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How can you evaluate your success as a Scrum Master using metrics?

Scrum has been around for a while, they say. The Scrum Guide holds the definition of Scrum, they say. The first, official version of the Scrum Guide was released in February 2010. So, how was Scrum defined before 2010 then?

Algunas veces se entendía que los ítems seleccionados del Product Backlog para el Sprint o las tareas eran el compromiso del Sprint.

In this webinar, Leslie Morse and Professional Scrum Trainer Evelien Roos explore how hierarchy within agile coaching roles may impede your organizational agility, shine a light on how you may be inadvertently marginalizing key contributors in your organization, and provide inspiration for ways multiple roles can co-exist.

Scrum.org is a training and certification body that uses the principles of Scrum to help people and teams with complicated product delivery. In addition to software development and site-building teams, groups from a broad range of industries now leverage the framework to improve their problem-solving abilities. Read this article from HostingAdvice.com to learn more.

For organizations in the midst of an agile transformation, the question “how do we know if/when we’re agile?” is pressing.

If you have to make a career decision early next year, you will find the industry data the Scrum Master Trends Report 2019 contains still very helpful.

This book is for anyone who works with Scrum Teams or wants to become more effective as a Scrum Team member or leader.

L’apport le plus notable de la version 2020 du Guide Scrum est l’ajout d’un Product Goal au Product Backlog. Cette nouvelle caractéristique du Product Backlog vient accroître la transparence de cet artéfact Scrum.

Estoy muy contento de que comentarios que he visto y recibido sobre la nueva Guía Scrum 2020.

Ja. Dieser Artikel erklärt dir warum und was du dagegen unternehmen kannst. 

In this episode of the Agile Wire podcast - Professional Scrum Trainers Jeff Bubolz, Jeff Maleski and Chad Beier discuss the Scrum Guide 2020 changes. 

Atlassian has joined leaders in the industry to unpack story points and the evolution of agile estimation. Estimation using story points has become the most popular way for agile teams to rate the relative effort of work, instead of traditional time-based estimates. Check out this roundtable from leading industry experts Mike Cohn, John Cutler, Andrea Fryrear, Troy Magennis, and Dave West. (51:20 Minutes)

It's totally okay that you spent, the weekend eating, drinking and making merry. That's what festivals are for. But don't undermine the power of jumping right back on track.

How many calendar days does it take your teams to take a "Sprint Ready" item all the way to production deployment? How is your current cycle time impacting your Business? What would be possible for your Business if your cycle time was 8 calendar days? If you want to learn how to make this happen, please watch to recap a 6 month journey for one of our Scrum Teams that made 7 adjustments to reduce their cycle time from 164 calendar days to 8 calendar days.

There are many resources available to college students to help them advance their knowledge and prepare for the job environment. But what about young adults who have limited access to resources and opportunities? Year Up is an organization committed to providing underserved young adults with equitable access to economic opportunity and mobility, and connecting them with a pathway to a professional career. This article highlights 3 students who grew their professional careers and education through Year Up including participating in the Applying Professional Scrum (APS) training course.

In the 2020 Scrum Guide, Ken and Jeff augmented the idea of the Sprint Goal. The Sprint Goal is a commitment to ensure transparency and focus against progress during a Sprint.

The Scrum Accountability Game is an interactive and fun game that you can play with others to reimagine the accountabilities in Scrum. Compatible with the new Scrum Guide 2020. Have fun! #scrumon

In this Pragmatic article, Dave West talks about the roles of the Product Manager and Product Owner.

According to the Scrum Guide, the purpose of the Daily Scrum “is to inspect progress toward the Sprint Goal” and “adapt the Sprint Backlog as necessary” and “it is held at the same time and place every working day of the Sprint.” So what is the best time to hold the event each day?

TL;DR: The Scrum Product Owner in 58 Theses The following 58 Product Owner theses describe the PO role from a holistic product creation perspective.

10 examples of how to use Liberating Structures during and after the Daily Scrum.

The 2020 version of Scrum Guide was released recently and everyone is talking about the changes been made in it and how it is going to impact their current ways of working as compared to its previous version.

La nueva guía de Scrum 2020 define que una de las responsabilidades del Scrum Master es causar o provocar que se resuelvan los impedimentos.

A summary of the updated 2020 Scrum Guide™ and how team structures will change moving forward.

In this SD Times article, Dave West walks us through the key changes to the Scrum Guide in 2020.

In this presentation, Ellen Gottesdiener CEO EBG Consulting and Dave West CEO Scrum.org share why this question is so vital to the success of your product. They discuss principles for defining products, and approaches they have seen work as companies wrestle with the fundamental question, “What is Your Product?”

In the 2020 Scrum Guide Ken and Jeff introduces the idea of the Product Goal. The Product Goal is a commitment to ensure transparency and focus against progress.

Ahora hay un cambio en los roles. Se ha cambiado el rol que era el Equipo de Desarrollo, por el rol de Desarrolladores.

The Daily Scrum is probably the best known, and possibly the most misunderstood, Scrum event. Here’s why.

Breakout rooms in Zoom were a life-saver for many facilitators, trainers and Scrum Masters in recent months. As many of you probably already know, those breakout rooms aim to allow smaller groups to work independently. That increases engagement of each participant.

Estoy muy contento de que comentarios que he visto y recibido sobre la nueva Guía Scrum 2020.

If you are looking to fill a position for a Product Owner in your organization, you may find the following 71 interview questions useful to identify the right candidate.

Four PST's (Andy Hiles, Steve Trapps, Sjoerd Kranendonk and Jasper Alblas) discuss the changes in the 2020 version of the Scrum Guide. You can watch the video above.

In this post, we describe one tiny experiment that can create big shifts in how teams experience the Scrum Events and the decisions they make during them.

Scrum 2020 Poster and "Agile On" Sticker We are wrapping up a long Thanksgiving weekend in the United States with Cyber-Monday.

On November 18, 2020, Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland released an updated version of the Scrum Guide. In this blog post, I will share what you need to know about the 2020 Scrum Guide.

A free do-it-yourself workshop to help Scrum Teams articulate the paradoxical challenges they face and find imaginative solutions to navigate them.

The following are the changes that struck me the most in the 2020 Scrum Guide...

Zombie Scrum Survival Guide is for Scrum Masters, Scrum practitioners, Agile coaches and leaders, and everyone who wants to transform Scrums promises into reality.

Scrum Framework poster (2020 update) by Scrum Facilitators #ScrumGuide2020 #Scrum

OKRs are a powerful tool for setting and measuring goals, but like all power tools, they can become dangerous in unskilled hands. When used in informed ways, they can improve focus and lift outcomes, but when mishandled, they can increase waste and inflict real damage upon the organizations that adopt them.

The Scrum Guide Reordered 2020 is based on about 95 percent of the text of the Scrum Guide 2020, extending its original structure by adding additional categories, for example, on self-management, commitments, or accountability.

In this podcast Scrum Facilitators from the Netherlands Sjoerd Kranendonk and Jasper Alblas discuss the new Scrum Guide (version 2020) with Scrum Coaches Steve Trapps and Andy Hiles from the UK.

The new Scrum Guide describes the whole Scrum Team as self-managing. But how do you lead these teams? Do they need leaders? And if so, where should we leaders focus on? Peter Koning - author of Agile Leadership Toolkit - gives three practical tips

In the 2020 Scrum Guide, the Definition of Done is created by the Scrum Team. In previous versions of the Scrum Guide, this responsibility was explicitly owned by the Development Team. I will explain the intention of the change and what it means for Scrum Teams.

With the launch of the new Scrum Guide, we also created a new illustration of the Scrum framework.

The new version of the Scrum Guide has just been released. It is exciting! Scrum walks the talk by inspecting and adapting itself. So should you as a Scrum Master.

The Scrum Guide 2020 defines Accountabilities within one team, Scrum Team. This video with Professional Scrum Trainer Ralph Jocham explains the Accountabilities. (3:21 Minutes)