As a Scrum Master, it's time to rethink our approach to agility. Instead of forcing strategies into predefined frameworks, evolve your operating model to align with unique strategies and empower your teams. This fundamental shift creates a dynamic organization that continually evolves and improves. ...

In this episode, Ryan Ripley guest hosts and interviews PST Richard Ross about his journey to becoming a Scrum Master and PST.

In this article, PST Alex Ballarin explains how discovering and validating product features saves a lot of time and money invested in developing unnecessary features. He also recommends concrete actions to integrate product discovery and validation into Scrum.

En este artículo, el PST Alex Ballarin explica como el descubrimiento y la validación de las funcionalidades del producto ahorra mucho tiempo y dinero invertido en el desarrollo de funcionalidades innecesarias. También recomienda acciones concretas para integrar el descubrimiento y la validación de ...

In the Creating Agile Organizations prototype organization, semi-independent product groups and shared services coexist. Product groups are operationally coupled by shared services but functionally decoupled from each other, that is: actions by a product group does not negatively impact the ability ...

OKRs can be an amazing tool for strategic alignment and improved results, but they can also be an incredible source of waste and confusion when poorly implemented. In this article we discuss 3 common signs that OKRs will generate a significant amount of overhead in your organisation.

Is Your Data Telling You Everything? It could with Tree Mapping. Discover how this simple visual tool revolutionized your Product Backlog Management.

Digital technology allows organizations to be more customer-centric by delivering more value to customers via faster time to market, improved data insights, and more innovative products. However, aligning with customers is only part of the story. Not only do you need to focus on customers, but you a...

Agile frameworks are used in complex environments where requirements and technology are ever-changing. It seems pretty unrealistic to think that we could envision all of the customer’s requirements upfront. And yet, that’s what many of those using a Waterfall approach to value delivery are trying to...

This blog post explores the implications of merging these roles and asks: Might there be exceptions where this approach is temporarily justified?

Are you struggling with Scrum and want to integrate Kanban? Do not do that; you will struggle more.

This blog describes how Business Agility can be achieved with Product Management. The Org Topologies™ map helps to understand this concept.

In diesem Artikel beschreibt PST Simon Flossmann 4 Hindernisse bei Team-Entscheidungen und gibt Tipps, wie du sie überwindest.

Lavaneesh Gautam, a Professional Scrum Trainer, shares his journey to becoming a Scrum Master and PST with guest host PST Ryan Ripley. (13:35 Minutes)

My recent article Debunking ten Common Objections to Incremental Delivery for Software Teams introduced ten of the most common objections to incremental delivery. In this article I introduce and debunk ten more objections to you guessed it, incremental delivery.

When Scrum Masters adopt a more heroic stance, stepping in to resolve every issue themselves or not experimenting with new approaches, they can repress the team's opportunity to learn and self-manage.

In diesem Artikel verrät PST Simon Flossmann 5 Fragen, um Blockaden zu lösen, den Lösungsraum zu öffnen und Zusammenarbeit zu ermöglichen.

In this episode of the Scrum.org community podcast, host Dave West speaks with representatives from Easy Software, including CEO Filip Moravek, Product Owner Jan Řeřicha, and Professional Scrum Trainer Karel Smutný. Easy Software has been using Scrum to develop and improve their product, Redmine, a ...

Does this scenario sound familiar? Your company has embraced agile and teams now enjoy greater focus and clearer collaboration. Yet the anticipated business benefits have not materialized. Delivery is slow, expensive and a source of frustration. Although agile has markedly improved organisations,...

We cover the perils of a lack of transparency, limited to non-existing leadership support, and why penny-pinching is the wrong approach.

How the MINDSPACE framework, developed by experts from the UK's Behavioural Insights Team, can enhance Scrum adoption.

PST Simon Flossmann stellt heute 3 unkonventionelle Methoden vor, wie du deine nächste Sprint Retrospektive beginnen kannst.

When people first start learning about Scrum, it can seem like Scrum requires many meetings. It might even seem like Scrum is a waste of time.

Some of the highest-performing teams I have ever worked with were part of a Product team. A Product team is when multiple Scrum Teams support a single product. Here are some FAQs about Product teams.

Navigating the complexities of Agile adoption involves addressing ten common sources of resistance, from mistrust of management to fears of personal impact. Effective leadership is crucial in mitigating these challenges to ensure successful implementation and organisational resilience.

The following questions and responses are designed to draw out a nuanced understanding of a candidate’s experience and skills in applying agile product development principles.

This blog explores how Scrum can solve ten common challenges that teams face, enhancing productivity and satisfaction both within teams and among stakeholders. Through its structure, Scrum addresses issues like unclear priorities, changing requirements, and ineffective communication by promoting reg...

In this episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, hosted by Dave West, CEO of Scrum.org, special guest David Ingram, VP of Gillette Global R&D, discusses how Gillette utilizes Scrum to simplify complex challenges within their organization. (31:07 Minutes)

In this video, Martin Hinwood dives into the intricacies of backlog management within Agile frameworks. He sheds light on the often overlooked hindrances that traditional hierarchical approaches pose to effective backlog management and proposes a more flexible, value-focused strategy. Martin's insig...

EBM is especially relevant in industries characterized by rapid change and uncertainty, as it provides a structured yet flexible approach to making informed decisions and adapting strategies based on actual performance and emerging trends.

Teams, like individuals, have internal narratives that impact their success. Leaders can become mindful observers, using questions and curiosity to help their teams shift negative self-talk into empowering beliefs that drive better results.

Productivity culture kills business agility. But productivity itself is not the problem. It is possible to have a creative relationship to creative rather than a reactive one. Let's look at examples of both.

In this episode of the Scrum.org Community podcast, host Dave West is joined by Kirsty McCarthy - CEO of M:M Bio, Andrea Nisbet - Head of People at M:M Bio and Yuval Yeret - Professional Scrum Trainer. They talk about how M:M Bio uses Agile in drug discovery and R&D in the oncology and immuno-oncolo...

In diesen Artikel erkläre PST Simon Flossmann, was hinter diesen beunruhigenden Trend steht und wie du ihn stoppen kannst.

In this article, we uncover typical ways in which Scrum Teams fail stakeholders, from overpromising results to poor risk communication to neglecting feedback.

In this episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, Dave West is joined by Professional Scrum Trainers Fredrik Wendt and Paul Kuijten along with Sabrina Love, Product Owner of Courseware at Scrum.org for an exciting discussion about Product Ownership, product management, challenges in product develo...

Navigating the Journey of Product Delivery with Scrum

Self-management doesn’t mean Developers can do whatever they want, and it doesn’t mean leadership should micromanage the Scrum Team, either. The reality is somewhere in the middle.

This post provides guidance for conducting a Nexus Sprint Review, a key component of the Nexus Scaled Scrum Framework (or any scaled Scrum implementation) aimed at enhancing inspection and adaptation for large-scale agile development. Dissatisfied with existing guidance, I decided to share my insigh...

Don't confuse a Roadmap with a Realase Plan and vice versa. They serve different purposes.

🚀 Dive into the #AgileRevolution in defense! Discover how drones, open-source innovation, and Scrum are reshaping the future of national security. From composability to stable interfaces, find out how agility accelerates innovation. 🛡️ Transform your organization's approach and thrive in the exponen...

In this live session of Ask a Professional Scrum Trainers, Andreanna Marshall and Scott Adams will be available to answer your burning questions about Scrum and the challenges you or your teams have. (57:08 Minutes)

In this video, Martin dives into the nuanced world of workflow optimisation within creative industries, exploring why Kanban is gaining traction over traditional methods like Scrum. 🎨🖌️ He shares insights from his own journey, highlighting Kanban's flexibility and its ability to mould into the uniqu...

Validating whether a product is valuable is often a challenge for teams and organizations. This piece includes common mistakes to avoid when understanding and seeking product value.

Coming up with new ideas isn’t just something a few people do in a special room. It’s something everyone can be part of, from every part of a business or community. And it’s not just about making totally new things but also about improving things. We looked at lots of places to find new ideas, like...

Dieser Artikel skizziert umsetzbare Strategien, um in schwierigen Zeiten erfolgreich zu sein, und betont, dass Wachstum und Erfolg durch die Nutzung der Stärke der Gemeinschaft und leicht zugänglicher Ressourcen erreichbar sind.

Learn the art of integrating valuable practices into the Scrum framework to enhance agility and deliver value, without tailoring the framework.

This article outlines actionable strategies for thriving in challenging times, emphasizing that growth and success are achievable by leveraging community strength and readily accessible resources.

A cross-functional team has a collective skill set that covers the entire spectrum of product-building abilities and knowledge needed to transform every Product Backlog item into a done increment.

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