This article argues that what looks like “broken Scrum” is usually a fundamentals problem underneath — especially weak transparency, inspection, and adaptation. It helps readers spot that pattern fast, then gives them a practical counter-move they can apply instead of adding more process theatre.

Are you prepared for the remaining days of a canceled Sprint? Let's check it.

Short piece on how to use organizational mapping to connect strategy, capabilities, and structure, check whether your organization design really supports its goals, and redesign it when it does not.

En este artículo el PST Alex Ballarin explica cómo la IA es una gran oportunidad para los product owners, y da ejemplos de 5 prompts de IA que

In this long tutorial, I explain how a great Scrum Master spends their time in a regular Sprint.

Some Scrum Teams use specific Sprints with specific names for specific purposes. But there is a problem with this approach.

If you have both business and technical people on the same Scrum Team, let me start with this: That’s awesome!

If your organization is learning how to run Scrum when half your team is AI agents, you already know that traditional Scrum events require a change. The Sprint Review is no exception. In a traditional setup, the human developer who built the feature takes pride in demonstrating it to the stakeholders. But who demos the product when an AI agent builds it?

An overview of Front–Middle–Back archetypes for multi‑dimensional organizations, with three structural patterns and real examples from Salesforce, AWS, USAA, Siemens, Philips, SEB and Samsung.

We are used to seeing visualizations for the first two artifacts, Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog. But, how about the third one, Increment?!

In diesem Artikel erklärt PST Simon Flossmann 5 Fallstricke, die Product-Owner-Karrieren sabotieren

How do you support your team? How do you bring out their creativity and wisdom, their curiosity and determination, and skill growth? The answer is servant leadership. In this post, we will explore 5 actions of an effective servant-leader.

En este artículo, el PST Alex Ballarín explica con cinco ejemplos de prompts para tu LLM favorito, como la IA puede potencial el trabajo del Scrum Master en las organizaciones.

Change fitness is a measurable organizational capacity that depletes under concurrent transformation load. Most organizations diagnose resistance when the real problem is depletion.

Multi-dimensional org design beats classic M-form: a front–middle–back model that unites products, customers and shared platforms into one system to unlock cross-segment value and scale.

Do you move undone PBIs directly to the next Sprint?! Then you need to watch this video.

Decisions run on perception, not truth. Here’s how to tighten it.

In diesem Artikel beschreibt Mark Rehberg warum für Teams die Art der Veränderung nicht so wichtig ist. Die Veränderung aber notwendig.

Dieser Artikel argumentiert, dass Jira kurz davor steht, von der Wissensautorität zur Ausführungsoberfläche degradiert zu werden — Kontext ist wichtiger denn je.

Muitos profissionais dominam o Scrum na execução, mas ainda têm dúvidas sobre o que realmente deve ser construído. Este artigo explora como o Product Discovery complementa o Scrum ao ajudar times a identificar problemas relevantes e reduzir incertezas antes de investir em delivery

Many Scrum Masters believe they should be present in the Daily Scrums, but ...

Como Scrum Master es ideal desarrollar la habilidad de escucha activa en el equipo. La escucha profunda, reflexiva y con empatía es diferente a escuchar para refutar y rechazar. Recibir, entender y agradecer todos los aportes puede ser el inicio de un conflicto constructivo, saludable y creativo para enriquecer las soluciones que se puedan lograr. En este post se aportan algunas ideas sobre como el Scrum Master facilita la solución de conflictos.

Learn how Scrum reduces risk with 5 practical ways teams catch issues early, adapt quickly, and avoid costly mistakes in complex projects, in this post by PST Robb Pieper.

“Wir machen ein Experiment, aber am Ende muss es funktionieren!” Diesen oder ähnliche Aussagen kennen wir zu genüge, wenn es darum geht, dass ein Team Dinge ausprobiert um das Teamspiel zu verbessern. In diesem Artikel beschreibt Mark Rehberg, woran man "echte" Team Experimente erkennt.

Your Sprint length depends on two main forces. Let's check them.

The integration of autonomous AI agents into software teams requires us to rethink how we approach our Scrum events. When half of your contributors are machines, the traditional Daily Scrum fundamentally changes.

How should we limit WIP on the Portfolio Kanban? How is a Portfolio-level kanban system different when it comes to limiting WIP? Shifting from capacity management to leadership focus management

En este artículo el PST Alex Ballarín nos explica porque la Definición de Hecho es todavía más importante en la época del desarrollo de software con IA, como puede adaptarse este artefacto para seguir siendo efectivo y además muestra un ejemplo ilustrativo de Definición de Hecho adaptada a IA.

En este artículo, el PST Alex Ballarín te explica como la IA generativa puede ser una gran compañera para preparar eventos de Scrum más valiosos y orientados a fomentar la colaboración entre los miembros del equipo. Además puede reducir significativamente el esfuerzo del Scrum Master a este efecto.

En este artículo el PST Alex Ballarín explica como los cambios de la IA en las organizaciones son sistémicos, y como el Scrum Master tiene experiencia en facilitar cambios complejo como este a través de la transparencia, inspección y adaptación.

This article argues that the tool on which 62% of agile teams rely is about to be demoted from knowledge authority to execution interface. We need to move from Jira to AI Agents.

Someone notices a problem. Should we knock it out now?

In this article, PST Simon Flossmann shares 3 insights about setting Sprint Goals.

In diesem Artikel erklärt PST Simon Flossmann warum 90 % der Product-Owner diese Sprint-Review-Änderung meiden

Organizations don't become complex by accident. Complexity is accumulated decision debt from thousands of reasonable local decisions that create an unreasonable system. Simplification requires the same rigor as creation.

Imagine someone asks you to explain what Agile is. What would you say?!

The work means the result: stop doing status, start showing reality

A Inteligência Artificial pode acelerar a entrega, mas também aumenta a incerteza e a complexidade. Neste contexto, o Scrum mantém-se essencial ao ajudar as equipas a manter foco no valor, tomar decisões informadas e aprender continuamente através de ciclos curtos de inspeção e adaptação.

En este artículo el PST Alex Ballarín explora porque Scrum es más necesario que nunca cuando aceleras el desarrollo de software con IA, y cuál es el papel clave que puede jugar el Scrum Master en esta transformación.

En este artículo el PST Alex Ballarín explica porqué la IA no va a matar a Scrum, y como se puede adaptar Scrum a equipos más pequeños y con ciclos de desarrollo rápido.

Scrum Master is a mysterious accountability and usually students in my classes ask me to explain it. Let's check it together.

Die meisten agilen Praktiker nutzen KI, um schneller Ergebnisse zu liefern. Wenige nutzen sie als Hilfe, um bessere Entscheidungen zu treffen. Diese drei kostenlosen Claude Skills – Socratic Explorer, Brutal Critic, Pre-Mortem – helfen dabei.

Multi‑functional teams don’t emerge from slogans like “learn and help each other”. They appear when structure, metrics, rewards and people practices stop punishing cross‑functionality and start deliberately supporting it.

Having a good conversation about the ordering of the Product Backlog comes down to great facilitation, and a good facilitator needs a toolkit. Here are six great facilitation approaches for encouraging debate and discussion on the content and ordering of the Product Backlog.

The Strategic Change Canvas is a simple bridge between strategy and org design. It helps leadership teams align on urgency, goals, focus, key capabilities, and constraints before any redesign.

Learning together as a team with private training has a lot of hidden potential that few people talk about. Let's check the why and what of it.

In diese Artikel beschreibt PST Simon Flossmann Schulden, die Scrum Teams ausbremsen.

Get 3 Claude Skills — Socratic Explorer, Brutal Critic, and Pre-Mortem — that turn the AI into a partner for diagnosing problems, stress-testing plans, and anticipating failures before they happen.

Mastering AI-augmented Sprint Planning requires a transition from a human-only process to a hybrid one. Your AI agents will not speak up, but they will be the key contributors to your Sprint's success. By ignoring them you will put your Sprint Goal in danger.

92% of product leaders own revenue but lack time for analysis - operating model design failure, not productivity. Revenue accountability without analytical capacity is organizational malpractice.