily Scrum: Professional Scrum Trainers Todd Miller and Ryan Ripley address a common criticism of Scrum: Scrum isn't really agile, it's a command and control framework!

This workshop was delivered on 5th August 2021 and focused on highlighting the value of people in the product delivery world and some of the things that need to change.

In diesem Blog untersuchen wir, woher diese Grundhaltung kommt, zeigen, wie wir damit umgehen können, leisten Überzeugungsarbeit und bieten Experimente an, d. h. wir

This episode of the Xagility podcast with John Coleman brings you 5 years worth of research by the extremely knowledgeable Christiaan Verwijs and Dr Daniel Russo. Throughout the last half decade, these two have embarked on a journey to shed more light on what it is exactly that makes Scrum Teams eff...

Although Scrum has been around for more than 25 years, it is still new to many. In this session, we provide an overview of the Scrum framework, discuss how Scrum enables agility and ways that empiricism can empower the teams that use it. Like with any form of process, there are myths that arise, dur...

Reflections and findings triggered by the experience interview with Jimmy Janlén.

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.

Scrum Teams do it all the time. It happens in Sprint Review, after Daily Scrum, in Sprint Planning, and as part of development. They discuss the upcoming work to gain a shared understanding...

We are moving toward the "Agile" Transformation. One of our goals is to increase velocities across all our teams by X%. Have you heard this?

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.

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.

20 ideas for using the new Scrum Mythbusters card deck in your organization

If you currently are in search of the answer to this question, enjoy this video.

Help your remote team discover what happens without clear Sprint Goals. And bring back focus together!

As part of the Scrum Tapas video series, Professional Scrum Trainer Roland Flemm explores the myth that a Daily Scrum is status meeting and reveals in 2 minutes how to make your Daily Scrum event more valuable.

Distributed teams are not new, but our global pandemic has made them the norm. Atlassian University and Scrum.org team up in this webinar to explore the myth that agile and Scrum Teams need to be colocated and walk through real-world examples of how products get delivered from distributed teams.

Im skalierten Scrum finden die Daily Scrums der Scrum Teams nach dem teamübergreifenden Nexus Daily Scrum statt! Handelt es sich hierbei um einen Scrum Mythos oder Fakt?

Scrum Master aufgepasst! Der Sprint beginnt nach dem Sprint Planning. Handelt es sich hierbei um einen Scrum Mythos oder Fakt?

What's up, awesome people? I hope you are having a good weekend. Recently, many people asked me how to write a perfectly detailed user story...

One of the key stances of the Scrum Master is being a Coach. Often coaching is perceived as the art of asking powerful questions. How many times while taking a coaching stance do you ever feel like you’re chasing the coachee? Have you ever felt that the coaching sessions are going around in circles,...

This blog is inspired by two books I read recently "The Power of Full Engagement" & "A-Team of Leaders".

Was denkst Du, handelt es sich hierbei um einen Mythos oder um einen Fakt? Die Antwort erfährst Du in meinem Scrum Mythen und Fakten Check.

In this post, we explore eight common biases, underlying research and how they distort our thinking. We also offer what you can do to reduce them.

Der Scrum Master muss beim Daily Scrum anwesend sein!

Facing a large number of risks while delivering products seems to be normal. And, it is. It is common and natural. What we need to do, is manage the risk.

Some may confuse the word “Foundation” in the name of the Professional Scrum Foundation course to mean simple or basic. But in truth this means it is a course for everybody to build a solid base of knowledge,

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

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

What's up awesome people. I hope you are all having a great week. In today's vlog I am sharing the differences between project management and product management. There are still growing misconceptions in the market that Scrum is an agile project management methodology. In this vlog I also bust the m...

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.

Le Daily Scrum est majoritairement incompris. Vu comme une réunion d'avancement, il est en réalité un levier à l'auto-gestion des équipes. Il n'a rien à voir avec un point d'avancement, re-découvrons-le…

This podcast tackles some of the question: Scrum vs. Kanban? How about Scrum and Kanban. Why would you want to use both? Scrum is based on Empiricism, Kanban is based on Flow, Flow enhances Empiricism and Empiricism enhances Flow. Take the best Scrum teams and the best Kanban teams and take an avera...

Inspiration for fulfilling the stances of a Scrum Master, remotely.