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By combining Professional Scrum with Kanban principles and metrics we have a phenomenal opportunity to ask the right questions sooner, solve the right problems faster and measure more of what matters. In this webinar, Professional Scrum Trainer Jim Sammons discusses the Professional Scrum with Kanban “4x4”. The 4 principle and 4 metrics that will help your Scrum Team focus on flow and be able to use data to solve the right problems sooner, have better conversations with stakeholders and optimize their flow. Jim discusses the practices and metrics that Scrum Teams can use with Kanban to focus on their flow and create a basis for continuous improvement.

When creating any sort of product, it's important to understand whether we are moving in the right direction. But how do we know that? How do we measure that? And what metrics do we use for that? Agile organizations know that frequent inspection of results limits risk and improves the ability to deliver value. Scrum.org created a complementary framework called Evidence-Based Management. Patricia Kong is here on the Mastering Agility Podcast with Sander Dur to talk about how we can use EBM to elevate our ability to deliver value. (45:57 Minutes)

In this special episode of the ‘Mastering Agility’ podcast, Patricia Kong and Sander Dur have a conversation about topics that are close to both of their hearts; shame, trust, and the experience of burning out. It seems that is the social standard to always say that everything is great, when asked how you’re doing. That real life should be like Instagram. The truth is; it’s not. Far from that. Working remotely impacts trust within teams. Shame affects your overall self-esteem. Burnouts are increasingly more common. Patricia is ruthlessly honest about her views and experience. (52:20 Minutes)

Scrum Star (parody of All Star by Smash Mouth)

Smells Like Scrum Spirit (parody of Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana)

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. While it is common to first look outside our team for impediments, such as dysfunctional processes or other systemic issues,

The Product Owner is a critical accountability in Agile and Scrum. And although the Scrum Guide doesn’t give much guidelines around great Product Ownership, the role is still absolutely necessary for great Agile and Scrum Teams.

How does the Sprint Retrospective supports Transparency? Transparency being one of the core underlying concepts of the Scrum framework. What questions can you ask with your team about your Sprint Retrospective to raise transparency?

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.

Scrum.org проводитиме вебінар із серії "Запитай Професійного Скрам Тренера" українською мовою. Подія відбудеться 9-го червня о 17:00 за Києвом.

In this webinar Dave West CEO of Scrum.org talks to Tyson Bertmaring, MBA, Head of Partner Success at Dyno Therapeutics, and Matt Abbinanti, Ph.D., Senior Program Manager at CRISPR Therapeutics on how Scrum works in Biotech.

As a Scrum Master myself, I am excited to see the accountability of the Scrum Master clearly defined so that the company who hires me has a clear expectation about what I will do at their company.

Arguably the most famous role in Scrum is the Scrum Master. But for those new to Scrum, it’s a bit of a mystery what a Scrum Master does day to day – here are five things that Scrum Masters do.

Durante l’evento “Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer” edizione italiana del 26 maggio 2021, con Massimo Sarti e Aniello di Florio, certe domande non hanno ottenuto risposta.

TL; DR: Essential Agile Failure Patterns — When Noise Interferes with Signal 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.

Quizás estás pensando en seguir una carrera como un buen líder de cambio.  O tal vez has sido trasladado recientemente a ese puesto y te preguntas si ser un líder de cambio es adecuado para ti.

A common trend among Scrum practitioners that learn about the Kata the first time is to build bridges to something familiar, in this case Scrum. We often hear similar questions such as "Is a Kata a Sprint?", or "How long is Kata?". For that reason, I have a put together a quick follow-up video to discuss the differences between Scrum and Kata.

This blog post discusses how the Circles of Improvement from the book by Stephen R. Covey: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, work in Scrum.

Scrum is founded on empirical process control, and transparency is one of the three pillars.

Quand nous devons résoudre des problèmes complexes, nous avons besoin de liberté (de pensée, expérimenter, etc…) pour apprendre le plus rapidement possible.

Organizations need to move fast and receive ongoing feedback from customers to drive sustainable innovation through continuous discovery and value delivery. But there is a problem — dependencies.

How does the Daily Scrum support Transparency - one of the core underlying concepts of the Scrum framework.

To meet schedules, deliver valuable products, and exceed your stakeholder’s expectations, you need the ability to flex scope and offer an actual minimum marketable product.  You need to know how to break down your work to be forced by technology or business processes to deliver anything more than the minimum. 

A recent piece in the Harvard Business Review entitled ‘Have We Taken Agile Too Far?’ (penned by two former Amazon execs) claimed that “many organisations are taking [Agile] too far and using it to avoid careful planning and preparation.”

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.

The latest EBM (Evidence-Based Management) guide makes a reference to the Improvement Kata as a way to practice scientific thinking for value-based metrics. That Kata consists of 4 basic routines and was popularized for many years by Mike Rother.

I had a leadership nightmare. It was as if most of the directors I have heard and met so far gathered and accompanied me….

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.

In this episode of Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer, Professional Scrum Trainer Peter Gfader answers your technical questions about Scrum. (57:26 Minutes)

Pourquoi me former à Scrum ? Dans cet article, plus que de trouver la réponse à cette question, j’ai préféré vous raconter mon histoire, je suis sûr que certains parmi vous s’y retrouveront !

Hoy vamos a hablar de cómo prácticas agile permiten el trabajo remoto

Hey hey hey. What's good this week awesome people? I hope you had a great week folks. On the last video we discussed what is a "product" according to Scrum Guide 2020.

¿Qué es la Definición de Done? La Guía Scrum 2020 define la «Definición de Done» como la descripción formal del estado del Incremento cuando cumple las medidas de calidad requeridas por el Producto. 

We’ve already discussed the importance of decentralised command and decision-making in an earlier blog, outlining how managers need to be able to train, mentor and teach their teams.

Welcome back to the professional Scrum foundations series. As introduced last week, empiricism is one of the underlying concepts of the Scrum framework.  Scrum is founded on empirical process control, and transparency is one of the three pillars.

When people form a Scrum Team they have to figure out how to become a real team, rather than a collection of individuals. The Scrum Team Charter Canvas is a helpful tool to facilitate Scrum Team formation.

In this talk for Product Management Today, Dave West, CEO of Scrum.org, discusses the interesting, messy connection between work and value. He outlines how changes to the Scrum Guide have shone a spotlight on the challenge that many teams face when delivering more value.

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. One failure symptom of a botched agile transformation is the frustrated Scrum Master.

Angesichts der Komplexität der vielen sozialen, wirtschaftlichen und ökologischen Herausforderungen der Menschheit, müssen wir Agilität neu definieren.

In questo episodio di Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer, i Professional Scrum Trainer Aniello Di Florio, Fabio Panzavolta e Massimo Sarti risponderanno alle vostre domande più scottanti su Scrum e sulle sfide che i vostri team stanno vivendo. (60:40 Minutes)

In my live training, I often ask students why we estimate. The answer I usually hear is some version of...“So we know how big something is and how long it will take.”  

The pandemic has stimulated me to teach Scrum outside my home in the United States. I have been fortunate to collaborate with many diverse cultures worldwide.  I am also grateful to facilitate a team of very talented high-school students in my area. They implemented Scrum to build a real-world mobile application called "The Edge".

El Objetivo de Producto tiene una relación con los objetivos de negocio, la visión del producto y refleja el contexto y las oportunidades de mercado identificadas como potenciales para el producto.

In this video series, Scrum.org has worked with Atlassian University to design a set of videos to help Scrum practitioners improve how they use Jira while practicing Professional Scrum. This series is ongoing and will continue to evolve and grow over time.

Complaining is like releasing gas. It’s a natural occurrence. Everyone does it. But no one wants someone else to do it next to them. How to complain less and do more by Sahin Guvenilir.

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.

Hey hey hey. What's good this week awesome people? I hope you had a great week. As for me I had the opportunity to learn the complexity of being a Product Owner from two experts in product development, Kai Stevens and Sjoerd Kranendonk this week.

In an agile context, we use metrics to set performance goals, measure current conditions, define small improvement experiments and measure the effectiveness of the experiments in order to inspect and adapt goals and determine the next steps.