Resources

In this episode of Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer, PST Stephanie Ockerman will be available to answer questions related to the role of the Scrum Master. She can provide insight on practices and techniques useful to Scrum Masters and Scrum Team Members alike. Please bring your most pressing questions for this opportunity! 

Sally Waters’ husband Francis has ADHD, and even with medication he was struggling to cope with adult life. Most productivity systems lasted less than a week. It was only after Sally found out about Scrum and implemented it at home that he was able to move forward. This webinar will explore, through a variety of personal anecdotes, how well Scrum can work at home for both couples and families struggling with these issues.

In this episode of Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer, PST Wim Heemskerk will be available to answer any questions you may have live on this webinar. He is happy to answer any questions about challenges your Scrum team is facing, and has some deep expertise in facilitation and leadership in agile, specifically. Please bring your most pressing questions for this opportunity!

In this webinar, Professional Scrum Trainers Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller will walk through some content in their new book, Fixing Your Scrum: Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems, and talk about how experienced Scrum Masters balance the demands of these three levels of servant leadership, while removing organizational impediments and helping Scrum Teams deliver real-world value. You will discover how to visualize your work, resolve impediments, and empower your teams to self-organize and deliver using advanced coaching and facilitation techniques that honor and support the Scrum Values and agile principles.

In this episode of Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer, PST Krystian Kaczor will be available to answer any Scrum related questions you may have live on this webinar. Krystian works as an Agile Coach and Scrum Master to walk the talk.

In this Scrum Pulse webinar taking place around International Women's Day 2020, we will be featuring a female panel of entrepreneurs in the Agile coaching and consulting space. This conversation will be facilitated by Patricia Kong at Scrum.org and will consist of Professional Scrum Trainers Magdalena Firlit from Poland, Jill Graves from Canada and Shirley Santiago from the Philippines.

In this Scrum Tapas video, Professional Scrum Trainer Ravi Verma looks at how learned habits as a manager can impact ones ability to coach people and teams. He goes on to provide tips to help Scrum Masters and coaches to make a transition from problem solving to the stance of coaching. (5:33 Minutes)

In this Scrum Tapas video, Professional Scrum Trainer Ravi Verma discusses some important attributes that an effective Product Owner should have to be successful and choices that can be made to help. (9:58 Minutes)

An introduction of the Brazilian - Portuguese edition of the paper "The 8 Stances of a Scrum Master". The translation and new visualizations are created by Fabio Fioratti Azevedo and Danilo Almeida.

Choosing how you will walk through your day, having fun with your colleagues and clients, actively listen and participating in collaborations, and ensuring others also have a great day.

Siempre me han intrigado las diferentes formas en que los equipos Scrum realizan sus revisiones de Sprint. Siempre intento mostrar el flujo de una Sprint Review.

Hoy voy a estar examinando una pregunta que es simple. Esta pregunta es compleja en la respuesta. La pregunta es la siguiente: ¿Deben los Scrum Master ganar tanto o más dinero que los desarrolladores de software?

Let's look at the bigger picture, leaving out the details. What we all mostly want is better health, better fitness and better movement quality.

During a People Side of Software meetup in Chicago, Robert Pieper, Principal Advisor of Responsive Advisors shared the basics of Scrum.

During the 19th Hands-on Agile meetup, 30-plus people addressed the path to becoming a successful Scrum Master or agile coach, following up on the “Scrum Master Career 2020 — Using Ecocycle Planning to Identify Opportunities” meetup we had in December 2019.

This is a post explaining how to do throughput-driven sprint planning using throughput and Service Level Expectation (SLE).

In this post I‘d like to share an exercise for Scrum Masters to help their Scrum Teams and stakeholders build a deeper understanding of the importance of the Scrum Values and how directly the Scrum Values impact work and value.

Como se describe en la Guía de Scrum, el trabajo a realizar en el Sprint se planifica en la Planificación del Sprint. En este artículo contestamos qué es la Sprint Planning.

"He puts everything in place to get the ball up to the final third of the pitch and then trusts his team to finish the job in the only area of the field that can’t be planned for."

For those of you who are big fans of Marvel Cinematic Universe comics or who have watched the latest Avengers: End Game movie might know that Thanos (supervillain) wanted to possess all 6 infinity stones so that he would be unstoppable and could gain control over the entire universe.

Hello awesome people. How was your week? In today's vlog I would like to talk about one of the most important aspects of Scrum, that is the Definition of "Done".

¿Scrum diario?¿Daily Scrum? Es una pérdida de tiempo e interrumpe mi trabajo.

Have you ever wondered if there is a better way to fund and monitor agile delivery? Traditional methods of annual budgeting often miss the mark. Wonder no more.

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.

Let's explore how the "soft" Scrum Values directly translate into "hard" business value. Cha-Ching!

A digital transformation presents a number of challenges. At the core of these challenges lies the organization's ability to create more responsibility at the individual and team level without losing their sense of control and governance. Addressing issues such as team maturity, psychological safety, and scaling have critical impact on success. Developing skills in these leadership areas is essential to encourage and support more flexible ways of working at all levels in an organization and form the foundation for scaling changes across many individuals and teams. Agile practices become more embedded in organizations of all sizes in every domain. This Webinar is an interactive conversation between experts in the field of Agile Leadership.

En este artículo explicamos que es el refinamiento product backlog o de la cartera de productos es el acto de agregar detalles y potencialmente estimaciones a los elementos de la cartera de productos. 

Bringing transparency by inspecting the Product Backlog and adaptation (building) the Sprint Goal, a forecast, and the Sprint Backlog.

How the Scrum.org Professional Scrum Master II exercise “Management in Scrum” can be used during a job interview with Scrum Masters.

In this Scrum Tapas video, Professional Scrum Trainer Daria Bagina discusses why transparency is so important in Scrum and how to foster transparency across the Scrum Team and beyond. (5:25 Minutes)

This blog post takes a look at what a systemic perspective means, and helps to understand how to improve your own approach to coaching in agile environments.

This post reflects on a workshop, in which we will observe four systemic thinking perspectives.

In this blog, we’ll dive deeper into the topic: “Scrum Master vs Project Manager”. If you’re having a similar question about the Product Owner vs the Project Manager.

In your Scrum Master mission, a manager has asked you to support the implementation of an Agile framework in a team that, according to him, really needs it!

Welcome to the Agile Movers & Shakers interview series. Today’s guest is Dave West.

In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Dave West, CEO of Scrum.org about agile beyond software, the need for organisational alignment and how product ownership is a major inhibitor for many organisations when it is not done well. (24:38 minutes)

In this first podcast episode led by the Scrum.org community, Professional Scrum Trainer (PST) Jasper Alblas leads a group that includes other PSTs Johannes Geske and Sjoerd Kranendonk along with Scrum.org team member Kelly Moosman as they discuss the value that is received by PSTs in being a part of the community and how they leverage the community to better help their customers and organizations. (27:20 Minutes)

Many Product Owners, especially in large organizations, are facing challenges to take full ownership of the product. Their decisions are oftentimes overridden and not respected. In this webinar, Professional Scrum Trainer Joshua Partogi shares techniques and practices he has learned as a Scrum Master and how he uses them to work with Product Owners to align the product vision with the corporate strategy and the objectives for the Scrum Team using the Product Strategy Canvas, a tool that can help create alignment between the Senior Management, the Product Owner, the business and the Development Team.

Why output-oriented metrics are mostly a waste of time in software- and product development.

The terms "iterative" and "incremental" are used so frequently and naturally in the context of agile that their meaning is no longer challenged.

People often think that persistence or not giving up will bring them to success. However, looking back to your past, how many times you tried, but did not get a good result?

Technical debt seems like a topic that resides completely in the domain of a Development Team. They are responsible for delivering a potentially releasable Increment after all. But might there be more to it for a Product Owner?

Dwight D. Eisenhower, the World War II leader and U.S. President, wrote: “[...] plans are of no particular value, but [...] planning is indispensable”.

In my daily life as a Scrum Master, I witness many crazy situations. I want to share my discoveries via this comic series featuring Koos Coach, the silly Scrum Master struggling to understand and master Scrum.

This article is about how we improved on the Spotify inspired model in one tribe inside a Large Dutch Bank.

Hello awesome people. I hope you had a great week.

In this post I want to explore whether the Increment, a core concept to Scrum, needs to be changed for Scrum in a non-IT context. In future posts, I will do the same for the Definition of Done, or other concepts that may provide a better understanding of Scrum when applied to non-IT context.

A topic at the World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos this year was the question "How do we upskill a billion people by 2030?"

In this episode of Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer, PST Punit Doshi will be available to answer any Scrum related questions you may have live on this webinar. He is also happy to answer your questions regarding engineering practices and working with distributed Scrum Teams. Please bring your most pressing questions for this opportunity!