Coaching plays a pivotal role in guiding teams toward greater efficiency, collaboration, and overall success. It’s important to remember that you can't coach people out of every bad practice all at once. This article explores the wisdom behind focusing on the highest impact opportunities rather than...

At the heart of Scrum lies the Retrospective, a crucial event where teams reflect on their work and identify areas for improvement. One often overlooked opportunity at the Retrospective is measuring employee satisfaction. This article highlights the opportunity of incorporating employee satisfaction...

🔥 Navigating the Product Backlog just got more exciting! 🚀 Unravel why hierarchy might be your ship's anchor ⚓ in the stormy seas of complexity. 🔍 This article unveils the pitfalls of hierarchy and demystifies the complexities in product development. Learn how streamlining your backlog enhances inno...

Die Minimum Viable Library Product Owner Edition ist verfügbar! Entdecken Sie eine Reihe sorgfältig zusammengestellter Bücher, Newsletter, Podcasts und Tools, um Ihr Fachwissen zu erweitern.

In this Scrum Pulse webcast, PSTs Ravi Verma and Tony Lee share a simple, 9 step approach that they have started using to integrate the Co-Active coaching model into navigating resistance to Agile principles, values and practices.

Ser un Scrum Master efectivo que ayude a un equipo a ser exitoso puede tener sus complicaciones y llevar a un Scrum Master a mal interpretar la forma adecuada de ayudar y dar soporte. En este artículo presentamos tres errores comunes que muchos Scrum Master asumen.

Those newly introduced to the Scrum framework often have the same first question: What’s the difference between Scrum and traditional project management? Most people are familiar with the basics of traditional project management, so the question is a great place to start for understanding Scrum and ...

Here are some common challenges Scrum Teams face when engaging with stakeholders and ways to overcome these challenges.

Anyone who is impacted by the outcome of the product and is interested in its success is considered a stakeholder. Examples of a Scrum Team’s stakeholders may include: Customers - users and buyers of the productInternal stakeholders - company management and other organizations such as Human Resource...

While it’s important to understand who all of the Scrum Team’s stakeholders might be, not all stakeholders must be treated in the same way. Scrum Teams should engage with stakeholders in the ways appropriate for getting the feedback they need. For example, some of the stakeholders should regularly e...

A core tenet of Scrum is that the Scrum Team receives rapid and frequent feedback from stakeholders in order to inspect and adapt its work. The entire Scrum Team is responsible for stakeholder collaboration, it is not just the Product Owner's responsibility. Scrum provides many elements that support...

Scrum encourages frequent collaboration with stakeholders, and customers in particular. Understanding how to identify and learn about the challenges that key stakeholders face will help the Scrum Team better deliver the value they are seeking.

Jeff and Mike discuss guaranteed ways to make a Scrum Master fail. Do the opposite to aid in their success!

Here are some study notes that I created whilst learning more about Evidence-Based Management from Scrum.org. These are shared as a revision resource intended to summarise the key elements from The Evidence-Based Management Guide.

What is release planning? When is it done? How do we manage stakeholder expectations and answer the infamous "when will it be done" question? How do we forecast? What numbers and methods can we use to forecast more accurately?

Working virtually can be challenging when it comes to feeling you truly working as a team. This guest asked us what you could do or try to create a team feeling in a remote environment.

Explore a series of carefully curated collections of essential books, newsletters, podcasts, and tools to elevate your agile expertise.

Test which rules really matter and trigger a wave of change in your organization

Was kannst du von „Karl Klammer“ über Produktziele lernen?

How to use your brain better when working on complex problems.

Unleash Scrum's Potential: Discover Where to Start for Efficient Value Delivery (Product) and Continuous Improvement via Value Stream Mapping

The Product Vision describes the purpose of a Product. A good Product Vision expresses the value the Product should deliver and to whom that value is delivered.

Don't write Product Backlog Items, have a conversation about them!

Organizations have been taking their efforts toward Agility for many years. Some of them seem to be successful in this field, and some of them are not. So, how to measure the results and benefits of this effort?

Are your Developers really making VALUABLE adaptations towards the next Product Goal? In order to minimise deviations from agreed goals? Each of the Scrum Accountabilities has a role to play. So do the Developers. Check it out!

In this episode, we highlight a participant of the Google Project Management Certificate Program, Nancy Martinez, based in the UK. (24:30 Minutes)

🔍 Discover the underpinnings of a transparent and promising future in Agile Product Management! My latest blog post explores the indispensable role of an ordered Product Backlog that is coherent, refined, and rightly sized.

Wie läuft ein typisches Meeting ab? Wenn deine Antwort lautet: Viel Stress, wenig Ideenvielfalt, niedriges gemeinsamen Verständnis und dadurch viel Frustration bei den Teilnehmern, dann solltest du weiterlesen:

Erfahren Sie, wie sich diese Scrum-Anti-Muster-Kategorien manifestieren und wie sie sich auf die Wertschöpfung für Kunden und die langfristige Nachhaltigkeit der Organisation auswirken.

This must be one of the most asked questions that we get; what books do we recommend.

Quel est le rôle du product owner dans scrum ? Product Owner définition ? Que doit-il faire ? Quelles sont ses responsabilités? Quelles sont les erreurs très souvent commises? Dans cette vidéo nous répondrons à toutes ces questions. Ce sont des informations basées sur le guide scrum 2020.

One way a Scrum Team can create some understanding and transparency into who needs to be involved during product delivery, is by collaboratively creating a lightweight stakeholder engagement approach to help guide the team.

To excel as an Agile facilitator, understanding the importance of facilitation skills and mastering the essential Scrum facilitation techniques are paramount. This blog post provides insights into these essentials while shedding light on how our Professional Scrum Facilitation Skills™ course can aid...

In this article we discuss why agile engineering practices in software development are essential To achieve agility.

Defining requirements up front is not compatible with Scrum, because Scrum teams don’t deliver value in one “big bang”.  Scrum teams deliver value incrementally.  In this article, we will explore how defining requirements up front limits the Scrum team’s ability to learn, inhibits incremental delive...

The Sprint backlog, a cornerstone of Scrum, offers teams a transparent view of their current work and progress. It's essential to differentiate between the Sprint goal and the Sprint backlog, ensuring that teams set achievable goals while maintaining flexibility to adapt to changing needs.

What if management has something important to share with the Scrum Team that they should improve? Or what if the Scrum Team wants to discuss something with management during the Sprint Retrospective? Evelien Roos and Sander Dur discuss this question right here.

Organizations don't change overnight. Going from for instance waterfall to Scrum is a complicated process, with lots of people involved. Scrum Masters can be the right people to support this transition.

Tipp 7: Bessere Ideen entstehen durch viele Ideen 6 weitere Tipps, wie Scrum Teams endlich mehr Verbesserungsideen in der Retrospektive generieren, erfährst du in diesem Artikel.

Learn how these Scrum anti-patterns categories manifest themselves and how they affect value creation for customers and the long-term sustainability of the organization — Scrum Anti-Patterns Taxonomy (1)

El concepto de Sprint 0 en Scrum se refiere a un período de tiempo en el proceso ágil de desarrollo de software, particularmente en el marco de trabajo Scrum. Muchas organizaciones asocian que es el espacio donde se realizan actividades de preparación y planificación antes de que comience el prim...

A personal experience and a tangible exercise to show why complexity requires ‘doing’ instead of ‘thinking’

If you are eager to drive change and improve your business agility, check out this video by PST Robert Pieper.

The concept of limiting work in progress revolves around the principle that focusing on fewer tasks at a time leads to better outcomes. In a Scrum context, this involves setting a cap on the number of user stories, features, or tasks that the development team is actively working on during a sprint. ...

In this conversation Josey Simpson and Renae Craven explore Josey’s health journey and how her own personal learnings have influenced the way she leads her teams. (36:22 Minutes)

Cette vidéo fournit une introduction de Scrum, un framework agile très populaire. Découvrez les rôles, les événements et les artefacts qui composent Scrum et comment cela peut vous aider à créer de meilleurs produits et améliorer la satisfaction de vos clients.

How does your Product Owner support adaptation in order to minimise deviations from agreed goals? Each of the Scrum Accountabilities has a role to play. So does the Product Owner. Check it out!

This is series of the Agile within podcast, PSTs Blake McMillan and Michael Wallace share perspectives on the importance of the 5 Scrum Values and share examples from their experiences. Episode 1 of 5 in series on the Scrum Values: Why Courage is so important in an Agile environment Episo...

There are many sources for unplanned work: production support, developer pet projects and management requests, to name a few. What is a Scrum Team to do?

🏋️‍♂️🔄 Agile Practices = Gym Memberships? Discover the unexpected connection in our latest article! Just as people sign up for gym memberships with good intentions but don’t always follow through, companies can adopt Agile methodologies without fully reaping the benefits. Learn how to avoid being st...