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Let’s explore four ways Scrum Teams can manage production support in Scrum effectively.
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To keep work moving smoothly, the Developers get together for 15 minutes every day to focus on the Sprint Goal and to plan the upcoming day’s work. During the Daily Scrum, they identify any issues they need help in resolving, ask for help when they need it and adjust the Sprint Backlog, if necessary.
Podcast
In this recorded session of Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer, Reshma (Simran) Nagrani answers questions about the Scrum Master Accountability, estimations, metrics, facilitation techniques and more! (58:45 Minutes)
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What is SAFe’s perspective on the Product Owner role? How does it differ from the Scrum Guide? Why is Product Ownership split to Product Owner and Product Manager in SAFe? SAFe’s approach to Product Ownership draws quite a bit of criticism. As a Professional Scrum Trainer who’s also a SAFe Fellow...
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Solving your customers’ problems in a complex environment requires communication skills, empathy, patience, diplomacy, and professionalism. So let’s have a look at some typical agile negotiation scenarios.
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Each of the Scrum Artifacts is inspected in one or more Scrum Events to detect undesired variances. So is the Product Backlog. Go check it out!
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Podcast
Learn the importance of Psychological Safety on Scrum Teams. (19:06 Minutes)
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A good Scrum Master is like a Swiss army knife, able to adapt to any situation and provide the team with the tools it needs to succeed. 
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The phrase 'accountable but blameless' is my new favorite phrase because it captures so much about positive team culture in Scrum.
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Scrum is the most popular Agile framework. According to Digita.ai’s 16th annual report, 87% of organizations using an Agile framework use Scrum. That’s up from 58% of Agile teams using Scrum, as documented in the 14th annual State of Agile report. 
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Learn more about how an acceptable project management tool turns into a bureaucratic nightmare, what the reasons for this might be, and what we can do about it.
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Was macht eigentlich ein Scrum Master in der ersten Woche in einem neuen Team? Es wird viel über Scrum geschrieben. Allerdings findet sich über dieses spezielle Thema nichts. Wenn du weiterliest, erhältst du einen Einblick in meine erste Woche als Scrum Master in einem neuen Team.
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Agile was born in software development and has been widely adopted in IT and Product organizations to the point that there's little argument that product/technology organizations should operate using agility principles. More recently, other functions, such as Marketing, have adopted these agility pr...
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ハイテクスタートアップ企業であるか、規制の厳しい業界の大手企業であるかによって、スクラムやアジャイル開発に対する反応は大きく異なる
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スクラムマスターは「ジュニアアジャイルコーチ」であるという誤解は解く必要があります。スクラムマスターは多くの人が思っている以上に幅の広くて、面白くて、難しい仕事です。
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Each Scrum Event serves Inspection, the second pillar of Empiricism. So does the Sprint Review. How? Find out ...
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​​​​​​​Agile coaches have long recognized that busyness does not necessarily equal success. Checking off a to-do list does not mean you are adding value.  You might accomplish many organizational tasks, but the activity likely has little benefit if these tasks don’t contribute to the company’s goals...
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Professional Scrum Trainer, Matt Dominici's "grumpiest take" on Scrum: focusing on the negative effects of clapping during Sprint Reviews.
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A simple format for the Sprint Retrospective to create a shared understanding with one of the foundational Liberating Structures
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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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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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Why create a team working agreement? A team working agreement provides an agreed upon set of guidelines for a Scrum Team to follow, so everyone understands what is expected as they work together in pursuit of delivering value. A team can use a working agreement to help them work toward self-manag...
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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 transformat...
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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...
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What is throughput, the role of Product Backlog items in ascertaining throughput and how do we measure throughput.
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Learn how to use ChatGPT to create workshops for agile practitioners such as Scrum Masters
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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 h...
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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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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, po...
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Podcast
In this episode, PST Jay Rahman shares his experiences that led him to where he is today. He discusses Scrum in finance, leadership, agile mindset and more! (27:27 Minutes)
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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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ChatGPT is remarkably capable when fed decent prompts. So consider investing your time accordingly.
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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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During our last webinar, Joanna Plaskonka and I received a lot of questions regarding metrics and the Scrum Team. In this post I will try to address a few of them.
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When Scrum Teams experience a work quality issue, they sometimes shift the responsibility for quality control to the Product Owner as a solution. Not only is this impractical, but it's also anti-Scrum. Here's why.
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Steve is great, but in terms of Agile leadership, he doesn’t touch sides – in my opinion – to Satya Nadella. You can see the difficulty he created within Apple because all innovation, product development, and so forth stemmed from him rather than a culture of innovation permeating the organization.
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In this blog, you'll learn about the Fourth and most problematic thing you do to prevent value delivery in your organization.
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I ran three comparisons, using the identical prompt to trigger answers from the new GPT-4 and previous GPT-3.5 models. Read on and learn what happened. It was not a foregone conclusion.
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Podcast
In this session of Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer, Joanna Plaskonka and Magdalena Kucharska answered questions focused on the Scrum Master, estimation, user stories, metrics, Scrum events and more! (59:15 Minutes)
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Successful Scrum Masters continuously find ways to improve their practice to have greater influence and impact on their teams and organizations. Scrum’s foundational concept, empiricism, which advances learning through experience and observation, can support this kind of growth. In this blog post, w...
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In this article, we will analyze the famous “Tribes and Squads” model (also known as a “Spotify model”) in terms of where it fits on the archetype map.
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A dogmatic approach to Scrum tends to close down discussion and inhibit collaboration. If it’s in the Scrum framework described in the Scrum Guide, it’s there for a reason. But if it is not outlined in the framework, Scrum teams can innovate how to apply Scrum in their unique environment.
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Could the first principles of “Agile” have been defined by “Zeno of Citium in Athens in the early 3rd century BCE?”
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3 Practices to Break out of Cruise Control and Drive Change
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Podcast
There is a lot of information out there about how to prepare for a Scrum Master interview. But, how do you land that interview? What are the qualities, mindset and personality traits needed to be a Scrum Master? Learn more in this episode of the Scrum.org Community podcast. (34:36 Minutes)
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Lassen Sie uns darüber nachdenken, warum die Beantwortung dieser veralteten Daily Scrum Fragen einen negativen Einfluss auf das Scrum-Team hat — Making Your Scrum Work (29).
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Gregory Fontaine is a Professional Scrum Trainer living in Japan. He discusses the current state of Scrum and Agile Development in Japan and shares his thoughts on what we could do next.
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Module
The Daily Scrum is a 15-minute event for the Developers of the Scrum Team. To reduce complexity, it is held at the same time and place every working day of the Sprint. If the Product Owner or Scrum Master are actively working on items in the Sprint Backlog, they participate as Developers.
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Sprint Planning initiates the Sprint by laying out the work to be performed for the Sprint. This resulting plan is created by the collaborative work of the entire Scrum Team.
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As a member of the Scrum Team, the Product Owner provides clarity to the team about a product’s vision and goal. All work is derived and prioritized based on the Product Goal in order to deliver value to all stakeholders including those within their organization and all users both inside and out.
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