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I have had the opportunity to work with some truly amazing teams that have achieved pretty amazing outcomes. One thing that every team has had in common is that, at one time, they were new to Scrum. When I engage with teams to discuss implementing the Scrum framework, they often raise potential impediments to adopting Scrum. Below are the five most common objections to Scrum and why they don’t hold any weight.

The past 18 months have been a whirlwind. Coronavirus, elections, inequality and conflict – a quagmire of micro and macro complexities that impact the feelings and behaviours of Scrum Teams. In my opinion, it would be fair to say that teams who consistently attempt to mitigate environmental and sociological complexities are ones that thrive. It is the purpose of this blog to explore how some Scrum Teams have successfully done this in an age of remote working by focusing on one thing – the Scrum Values.

eimagine, a full-service Indianapolis US-based information technology consulting company, used the Nexus framework to replace legacy systems for a large project for a state government agency that provides connects senior citizens with social services, health care, and their communities. By doing so, their number of help desk tickets decreased by 75%, therefore getting critical services to senior citizens faster. Join this webinar to learn more.

When we are confident that we know everything, certain that our perspective is correct and our plan is good, we miss things. Sometimes these things are critical.

If I were to summarize the purpose of a Sprint, I would say that it’s to deliver a Done, usable increment that meets the Sprint Goal.

Nexus es un marco de trabajo que se basa en Scrum que sirve para escalar el trabajo de varios equipos Scrum desarrollando un producto.

This article explains what Sprint zero is and how it is used in Scrum.

Many people dislike estimating work items as estimates supposedly open the path to the misuse of velocity by the managers, reintroducing Taylorism, micro-management, and excessive reporting through the backdoor.

This workshop was delivered on 2nd September 2021 and focused on introducing the core concepts of Kanban & Flow.

 In this video I provide visualisation what the "increment" in Scrum means which hopefully can provide better understanding for people those of you who are new to Scrum.

Each of the Scrum Artifacts is inspected in one or more Scrum Events to detect undesired variances. So is the Sprint Backlog. Go check it out!

El camino de aprendizaje del Scrum Master y del Product Owner es un viaje largo e interesante. En esta sesión, podréis preguntar a Guillem Hernández Sola, un Professional Scrum Trainer cosas como: ¿Cuáles son las principales competencias que se deben desarrollar? ¿Por qué tengo que cambiar mi rol para ser Scrum Master o Product Owner? ¿Qué mejoras pueden aportar a los equipos Scrum? ¿Cómo realmente puedo ser un Scrum Master o un Product Owner profesional? ¿Cuál ha sido la evolución de estos 2 roles desde que se inició Scrum?

Learn from Johanna Rothman how to adapt your leadership style for agile success as a manager in an agile organization in this 54-minute long video from the Agile Camp Berlin 2021.

In this episode of Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer, John Coleman answers the audience's burning questions about Scrum and the challenges their teams are facing. He answers questions about Product Goals, Sprint Goals, Refinement, Team Dynamics, Performance metrics, Scrum with Kanban and more!

In this Scrum Tapas video, Professional Scrum Trainer Ryan Brook describes Sprint Planning, its purpose, effective ways to facilitate it, goals, outcomes, and why it is such an important event in Scrum.

Being a Product Owner is tough. Having the accountability for maximising value can sometimes feel like a huge weight is on your shoulders and sometimes - it's hard to know where to begin. As a Scrum Master, you’re accountable for helping to establish empirical product planning – but how could you do that? Optilearn have created a visualisation to help.

If you are looking to fill a position for a Scrum Master (or agile coach) in your organization, you may find the following 54 interview questions useful to identify the right candidate.

Velocity is an excellent measure and a terrible target. Once a measure becomes a target (ie: for performance measurement), it loses the ability to provide meaningful, trustworthy, transparent data.

This part I of a three-part series will focus on goals. We’ll examine how the goals set out in the EBM guide correspond to the Scrum Guide and some tools and formats for setting workable goals. Part II will focus on experimentation, and Part III will focus on measurement.

One frequent question that I often get from candidates that I train is - Venkatesh, what is the career path of a Scrum Master? I am a Scrum Master now. How can I build my career to the next level?

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!

In this webinar moderated by PST Ravi Verma with Anca Tanase, PST Magdalena Firlit and PST Nagesh Sharma, they propose one possible approach that evidence based Agile organizations can take to overcome these challenges. They will propose 10 steps that can be followed in 21 days or less to integrate EBM with Scrum to achieve these outcomes.

A few years back I wrote 2 popular posts that talked about the best Scrum Masters I ever worked with. This time around I am going to share some stories about the best Product Owners I have encountered. This post is about Gerry, the proxy Product Owner who was successful!

Do We Need Agile Coaches when Practicing Scrum? I do believe that this construct is flawed: When practicing Scrum correctly, Scrum Masters are all you ever need.

This blog post discusses client expectations from coaches.

In this blog post, we discuss how team size and organization can be considered when scaling Scrum.

Penser, agir, décider en tant que manager agile

Recientemente conocí a un CTO via Twitter que hizo lo correcto aunque sea díficil desde su posición.

It is a common question that do we still need a Scrum Master for a mature Scrum Team. I would like to use the metaphor of a Soccer Referee to explain.

Each Scrum Event serves Inspection, the second pillar of Empiricism. So does the Sprint itself. How? Find out ...

In this article Dave West discusses the importance of Kindness and the benefits agile teams get when people are thinking about kindness.

It's hard to be a good Scrum Master. It's even harder to be a great Scrum Master! So, what sort of things should you be doing to be great? Here are some Scrum Master tips to help you get started on day one in a new job.

Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) act as goal-setting framework for defining and tracking objectives and their outcomes. OKRs are often misunderstood and are a powerful practice to create razor sharp organisational focus. Isn’t Scrum about goals and focus as well? There is the Vision, the Product Goal, the Sprint Goal as well as the Sprint Review. These elements of Scrum can be very well combined with OKRs. Actually, you might want to turn it around, start with OKRs and map your Scrum implementation to them. In this Scrum Pulse webinar Professional Scrum Trainer Ralph Jocham with Agile Actors #learning  gives a quick intro to OKRs, and you then you will learn how Scrum can benefit from using OKRs to create a network of responsibility from the vision down to individual Sprint Goals. This responsibility network offers a transparency most corporations long for.

If you're like many, you've seen plenty of agile-hybrids with funny names like Water-Scrum-Fall, or others. But do these hybrids work? usually not because they fail to reduce risk, deliver value early, or even allow you to change directions quickly.

Ce blog vidéo décrit des façons de gérer la complexité.

This case study explores how a Formula Student Team At University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hildesheim/ Holzminden/Gottingen used Scrum with Kanban as the frameworks for its program and complete its car building initiative despite the Covid-19 Pandemic.

In this blog post, PST Ravi Verma shares tips on how to manage outcomes with Evidence-Based Agility

OKRs are a great framework for setting goals. Setting high quality goals, goal clarity, and self-management, positively affect team performance [3].

Ryan Ripley and Neil Killick discuss the 3 levels of story slicing that all Product Owners can use to create great Product Backlog Items.

There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Since Scrum is an intentionally incomplete framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone.

According to the 15th annual State of Agile report, there has been a tremendous increase in the adoption of agile frameworks over the last year. Within software teams, agile adoption grew from 37% in 2020 to 86% in 2021.

Hey hey hey. How's it going awesome people? I hope you had a great week and keeping excited. I have noticed that several Scrum practitioners around me think that writing the Product Backlog items as a user story is mandatory.

Recientemente, estoy trabajando en mí mismo para servir mejor a los demás así que decidí empezar a andar en el mundo del coaching profesional. 

This workshop was delivered on 19th August 2021 and focused on introducing the core concepts of Scrum & Empiricism. I used a combination of Liberating Structures, Microsoft Teams, and Mural to deliver an interactive session.

A few years back I wrote 2 popular posts that talked about the best Scrum Masters I ever worked with. This time around I am going to share some stories about the best Product Owners I have encountered.

Each Scrum Event serves Inspection, the second pillar of Empiricism. So does the Sprint Retrospective. How? Find out ...

Scrum.org проводитиме вебінар із серії "Запитай Професійного Скрам Тренера" українською мовою. Вебінар є безкоштовним і відбудеться 25-го серпня о 20:00 за Києвом. У цьому епізоді "Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer" Богдан Онищенко, Професійний Скрам Тренер від scrum.org, відповідатиме на Ваші запитання, що стосуються Скраму та щоденних викликів, з якими стикаються ваші команди. З нетерпінням чекаємо на зустріч та сподіваємось, що вона допоможе відшукати способи вирішення наболілих проблем, відкрити нові горизонти та дати поштовх для нових звершень. До зустрічі!

TL; DR: Should Managers Attend Retrospectives? There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone.

What is an Agile Coach? Are Scrum Masters agile coaches? How do they coach teams, the Product Owner and the enterprise?

Llevo mucho tiempo ayudando a un product owner y me he encontrado similitudes con otras situaciones de ayuda y acompañamiento a otras personas que han estado en el mismo rol.