In this episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, Dave West and Dimitrios Dimitrelos, Business Agility Lead, Accenture Greece, PST, explore the powerful role incentives play in Agile transformations and the Agile Product Operating Model (APOM). (41:34 Minutes)

Many companies water down the Scrum Master by splitting the accountability across teams, making it a side hustle, or rotating it each Sprint. It feels efficient but strips away the very impact that makes Scrum work. The Scrum Master isn’t about booking meetings, being a Jira jockey, or tracking velo...

This article introduces four perspectives for structuring product groups and teams: frequency, criticality/uncertainty, operational dependencies, and cost of delay. Together, they help define the right scope of product groups and balance autonomy with efficiency.

Warum Produktspezialisten in die strategische Irrelevanz schlafwandeln, wenn grundlegende KI-Risiken ignoriert werden.

Show me your Review sessions and I'll easily tell you whether you're a process theater, feature factory, or product lab. How do you switch from a feature factory to a product lab? From an organization managing projects and plans to one focused on traction towards outcomes and business impact?

Hogan Assessments, a global leader in personality science integrated the Scrum.org Professional Scrum approach and Design Thinking to create an unparalleled leadership development experience. This resulted in 50% faster to market, 60% in Sprint Goals met and 20% increase in team morale.

Redeveloping a software system that manages vast sets of data to provide the advantages of cloud-based automation is a big challenge, especially when the customers include some of the world’s largest energy companies. To efficiently manage this process, the System Development team at rhi relied on a...

In this fast-paced world, we need Scrum more than ever. From the transparency created by artifacts to incremental delivery that keeps us on track, Scrum gives organizations a way to adapt and thrive. AI is a powerful tool, but instead of replacing Scrum, it makes the framework even more essential. H...

Viele Meetings versanden in Konsensfloskeln statt in konkreten Vereinbarungen. Als Scrum Master kannst du das ändern: indem du vage Aussagen konsequent hinterfragst, kleine Schritte statt großer Lösungen priorisierst und mit einfachen Werkzeugen zu viel klareren Entscheidungen führst: Klartext statt...

In diesem Artikel teilt PST Simon Flossmann 3 Einsichten, wie er seine Liberating-Structures-Workshops in Zukunft verbessern wird.

AI is tremendously helpful in the hands of a skilled operator. It can accelerate research, generate insights, and support better decision-making. But here’s what the AI evangelists won’t tell you: it can be equally damaging when fundamental AI risks are ignored.

このブログでは、スクラムがプロダクトレッドグロース、マーケティングレッドグロース、セールスレッドグロースといった異なる成長戦略にどう適応するかを解説します。スクラムの基盤である「利用可能なインクリメントの提供」と「成果の検査と適応」は変わりませんが、価値の証拠、関わるステークホルダー、フィードバックループは成長モデルによって異なります。組織の戦略にスクラム実践をどう整合させ、効果と価値を最大化するかを学べます。

Many leaders I meet tell me the same story: “We’ve tried Agile. More than once. It never worked the way we were promised.” These conversations often lead to the bigger question of why Agile fails at scale—why the same methods that work well for small teams often break down when applied across an ent...

One without the other? You’re either dreaming or gambling. Here’s how combining iterative and incremental turns Scrum into a value-delivery engine.

In this episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, Patricia Kong hosts a discussion with Elaine Lin Hering, author of  USA Today Best Selling Book "Unlearning Silence," and Ravi Verma, a Professional Scrum Trainer. They examine how workplace culture and cultural norms influence who speaks up and wh...

Organisationen scheinen bei ihrer KI-Transformation an denselben Mustern zu scheitern, an denen auch ihre agilen Transformationen gescheitert sind.

Is your Scrum team just going through the motions of Scrum without using it to focus on continuous improvement? Then coach the "fluffy" Scrum values to help turn them into a team focused on value.

Sometimes Scrum gets a bad rap. When I ask why an organization struggled with Scrum, I almost always hear something like “there was too much overhead.” But when I dig deeper, I usually find that the organization had imposed extra rules—rules that have nothing to do with Scrum. In other words, when S...

Companies are utilizing AI tools to develop products, but many teams waste money and achieve poor results from random experimentation. This paper presents the AI Teammate Framework, which treats AI as a new team member through four steps.

Wanting to collaborate better, gain control over an overloaded annual plan, increase job satisfaction and, in turn, reduce staff turnover: these are challenges almost every organization in every sector faces. However, the cultural industry differs significantly from the business world. It has its ow...

AI Agents can take over repetitive tasks to free up our time for strategic work. However, we should learn what it is, how it works, and how we can build them. This blog shows you the starting step.

Many Scrum Teams fall into the trap of assuming there will always be another Sprint. This mindset leads to delay, complacency, and missed opportunities. Treating each Sprint like it could be your last helps teams focus on outcomes, improve continuously, and deliver real value, while they still can.

In diesem Webcast zeigt dir PST Simon Flossmann, welche typischen Fehler sich in vielen Schulungen einschleichen, warum gängige Lernmythen deinen Trainings schaden und wie du mit wenigen gezielten Anpassungen deine Trainings sofort verbessern kannst.

In Scrum, one of the most common misunderstandings is the difference between the Definition of Done and Acceptance Criteria. In this blog, PST Robert Pieper explains the key differences and how your team can avoid confusion.

The secret to a high-performing team lies not just in its processes, but in the ability to understand each individual. During a recent Professional Scrum Master training, we were introduced to a powerful concept from Process Communication®: the Energizer/Rebel personality type. This profile is a ...

This blog explores how Scrum adapts across different growth strategies — Product-Led, Marketing-Led, and Sales-Led. While Scrum’s foundation of delivering usable increments and inspecting outcomes remains the same, the evidence of value, stakeholders, and feedback loops shift depending on the growth...

There’s no shortage of training and frameworks on decision-making, prioritization, or time management. But what if the real issue lies elsewhere? What if the challenge is not a lack of knowledge, but a cognitively overloaded leader? This article, based on a workshop I delivered to the Agile communit...

Even in 2025, the difference between the Product Owner and Product Manager is misunderstood. Is it a career path? Is the PM a step up from the PO? Are they the same? This article puts this discussion to bed in an easy and straightforward way.

In diesem Artikel beschreibt PST Simon Flossmann, wie sich Liefertermin einhalten lassen.

Why Today’s Failures Look Uncannily Like Yesterday’s “Agile Transformations,” Or: Why This Time Won’t Be Different Either.

Across industries, teams are experimenting with Copilot, GPT, and automation. The result? Local productivity gains. But the big initiatives that matter for customers and strategy still stall. Why? The existing org design is not AI-ready and limits performance.

This AI-generated video shows you how far you can go with AI to step into a new level of productivity. So, learn and leverage it.

Scrum’s lean thinking isn’t about doing *everything* faster—it’s about focusing only on what truly matters. Learn how to cut through backlog bloat, process clutter, and competing priorities so your team’s energy fuels real outcomes, not busywork.

Scrum is all about creating a Done increment that generates value for its users. However, you might come across teams that do almost everything in the name of Scrum except creating a Done Increment. Spillovers almost every Sprint. Sprint Goals not achieved, at times they are not even defined.

One of the key aspects of Scrum is that each Sprint should result in a Done, usable increment of product. But what happens if your team struggles to achieve this? Here are ten practical ideas that your team may consider adopting to help improve your ability to get to Done.

In this recorded episode of a live Ask a PST session held on September 16, 2025, PST Ryan Brook answered a wide variety of challenging questions from Agile practitioners! (59:01 Minutes)

This whitepaper explores how organizations can thrive in today’s volatile business environment by integrating procurement into the Agile Product Operating Model (APOM).

AI is reshaping product management, and Product Owners can no longer ignore it. Building on the six preferred stances, the Orchestrator emerges as a seventh stance: treating AI as a digital colleague that automates repetitive tasks, reduces cognitive load, and frees time for strategy, vision, and cu...

Discover the two critical decision types—One-Way and Two-Way Doors—that can transform how you tackle decision paralysis in agile teams. Packed with practical tips, coaching questions, and insights into empirical product development, this article from Pawel Rola empowers Product Owners and other Scru...

In diesem Artikel erklärt PST Simon Flossmann, wie er 3 typische Probleme in hybriden Meetings löst

Digital.ai releases an annual 'State of Agile' report which I am eagerly anticipating. While I wait for the 18th report to be released, I want to take a moment to look at how we have talked about Agile has changed over time.

Many confuse operating models with organization design. Operating models, as defined by Jeanne W. Ross focus on daily operations, resources, governance, planning, performance but are too narrow to shape the whole org-design. Organization design, shown in the Star Model by Jay Galbraith, aligns strat...

Waste hides in “the way we’ve always done it.” In Scrum, Lean thinking is about spotting waste—whether it’s defects, overproduction, bloated backlogs, or wasted talent—and making it smaller, less important, or gone. Here’s how to see it, reduce it, and free your team’s focus.

Mixing SAFe and LeSS inside one product does not work. LeSS is not just a framework but a full organizational design that demands deep structural change. This article explains why SAFe and LeSS conflict and when it is possible to pilot both in the same company.

A modern, agile approach to transforming legacy software, which is often too risky for a complete rewrite is possible. The strategy combines three key elements: the Strangler Fig Pattern, an incremental method of building new services around an old system; AI-powered code generation tools like Blitz...

Pricing is a hypothesis about value, willingness-to-pay, and customer behavior. In this blog, we explore TAP’s pricing formula and show how Scrum Teams can run lightweight experiments, fake doors, A/B tests, and packaging trials, to validate pricing early. Treating pricing like backlog items ensures...

Warum agile Praktiker perfekt für das KI-Zeitalter aufgestellt sind.

In this episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, Dave West is joined by Ruud Adriaans, Product Owner and Linus Wiggers, Head of AI from Productowner.nl to explore AI’s growing influence on Product Ownership. (39:59 Minutes)

In this webinar, PST Nils Oud will review the critical AI-era competencies Product Owners must develop to lead this transformation. He’ll show where AI can elevate your ability to set vision, discover value, and lead confidently—while avoiding pitfalls like bias, over‑reliance, and lack of oversight...

This blog post introduces a survey about the Agile Product Operating Model (APOM). Dave West explains that Scrum.org is investing in APOM due to challenges organizations face with Product Ownership and the limitations of project-based approaches for managing digital assets. Many organizations, despi...