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In this advanced class, experienced Scrum Masters learn to overcome challenges they face through immersive facilitated exercises.
Students learn how to maximize the value of products and systems through instruction and team-based exercises.
Mastering the Product Owner Stances course focuses on helping experienced practitioners expand their ability to establish a solid vision, validate their hypotheses, and ultimately deliver more value.
Enables all members of a software-focused Scrum Team to learn Scrum while doing it, experiencing what it is like to build products with modern Agile and DevOps practices.
Hands-on workshop teaching managers and other leaders how to best support, guide, and coach their teams.
Teaches Scrum practitioners how to apply Kanban practices to their work without changing Scrum, bringing greater transparency and flow.
Learn modern UX techniques and practices that effectively enable Scrum Teams to best work with customers and their feedback to deliver higher value.
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An overview of the Scrum framework, for people new to Scrum and those who’d like to refresh their understanding. The aim of this white paper was to write in a practical, down-to-earth manner from the perspective of what the Scrum framework makes possible. This paper should be easy to read, clear up potential confusions and deepen your understanding.
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Professional Scrum Certification Assessments
There are three levels of Scrum Master assessments to validate and certify your knowledge and understanding of Scrum and the Scrum Master role.
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The Professional Scrum™ with User Experience assessment validates a fundamental level of understanding of integrating modern UX practices into Scrum.
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Stefan Wolpers
TL; DR: A Sprint Review without Stakeholders?
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. A Sprint Review without stakeholders may create an unhealthy bubble for the Scrum Team due to the disconnect, thus resulting in lower effectiveness.
Join me and explore the reasons and the consequences of stakeholders avoiding participating in the Sprint Review in less than 150 seconds.
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Why a Sprint Review without Stakeholders Is the Path to Mediocrity
This Scrum anti-pattern can create an unhealthy bubble for the Scrum Team due to the disconnect from the stakeholders. The lack of collaboration may lead to less effective Scrum Team.
There are several reasons why stakeholders might not attend the Sprint Review, for example:
They do not see any value in this Scrum event. They are satisfied with studying your report on the output of the Sprint. Why bother personally with the issue when it is the accountability of the Scrum Master to make the team deliver while the Product Owner ensures that the Scrum Team builds the “right” things?
Related to the first reason, yet not identical: The stakeholders do not understand the importance of the Sprint review Event. Probably, they have never received a proper introduction to Scrum and are not aware of their critical contribution to the Scrum Team’s success.
Alternatively, there may be a conflict with a more critical meeting from their perspective. You can’t be in two places at the same time. This is the reason that you should consider running the Sprint Review at a time most suited for your stakeholders—despite the rigid flow from Sprint Review to Retrospective to Sprint Planning.
In my experience, you need to “sell” the Sprint Review event within the organization, particularly at the beginning of your journey to embrace Scrum. For example, a tactic one of my previous Scrum Teams used was to award a bit of its capacity to dealing minor issues that attending stakeholders had. Besides this form of “bribery,” convincing the CEO to attend the Sprint Review typically will do the job as well.
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Conclusion
Scrum’s Sprint Review is a critical Scrum event. It answers the question of whether the Scrum Team is still on track delivering the best possible value to the customers and the organization. Avoiding the before-mentioned Sprint Review anti-pattern can hence significantly improve a Scrum Team’s effectiveness.
What have you done to convince stakeholders to participate in the Sprint Review? Please share with us your tips & tricks.
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