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La Sprint Review est l'événement au cours duquel l'Équipe Scrum et les parties prenantes (invitées par le Product Owner) se retrouvent pour inspecter l'Incrément et adapter le Product Backlog.

With the Covid 19 pandemic, I really struggled big time to create the boundary between my work life and personal life. Day by day, that boundary was getting thin. There were lofty overlaps and I sucked at creating the balance.

During my interactions with my students/ colleagues who play the role of Scrum Master, they tell me that they see gaps in how things are implemented compared to the rules of the Scrum Guide.

TL; DR: 70 Scrum Master Theses The following 70 Scrum Master theses describe the role of from a holistic product creation perspective.

As per Scrum Guide – The Sprint Goal is an objective that will be met within the sprint by implementing the Product Backlog, and it guides the Development Team on why it is building the Increment.

20 ideas for using the new Scrum Mythbusters card deck in your organization

Product Owner is Accountable for Maximizing Value of The Product.

In meinen Professional Scrum Master Trainings beantwortet ein Großteil der Teilnehmer diese Frage mit: “Hoffentlich so früh wie möglich, denn als Scrum Master ist es unsere Aufgabe uns selbst überflüssig zu machen.” Haben Sie damit Recht? 

If you currently are in search of the answer to this question, enjoy this video.

The 2017 version of the Scrum Guide states, "The Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of the product resulting from work of the Development Team." But what does value mean anyway?

Agility is a buzz word that can be interpreted to mean different things to different people. In this session, Professional Scrum Trainer Ravi Verma and his colleague Steve Tallent will explore several questions together,

Le Daily Scrum est un évènement quotidien destiné à l'Équipe de Développement et qui a pour but de planifier le travail des prochaines 24 heures. C'est un time-box de 15 minutes.

Help your remote team discover what happens without clear Sprint Goals. And bring back focus together!

The role of the Scrum Master is a complex one. You are serving, coaching, facilitating and teaching the team all while helping to remove impediments and changing the organization.  In today's landscape it has become even more complex having to deal with people working remotely, added distractions and an overall unstable situation.  In this webinar, Professional Scrum Trainer Lachlan Heasman and Eric Naiburg take attendees through some of the practices from the Scrum.org Professional Scrum Master II class that Scrum Masters can use to better serve their Scrum Team(s) focusing on the different stances that a Scrum Master may take on.

The days are getting shorter and colder. Summer is over and winter is coming. Some people are already thinking about the holidays and the preparations for it. Soon children will have their Christmas wish list ready. The wish lists my children created were always a combination of text and pictures; every item on the list contained a name, a picture, information where to buy it and how much it costs. They did everything to increase the chance of getting these presents and especially getting the right presents.

Esta semana twitter iba lleno de comentarios sobre la última actualización de JIRA, el dictador de nuestra manera de trabajar, la herramienta más famosa del mundo de Ticket Management.

Professional Scrum Trainer Sahin Guvenilir wrote, "Make Sure You Don’t Build High Performing Teams Just to Deliver Wrong Things Faster".

The end of 2020 is nearing, and it’s product roadmap building time again—at least for those companies that are still dedicated to the old command-and-control model. In the next few weeks, executives and (key) stakeholders will come together and define new functionality that they believe will meet business demands in 2021.

In this blog series I would like to address topics that relate to professional team coaching as well as Professional Scrum. In the course of becoming a Professional Team Coach, I noticed a lot of interesting topics for Scrum Masters who want to improve their coaching stance.

When I saw the book “Art of doing twice the work in the half time,” Dr. Jeff Sutherland wrote, my reaction was like how someone can claim that? What will be an effective measure to have such a comparison?

In this post, we explore how continuous improvement is the lifeblood of Scrum Teams.

What is good awesome people? I hope you are having an awesome weekend so far. After my two previous vlogs, many people asked me: What Happens To The Sprint Backlog Items That Are Not Done?

Suena el teléfono. No sé que decirle a mi Product Owner que me persigue.

How can Liberating Structures be used to fortify Scrum Teams? Join this virtual User Experience Fishbowl and learn from practitioners how they have used the Liberating Structures Conversation Cafe and/or User Experience Fishbowl to support their Scrum Teams. What was made possible by using these Liberating Structures? What challenges did people run into? What made it easier?

When asked, “Who is the Servant-Leader in Scrum?”, the most common answer is: the Scrum Master.

Technologie, Globalisierung, Umwelt und unsere Gesellschaft sind längst eng miteinander verknüpft: Technologische Fortschritte treiben die Globalisierung voran, verändern unsere Umwelt und beeinflussen unsere Gesellschaft.

"Becoming Agile" has been the focus of many organisations for a number of years. 2020 has created a new sense of urgency with a number of factors creating increasing demand for quicker responses.

La agilidad provee un contexto para el aprendizaje continuo. Scrum a través del uso de Sprints, eventos y valores de Scrum crean un espacio para que ese aprendizaje pueda tener lugar.

TL; DR: 20 Questions to Ask the Product Owner to Get up to Speed as a New Scrum Master From Scrum Master to Product Owner, this set of questions addresses the future collaboration between the two individuals and the rest of the Scrum Team.

I was hired by a bank to help them to get started with agile and Scrum...

Lors de mes formations Scrum ou coachings en entreprise, il n’est pas rare que les participants expriment leur souhait d’accéder à davantage de contenus Scrum de qualité en français. ..

Brief about me before you read this post so you can understand my perspective better. I am a software developer and Scrum Teacher...

As part of the Scrum Tapas video series, Professional Scrum Trainer Roland Flemm explores the myth that a Daily Scrum is status meeting and reveals in 2 minutes how to make your Daily Scrum event more valuable.

What should the Development Team do when the Product Owner asks them to do work that was not planned during Sprint Planning?

Whether you're trying to figure out how to help your team improve, just starting with a new team, or mentoring a Scrum Master, the key to unlocking your influence is the ability to have actionable awareness. In this webinar with Professional Scrum Trainer Mark Wavle, you will learn about and apply the Actionable Awareness Canvas and the set of skills it prompts you to use, pausing your own viewpoints, slowing down your thinking, and broadening your awareness.

El compromiso del equipo de desarrollo durante el Sprint es lograr el Sprint Goal y con ello el impacto en los clientes y en el negocio. El éxito del Sprint está asociado al logro de este objetivo y a los cambios en el comportamiento de los clientes que se puede provocar con el uso del producto.

The foundation of Agility and Scrum is the principle of Empiricism - using what is happening in front of us to learn and adjust what we do next...

This is a recording of Dave West's presentation at Festival Agile Trends titled, Scrum Turns 25.

One of the (main) reasons why organizations choose for an Agile approach is to become faster. Some big companies I’ve helped in the last years know they have to adapt faster, but are reluctant because of their risk aversion.

One of the most common questions that I get in my classes is: What should the Development Team do when they've finished all of the planned Sprint Backlog before the end of the Sprint?

TL; DR: 11 Proven Stakeholder Communication Tactics - Stakeholder communication: It is simply not enough for an agile product development organization to create great code and ship the resulting product like a clockwork...

The Daily Scrum is the heartbeat of Scrum. It's a key inspect and adapt opportunity for the Development Team, encouraging them check their progress towards the Sprint Goal and adjust their plan accordingly.

Distributed teams are not new, but our global pandemic has made them the norm. Atlassian University and Scrum.org team up in this webinar to explore the myth that agile and Scrum Teams need to be colocated and walk through real-world examples of how products get delivered from distributed teams.

Do you know anyone who has scars from trying to help large, multi-billion dollar organizations travel on the path to Agility? Do you know if those scars still hurt?

McKinsey and Scrum.org presented a webinar on joint research about measuring business value. There were a number of questions unanswered. This blog answers those questions.

This CIO article by Mary K. Pratt talks about common shortcomings that happen often when agile is implemented in an organization. Dave West adds his thoughts in this article.

Plenty of teams still use hourly estimates for complex work. In my experience this always hurts. I thought plenty was written on this, but maybe some summarizing of what I have learned over the years might help.

Dit is een veelgehoorde vraag van mensen die kennismaken met de Scrum Master rol. En ik merk dat ik het lastig vind om hier een antwoord op te geven. Natuurlijk, het gaat om het ‘continu verbeteren’ van menselijke interactie, vaardigheden, processen en technieken. En dit als ultiem doel om Scrum zo toe te passen dat de organisatie als geheel wendbaarder wordt. Maar dit antwoord geeft, naar mijn idee, nog geen goede invulling van de vraag: wat doe ik dan als Scrum Master?

How to tell if Scrum fits your work and what to do when it doesn’t