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TL; DR: Lipstick Agile — Happiness in the Trenches? Have you noticed how many people in the agile field are unhappy with their work situation? A situation where an organization already struggles doing agile, not to mention ‘becoming agile?’ This is what I call lipstick Agile. Scrum Masters and...
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Does your team struggle to get items to Done? Do they experience a high amount of spill-over into the next cycle because they are waiting on another team or another person? Do items sit in a blocked state and age out while waiting on other teams or people to complete work?
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This story is told by Kameshwari Rao, a Student in a recent Professional Scrum Master training class taught by Professional Scrum Trainer Reshma (Simran) Nagrani. Kameshwari discusses how she was able to attend the class and gain full value from it even with her visual impairment and she talks about...
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What is up awesome people? I hope you are having a great weekend. After my previous video about the career path for Scrum Master, many people requested me to explain the career path for Product Owner in the company also. The career path for Product Owner is rather different but just like the Scrum M...
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In this post, we describe one tiny experiment that creates transparency about lack of autonomy, and what happens because of it. It won’t create earth-shattering miracles, but I should start the right conversations.
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We often try to make massive change once we realize something isn't right and this doesn't normally go so well. When it comes to making progress everyone wants to LEAP; take BIGGER steps.
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Since the Industrial Revolution, increasing competition has driven businesses towards strategies that preserve and increase their market share.
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Webcast
We all want the ideal cross functional scrum team with all the UX skills and capabilities it needs to consistently produce valuable products. Most commonly UX is a shared service with part time availability. This hour Adam Deardurff, career UX pro, and Summer Lawrence PST, talk about maximizing the ...
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When I first became a Scrum Master, I heard the phrase assume positive intent over and over again. And it really resonated with me.
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I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times : Bruce Lee
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Meet Ralph Jocham and Chuck Suscheck who are the stewards for the Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) class. In this video, Ralph and Chuck provide a brief overview of the class to help you better understand the expected outcomes. (2:16 Minutes)
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TL;DR: Creating an Agile Community of Practice Creating an agile community of practice helps winning hearts and minds within the organization as it provides authenticity to the agile transition — signaling that the effort is not merely another management fad. Read more to learn how to get your...
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Pour bien comprendre les fondations de Scrum, nous partons du postulat que nous créons et maintenons des systèmes complexes : un système informatique, une campagne marketing, une stratégie de vente, etc. Les fondations de Scrum sont : les Valeurs Scrum et l’empirisme. Valeurs Scrum Les vale...
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Case Study
Philips, with their roots in complexity science, used both the Scrum framework and Liberating Structures to help people navigate challenges, from small to complex, by working together effectively. This case study is the first in a series to demonstrate how Scrum Teams (can) use Liberating Structures...
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In today's vlog I discuss five indicators to identify whether someone is the Product Owner.
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In May 2019, I spoke at the Agile Manchester conference, where I presented my talk "The Product Owner's Toolbox".
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What is the one thing you need to achieve everything you want with respect to health, fitness and life? Is it a special framework? Is it a super food? Is it a special training program? Is it a quick fix? Is it a short cut? Or Is it something that's very simple? As simplistic as it sounds, none...
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TL; DR: Exploring a Virtual Ecocycle Planning with Mural — A Live Virtual Meetup on August 20, 2020 Let’s try our favorite Liberating Structure microstructure in a remote setting with Mural, Zoom, and Qiqochat: virtual Ecocycle Planning. Do you want to get this article in your inbox? You can...
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Fitness and health is so many different things to so many people, but what is that one thing it should be for everyone? Any idea?........................... FUN !
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Regularly, we find articles from developers detailing why ‘Agile’ in general and Scrum’s nature, in particular, deserve our collective disdain.
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Все связано… Рисунок MC Esher Я Скрам Мастер и, узнавая, в чем заключается эта роль, я выяснил, что Скрам Мастерство - сложная профессия. По мере того как я становился опытнее в этой профессии, я заметил, что проблемы, с которыми я сталкивался, со временем усложнялись. Когда я начал работать, о...
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Scrum est un cadre de travail dans lequel les personnes peuvent résoudre des problèmes adaptatifs complexes, tout en fournissant de manière productive et créative des produits de la plus haute valeur possible. Le mot Scrum, la mêlée en rugby, a été choisi par Ken Schwaber et Jeff Sutherland dan...
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In today's video I will explain the Scrum Master career path.
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“Can an R&D team of chemists, physicists, electrical engineers, mechanical engineers and embedded software developers optimize teamwork and value by using Scrum? And can live virtual Scrum training deliver a practical Scrum learning experience to everyone on such a functionally diverse team?”
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John: “After covid-19, the world will never be the same...” Peter: “There is no “after covid-19”. Corona is here to stay” Now that we are starting to see some light at the end of the Covid tunnel, shouldn't we ask ourselves how the corona crisis brings change to our software developm...
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In this 2 minutes FAQ video, I will answer the frequently asked question in the agile community: does one need to be certified to be a Scrum Master?
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There is no such thing as an Agile Transformation, Digital Transformation, DevOps Transformation, or any of the Whatever Transformation that you can think of or have been sold. You can’t buy agility, and you certainly can’t install it. There is no end state, no optimal outcome, No best practices. We...
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Os situo en marzo de 2020. Volved atrás mentalmente a la semana del 15 a 20 de Marzo de 2020. Inicio del flashback. Tuve otra semana intensa. Es que no aprendo. Al final pude volar sin problemas de Ciudad de Mexico a Barcelona. Llegué el miércoles por la mañana. No sabia que me iba a encontrar...
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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. Cette série « Le meilleur de Scrum » répond à ce besoin en proposant des traductions d’une sélection d’articles de ré...
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A typical Kanban board shows a series of steps or activities that work passes through. Does this mean that Kanban is only suitable for "linear" processes? Scrum is a proven strategy for addressing complex adaptive problems, so if Kanban is linear, is it an unsuitable complimentary practice to add to...
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Podcast
In this episode of Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer, PST Jim Sammons answered questions about challenges Scrum Team is facing.
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Poster
It doesn't make sense to use Scrum for everything, but it can be hard to beat in the world of complexity. This canvas will help teams explore their existing environment and reveal challenges the team might face whether they use Scrum or not. 
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Poster
Whether you're launching your first Scrum effort or starting your twelfth, the 'Getting Started with Scrum' canvas can help organize your thoughts on what is needed to kick off your first Sprint.
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Even the best Scrum implementations can use a little tune-up now and then to stay healthy! Our 'Scrum Tune-Up' canvas helps you explore team and organizational dynamics to improve and get more value out of your Scrum. 
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Eine hohe Produktqualität ist Dreh- und Angelpunkt von Scrum. Der Massstab von Produktqualität in Scrum ist die „Definition of Done (DoD)“. Wer aber ist verantwortlich dafür, dass die Produktqualität erreicht wird?
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Ein Produkt für Kunden verfügbar zu machen ist der einzige Weg für ein Unternehmen, mit diesem Produkt Wert zu generieren. Erst wenn ein Produkt am Markt verfügbar ist, sind Kunden bereit, Geld dafür zu bezahlen. Wer aber entscheidet, ob ein Produkt released wird?
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What is up awesome people! In this vlog I will be sharing why the Product Backlog in Scrum is not only consists of User Stories and why it is not prioritised.
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Do you need an emergency fund as a change agent—whether you are acting as Scrum Master, Product Owner or agile coach—
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Late in the second day of my PSM classes, I usually do an exercise with my students about skills and traits.
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Without skilled developers, the Scrum Framework is no more than lipstick on a pig.
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Agility is not a state. Agility is an ability to change and respond to an environment you're in as an organization.  Once you realize that a binary Scrum-not Scrum stops making much sense.
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In my daily life as a Scrum Master, I witness many crazy situations. I want to share my discoveries via this comic series featuring Koos Coach, the silly Scrum Master struggling to understand and master Scrum.
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Video
In this Scrum Tapas video, Professional Scrum Trainer Ravi Verma uses satire as a way to emphasize how agility can help an organization. He discusses ways that he has seen people within organizations look at agile for software delivery as outdated and what can happen if they ignore the value that wo...
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In this Scrum Tapas video, Professional Scrum Trainer Ravi Verma uses satire as a way to emphasize how agile can help an organization by discussing ways that some of the organizations that he has been brought into are thinking and acting prior to really understanding what agile truly means. Ravi th...
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Webcast
This webinar talks about how UX and Agile Delivery can work together.
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What’s up awesome people. I hope you had a great week and ready for the weekend. In this [2 Minutes FAQ] video, I will answer the frequently asked questions: How can the Scrum Master make the Scrum team more self-organised? I will most likely get this question in my Professional Scrum Master (PSM) c...
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El objetivo de Scrum es maximizar la entrega de valor a través del aprendizaje de los clientes. Scrum se basa en el empirismo y si queremos potenciar sus beneficios se requiere que exista foco en le entrega de valor de negocio. Scrum es una herramienta para lograr la agilidad empresarial. 
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In our Professional Agile Leadership training, we talk about changing your organisations hiring practices to hire more of the right sort of people to create the company that you want, not the company that you have. Hire the right people also implies that you will have to, within your cultural constr...
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Your Sprint Planning Meetings don’t have to be a chore. Your Sprint Backlog doesn’t have to be a mess. Do short backlog refinement meetings twice a week and sleep a lot.
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On many occasions in the recent past, working with distributed agile teams has amplified existing organizational, technical, and cultural challenges in many organizations.
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