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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.

Workers are now organized in new types of groups as a result of the movement known as Agile at scale. However, to succeed, the changes have to be more than in name only. Dave West shares his thoughts in this Tech Target article. 

When Insight Enterprises (NASDAQ: NSIT) acquired Cardinal Solutions in 2018, the global integrator of Insight Intelligent Technology Solutions™ for organizations of all sizes gained Transformation Services to help clients achieve greater technological agility. In doing so, Insight applies the Scrum framework to improve product and service development, which is increasingly important as many organizations make digital transformation a business priority.

This article on Glasscubes blog compares Agile and Waterfall and features commentary from Kurt Bittner.

This article on the Glasscubes blog highlights 5 best practices in project portfolio management and features commentary from Kurt Bittner, VP of Enterprise Solutions, Scrum.org.

Scrum Master was named as one of the best career opportunities in the US by Glassdoor.

In this InfoQ article, Dave West, CEO and Product Owner, Scrum.org, talks about building successful agile teams, by exploring the concept of generalist vs. specialist team members, taking a look at technical skills and the balance of those skills, along with the job titles of those team members.

In this Forbes article, Steve Denning, talks about the types of Agile Metrics that can help teams succeed if they agree on them, including those in Evidence-Based Management.

Professional Scrum Trainer Preeth Pandalay was interviewed in this article.

In part two of this interview series Dave West tackles more questions about scaling.

In this article Dave West discusses Agile at scale with Mary Pratt from Tech Target.

Ken Schwaber was named to the top 130 Project Management Influencers by The Digital Project Manager.

In this CMSwire article, Kurt Bittner explores the idea that by embracing empiricism, leaders learn to experiment, inspect, and adapt, while continuously seeking better customer and business outcomes. 

Scrum.org was named to the SDTimes 100 Best in Show Influencers list.

As enterprises strive to digitize their organizations, whether it’s digitally transforming aspects of sales and marketing, customer interactions or supply chain, they’re undergoing a wholesale revamp of traditional businesses into digital business models.

Agile frameworks facilitate an iterative and incremental approach to achieving progress for defined goals, for example, streamlining the review process for digital content. Agile methods utilize time-boxed periods called Sprints to complete a set amount of work. Each planned Sprint is assigned a unique list of deliverables.

For many years, enterprises have been in a race to digitally transform how they work through the digitization of all areas of their business, to reduce costs and business frictions through creating efficiencies and delivering increased value to their customers. While many organizations have attempted a transformation, few have been successful.

Effective agile transformations require the right team makeup, a laser focus on business outcomes, and approaches to management and training that break from the past.

In this CMS Wire Article Eric Naiburg talks about the role of the Scrum Master and where the project manager position comes into play in Scrum.

Standing amidst the technological revolution, we find ourselves asking if the Agile Manifesto should still be our guide as we move into a world defined by continuous innovation....

In this paper, Kurt Bittner and Cesario Ramos discuss common systemic challenges for scaling agility. They close with a comparison between the approach to these challenges by popular scaling frameworks.