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Effective Facilitation helps Scrum and Agile Teams leverage differences in positive ways, guiding teams to frame their discussions with clear purpose, decisions, outcomes and engagement with one another. In this article, Patricia Kong talks about how facilitation can make or break team interactions, the amount of facilitation needed in certain scenarios, how to drive decisions with facilitation and more.

Scrum.org, The Home of Scrum, today announced its new Professional Scrum Facilitation Skills™ (PSFS) training course. This interactive skills-based course is designed to help Scrum Team members develop a proficiency in facilitation skills and learn when and how to select effective techniques for different circumstances.

In this CMSWire Article, Eric Naiburg talks about how to measure success by focusing on outcomes using EBM.

Dave West adds his advice to this article about Agile Project Charters.

In this article, Kurt Bittner talks about how the Dual Operating Model impedes agility from an Agile leaders's perspective.

Middle managers in today's organizations still act as the glue that enables things to happen. They connect, enable and provide what teams and first-line managers need to get their work done. They have experience in the work coupled with knowledge of the systems and processes of the organization. They know the right people and can navigate politics, ensuring their teams make progress. This article by Dave West talks about their role in Agile Transformations.

Collaboration levels can differ greatly when working with others. People create things together, perform different jobs on related products, conduct peer review, build components that need to interoperate and sometimes it just comes down to sharing ideas. In this Reworked article, Eric Naiburg talks about how Scrum can help find that balance.

In this InfoQ article, Kurt Bittner and Pierre Pureur dive into what Software Architecture really is and how architecting is a skill agile teams embody and not a role.

We are deeply concerned about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and stand with all of the people who are suffering as a result of this violence. Over the past few days we have been working together with members of our community to decide on a response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Our intent is to stop the flow of economic transactions moving in and out of Russia.

The need to co-create with the business has many CIOs shifting away from IT projects in favor of a product-based approach that, like so much else in business, is a journey that takes time to nurture and succeed.

The latest Scrum Guide updates saw the release of the 5th version of the Scrum Guide in 2020. A number of changes have been made to the framework, while we believe some are worth considering, some aren’t that important. Some very important changes have been made to the Scrum Guide over the years and this article covers why there was a need for these changes.

Dave West is quoted in this article about value. "Value is a subjective measure.  Therefore, it is not how I define it that matters, but ultimately the person and organization that I wish to bring value to that are relevant. For example, it would be easy to describe the outcome of a sale (happy customer, rich seller, etc.), but ultimately you have to ask why is the person buying that thing – what is the value they want to receive? Also, what value does the seller achieve – why are they selling this thing rather than doing something else?  It is a complex question – so ultimately, I say the value is something defined by the individual that describes the outcome of the event."

Customers seek solutions that improve their outcomes, and organizations don’t know what will achieve this until they deliver something to them, measure the results, and adapt accordingly. Doing so, repeatedly, frequently, and with the smallest investment to achieve the greatest amount of feedback, is the essence of organizational agility. Organizations who master this succeed in today’s complex world. Learn more in this InfoQ article by Kurt Bittner.

Scrum.org, The Home of Scrum, today launched a new digital badging program for its Professional Scrum certification holders through Credly, the digital credentialing leader. Beginning next week, upon earning Scrum.org certifications, certification holders will earn a digital credential from Credly and existing certification holders will also be invited to add their certifications, further amplifying their achievement.

New PAL-EBM training course helps leaders learn how to measure value to enable improvement and agility

In this CMS Wire article, Eric Naiburg talks about how the Scrum Values can help distributed teams thrive as they adjust to a hybrid work environment.

SkillDisplay, a web portal that allows learners world-wide to claim verification for their skills is partnering with Scrum.org, the Home of Scrum, to give customers access to extensive Scrum learning resources with structured skill management, learning paths, and verification based on a set of Professional Scrum Competencies. Read this press release to learn more.

This SDTimes article talks about the 20th anniversary of the Agile Manifesto and where it stands today. Dave West is quoted throughout the article.

This Silicon Angle article highlights the topics discussed in a panel, which featured Scrum.org CEO Dave West, during the Chaos to Clarity: BizOps for Digital Transformation event.

To create and maintain an adaptable, dynamic organization that thrives in ever-changing conditions, IT leaders must encourage staff to continually acquire new skills and embrace new mindsets.

The benefits of a value stream management (VSM) approach — aligning the business, eliminating waste, and improving delivery — have been realized, but what businesses are still struggling with is taking those promises of VSM and making them a reality. {virtual} VSM DevCon presented a roundtable panel of diverse perspectives and viewpoints to look at how VSM is behaving in the “real world,” who is leading the effort, and the roadblocks businesses are coming across. The panel included Laureen Knudsen, CTO at Broadcom Enterprise Software; Dave West, CEO of Scrum.org; and Andrew Brydon, a distinguished engineer and transformation expert from National Australia Bank. Watch the full panel as well as sessions from the conference here. 

In this InfoQ article, Ben Linders interviews PST Christiaan Verwijs, PST Barry Overeem and Johannes Schartau about their new book, The Zombie Scrum Survival Guide.

In this InfoQ article, Ben Linders interviews Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland, the co-creators of Scrum, about the changes in the 2020 update to the Scrum Guide.

Scrum.org is a training and certification body that uses the principles of Scrum to help people and teams with complicated product delivery. In addition to software development and site-building teams, groups from a broad range of industries now leverage the framework to improve their problem-solving abilities. Read this article from HostingAdvice.com to learn more.

In this Pragmatic article, Dave West talks about the roles of the Product Manager and Product Owner.

In this SD Times article, Dave West walks us through the key changes to the Scrum Guide in 2020.

Scrum.org has announced updates to the Scrum Framework as it celebrates its 25th anniversary. Updates include simplified language, less prescriptive and emphasis on the Scrum team and its need to be self-managing. 

DEVOPSdigest posed the following question to the development community: How should DevOps and development adapt to the new normal? In response, DevOps industry experts offered their best recommendations for how development teams can adapt to this new remote work environment. Part 3 covers visibility and alignment.

New updates include simplified language, less prescriptive and emphasis on the Scrum Team and its need to be self-managing

This CIO article by Mary K. Pratt talks about common shortcomings that happen often when agile is implemented in an organization. Dave West adds his thoughts in this article.

In this article in The Pragmatic, Kurt Bittner talks about focusing on outcomes when it comes to products.

In this article, they collected the best practices and tips for remote Agile teams from certified Agile instructors, published authors, and practice leaders including Scrum.org CEO, Dave West. Included on this page, you’ll find expert tips for Agile remote teams and the pros of working remotely on an Agile team, and learn how to easily overcome common challenges. Plus, gain best practices for remote leaders, teams, and individuals.

Kurt Bittner shares his Digital Transformation knowledge in this Theros Digital Blog article.

While sizing and velocity can be excellent tools, they are too often weaponized. Eric Naiburg dives into this in this SDTimes article.

Voice of the customer and customer journey maps are two powerful tools to help keep businesses on track to deliver on customer needs at every point in their journey. Professional Scrum Trainer Gary Pedretti dives into both of these in this CMSWire Article.

Dave West Quoted - “It’s a total misconception that it has to be either Scrum or DevOps. And there’s a tension between the two that is wholly misplaced…we’re using it as a way to remind everyone in the DevOps and Scrum communities that it’s not an either/or situation. The fact that you can use Scrum for more effective DevOps truly should be something that everyone gets.” And thus, the two can go hand-in-hand.

The Agile change bus will continue its journey, but this time with the additions of flow, design thinking, and improved metrics. Dave West talks about some of his predictions for 2020 in this Information Week article.

Scrum Master was named to the 50 Best Jobs in America for 2020 by Glassdoor.

Kurt Bittner was quoted in the DevOps Digest 2020 predictions feature.

Forget about New Year's resolutions, which tend to be tossed aside and forgotten as soon as the champagne loses it sparkle. For IT leaders, the new year is a prime time for planning, organizing and launching new strategies and initiatives. Evolving business trends, security issues and increasing government oversight of many IT activities, combined with a seemingly never-ending series of disruptive technologies, make it essential to begin thinking about tactics and goals as soon as possible for a successful 2020.

In this article Ben Linders from InfoQ interviews Professional Scrum Trainers Stephanie Ockerman and Simon Reindl about their new book - Mastering Professional Scrum.

Scrum was named as one of the top tech skills of 2019 by Indeed.

Scrum.org, the Home of Scrum, today announced that it now offers a comprehensive series of Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO)™ certification assessments with fundamental, advanced and distinguished levels.

Scrum.org, the Home of Scrum, today announced its new Professional Scrum Product Owner - Advanced (PSPO-A) training course.

This article talks about agile leaderships and Kurt Bittner adds some commentary.

This article about Scrum on the Angel List blog has commentary from Dave West. “Empiricism was at the heart” of Scrum’s modern development, said Dave West, the CEO and Product Owner at Scrum.org. “How can you predict something that you don’t know? The only way … is to do a little bit of work and to inspect it and adapt,” he said.

In this article, Ben Linders from InfoQ interviews Professional Scrum Trainer Peter Koning about his new book - Agile Leadership Toolkit.

This Jaxenter article talks about how it takes more than documentation to achieve full team transparency in Scrum.

Growing an agile framework for an enterprise organization can be done with the right change managers and organizational champions at the helm. This article explores the ways to scale agile.