Most organizations are attempting to build the future of AI on the crumbling foundation of a rigid, outdated, project-based funding system. This approach is fundamentally mismatched with the iterative, experimental nature of AI development. To truly unlock business value, a shift is required—from fu...

Building on last week’s episode on AI and Operating Systems in SMBs, Dave West and PST Yuval Yeret dive into the challenges of scaling small and medium-sized businesses. (43:25 Minutes)

Tiny organizations crushing giants — without process, without friction.

When we were developing the Professional Scrum with Kanban guide and class, Daniel Vacanti kept insisting I inspired the Work Item Aging flow metric we introduced. I was complimented, but didn’t recall the exact reference. Well, it turns out I did write and talk about this way earlier than the PSK.

Scrum isn’t about compliance—it’s about engagement. By giving teams purpose, mastery, and autonomy, Scrum taps into intrinsic motivation. When people are engaged, they care, contribute, and grow. Are your teams engaged—or just going through the motions?

In this insightful conversation, Dave West and Yuval Yeret discuss the emerging need for a new organizational “operating system” that integrates AI into strategy, structure, and execution. (47:45 Minutes)

What is one thing that is always true for a Product Owner? Yes, you guessed it right. Product Owner is an accountability within the Scrum Framework.

Organizations adopting AI often fixate on tools and models while overlooking the behavior change required to realize value. The AI Enablement Coach complements Scrum—not as a new team role, but as an enabling partner who helps teams integrate AI into real workflows, measure outcomes, and iterate. Th...

With the advent of AI, a new paradigm in product development is emerging where people can build and launch their product on their own. Let's see what the solution is.

In this special episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, Dave West sits down with Ken Schwaber, co-creator of Scrum, to celebrate 30 years since the initial introduction of Scrum at OOPSLA 1995, based on the paper, The Scrum Development Process.(29:59 Minutes)

From wasted features to late launches, risk is everywhere. Scrum doesn’t hide it—it makes it visible and helps teams reduce it, Sprint by Sprint. Is your team truly controlling risk—or just hoping for the best?

Managing multiple products can feel overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be. In this post, PST Jason Malmstadt gives you tips on defining your products clearly, finding focus, and navigating complexity through better product management.

In this blog post PST Joshua Partogi shares how to map Agile Leaders maturity to the metrics they emphasise.

Scrum isn’t about busywork—it’s about making outcomes more predictable. But many teams confuse predictability with fake certainty. In this post, we explore how Scrum really optimizes predictability, where teams go wrong, and what you can inspect today.

In this episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, host Dave West is joined by Dr. Alan Brown—professor, executive advisor, and expert in AI and digital technologies—to explore how Agile teams can adapt and thrive in a rapidly evolving AI landscape. (44:58 minutes)

A simple 3-block framework to realign teams around: 1. Why We Exist 2. What We Do 3. How We Work

Artificial intelligence promises to supercharge software development, but it introduces a critical paradox: the ability to build the wrong thing with perfect efficiency is now greater than ever. This article delves into why human-centric frameworks like Scrum are not becoming obsolete, but are inste...

The Agile world is splitting into two camps: Those convinced AI will automate practitioners out of existence, and those dismissing it as another crypto-level fad. Both are wrong.

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...

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?

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.

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...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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...

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.

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...

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)

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...

The first line of the Agile Manifesto—“We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it”—captures the humility and curiosity of its authors, yet it is often overlooked. Agile was born as a mindset of exploration, not a recipe of fixed practices. Today, many o...

The belief that working in parallel through silos is efficient is a myth. It doesn’t speed things up; it throws up walls between teams and creates a tangle of dependencies, misaligned priorities, and extra overhead.

Why Knowledgeable Agile Practitioners Are Perfectly Positioned for the AI Era and the Era of ‘Good Enough’ Agile Is Over.

From initial conception through post-launch phases, product managers are responsible for customer research, feature development, and overall product strategy. Think of them as the ultimate jack-of-all-trades in the business world who oversee the entire lifecycle of a product. 

One practice from Kanban that I think is often overlooked is related to the flow of work. Work on the Scrum board should flow from left to right - but it shouldn't flow backwards.