How poor facilitation of the Scrum events can cause Zombie Scrum, and how to create more engaging, impactful, and meaningful Scrum events with Liberating Structures.

In this paper, we discuss the stages of Agile transformation based on extensive research and collaboration with experienced Agile coaches.

Eine einfache Möglichkeit, Ihre Retrospektiven großartig zu machen

Effective Stakeholder Engagement is key to the product's success and one of the essential skills all product people should have. This article is part 4 of the Effective Stakeholder Engagement series. - Stakeholder Exploration - Stakeholder Analysis & Mapping - Stakeholder Communication Strategy ...

By offering just enough structure, Scrum enables teams to work together effectively while promoting innovation and adaptability.

Want to elevate your Retrospectives from Good to 🦄 Great? Check out the following ten benefits of this one Retrospective facilitation practice.

The Creating Agile Organizations approach is about designing your own organizational framework and coaching its adoption. It is important to note that it is different from frameworks like Scrum, LeSS or SAFe, which have specific structures, rules, events, and artefacts to build upon. Instead, Creati...

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.)

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.

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...

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.

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

„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.

Scrum is the most popular Agile framework. According to Digita.ai’s 16th annual report, 87% of organizations using an Agile framework use Scrum. That’s up from 58% of Agile teams using Scrum, as documented in the 14th annual State of Agile report. 

Bring Scrum Masters together and see where they can help and support each other

Learn more about how an acceptable project management tool turns into a bureaucratic nightmare, what the reasons for this might be, and what we can do about it.

Agile was born in software development and has been widely adopted in IT and Product organizations to the point that there's little argument that product/technology organizations should operate using agility principles. More recently, other functions, such as Marketing, have adopted these agility pr...

Developing Agile capabilities within an organization requires unlearning ineffective practices and aligning the company’s structure, processes, people practices, and reward systems. The importance of these different components to reinforce each other is illustrated through the analogy of developing ...

A simple format for the Sprint Retrospective to create a shared understanding with one of the foundational Liberating Structures

Lernen Sie, wie Sie mit ChatGPT Workshops für agile Praktiker wie Scrum Master oder Product Owner erstellen können.

Agile means something different for every organization. Start-up companies need to find the sweet spot between absolute chaos and overbearing process & control. Professional Scrum and Kanban can help teams and organizations do just that!

Why create a team working agreement? A team working agreement provides an agreed upon set of guidelines for a Scrum Team to follow, so everyone understands what is expected as they work together in pursuit of delivering value. A team can use a working agreement to help them work toward self-manag...

In this article I share the case of mitosis – splitting a large team of 19 people into two independent feature teams working from a single Product Backlog. After the division, I helped the teams create a common identity and agree on norms of conduct. This case is just an episode of Agile transformat...

Learn how to use ChatGPT to create workshops for agile practitioners such as Scrum Masters

Effective Stakeholder Engagement is key to the success of the product and one of the essential skills all product people should have. This article is part 1 of the Effective Stakeholder Engagement series. In this we will learn effective ways to identify stakeholders.

With the widespread adoption of Scrum, variation in how teams practice Scrum has inevitably evolved. At the same time, some organizations that have turned to Scrum wonder if they are getting its full benefits. So, how do you know if Scrum is working? In this article, I outline 3 questions that can h...

In this episode, PST Jay Rahman shares his experiences that led him to where he is today. He discusses Scrum in finance, leadership, agile mindset and more! (27:27 Minutes)

Help Scrum Teams, stakeholders, and supporters understand how their system works, find leverage points, and trigger (big) change.

ChatGPT is remarkably capable when fed decent prompts. So consider investing your time accordingly.

In the following interview with Marjolein Pilon, she describes how Scrum has empowered the Scrum Teams she has worked with to approach the challenging problem of Climate Change.

Lohnt das $20-Investment für ChatGPT Pro für Scrum Master und Product Owner? Ich habe 3 Experimente durchgeführt. Lesen Sie weiter und erfahren Sie, was dabei herausgekommen ist. Es war keine Selbstverständlichkeit.

Designing an Agile organisation is difficult without a framework - it involves making trade-offs between various design options. But did you know that your organization's strategic focus plays a crucial role in determining the right trade-offs? By combining the traits of an Agile organization with y...

I ran three comparisons, using the identical prompt to trigger answers from the new GPT-4 and previous GPT-3.5 models. Read on and learn what happened. It was not a foregone conclusion.

How Liberating Structures and servant leadership create an environment for Scrum Masters to find support, offer help, and draw inspiration

When to use Facilitation, Coaching, Mentoring or Teaching We often use the words “coaching,” “mentoring,” “teaching,” and “facilitating” informally. We may say that we're being coached on how to become a better golfer, or that the person managing the agenda in a meeting is the meeting's facilitat...

Successful Scrum Masters continuously find ways to improve their practice to have greater influence and impact on their teams and organizations. Scrum’s foundational concept, empiricism, which advances learning through experience and observation, can support this kind of growth. In this blog post, w...

In this article, we will analyze the famous “Tribes and Squads” model (also known as a “Spotify model”) in terms of where it fits on the archetype map.

"At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjust its behavior accordingly." What does this mean and why is it important?

A dogmatic approach to Scrum tends to close down discussion and inhibit collaboration. If it’s in the Scrum framework described in the Scrum Guide, it’s there for a reason. But if it is not outlined in the framework, Scrum teams can innovate how to apply Scrum in their unique environment.

La facilitazione permette di guidare persone e team verso obiettivi concordati. Traduzione dell’articolo originale in inglese sul sito scrum.org.

3 Practices to Break out of Cruise Control and Drive Change

Lassen Sie uns darüber nachdenken, warum die Beantwortung dieser veralteten Daily Scrum Fragen einen negativen Einfluss auf das Scrum-Team hat — Making Your Scrum Work (29).

Systems Thinking is one of the key concepts required for successful agile organization design. It provides a valuable approach to organization design that can help organizations better understand the interrelationships between different elements within the system. By recognizing feedback loops and b...

The Daily Scrum is a 15-minute event for the Developers of the Scrum Team. To reduce complexity, it is held at the same time and place every working day of the Sprint. If the Product Owner or Scrum Master are actively working on items in the Sprint Backlog, they participate as Developers.

The Definition of Done creates transparency by providing everyone a shared understanding of what work was completed and what standards were met as part of the Increment. If a Product Backlog Item does not meet the Definition of Done, it cannot be released yet. Think of the Definition of Done as the ...

Take your Daily Scrum from a reporting session to true teamwork and consider why answering the obsolete 3 Daily Scrum questions negatively impacts that ambition.

A do-it-yourself workshop to have Scrum teams clearly express what they need from management, stakeholders, and the supporting organization with “What I Need From You”

Org Topologies™ is a mapping of recognizable organizational archetypes in product development. Understanding the archetypes will help you to navigate your agile transformation.