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Agile Turkey Summit 2018 is a single day, 3 tracks international event gathering Agile enthusiasts together. We would like to invite you to take part in the 6th Agile Turkey Summit at Wyndham Grand Levent, Istanbul, Turkey on 25th October 2018 to discuss the hot topics in Agile world.

People with a leadership role in modern companies come together to share experiences and exchange information. Join us if you have a modern understanding of leadership and management and want to bring more agility and flexibility into your organization.

On this second round of our annual agile conference, we bring you a Scrumday themed on "agile transformations", with double the attendance, interactive workshops and international speakers.

Ascent unites the East Coast tech community for two days of talks, groundbreaking startups, round-table discussions, gala events, and experiences all designed to build lasting connections and to edify our guests.

The theme of the AgilePrague Conference 2018 is "Business Agility". This year we are going to introduce over 30 speakers from all around the world. The conference is running in two parallel tracks in two days, where you can choose from the variety of talks for managers, scrum masters, product owners and try agile practices in practical workshops for testers and developers, share the know-how, discuss in open space.

In this webinar, moderated by Ravi Verma, our panelists Uta Kapp and Dave Dame will discuss 7 agile habits that Scrum Teams can gain when they embrace diversity.

The annual North American conference is dedicated to furthering Agile principles and providing a venue for people and ideas to flourish. This is where the Agile tribes meet.

In this edition of the People Side of Software Meetup, Professional Scrum Trainer Robb Pieper will be presenting an Intro to Scrum.

This presentation by Professional Scrum Trainer, Chuck Suscheck from Max Tech Solutions will describe the discovery techniques of BDD and exemplify an end-to-end automated business scenario so that you can see the direct tie between business needs and software execution possible with BDD.

Scrum Day Europe is a great and lively journey for and by the Agile community and friends of Scrum. The event is a perfect place to be for change agents, Product Owners, and management. Take the opportunity to interact with presenters and like-minded peers who can share their experiences and lessons learned.

Agile Cymru is back! We have a great new venue at Newport City Campus and we’re still on a mission to empower and support the agile community in Wales. Previous years have included talks from comedians, policemen that employed wizards, to psychology professionals. An eclectic mix you might say! This year we hope to maintain that same originality and inspirational concepts for looking at agility.

In this session, we will explore how to integrate Peter Senge's 5 Disciplines of Learning Organizations with the Nexus Framework to help organizations to scale their business agility with Scrum. Along the way, we will find out what Michelangelo had to say many centuries ago that can guide and inspire them in their journey.

The Agile Testing Days USA reach out to all software engineers and testing professionals. The conference provides a fun platform to connect & network in the agile community. Equip your team with new methods & a mindset to take your projects to a new level!

The purpose of Scrum is to deliver Increments of releasable functionality. So at each Sprint Review, a “Done” Increment is required to make transparent the progress made by the team.

There is often confusion when organisations transition to an agile way of working, particularly with the mapping of roles. This blog explores the role of Project Managers in Scrum.

As companies proceed with their digital transformations, software becomes increasingly strategic and pervasive – which means they need more of it. Lots more.

From my go-to barbecue chicken to practicing Scrum, I have tried adding many different ingredients over the years. Is there a point when too many ingredients get in the way of the original recipe?  Would the Scrum framework in your world of work be more optimal with less of them?

Bottom line - WiP limits must be applied to improve flow of the delivery of value. It's a key lever to improve the performance of Professional Scrum Teams, and it's required by the Kanban Guide for Scrum.

The world is becoming more technologically complex, interdependent, and culturally  diverse, which makes the building of relationships more and more necessary to get things accomplished and, at the same time, more difficult.

Agile Israel 2018, the central Agile event in Israel running for the 11th consecutive year, bringing world class agile experts and inspiring case studies to help you learn tips and tricks that can be applied in your organization to expand your Agile/DevOps implementations to reach real business agility.

When I first embarked on my own journey towards Scrum Mastery, I was eager to learn.  I attended Scrum training courses.  I went to and eventually spoke at agile conferences and meet ups.

Sie erwartet Innovation und Inspiration, herausragende Keynote Speaker und wie immer die Möglichkeit jede Menge interessanter Leute kennenzulernen.

​During this webinar we will explore where HR teams can elevate their initiatives and the profession by understanding the shift in working practices in an agile organization ​as well as harnessing the power of Scrum to deliver more frequent value to their most valuable of customers - the organizations they serve.

In this magazine, Scrum Studio is highlighted as a key part of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines digital transformation.

Nothing better than to use your profession and passion for 'Scrum' for a much higher goal: improving education so that our youth is better prepared for the demands that current society places on our knowledge and especially on our skills.

Impact Mapping is a powerful technique that helps teams understand how to link the work that they do with results that their organizations would like them to achieve. We’ve been using this technique for a while in our Scaled Professional Scrum and Professional Scrum Product Owner courses.

A common question I hear in Scrum training courses and in coaching sessions is, “how much Product Backlog refinement should we do and how much detail should be in the Product Backlog?”

Why are there so many meetings?" is a complaint a Scrum Master often hears, especially from team members who are new to agile practice. It's the refrain of those in an organization which is more likely to be doing agile rather than being agile.

I need to get something off my chest. It's a personal thing, so don't mind me. But maybe it will get you thinking also. It's been on my mind for quite some time. Troublesome sometimes.... Here it goes.

In this post, we bust a myth that is at the heart of why refinement feels like a chore to many Scrum Teams: the belief that ‘Product Backlog refinement’ should be done as one or more required ‘meetings’ that must be attended by everyone in the team. We also offer some alternative approaches that fit more naturally with the flow of development.

I was presenting at a local user group and wanted to explain the concept of what it is to be a Servant Leader. I find that by providing an example of something people can easily relate to the concept.

In this video Richard Hundhausen, Professional Scrum Trainer talks about software delivery as a team, living the Scrum values, and using Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to plan and execute the work.

In this webinar, Professional Scrum Trainer, Rich Visotcky will talk through real-life examples of how an engaged Product Owner can generate the most value. He also will touch on examples of how a Product Owner can be overly present and cause more harm than good.

In this episode of the Agile for Humans Podcast, Don McGreal (@donmcgreal) and Ralph Jocham (@rjocham) joined Ryan Ripley (@ryanripley) to discuss their new book The Professional Product Owner: Leveraging Scrum as a Competitive Advantage.

Over the centuries, humans have managed to adapt to many situations and evolve to become what we are today. History shows that we have an innate ability to adapt and evolve. This remains valid as part of a change in business, such as the adoption of Scrum.

In this episode of the Agile.FM Podcast with Professional Scrum Trainer, Joe Krebs, Professional Scrum Trainers Ralph Jocham and Don McGreal share their thoughts around the role of the Product Owner and what challenges a person in that role often face.

Whether you’re new to the agile process and need to get up to speed quickly or you’re experienced and ready to take your team or organization to the next level, Agile Dev West's hands-on, in-depth workshops have you covered. Plus, Agile Dev West is held in conjunction with Better Software West and DevOps West conferences, allowing you to choose from three distinct programs.

What we avoid is still being processed and affecting our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.  Sometimes we are aware this is running in the background, and we catch ourselves thinking about it.  Then we try to distract ourselves.  Often we don’t even have awareness, and the effects still show up.

Based on the feedback that I have received from my blog about the most popular blog articles, I have decided to do the same for the Scrum.org video series.  Over the past few years, we have generated more than 160 videos to help people learn more about Scrum.

Music City Tech is a three-day event consisting of simultaneous conferences, each focused on a particular community of technology professionals, held at Vanderbilt University.

Scrum defines three roles, the Product Owner, Scrum Master and Development Team Member. But what happens if you have a different job title? It doesn’t mean that you are out of luck or out of a job, in most cases it means the exact opposite with your job expanding to deliver more value in the Scrum Team. So, where do you fit in Scrum?

A description of the Liberating Structure "User Experience Fishbowl and how we've used it within Scrum.

People who attend the PSM course or the Professional Scrum Foundations (PSF) course are given two attempts at passing the Professional Scrum Master I assessment.

The fundamental result of Little’s Law is that for a given process, in general, the more things that you work on at any given time (on average) the longer it is going to take for each of those things to finish (on average). As a case in point, managers who are ignorant of this law panic when they see that their Cycle Times are too long and perform the exact opposite intervention of what they should do: they start more work. After all, they reason, if things take so long, then they need to start new items as soon as possible so that those items finish on time—regardless of what is currently in progress.

In this Scrum Tapas video, Professional Scrum Trainer Rich Visotcky describes the Product Backlog and the need to ensure that it is transparent to the entire Scrum Team. Rich talks about why everyone on the Scrum Team needs to understand what it is comprised of, the order or priority of Product Backlog Items and how they fit into the product vision. 2:39 Minutes

This article on BusinessNewsDaily.com reviews the Professional Scrum certifications provided by Scrum.org.

In this Scrum Tapas video, Professional Scrum Trainer Mark Noneman describes empiricism, how it is used and why it is so critical when practicing Scrum. 3:36 Minutes

In this blog article, we provide a quick overview of the most viewed blog articles over the past 18 months, giving readers insight into what they mind valuable to read.