In this episode of the Scrum.org Community podcast, Kurt Bittner, PST Ron Eringa and PST Laurens Bonnema come together again to join host Dave West for a discussion on some of the topics in the new book, The Professional Agile Leader, including hierarchy and shifts to more flat, agile organizations. (27:32 Minutes)

In this vlog, PST Joshua Partogi breaks down the 8 hats the Scrum Master wears as a true leader who serves. This topic is discussed in the Professional Scrum Master course with case studies.

​Real-life risk-taking is different from theory and Scrum can help with it.

Let’s look at how as a Scrum Master, you can facilitate a self-organization session, because the most empowered Scrum Teams determine the structure and organization of the team.

Value creation in Scrum is not as straightforward as you might have thought. You need a product discovery system feeding the Product Backlog.

Im letzten Jahr habe ich über 40 Workshops für Scrum Master, Product Owner und Führungskräfte durchgeführt. Willst du ein Geheimnis wissen? Ich benutze jedes Mal das gleiche Vorgehen. Egal, welches Thema oder Publikum, ob online oder in Präsenz. Der Lernerfolg eines Trainings wird nur durch einen Faktor bestimmt: wie gut du als Trainer es schaffst, die Teilnehmer einzubeziehen. Wenn du weiterliest, teile ich mein Vorgehen mit dir.

In this vlog, PST Joshua Partogi shares a simple guideline that he used to help teams improve their Sprint and to get them out of mini-waterfall.

Seguro que si trabajas en la empresa privada habrás oído hablar del Project Manager e incluso puede que en tu lugar de trabajo contéis con uno de ellos. También me apostaría alguna cosa, que en tu organización tenéis Product Owner y Project Manager. El tridente de la duplicidad de responsabilidades y roles. Pero, ¿realmente sabes en qué consiste este perfil profesional y cuáles son sus tareas y competencias?

No matter how much a Scrum Team plans, there are times when someone asks them to undertake unplanned work mid-Sprint. In this article, we will discuss how to handle unplanned work in Scrum.

¿Cómo acelerar la generación de ideas de innovación? Estas ideas pueden ayudar: 👉 Habilitar todos los canales de feedback 👉 Empoderar al front office 👉 Experimentar de manera continua 👉 Liderazgo centrado en el usuario

Done is a fundamental part of bringing transparency. How does this relate to the Scrum Master? Check it out! Back to the foundations of the Scrum framework (77)

Effective Facilitation helps Scrum and Agile Teams leverage differences in positive ways, guiding teams to frame their discussions with clear purpose, decisions, outcomes and engagement with one another. In this article, Patricia Kong talks about how facilitation can make or break team interactions, the amount of facilitation needed in certain scenarios, how to drive decisions with facilitation and more.

Was sind bewährte Scrum Werkzeuge und Praktiken, die ein absichtlich unvollständiges Framework erweitern, ohne dessen Grundprinzipien zu missachten oder zu negieren?

In this session, Ferzeen Anis and Toby draw lessons from lived experience in applying Scrum, building businesses and working toward achieving an Olympic dream. 

Though, there is no universal definition of what is an Agile Coach. I want to define, Someone who developed deep expertise to help people, teams, and organisations enable better customer outcomes by focusing on an organisation’s internal and external orientation.

Is your organization having trouble instilling self-management? Then this is the article for you!

This Q&A is with Eric Naiburg. Eric is the Chief Operating Officer at Scrum.org and the co-author of UML for Database Design and UML for Mere Mortals both published by Addison Wesley.

Three simple Retrospective formats based on the Liberating Structures “Conversation Cafe”, “Troika Consulting”, and “Discovery & Action Dialogue”.

Scrum is a framework for developing and sustaining complex products. But could it be used by individuals to help them in their personal and professional lives?

In today's vlog, PST Joshua Partogi share his experiences why Developers hate Scrum so much so you can avoid these factors happening in your company.

A look at proven tools and practices enhancing a purposefully incomplete framework without defying its first principles.

In this vlog, PST Joshua Partogi share his opinions on how to be a Scrum Master without any prior experience.

Selbstmanagement passiert nicht einfach so. In einer neuen Situation greifen Menschen meist auf bereits Bekanntes zurück. Deshalb gleicht das Daily Scrum bei neuen Teams häufig eher einem Statusmeeting. Wie du ein Statusmeeting in ein Daily Scrum verwandeln kannst, erfährst du hier:

Dealing with complexity requires a diversity of expertise. Learn it from the team that builds functional quantum computers.

El User Story Mapping es un ejercicio visual que ayuda a los gerentes de productos y sus equipos de desarrollo a definir el trabajo que creará la experiencia de usuario más placentera. Se utiliza para mejorar la comprensión de los equipos de sus clientes y para priorizar el trabajo.

If you Google "Agile Project Manager" you'll find a lot of stuff out there, much of which is inconsistent. There are job descriptions asking for one, there are classes to learn how to be one, but the definition is still not clear nor is it consistent with agile development ideas or the Scrum Framework. Watch this video with Professional Scrum Trainers Jason Malmstadt, Greg Crown, and Robert Pieper to find out more what is meant by the term "Agile Project Manager".

What does your Team optimize for? Optimizing for adaptability requires certain types of teams, is your team set up in line with the goals of your organization? You can use this canvas to plot a team’s current position and then evaluate how it can improve. It gets more fun when you plot many teams relative to each other on the canvas and use that information in an overall retrospective to find the balance that works for you.

Done is a fundamental part of bringing transparency. How does this relate to the Developers? Check it out! Back to the foundations of the Scrum framework (76)

Duane Girard learned to help build strong teams as a Sergeant in the US Army. In the military, he paralleled many of the Scrum events and values and practiced his ability to build teams in complex environments - later finding a civilian position as a Scrum Master in one of his first jobs out of the military. In this podcast, Duane has a discussion with host, Dave West, and shares those parallels, talks about his career journey as a Scrum Master, and speaks about how the Professional Scrum Master certifications and learnings from Scrum.org courses helped catapult his career as a Scrum Master. (18:32 Minutes)

Der brandneue Product Owner & Product Manager Salary Report 2022 ist verfügbar: Wie schneiden Sie im Vergleich zu mehr als 500 anderen Peers ab?

Using a product over a project mindset allows for lean requirements engineering. Just in time specifications allow for an iterative and incremental product discovery and delivery.

Join PST Andy Hiles, Jessica Martin, Agile Coach and PST Ravi Verma in a panel discussion hosted by Patricia Kong, where they share their experiences with creating psychological safety in teams by using effective facilitation skills in conversations and other interactions.

I gotta say, refining work items is usually, by far, the Scrum Team’s least popular activity.  No one gets up in the morning saying, “I can’t wait to refine the Product Backlog!” In this article, we will discuss five reasons why refining your Product Backlog is worth the time.

The brand-new Product Owner & Product Manager Salary Report 2022 is available: How do you compare to 500-plus peers?

Have you ever come across a Product Owner that has been fully empowered to make all the decisions needed for the product, without any constraints? It's pretty rare. A donut can help your Product Owner in gaining more decision-making power.

Product-Ownership ist nicht einfach: Es gibt die unterschiedlichsten Anforderungen an das Produkt. Das Product Backlog ist überladen mit Features. Stakeholder aus Entwicklung, IT, Marketing, Sales und Betrieb haben alle eine Meinung, was als Nächstes getan werden muss. Nur leider sind sie niemals einer Meinung. Wenn diese Situation auch deiner Realität entspricht, dann lies weiter.

What are the different categories of product owner? This episode goes outlines all the different types of product owners as well as the characteristics/pros and cons of each by considering them against the definition of a product and how you may deliver value. Join me as I also bust a common myth: product management being taught at Product Ownership classes.

Desde principios de la década de 2000, Agile ha ganado popularidad y se ha convertido en el enfoque de referencia para la gestión muchas organizaciones de todos los tamaños y orígenes. Sin olvidar de que Agile comenzó en el desarrollo de software, rápidamente encontró su camino hacia otras industrias.

Encourage your Scrum team to establish more effective communication patterns that make a lasting impact with “What I Need From You”.

There are eight hours available for Sprint Planning. In those eight hours, a lot can be done. Too often this event is rushed, limiting the ability to maximize the possible achievements. In this article, I share nine things to do to make the most of your Sprint Planning.

Done is a fundamental part of bringing transparency. How does this relate to the Product Owner? Check it out! Back to the foundations of the Scrum framework (75)

Gibt es einen Zeitpunkt, an dem ein erfolgreiches Scrum-Team mit Scrum Schluss machen sollte, weil es seine Nützlichkeit überlebt hat?

In diesem Scrum-Pulse-Webcast erklärt Professional Scrum Trainer Simon Flossmann die Grundlagen effektiver Facilitation.

A short 3 case studies of transparency and a story on where it might lead..

There are many great reasons to use Scrum. Focus on quality, frequent delivery of value, and limitation of risk, to name a few. Saving money is not one of them...

In this episode of the Scrum.org Community podcast, Kurt Bittner, PST Ron Eringa and PST Laurens Bonnema come together again to join host Dave West for a discussion on some of the topics in the new book, The Professional Agile Leader: The Leader's Journey Toward Growing Mature Agile Teams and Organizations, including the Dual Operating Model, Culture, self-management, bottom up intelligence and more!

Scrum is not designed to solve all problems in all business domains. There are times when Scrum used properly is a great fit for complex problem solving. But when and where does Scrum not work? When should we not be using Scrum? When would it be too much overhead for the value derived?

Many organizations are trying to improve the alignment between strategy and execution with the OKRs framework (Objectives and Key Results). There’s good intent there, but more often than not, looking under the hood, you notice:  OKRs that look more like tasks than strategic objectives – especially by the time they reach working teams OKRs are used to micro-manage teams and individuals rather than empower and enable them.  Too many OKRs are set without any respect/consideration of the ability to deliver them sustainably while dealing with other work in the organization. Defining OKRs and then forgetting about them until it's time to grade them. (Even worse, some organizations don’t even bother with a serious consideration of how they did on their OKRs…)  These are smells of "OKR Theater" or "OKRs in Name Only."

El Product Owner es un gestor de producto que se encarga de mantener el alineamiento estratégico del Product Backlog en todo momento.

The Scrum Events are in place to support empiricism and the delivery of value. You need to run them at least once per Sprint. But could we do them multiple times in the same Sprint? Find out in this article!