A thought, quotes, quick step, and questions on delegated tension within organizations.

A prompt engineering guide covering the basics, services to enhance your prompts, and how to use ChatGPT to generate prompts. (Yup, that works, too.)

Jeder Scrum Master kennt diese Probleme: Problem 1: Wie gehe ich vor, wenn die Timebox der Retrospektive endet, aber das Scrum Team keine Lösung gefunden hat? Problem 2: Was mache ich, wenn sich das Team einig ist, dass es sich uneinig ist? Problem 3: Was kann ich tun, wenn ein Mitglied meines ...

Let’s explore four ways Scrum Teams can manage production support in Scrum effectively.

En Scrum, los desarrolladores desempeñan un papel fundamental en la entrega de un producto o incremento de producto potencialmente entregable al final de cada iteración o “Sprint”.

Scrum Masters and management, when faced with failures in their initiatives related to multifunctional learning, conclude that people do not want to learn. But people are glad to learn when organizational design supports multifunctional development.

Each of the Scrum Artifacts is inspected in one or more Scrum Events to detect undesired variances. So is the Sprint Backlog. Go check it out!

This post continues my ongoing series revisiting the principles behind the Agile Manifesto. This time we are focussing on the following Agile principle - “Business people and Developers must work together daily throughout the project.”

Die Lösung der Probleme Ihrer Kunden in einer komplexen Umgebung Kommunikationsfähigkeit, Einfühlungsvermögen, Geduld, Diplomatie und Professionalität. Lassen Sie uns also einen Blick auf einige typische agile Verhandlungen werfen.

Vor einiger Zeit habe ich einen Scrum-Pulse-Webcast für Scrum.org aufgenommen und es hat mir riesigen Spaß gemacht. Eine der Fragen, die mir am Ende gestellt wurden, hat mich allerdings zum Nachdenken angeregt – und ich habe seitdem immer wieder darüber nachgegrübelt. „Verbesserungen in der Re...

Unlike the other Scrum Events, the Sprint isn’t a meeting. Instead, it’s the container for all of the work that’s done by a Scrum Team to achieve a Sprint Goal. The Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective all fall within the Sprint.

To keep work moving smoothly, the Developers get together for 15 minutes every day to focus on the Sprint Goal and to plan the upcoming day’s work. During the Daily Scrum, they identify any issues they need help in resolving, ask for help when they need it and adjust the Sprint Backlog, if necessary.

The Sprint Review is a working meeting where the Scrum Team presents their completed work to stakeholders and asks for feedback. The Scrum Team and stakeholders discuss the progress made toward the Product Goal, emerging changes in the business or technical climate and collaborate on what to do next

The Sprint Retrospective is the last event in the Sprint. Unlike other Scrum Events where the focus is on inspecting and adapting ways to improve the product, the Sprint Retrospective is a place for the Scrum Team to inspect and adapt their working practices.

Every Sprint starts with Sprint Planning where the Scrum Team determines what they plan to accomplish during the course of the Sprint. They make this transparent by creating a Sprint Backlog including the Sprint Goal, the selected Product Backlog Items and the Developers’ plan for delivering the work

In this recorded session of Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer, Reshma (Simran) Nagrani answers questions about the Scrum Master Accountability, estimations, metrics, facilitation techniques and more! (58:45 Minutes)

To help ensure that the work the Scrum Team delivers is valuable, they need to work together, share ideas and responsibilities and have team ownership while also working closely with their stakeholders, including customers and end users.

The five Scrum Events provide regular opportunities for enacting the Scrum pillars of Inspection, Adaptation and Transparency. In addition, they help teams keep aligned with the Sprint and Product Goals, improve Developer productivity, remove impediments and reduce the need to schedule too many additional meetings.

This article describes how I used the Org Topologies™ Map to coach a team toward ownership of their own agile transformation journey. Read this article to learn how Org Topologie™s can be applied to coaching the agnostic, framework-free thinking tool.

Scrum Teams need to make decisions all the time. Helping teams reach a decision effectively, and gaining necessary buy-in from all team members can be challenging, especially when team members are unclear on who has the final say in making it. Understanding the decision rule, how a decision is made and whose input is required, is necessary because ambiguity in the decision process causes confusion and frustration.

What is SAFe’s perspective on the Product Owner role? How does it differ from the Scrum Guide? Why is Product Ownership split to Product Owner and Product Manager in SAFe? SAFe’s approach to Product Ownership draws quite a bit of criticism. As a Professional Scrum Trainer who’s also a SAFe Fellow...

When it comes to Scrum Teams delivering value effectively, collaboration is key within the team and also externally. Scrum Teams should work closely with their stakeholders and engage and collaborate with them closely during the Sprint to gain valuable insights proactively. This enables them to insp...

Mito: El Scrum Master actúa como policía para que se use Scrum. Esta es una metáfora para representar un Scrum Master que se enfoca más en el cumplimiento de Scrum de una forma mecánica sin usar los valores de Scrum ni enfocarse en la autogestión. El Policía de Scrum actua de forma impositiva y dire...

La dirección y la gerencia de las organizaciones son claves para instaurar una cultura, estrategia y diseño organizativo que favorezcan la agilidad empresarial. En este artículo doy 5 ideas prácticas para ello sobre el caso de estudio de GymTonic.

Solving your customers’ problems in a complex environment requires communication skills, empathy, patience, diplomacy, and professionalism. So let’s have a look at some typical agile negotiation scenarios.

„Scrum funktioniert bei uns nicht!“ So lautet häufig die Reaktion auf meine Arbeit als Scrum Master. Ich höre diesen Satz bestimmt bei jedem agilen Coaching, Training oder Workshop mindestens einmal. Bei genauerer Nachfrage höre ich immer wieder die gleichen Probleme. Wie die Top 6 der „Scrum...

En el contexto que vamos a describir, un developer en Scrum se refiere a un miembro del equipo de desarrollo de software que trabaja en la creación, diseño, implementación y entrega del producto de software.

As Agile practitioners, we know the importance of being adaptable and embracing change. Yet, we’re all creatures of habit, and breaking free from our habitual behaviours can be challenging. While habits can provide comfort and predictability, they can also hinder our growth and limit our ability to ...

Not all stakeholders are the same and hence we can't apply the same communication strategy to all. In this article, we have 3 steps of the Stakeholder Communication Strategy.

Each of the Scrum Artifacts is inspected in one or more Scrum Events to detect undesired variances. So is the Product Backlog. Go check it out!

Learn the importance of Psychological Safety on Scrum Teams. (19:06 Minutes)

A workshop that enables teams and management to clearly express essential needs to use Scrum more effectively

„Wie kann ich eine Retrospektive online durchführen?“, lautet eine Frage, die ich in letzter Zeit oft gehört habe. Die Fragenden suchen nach einem einfachen Format, welches sich online bewährt hat. Nach jahrelangen Erfahrungen mit Online-, Offline- und hybriden Retrospektiven lautet der wichtigst...

Guidance for how to prepare to earn the Professional Scrum Facilitation Skills certification.

The Scrum Guide gives us a maximum one-month timebox for the Sprint. That means while it can’t be longer than a month, it can — and likely needs to be — shorter. So, how do we choose the right Sprint length for our product? In this article, I share three questions to determine the right Sprint lengt...

A good Scrum Master is like a Swiss army knife, able to adapt to any situation and provide the team with the tools it needs to succeed. 

The phrase 'accountable but blameless' is my new favorite phrase because it captures so much about positive team culture in Scrum.

Scrum Master investieren zu viel Zeit in das Lernen von Methoden, Prozessen und Rahmenwerken. Ich schließe mich selbst dabei nicht aus! Es ist doch so: Als Scrum Master, sind wir für die stetige Veränderung im Unternehmen verantwortlich. Die Änderung gelingt nur im Dialog. Was du als Sc...

La frase “Las personas que mejor saben cómo mejorar el trabajo son las personas que hacen el trabajo” es una declaración. Esa declaración enfatiza la importancia de escuchar y valorar las opiniones. Además también resalta obtener comentarios de quienes están más involucrados en una tarea o tra...

Each Scrum Event serves Inspection, the second pillar of Empiricism. So does the Sprint itself. How? Find out ...

PSTs Martin Hinshelwood and Simon Reindl have come across some chatter about Product Management being obsolete. PST Ralph Jocham joins to discuss the differences between Product Owners and Product Managers, and whether this chatter holds any truth. (59:27)

Die zehn wichtigsten Gründe Ihren Teams auf dem Weg zur Agilität zu vertrauen

„Können wir nicht einfach so ein Meeting machen und einfach reden, ohne ein besonderes Format? Es fühlt sich so natürlicher an.“ Welche Probleme entstehen ohne einen Facilitator? Aus meiner Sicht: 👉 Weniger Teilnehmer sprechen. 👉 Nicht jeder hat das gleiche Mitspracherecht. 👉 Die Teilnehm...

Learn how you can complement Scrum by adding your own context and additional processes, techniques and practices such as Kanban, EBM, User Experience and more.

Learn what it takes to be a successful Scrum Master. If you're wondering if you should become a Scrum Master, then watch this video and find out!

I often get asked this question. You can, but it does not mean you should. Let me explain why.

In this vlog, PST Joshua Partogi shares five tips on how to overcome boredom as a Scrum Master.

In questo articolo, Cynefin, Scrum e Agile, condivido parte della trascrizione di una conferenza di Dave Snowden del 2017. Mi ha permesso di capire che cos’è un sistema complesso e perché Scrum e Agile sono, al momento, gli approcci più efficaci per risolvere problemi complessi.

Was ist der Unterschied zwischen Kategorisierung und Sinnschaffung? Der Unterschied war mir auch lange nicht klar. Erst nachdem ich ein Training bei Dave Snowden besucht habe, habe ich es verstanden. Wenn du keine Zeit hast das Training zu besuchen, du aber nach besseren Wegen suchst, wie...

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