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On the 25th birthday of Scrum, I have a free gift for all Scrum practitioners... Do you know any Executive who is willing to spend 15 minutes to save 15% or more on the cost of their company's Scrum adoption...? ;)

TL; DR: The Cargo Cult Agile Checklist for Download You want to know the state of agility in your organization? Here we go: Download the checklist, distribute it generously among your colleagues, and run a quick poll.

Ser un Scrum Master puede ser una carrera divertida, emocionante y muy gratificante. Pero, ¿cómo consigues un primer trabajo de Scrum Master si aún no tienes experiencia?

What's up awesome people. Scrum will have its 25 year anniversary. Have Scrum impacted your personal or professional life?

Esta semana he recibido 2 llamadas profesionales que me han llegado al corazón. Una ha sido de una persona pidiendo mentoría y otra de una persona dando las gracias por haberla ayudado.

Desde la Revolución Industrial, la creciente competencia ha impulsado a las empresas hacia estrategias que preservan y aumentan su participación de mercado. 

Me gustaria compartir un plan para pasar el PSM I en 10 días. Recuerda que lo puedes comprar por libre en Scrum.org sin necesidad de tomar el curso. Puedes hacerlo aquí

This video with PST Uta Kapp talks about the Women in Agile Conference 2020.

Scrum and agility create frameworks for diversity. A healthy mix of men and women will benefit from this. In this post I want to explain why.

Many members of Management perceive Scrum as a way to get more velocity, widgets, thingamajigs, outputs, etc. etc. with less money, less people and less time.

Last week, someone on Reddit asked whether there would be any other profession that requires attending a 2-day training class and would then pay as well as a Scrum Master job.

As the Product Owner, you are well aware that part of the success of your product depends on your decision. Every day, you must be facing...

Based on my experience working in agile environments since 2010, I did some research and had general observations on the topic. Regardless of the business domains or product area, there are some common rules that may devastate your efforts toward agility.

A significantly increasing number of companies strive for agility. They intend to progress with agile transformation.

Muitas empresas que estão no processo de Transformação, seja Digital ou Ágil, estão cometendo um erro muito grave em sua esteira de Desenvolvimento de Produto. Existe um grande foco no Produto e um baixo foco no Cliente.

La Sprint Review est l'événement au cours duquel l'Équipe Scrum et les parties prenantes (invitées par le Product Owner) se retrouvent pour inspecter l'Incrément et adapter le Product Backlog.

With the Covid 19 pandemic, I really struggled big time to create the boundary between my work life and personal life. Day by day, that boundary was getting thin. There were lofty overlaps and I sucked at creating the balance.

During my interactions with my students/ colleagues who play the role of Scrum Master, they tell me that they see gaps in how things are implemented compared to the rules of the Scrum Guide.

TL; DR: 70 Scrum Master Theses The following 70 Scrum Master theses describe the role of from a holistic product creation perspective.

As per Scrum Guide – The Sprint Goal is an objective that will be met within the sprint by implementing the Product Backlog, and it guides the Development Team on why it is building the Increment.

20 ideas for using the new Scrum Mythbusters card deck in your organization

Product Owner is Accountable for Maximizing Value of The Product.

In meinen Professional Scrum Master Trainings beantwortet ein Großteil der Teilnehmer diese Frage mit: “Hoffentlich so früh wie möglich, denn als Scrum Master ist es unsere Aufgabe uns selbst überflüssig zu machen.” Haben Sie damit Recht? 

If you currently are in search of the answer to this question, enjoy this video.

The 2017 version of the Scrum Guide states, "The Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of the product resulting from work of the Development Team." But what does value mean anyway?

Le Daily Scrum est un évènement quotidien destiné à l'Équipe de Développement et qui a pour but de planifier le travail des prochaines 24 heures. C'est un time-box de 15 minutes.

Help your remote team discover what happens without clear Sprint Goals. And bring back focus together!

The days are getting shorter and colder. Summer is over and winter is coming. Some people are already thinking about the holidays and the preparations for it. Soon children will have their Christmas wish list ready. The wish lists my children created were always a combination of text and pictures; every item on the list contained a name, a picture, information where to buy it and how much it costs. They did everything to increase the chance of getting these presents and especially getting the right presents.

Esta semana twitter iba lleno de comentarios sobre la última actualización de JIRA, el dictador de nuestra manera de trabajar, la herramienta más famosa del mundo de Ticket Management.

Professional Scrum Trainer Sahin Guvenilir wrote, "Make Sure You Don’t Build High Performing Teams Just to Deliver Wrong Things Faster".

I hope you had some fun playing this year's Scrummer Quiz, which we played from July to August. I know many played each week, to either learn something new about Scrum or to win an autographed book by JJ and Jeff Sutherland ("Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time"). Truly a unique prize.

In this blog series I would like to address topics that relate to professional team coaching as well as Professional Scrum. In the course of becoming a Professional Team Coach, I noticed a lot of interesting topics for Scrum Masters who want to improve their coaching stance.

The end of 2020 is nearing, and it’s product roadmap building time again—at least for those companies that are still dedicated to the old command-and-control model. In the next few weeks, executives and (key) stakeholders will come together and define new functionality that they believe will meet business demands in 2021.

When I saw the book “Art of doing twice the work in the half time,” Dr. Jeff Sutherland wrote, my reaction was like how someone can claim that? What will be an effective measure to have such a comparison?

In this post, we explore how continuous improvement is the lifeblood of Scrum Teams.

What is good awesome people? I hope you are having an awesome weekend so far. After my two previous vlogs, many people asked me: What Happens To The Sprint Backlog Items That Are Not Done?

Suena el teléfono. No sé que decirle a mi Product Owner que me persigue.

Technologie, Globalisierung, Umwelt und unsere Gesellschaft sind längst eng miteinander verknüpft: Technologische Fortschritte treiben die Globalisierung voran, verändern unsere Umwelt und beeinflussen unsere Gesellschaft.

When asked, “Who is the Servant-Leader in Scrum?”, the most common answer is: the Scrum Master.

"Becoming Agile" has been the focus of many organisations for a number of years. 2020 has created a new sense of urgency with a number of factors creating increasing demand for quicker responses.

La agilidad provee un contexto para el aprendizaje continuo. Scrum a través del uso de Sprints, eventos y valores de Scrum crean un espacio para que ese aprendizaje pueda tener lugar.

TL; DR: 20 Questions to Ask the Product Owner to Get up to Speed as a New Scrum Master From Scrum Master to Product Owner, this set of questions addresses the future collaboration between the two individuals and the rest of the Scrum Team.

I was hired by a bank to help them to get started with agile and Scrum...

Lors de mes formations Scrum ou coachings en entreprise, il n’est pas rare que les participants expriment leur souhait d’accéder à davantage de contenus Scrum de qualité en français. ..

Brief about me before you read this post so you can understand my perspective better. I am a software developer and Scrum Teacher...

As part of the Scrum Tapas video series, Professional Scrum Trainer Roland Flemm explores the myth that a Daily Scrum is status meeting and reveals in 2 minutes how to make your Daily Scrum event more valuable.

What should the Development Team do when the Product Owner asks them to do work that was not planned during Sprint Planning?

El compromiso del equipo de desarrollo durante el Sprint es lograr el Sprint Goal y con ello el impacto en los clientes y en el negocio. El éxito del Sprint está asociado al logro de este objetivo y a los cambios en el comportamiento de los clientes que se puede provocar con el uso del producto.

The foundation of Agility and Scrum is the principle of Empiricism - using what is happening in front of us to learn and adjust what we do next...