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Building for Agility: The Role of Commodity Platforms
April 10, 2023
At scale, many teams can use the shared platform functionality. When that can be done on a self-service basis, it supports autonomy and improves product delivery flow. But when the platform group holds all the power and the teams need to request the product group to develop product-specific functionality themselves, it can create a bottleneck in the development process.
By eliminating reciprocal interdependencies and creating a commodity platform, product groups can focus on their unique features and the platform can provide the necessary functionality without getting in the way. It’s a win-win situation for everyone involved, and collaboration and smart processes can keep everything running smoothly.
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My Grumpiest Take on Scrum
April 10, 2023
Professional Scrum Trainer, Matt Dominici's "grumpiest take" on Scrum: focusing on the negative effects of clapping during Sprint Reviews.
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Stakeholder Analysis and Mapping: Part 2 of 4 Steps of Stakeholder Engagement
April 10, 2023
This is part 2 of the Series ' Effective Stakeholder Engagement. In this, we have covered How to understand stakeholders better and also how to group them so that we can engage them better.
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Machst du diese Fehler bei Produkt-Zielen?
April 10, 2023
Vergiss, was du über Produkt-Ziele gehört hast. Ignoriere die Ratschläge, dass Ziele SMART, FAST oder ein OKR sein müssen.
Denn Fakt ist:
Diese Methoden bewahren dich nicht vor den typischen Fehlern, die in der Praxis passieren.
Welche das sind, erfährst du, wenn du weiter liest!
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Agile OKRs to Measure Improvement in Flow and Value Outcomes OKRs
April 10, 2023
The lack of a standard and evidence-based mechanisms to measure performance and agility leaves many organizations in the dark regarding what activities are needed to not only lead to agility, but what activities leaders should support and promote help to make enterprise agility sustainable, repeatable and scalable. This is where Agile OKRs come in.
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How to Speak Product Owner - from Frustration to Collaboration
April 8, 2023
Communicating effectively with Product Owners starts with understanding their accountability and focusing on key elements such as benefit, investment, and time frame.
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Intro to Scrum (16 of 16): What is the Increment and the Definition of Done?
April 7, 2023
What is an Increment? Does it always have to be releasable? Does it always need to be related in a Sprint? How does the Definition of Done relate to the increment? In this video blog, I’m going to talk about the increment – arguably the most important thing in Scrum.
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Use “What, So What, Now What” During The Sprint Retrospective
April 7, 2023
A simple format for the Sprint Retrospective to create a shared understanding with one of the foundational Liberating Structures
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8 Probleme bei der Durchführung der Scrum Events und umfangreiche Anleitungen, diese zu beheben
April 7, 2023
Schon lange, bevor Scrum nicht mehr richtig funktioniert, sind die ersten Probleme in Scrum Events zu erkennen.
Wenn sich eines dieser Probleme bereits in deinem Team anbahnt, dann betrachte es als ein Warnsignal.
Auf welche Warnsignale du unbedingt achten solltest, erfährst du in diesem Beitrag.
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How the Daily Scrum Supports Inspection (13)
April 6, 2023
Each Scrum Event serves Inspection, the second pillar of Empiricism. So does the Daily Scrum. How? Find out ...
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Workshop Design mit ChatGPT 🇩🇪
April 6, 2023
Lernen Sie, wie Sie mit ChatGPT Workshops für agile Praktiker wie Scrum Master oder Product Owner erstellen können.
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What is a Product, Platform and Service?
April 5, 2023
If you have people in product development or product management, in Scrum for example, if you have a Product owner who’s supposed to be on the hook for maximizing value … what is the productO
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The Art of Saying No: How Product Owners Can Make Tough Decisions
April 5, 2023
Some tips on how Product Owners can stay focused on their product goal by effectively saying "No"
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Vom Junior zum Experten: Wie du einen Mentor findest, der dich bei deiner Entwicklung als Scrum Master unterstützt
April 5, 2023
Über die Jahre habe ich viele Mentoren gefunden.
Wenn ich zurückblicke, dann sind diese Beziehungen das Geheimnis meiner Weiterentwicklung als Scrum Master und jetzt als Professional Scrum Trainer.
Hier sind sechs Schritte, die auch dir helfen, einen Scrum-Mentor zu finden:
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Psychological Safety: The Key to Team Success
April 4, 2023
In today's fast-paced and highly competitive business environment, a team's success depends on many factors. One of the most important factors is psychological safety.
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Scrum For Startups: Finding the Sweet Spot
April 4, 2023
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!
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Mitosis and Express Kickoff
April 4, 2023
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 transformation in a business unit of several hundred people.
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Intro to Scrum (15 of 16): What is the Sprint Backlog and Sprint Goal?
April 4, 2023
Who makes and maintains the Sprint Backlog? Who Creates the Sprint Goal? Do you need a Sprint Goal every Sprint? Can you have more than one? Watch this video to find out
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Maximizing Scrum with the Scrum Values
April 4, 2023
The Scrum values help create a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement, guiding the team toward better results and a more satisfying work experience. I’ve written and talked a lot about the Scrum values over my consulting and coaching career because I’ve seen how they can galvanize teams to achieve their best work. I’ve also seen how they are often misunderstood. I hope this article will provide an easy way for readers to learn about the importance of the Scrum values and find helpful links to other Agile Socks posts for those who want to dive deeper.
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What is Throughput in Kanban and How Do you measure it?
April 4, 2023
What is throughput, the role of Product Backlog items in ascertaining throughput and how do we measure throughput.
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Stop Recurring Problems in Retrospectives. How?
April 3, 2023
What is the best way to address recurrent problems that are identified at Retros?
Those ones that you actually spend a lot of time trying to overcome but eventually come up again.
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How this Company Flipped Failure into Massive Success with a 'Scrum Reboot'!
April 3, 2023
In this vlog, we're going to tell you about a company that failed spectacularly... and then turned it around with a 'Scrum Reboot'!
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Leveraging Chat GPT for Workshop Design
April 3, 2023
Learn how to use ChatGPT to create workshops for agile practitioners such as Scrum Masters
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Quality Angels in your Scrum Team
April 3, 2023
Who are the Quality Assurance (QA) experts in the Scrum Team and what do they have to do with guardian angels? Who is responsible for the quality of your product? What practices can you use to positively impact collaboration within the Scrum Team and the quality of solutions created? You will find it out in this blog post!
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Scrum Master als Karriereeinstieg – Steht die Agile-Coaching-Branche vor dem Aus?
April 3, 2023
Hast du dich jemals gefragt, welche Auswirkungen Stellenanzeigen für „Junior-Scrum-Master“ auf unsere Branche haben?
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Stakeholder Exploration: Part 1 of 4 Steps in Stakeholder Engagement
April 2, 2023
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.
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Answer These 3 Questions to Determine If You're Getting Value from Scrum
April 1, 2023
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 help determine if you're getting value from Scrum. Your answers might point to adjustments you can make to your practice to improve outcomes.
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Intro to Scrum (14 of 16): What is the Product Backlog and Product Goal?
March 31, 2023
How does the Product Goal relate to a Product Backlog and what is the point of it all? I'll explain in this vlog!
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¿Por qué los coaches de vida se hacen pasar por agile coaches?
March 31, 2023
No es raro que las personas hagan la transición de una profesión a otra, o que las personas desempeñen múltiples roles simultáneamente.
Esto también es cierto en el caso de los coaches de vida que se hacen pasar por agile coaches.
Déjame hablar un poco de qué razones llevar a ese cambio de profesión.
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Agile Principles - Effective Communication
March 31, 2023
This post continues my ongoing series revisiting the principles behind the Agile Manifesto. This time we are focussing on the following Agile principle – “The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.”
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How Sprint Planning supports Inspection (12)
March 30, 2023
Each Scrum Event serves Inspection, the second pillar of Empiricism. So does Sprint Planning. How? Find out ...
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Erstellen eines persönlichen Readme für Scrum Master mit ChatGPT 🇩🇪
March 30, 2023
ChatGPT ist bemerkenswert leistungsfähig, wenn es mit sinnvollen Eingabeaufforderungen bedient wird; hier ist ein Beispiel.
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Scrum im Selbststudium – Teil 19: Der Scrum Master verantwortet die Effektivität des Scrum Teams
March 30, 2023
Willkommen zum 19. Artikel der „Scrum im Selbststudium“-Artikelreihe. Solltest du den letzten Artikel verpasst haben, findest du ihn hier.
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Lessons from a PST on Preparing for the PSPO III Exam - Spoiler Alert, I Failed the First Time
March 29, 2023
I have had two very different experiences on my journey to becoming a Professional Scrum Trainer (PST). To become a PST is a privilege and it should rightly be a difficult process to ensure the quality of Scrum.org trainers is maintained. Here are my learnings from the experience, and my tips for preparing for the PSPO III.
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Scrum im Selbststudium – Teil 18: Die Entwickler schaffen jeden Sprint ein nutzbares Inkrement
March 29, 2023
Willkommen zum 18. Artikel der „Scrum im Selbststudium“-Artikelreihe. Solltest du den letzten Artikel verpasst haben, findest du ihn hier.
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Scrum es un Contenedor
March 29, 2023
Scrum es un marco incompleto a propósito. Scrum es un contenedor, no prescribe que prácticas o herramientas usar. Scrum no define la forma exacta de cómo realizar el trabajo o que usar para entregar valor, cada equipo debe descubrir la forma apropiada de hacerlo y complementar Scrum a su manera, por eso es un contenedor abierto y extensible. Scrum es el marco ideal para el aprendizaje y mejora continua .. Scrum es abierto y extensible, no hay recetas ni etapas que se deben seguir para ser exitosos. Scrum puede ser complementado, por ejemplo, con Kanban, UX, DevOps, etc. Pero siempre usando el empirismo como el enfoque cultural para ser adaptativos.
Al usar Scrum para resolver problemas complejos el equipo Scrum va experimentando, aprendiendo e incorporando las prácticas de la manera que mejor le sirven al equipo para la entrega de valor.
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Experiment: Diagnose Scrum In Your Organization With Panarchy
March 28, 2023
Help Scrum Teams, stakeholders, and supporters understand how their system works, find leverage points, and trigger (big) change.
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Add This Special Ingredient to Improve your Scrum Events
March 28, 2023
The individuals involved in these and other Scrum Events must face complex challenges and ask and respond to difficult questions. We can make the process easier with a positive mindset.
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Scrum im Selbststudium – Teil 17: Der Product Owner maximiert den Wert des Produkts
March 28, 2023
Willkommen zum 17. Artikel der „Scrum im Selbststudium“-Artikelreihe. Solltest du den letzten Artikel verpasst haben, findest du ihn hier.
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Creating a Personal Readme for Scrum Masters
March 27, 2023
ChatGPT is remarkably capable when fed decent prompts. So consider investing your time accordingly.
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Scrum im Selbststudium – Teil 16: Das Scrum Team übernimmt die Verantwortung, jeden Sprint ein wertvolles Inkrement bereitzustellen
March 27, 2023
Willkommen zum 16. Artikel der „Scrum im Selbststudium“-Artikelreihe. Solltest du den letzten Artikel verpasst haben, findest du ihn hier.
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Checklist for Better Goals in Scrum (Sprint and Product)
March 26, 2023
Sprint Goals and Product Goals are really tough to grasp an apply. Most people just restate the PBIs as the goal. Here's a checklist to help you make useful Sprint Goals and Product Goals.
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[VLOG] Comprehensive Explanation on Definition of Done and Increment
March 26, 2023
In this vlog, PST Joshua Partogi digs deep into the concept of Definition of Done and Increment in Scrum.
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Definition of 'Done': Dysfunctions & Tips
March 26, 2023
The Definition of 'Done' probably is the most misunderstood concept of the Scrum framework. In this article, we will learn some common dysfunctions or antipatterns associated with the Definition of 'Done' and also certain tips or remedies to overcome these.
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Mejora la relación con tus stakeholders
March 25, 2023
Siempre me preguntan sobre como mejora la relación con tus stakeholders si se eleva la colaboración y mi respuesta la quiero plasmar en este post.
Un stakeholder es cualquier individuo, grupo o entidad que tiene interés o puede verse afectado por las decisiones y acciones de una organización, iniciativa o producto.
Esto incluye a los clientes, empleados, proveedores, accionistas, comunidades locales, grupos de interés, reguladores y otros actores que puedan ser impactados o que puedan afectar a la iniciativa o producto.
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Scrum im Selbststudium – Teil 15: Sprint Retrospektive – Überprüfung, wie das Scrum Team gearbeitet hat, und Planung von Verbesserungen
March 24, 2023
Willkommen zum 15. Artikel der „Scrum im Selbststudium“-Artikelreihe. Solltest du den letzten Artikel verpasst haben, findest du ihn hier.
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Intro to Scrum (13 of 16): What are Scrum Artifacts?
March 23, 2023
Scrum describes three formal artifacts in the Scrum Guide, but why? What is the point of the artifacts? What are the official artifacts defined by the Scrum Guide? Watch this video to find out!
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8 Choices of a Product Owner
March 23, 2023
Product Ownership is not a straightforward job. Accountable for maximizing the value derived from the product, Product Owners have to balance their options continuously, decide what to do, and maybe even more importantly, what not to do.
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Scrum im Selbststudium – Teil 14: Sprint Review – Überprüfung der Ergebnisse des Sprints und Planung, was als Nächstes getan werden sollte
March 23, 2023
Willkommen zum 14. Artikel der „Scrum im Selbststudium“-Artikelreihe. Solltest du den letzten Artikel verpasst haben, findest du ihn hier.