Many assume stakeholders just mean "management." But the Scrum Guide never mentions "manager" once. Are you sure you know who your real stakeholders are? Missing one could mean missing critical feedback—or building something no one wants.

While empathy is a critical leadership skill, many leaders struggle to practice it consistently. Several psychological, organizational, and systemic barriers make it difficult for leaders to be truly empathetic toward their teams.

Scrum bietet nicht die fertige Lösung, sondern den Rahmen für kontinuierliche Verbesserung. Viele Teams glauben, dass sie automatisch erfolgreicher werden, sobald sie die Scrum-Regeln verstehen und anwenden. Doch die wahre Stärke von Scrum zeigt sich erst, wenn Teams aktiv den Inspect & Adapt-Zyklus...

A Product Owner is an important accountability when it comes to creating Valuable products. However, a Scrum Team may not always have a Valuable Product Owner. What I mean is, if the person performing the accountability of Product Owner is not well versed or executes their responsibilities poorly th...

In diesem Artikel erklärt PST Simon Flossmann 5 Methoden, mit denen du jeden Teilnehmer in deine Schulung einbindest – ohne deine Folien anzupassen

Wie KI-gesteuerte Ansätze es agilen Produktteams ermöglichen, bessere Erkenntnisse über Kunden zu gewinnen und innovativere Lösungen zu liefern.

In this Ask a PST session, Professional Scrum Trainer Mary Iqbal dives into the principles of Agile Leadership, offering actionable insights for fostering collaboration, enabling self-managing teams, and driving organizational success in a fast-paced, complex world.

Myth # 39: Technical Debt is the Developer's Problem. They caused it, so they should fix it on their own time.

Dependencies kill productivity, slow teams down, and create waste. This insightful blog explores the root causes of dependencies and outlines effective strategies for tackling them.

A title might give you authority, but it doesn’t make you a leader. True leadership is about impact, trust, and how you elevate those around you. Are you truly leading, or just occupying a position? Let’s dive into what it really takes to lead with influence and build a thriving team culture.

Product Backlog Management is challenging. Imagine you’re a Product Owner with a backlog of 300+ items. Stakeholders keep adding requests, developers feel lost in prioritisation, and every refinement session is a painful, drawn-out discussion. If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone. If you have e...

In diesem Artikel schilder PST Simon Flossmann seine 3 Aha-Moment nach 10 Jahren mit Sprint-Zielen.

How AI-driven approaches enable agile product teams to gain deeper customer insights and deliver more innovative solutions.

This blog post describes a 1-hour Retrospective format to help teams reflect on the empirical pillars of Scrum.

In this talk by PST Sanjay Saini from Agile Leadership Day India, he talks about how to be an empathetic leader. (33:03 Minutes)

In der Welt von Scrum und agilem Arbeiten basiert der Erfolg auf empirischem Arbeiten – dem kontinuierlichen Lernen und Anpassen in kurzen Zyklen. Doch dieses Konzept hat eine essenzielle Grundlage: Qualität.

The Sprint Review isn’t about showing what the Scrum Team built—it’s about discovering how stakeholders experience the product. Learn how to turn inspection into real adaptation and ensure your Sprint Review drives product evolution.

Discover why "fail fast" falls short and learn a more effective framework—fail smarter, sooner, and forward—to transform failure into strategic innovation.

A product operating model defines how an organization structures, funds, and manages product teams to drive business success. In this article, we break down six essential concepts that help product leaders create a scalable, outcome-driven model. From aligning strategy with execution to fostering cr...

Empathy in leadership may seem intangible, but its return on investment (ROI) is measurable through its profound impact on individuals, teams, and organizational performance. By fostering trust, improving communication, and creating a psychologically safe environment, empathetic leadership drives ta...

In diesem Artikel beschreibt PST Simon Flossmann seine Weg als Trainer von Frontalunterricht zu „Training from the Back of the Room"

In part two of this portfolio management Q&A, Dave West, Yuval Yeret, and Darrell Fernandes tackle the complexities of funding products vs. teams, especially in nonprofits. They explore shifting from work-based to product-based funding, managing technical debt vs. product roadmap progress, and align...

Every now and then some one talks about or highlights a practice which has nothing to do with Scrum. Yet, due to widespread usage of the practice, people think that the specific practice is part of Scrum and should be followed to do Scrum in the right way. Sometimes, the Scrum Masters for the lack o...

At Argus, the maintenance team in Edmonton faced a challenge: ensuring consistent, high-quality repairs while dealing with an unpredictable workload.

Passer la Certification PSPO-III peut sembler insurmontable, dans cet article Vivien C. vous donne les clés pour réussir.

In this blog, I explore the critical distinction between leadership and management, sparking a debate that often arises in Scrum workshops: "Is a Scrum Master a leader or a manager?" By examining the roles of both managers and leaders, I clarify how leadership goes beyond managing tasks and involves...

How can you focus on continuous improvement if you think everything is already perfect? Scrum Masters who become too emotionally attached to their teams can lose the ability to assess improvement opportunities objectively.

In diesem Artikel erklärt PST Simon Flossmann, warum Scrum Master von Velocity besessen sein sollten.

A glue role connects different parts of an organization, ensuring smooth team communication, collaboration, and integration. These roles are essential for implementing change and solving systemic issues that impact multiple departments. It’s easy to see the connection to the purpose of a Scrum Maste...

Rigid, long-term forecasts stifle agility and increase risk, but figuring out how to do shift to agile forecasting is challenging. We'll explore for core practices that enable agility through adaptable investment decisions: re-forecasting, decreasing precision, bracketing, and aligning forecasts wit...

Find ways of understanding and increasing value by imagining you are about to pitch your product to a demanding investor

Scrum isn’t about blindly following a plan—it’s about inspecting, learning, and adjusting. But not all changes are improvements. Discover how small, goal-oriented, data-driven tweaks can make the difference between continuous improvement and chaotic change.

In this webinar, PST Joanna Plaskonka explores why psychological safety is essential for Scrum success, delving into how it fosters trust, transparency, and innovation within teams.

Change is inevitable in any organization, from shifting markets to evolving customer expectations. Agile frameworks can help navigate these challenges, but they must evolve alongside the organization. While generative frameworks adapt and grow, rigid ones impose fixed solutions that may become obsol...

Komplexität im Code ist ein oft unterschätztes Problem, das die Leistungsfähigkeit eines Teams erheblich beeinträchtigen kann. Sie schleicht sich heimlich ein, führt zu unübersichtlichem und schwer wartbarem Code und hindert Teams daran, schnell und effektiv auf Veränderungen zu reagieren. Langfrist...

The core strength of Scrum is its ability to take advantage of self-managing teams who are capable of making faster decisions, taking ownership and creating value by helping the customers to respond to ever changing needs of their domain, market. The challenge however is, how many self-managing tea...

In diesem Artikel erklärt PST Simon Flossmann die 3 Kernkompetenzen Agiler Produktentwicklung

Product Metrics That Speak Wall Street: Turn Misunderstood Products into Investor Gold

Dans ce post, Vivien C. vous parle de son expérience en F1. Faire partie d'une équipe "high performance" - 🏎️ une vraie 🏎️ - et son vécu de membre d'équipe Scrum dans sa version la plus fluide.

Accountability and responsibility are often confused, but the key difference is that responsibility can be delegated, while accountability cannot. This blog explores the distinction with real-life examples, including tax filing and Scrum leadership.

In some of my classes, people tell me they are using Scrum—but they can't call it Scrum. Why? Because someone in their organization had a bad experience with it.

In diesem Artikel teilt PST Simon Flossmann, 7 Tipps, wie du die Sprint-Retrospektiven moderierst. 

An Increment that isn’t inspectable creates blind spots—decisions are based on assumptions, not evidence. In this post, we explore what makes an Increment truly inspectable, common anti-patterns, and how to ensure your Scrum Team delivers transparency every Sprint.

Learn about The Truth Curve from Jeff Gothelf. The Truth Curve is a simple visualization designed to force the conversation to reconcile “how much do we know?” and “what’s the next step?

Learn about the Hypotheses Prioritization Canvas from Jeff Gothelf.If you have many hypotheses, how do you decide where your precious discovery hours should be spent? Which hypotheses should be tested? Which ones should be de-prioritised or just thrown away? To help answer this question you can appl...

Kontinuierliche Verbesserung klingt in der Theorie großartig: Teams optimieren ihre Prozesse, steigern die Qualität ihrer Arbeit und entwickeln sich stetig weiter. Aber die Praxis zeigt: Es ist oft eine echte Herausforderung, diese Verbesserungen dauerhaft im Arbeitsalltag zu verankern. Warum? 1️...

If you are managing a product, you need to be clear about what drives value and what doesn’t. Not all bug fixes and refactors are worth it.

In diesem Artikel warnt PST Simon Flossmann dich vor 3 Fehler, die sich in Sprint-Plannings einschleichen

Psychologische Sicherheit ist keine nebensächliche „Nettigkeit“ – sie ist die Grundlage für agile Teams, die innovativ sind, sich an Veränderungen anpassen und Ergebnisse liefern.

The only reason for a Product Owner to exist is to maximize the value of the Product. One of the ways a Product Owner can accomplish this is by ensuring that most valuable items remain at the top of the Product Backlog and the Product Goal underscores their importance. So, how does the Product Owner...