In this Scrum Pulse webinar, PST Russell Miller will show you how to establish—and maintain—clear, actionable product vision, whether you're at the beginning of your journey or mid-stream. Learn lightweight, practical approaches to creating and explaining the vision. We want to involve others, creat...

AI is rapidly transforming the role of Product Owners. Those who fail to adapt to this new productivity engine risk becoming obsolete. The PSPO-AI Essentials course helps you mitigate this risk.

What is a real product and how to organize a product group? Using Yandex Taxi as an example, we analyze the concept of value areas and the importance of end-to-end prioritization.

Scrum provides the framework—you bring the methods. This post explores what it means that "various processes, techniques, and methods can be employed within the framework," and how to choose the ones that truly serve your team's purpose.

This blog discusses the role of a Product Owner and how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can serve as a valuable "teammate" to help scale Product Ownership. It addresses the common criticism of the Product Owner's broad scope and explains how AI can assist with tasks, allowing Product Owners and their t...

In today’s volatile business environment, Agile leaders must embrace a growth mindset to lead effectively. This article explores the neuroscience behind mindset theory, offers practical insights from business case studies (e.g., GE, Xerox), and shows how Agile leadership aligned with continuous lear...

In this ScrumPulse Webinar, PST Ben Day explores how to use GitHub Projects to implement Scrum in your software development process.

Argues that the Scrum Master role requires proven mastery and real-world experience, not entry-level skills or certifications, and should be earned within the team, not assigned.

Is your company in the middle of Agile transformation? PST Robert Pieper assembled a free eBook to show you the process, the challenges, and how to be successful.

There’s a reason we often say, “Trust but verify.” It's because trust is important — but to build and maintain trust we need transparency. In Scrum, the Sprint Review gives us a way to practice that idea consistently.

Personas help us understand who we’re building for, but access to real users isn’t always easy. The Airport Persona Interviewer GPT lets you simulate live interviews with realistic personas based on your input, like age, role, goals, and pain points. Instead of filling out static templates, you have...

In this "Value Delivered" episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, host Dave West and PST Jay Rahman, Founder of Fractal Systems discuss how agile principles helped a large investment bank turn a struggling multi-million dollar project into a success. (43:07 Minutes)

This blog discusses managing a product portfolio within the Agile Product Operating Model(APOM). It emphasizes shifting from funding work to funding products/teams, empowering them with ownership and decision-making. It also covers minimizing cross-product initiatives to maintain focus, enabling pro...

Value in software is only realised through delivery. Frequent releases validate assumptions, reduce risk, and enable rapid feedback, adaptation, and continuous improvement.

When a new Scrum Team first starts working together, they go through some common growing pains. Knowing what to expect for a new Scrum Team can help make things go a little smoother.

Scrum Master vs Project Manager. They are two very different roles/accountabilities. How do we reconcile or differentiate the two? Find out in this blog with PST Robert Pieper.

Organizations define Product Manager and Product Owner roles differently. Company size, industry, and structure all play a role. Scrum makes the Product Owner accountable for maximizing value, but many companies add a Product Manager alongside—or instead of—a Product Owner. This creates variations i...

Two topics that keep crossing my path these days are trust and resilience. Trust as the foundation for collaboration, and resilience as the ability to deal with challenges, stress, and setbacks—and to emerge stronger. In this blog post, I want to share some first-aid interventions that can help b...

Scrum Teams must deliver working software to real users every Sprint; true progress is measured by delivery to production, not just by completing internal work.

The purpose of the Scrum Master is to improve the adoption of Scrum. So, it makes sense that the Scrum Master should ask the question What does a high-performing Scrum Team look like

Scrum Bingo is a fun way to reflect and sometimes laugh at our routines. But it also reminds us to be intentional with our words, honest with our blockers, and respectful of the team's time.

Use Scrum only when transformative disruption is required. Or use ‘parts’ of Scrum if those parts prove to be better than previous ways-of-working.

Most large organizations already have product teams, platform services, and customer-facing solutions, but they often work in isolation, creating delays, duplicated work, and poor customer outcomes. The real problem isn’t in the technology but how the organization is structured. This article brea...

Uncover hidden team dynamics, emotional burnout signals, and contradiction patterns that manual analysis misses—in real-time.

This whitepaper offers a practical guide for product professionals to identify and address ethical blind spots that can lead to harm—whether through data misuse, manipulative design, or misrepresentation.

In this Ask a PST episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, guest host Lindsay Velecina is joined by Professional Scrum Trainer Dominik Maximini to answer listener questions about forecasting and release planning.

This blog explores how product definitions evolve in large companies, the debate around "sub-products," and the importance of empowering teams with a clear problem and the ability to release value. It suggests that "product-ness" might be a scale rather than binary, and that the key question is whet...

How often do you have to escalate? In this short video, I identify three common causes behind this frustrating dynamic and walk you through how to shift the pattern, starting with what’s in your control.

A product without a vision is like a ship without a compass—it might move, but it won’t reach the right destination. Through a sample, see how we can leverage AI to create an inspiring Product Vision video.

Velocity is one of the most misunderstood ideas in Agile teams. This post explains what it really is. A result, not a target. Something to notice, not something to hit. We break down how velocity often gets misused, share a travel analogy that makes it real, and show how teams can use it to have bet...

“Good Enough Agile” is ending as AI automates mere ceremonial tasks and Product Operating Models demand outcome-focused teams. Agile professionals must evolve from process facilitators to strategic product thinkers or risk obsolescence.

In this blog, Ryan Brook examines why many Product Owners fail to fulfil their accountability, acting as requirement managers rather than value maximisers. He explores the impact of missing product strategy, emphasising that true Product Ownership requires strategic clarity and a focus on outcomes i...

Most teams plan a Sprint with one question in mind: "What can we deliver this Sprint?" But here's a different take. What if, within every Sprint, we planned across all three horizons of innovation?

Scrum isn’t a finished product—it’s a starting point. What completes it? The collective intelligence of your team. This post explores what that really means, what gets in the way, and how you can unlock it in your day-to-day Scrum practice.

In this episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, host Dave West and Brendan Mcsheffrey, Managing Partner at Kendall AI explore the Kendall Framework—a method for training AI using principles from lean, agile, and design thinking. (33:42 Minutes)

Sprint capacity planning is one of the most often used complementary practices by Scrum Teams. This article from PST Dr. Pawel Rola provides all the basic information and practical examples to help you plan your next Sprint capacity.

In der Welt des agilen Arbeitens haben wir unsere eigene Sprache entwickelt. Wir sprechen von Sprints, Backlogs, Impediments und Velocity. Für viele neue Scrum Masteinnen und Product Owner*innen ist dies schnell zur Selbstverständlichkeit geworden – doch genau hier liegt eine der größten Herausforde...

In today's world when training budgets are shrinking then as a leader how are you motivating your team members. Money is not the only thing to build a culture of growth and learning. As a leader your small actions can make big impacts

In Scrum, “Done” means done. Not halfway done, not “almost there,” and certainly not “we’ll get to it next Sprint.” Yet, many teams find themselves with a growing burden of unfinished work. Over time, that burden starts to feel like a monkey on the team’s back—heavy, distracting, and hard to shake o...

In this blog, Ryan Brook asks, "Is your Product Owner actually owning anything?" He explores what real Product Ownership looks like; setting clear goals, making value-based decisions, owning the customer journey, and building strong user relationships. If they're just forwarding emails or waiting on...

Despite 25 years of the Agile Manifesto, countless books, conferences, and armies of consultants, we’re still collectively struggling to make Agile work.

In this blog, author Ryan Brook shares a practical approach to launching new products by treating go-to-market as a learning process. He explains how using real customer insights, short Sprints, and Strategyzer’s Test and Learning Cards helps teams validate assumptions, reduce waste, and make smarte...

In this episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, Dave West speaks with Andre Bohn of ambarics and Professional Scrum Trainer Alex Hardt about how combining Professional Scrum and Kanban helped ambarics streamline ERP software support.

Case Study on the Power of Flow Metrics: How a struggling team slashed their Cycle Time by 89% and rocketed their Release Frequency by 1.200%.

Over the last year, we have continued to refine our understanding of the Agile Product Operating Model(APOM). In this blog, we discuss the key elements of APOM. The seven characteristics are Unique, Holistic, Evidence-based, Empowered Teams, Empirical, Complete, and Change Management built in.

Are your workdays truly productive? What if I told you that despite the long hours, only 2.8 hours of your 8-hour workday are spent on meaningful tasks? This article dives into the Productivity Paradox, uncovering the root causes of distractions, ineffective communication, and poor leadership pra...

Agile teams face ethical challenges. However, there is a lightweight framework that integrates with existing practices, protecting sensitive data and human expertise while enabling teams to confidently realize AI benefits without creating separate bureaucratic processes.

In this blog, Ryan Brook examines the structural challenges of portfolio planning within the UK Government, including political churn, annual budget cycles, and restricted funding. He argues that agility, through adaptive governance, empowered boards, and value-led delivery, is not just beneficial b...

Scrum’s power lies in its simplicity. It defines only the essentials—leaving space for teams to adapt, experiment, and grow. This post explores why the Scrum framework is purposefully incomplete and how that gives teams the freedom to find what really works in their context.

In this episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, Patricia Kong talks with Professional Scrum Trainer Joanna Plaskonka about why psychological safety is critical for effective Scrum Teams. (22:16 Minutes)