When time zones kill the Daily Scrum, great teams don’t lose control; they redesign how alignment works. In this blog by PST Robb Pieper, learn what replaces the Daily Scrum in high-performing async teams.

The first in a 6 part series of organizational discovery. By considering the "punctuating events" most commonly experienced in agile practice, we will follow an employee's journey from a chaotic project environment to a new culture of measured and managed innovation. We will see how empiricism can b...

Organizations want clarity. They want alignment across teams, better decisions, and the ability to adapt to change without constantly burning people out. But what often happens inside organizations looks very different. In this article, we explore what it means to grow leadership capacity so peop...

Das A3-Framework unterstützt Sie bei der Entscheidung, ob KI eine Aufgabe übernehmen sollte (Assist, Automate, Avoid). Der A3-Handoff-Canvas hilft Ihnen, dies ohne Qualitäts- oder Verantwortlichkeitsverlust durchzuführen.

When startups grow, they often bring in "responsible adults" who implement traditional playbooks in Finance, HR, and Legal. While well-intentioned, these silos often create a "factory mindset" that undermines the very agility that made the company successful. In this episode, Dave West is joined by ...

Over the last 18 months, AI has moved from a tech trend to a core capability, and Scrum Masters need to be enablers for this change. That means Scrum Masters need to not only embrace it but also serve as catalysts for it. And that is why Scrum.org released a new course, Professional Scrum Master - A...

Generative AI is transforming knowledge work, creating new opportunities to empower Scrum Teams while introducing fresh challenges. In this Scrum Pulse webinar—based on the joint paper with EPAM Systems: Scrum in the GenAI Era: Balancing Speed, Empathy, and Ethics— Michelle Midboe, Director, AI Cons...

AI is rapidly transforming the role of Scrum Masters. Those who fail to adapt to this new productivity engine risk becoming obsolete. The PSM-AI Essentials course helps you mitigate this risk.

A good Scrum Master retains something AI is trained to remove - agency.

Teams who have done Scrum training together perform better than those who haven't. It creates a shared language and shared expectations. When everyone understands not just what Scrum is, but why it works, they understand how to work together more effectively.

In software development with fully automated build and test technologies, it is state of the art that a fully tested and documented software product can be built at least once in a Sprint. In the development of mechatronics systems, we encounter longer build and test times and traditionally much lon...

A practical guide to effectively evaluate the performance of Scrum Teams + Case Study.

In diesem Artikel teilt PST Simon Flossmann seinen Weg, wie er Scrum Trainer geworden ist

Six Questions That Turn AI Delegation Into a Repeatable Workflow

AI ROI disappoints - we overestimate short-term impact. As with the internet's 1995–2010 trough, winners are now building infrastructure. Punctuated equilibrium: stability, then explosive transformation.

In diesem Artikel beschreibt Mark Rehberg warum Teams so oft am experimentellen Vorgehen scheitern. Die Antwort ist eigentlich gar nicht so weit weg.

AI is rapidly transforming the role of Scrum Masters. Those who fail to adapt to this new productivity engine risk becoming obsolete. The PSM-AI Essentials course helps you mitigate this risk.

Transparency isn’t a Jira board. It’s when everyone reads the same reality from your artifacts. This post shows why low transparency quietly drives bad decisions and risk—and gives you simple checks to spot “multiple meanings”

In Part 2 of this Q&A series stemming from questions in the webinar, Managing Your AI Teammate, Eric Naiburg continues the conversation with Darrell Fernandes, diving deeper into how AI is reshaping the way Scrum Teams work. (21:32 Minutes)

83 % der agilen Praktiker nutzen KI, jedoch setzen die meisten nur 10 % oder weniger ihrer Zeit dafür ein, da sie nicht einschätzen können, wo der Einsatz von KI sinnvoll ist.

A product roadmap is a high-level visual summary that shows what a product team intends to build to increase transparency. Let's see how AI can enhance the process of building roadmaps.

In this Scrum Pulse webinar, Dave West, CEO and Darrell Fernandes, Executive Advisor of Scrum.org explore the findings from the recent Scrum.org APOM Survey, revealing why organizations struggle with value-driven product development and the perception of technology as a cost center.

A first-time Scrum Master experience often begins with resistance. Learn why teams push back, what actually builds trust, and how Scrum works when it solves real problems in PST Robb Pieper’s latest post.

I find that when people start to actually use Scrum, they often forget that they are supposed to be a team. They assign each individual a task or Product Backlog Item, and then that individual goes off and works on it alone.

Scrum Masters (at least in my part of the world) are often people seeking the transition to the role of a ‘Manager’ or a management position. However, when they land into this role amongst a highly technical team, they become clueless. This is because the one thing that they were moving away from be...

The APOM Guiding Principles are introduced as a set of principles to help organizations evaluate their operating models and avoid the trap of "mechanical Scrum" (focusing on mechanics over intent). This blog also addresses the impact of AI, which Dave believes will push organizations toward becoming...

What will you get if you invest your time and money in learning AI?! Let's dissect it.

If AI changes how you build, your Definition of Done should represent it. Let's check how.

When moving Scrum from software to hardware the first question will be: What can be achieved within a Sprint? or in other words: What will be an increment, when dealing with long build and test times? We, Jean-Pierre Berchez and Joachim Pfeffer, would like to share our industry practice in this blog...

Scrum Mastery is a craft that requires the right environment and a clear focus on the value chain to truly take off. Drawing from a decade of experience, PST Simon Flossmann shares five essential steps I wish I had known sooner to help you master the role and deliver real impact.

In diesem Artikel erklärt PST Simon Flossmann 10 Warnsignale, die Führungskräfte bei der Wahl ihre Scrum Master achten sollten.

83% of Agile practitioners use AI, but most spend 10% or less of their time with it because they do not know where it fits. Learn more.

Strategies fail in translation: without an Operating Model + System aligned across AI, adaptation, and org speeds, metrics/authority/processes conflict and execution dies.

El enfoque de producto es una mentalidad que parte de centrarse en el cliente y sus necesidades para entregar valor de una manera ágil, flexible, adaptativa e innovadora. Es un cambio radical desde el enfoque de proyectos, que muchas veces se basa en hitos y tareas a cumplir dentro de un plan con un...

Struggling in a Scrum Master and Developer dual role? In this post by PST Robb Pieper, learn a 3-step framework to balance expertise with self-management, set technical guardrails, and build team independence.

Empiricism is the use of past facts and evidence for upcoming decision-making. Let's check it with a super simple explanation.

Most teams don’t struggle with Scrum events. They struggle with what the events are supposed to produce: transparency you can trust, inspection that changes minds, and adaptation you can see the next day. A quick reality check: signal → sense-making → action. No signal, no Scrum.

In this episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, Dave West is joined by Andrew Nimmer, Assistant Head of the Carroll Upper School, part of The Carroll School, an independent Massachusetts school serving students with language-based learning differences. Together, they explore how a cross-function...

A practical way to leverage AI to increase the Scrum Events effectiveness.

KI-Initiativen scheitern aus denselben Gründen wie agile Transformationen: Die meisten Misserfolge sind auf Menschen, Kultur und Prozesse zurückzuführen, nicht auf Technologie. Nutzen Sie die Antimuster-Checkliste der KI-Transformation, um zu erkennen, wo die Initiativen Ihres Unternehmens vom Kurs ...

An order-taking Product Owner leads to backlog chaos and constant priority shifts. Learn why this behavior is a system issue and how teams can preserve clarity and self-management in this post by PST Robb Pieper.

Download this datasheet to learn more about the Professional Scrum Master - AI Essentials training.

A Inteligência Artificial pode reforçar a mestria em Scrum ao apoiar o Scrum Master e as Equipas Scrum a lidar com complexidade, melhorar a qualidade da aprendizagem diária e tomar decisões mais informadas. Quando usada de forma ética e alinhada com o empirismo, a IA torna-se uma aliada poderosa na ...

A practical way to leverage AI to increase the Sprint Retrospective effectiveness.

O que você precisa saber: O APOM, potencializado por IA (Gemini/Rovo) e governado pelo EBM, permite que a estratégia de produto flua sem interrupções até o delivery técnico. O objetivo é reduzir o trabalho manual do "produteiro" e garantir que cada sprint entregue valor de negócio real, e não apenas...

Most people think of negotiation as a formal process, i.e., contracts, vendors, and high-stakes deals. The thing is that product leaders negotiate every day, for instance, with stakeholders, teams, leadership, sales, and so on. These small decisions shape product outcomes.

In diesem Artikel beschreibt Mark Rehberg, warum echte Veränderung im Team nicht durch wohlklingende Visionen entsteht, sondern durch mutige, kleine Experimente im Alltag. Statt „Wir sollten…“ plädiert er für zeitlich begrenzte, überprüfbare Versuche, die Verhalten sichtbar verändern und Lernen ermö...

This report synthesizes the findings of the Agile Product Operating Model Survey conducted by Scrum.org, which assessed the alignment of organizational practices with modern agile and product-centric principles. The analysis reveals that while a strong desire for value-driven development exists, org...

When you limit work in progress, it makes pretty much everything from waterfall to Scrum better.

A practical way to leverage AI to increase the Sprint Review effectiveness.