Several years ago, I was the Scrum Master for a team working on a technology product.  Two of the team’s Developers told me they would like to try pair programming.  

Product Owners are a critical role in the Scrum Framework, but what does a Product Owner do? This blog post will discuss the day-to-day activities of this position and explore how these accountabilities create successful projects.

A scenario showing how the scrum framework and metrics can help a team self manage for improvement.

Leadership – 5 cambiamenti fondamentali, analizza le origini dei problemi che bloccano l’innovazione impedendo a certe aziende di rimanere competitive. Ho potuto osservare questi problemi nel corso degli ultimi 20 anni. In alcuni casi, ho contribuito a migliorare la situazione. Molto più spesso, purtroppo, ho assistito a battaglie politiche, di ego e desiderio di dominare che hanno ridotto le possibilità di migliorare la creazione di valore.

Will Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches soon be replaced with a chatbot? In this ChatGPT job interview, I put OpenAI’s latest generative AI to the test.

El modelo lógico del proyecto te permitirá entender los tipos de metas y métricas que se pueden usar en el contexto del proceso de creación de valor de los productos o servicios.

En este capítulo aprenderás: 1. ¿Qué es Evidence-Based Management? 2. ¿Qué papel juegan las metas y métricas en las organizaciones ágiles? 3. ¿Cuáles son los componentes de Evidence-Based Management (o EBM)? 4. Y más importante, ¿por qué vale la pena aprender EBM?

Este curso te enseñará el marco de trabajo Evidence-Based Management para trabajar con metas y métricas en organizaciones ágiles.

Moderation ist im Scrum Rahmenwerk fest verankert. Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review und Sprint Retrospektive sind dadurch bestimmt, dass innerhalb einer vorgeschriebenen Zeitspanne ein Ergebnis erreicht werden soll. Der Scrum Master facilitiert die Zusammenarbeit so, dass das Scrum Team dieses Ergebnis auch erreicht. Was ist, wenn er nicht zur Verfügung steht? Scrum Master, die ihr Moderationswissen nicht mit ihrem Team teilen, können so schnell zum Hindernis für die Teamarbeit werden. Wenn du nicht zu diesen Scrum Mastern gehören willst, dann lies weiter. Ich verrate dir mein bewährtes Entwicklungsmodell. Es liefert dir eine schrittweise Anleitung, wie du die Facilitation-Fertigkeiten im gesamten Scrum Team entwickeln kannst.

In this vlog, PST Joshua Partogi shares that self-managing teams is not the objective of the Scrum Master and also the larger goal that the Scrum Master need to pursue.

Are you aware that as a human being, you have the ability to convert thought energy into results in the physical world? And of course, you can choose which thought you want to convert. In this "Professional Mind for Professional Scrum" series I will walk you through the marvelous world of the mind that can boost the Scrum Teams spirit of goal achieving.

Agile approaches like Scrum have long promoted the importance of working at a sustainable pace. This principle was made part of the Agile Manifesto due to a common practice in the software industry where people were(/are) expected to work extra hours in order to meet a deadline. Commonly this was(/is) used to mask inevitable inaccuracies in planning, poor management and quality issues.

Empiricism is one of the underlying concepts of the Scrum framework. Scrum is founded on empirical process control, and transparency is the first of the three pillars. How does this show during Sprint Review?

What happens when a Scrum Team becomes overwhelmed with requests that stakeholders make directly to the Developers instead of the Product Owner?  

Es gibt eine Herausforderung, bei der ich Euch um Eure Unterstützung bitten möchte: Welches Cover soll es sein – das Rote oder das Blaue?

Are you sick and tired of destroying precious time, money, goodwill, potential and value in the name of "transformation"? Do you want to learn 7 reasons why this keeps happening over and over again? Interested in learning 7 ways to stop this from happening? Watch this video and help your company stop sacrificing value at the altar of "transformation".

Scrum Teams are often given goals with the expectations that they need to be achieved. This anti-pattern leads to waste and disengagement. The article explores the purpose of setting goals in a complex environment.

Being an effective Scrum Master or team member inevitably involves difficult conversations. How we approach challenging discussions can mean the difference between a transformative moment and one that goes sideways. Fortunately, there is a lot we can do to prepare for those times when we need to wade through a thorny issue. Let’s look at some strategies for facilitating difficult Scrum Team conversations.

Il est fréquent de demander au Scrum Master de tenir le rôle de facilitateur dans les 5 événements de Scrum. Dépassons ce cap pour aller vers des stratégies plus apprenantes, à la fois pour le Scrum Master et pour la Scrum Team.

Im Sommer 2021 nahm ich an einem Werte-Workshop teil. Der Tag endete für mich mit mehr Fragezeichen auf der Stirn, als er begonnen hatte. Nicht die Diskussion über die Werte verwirrte mich, sondern die Frage: Was unterscheidet Vision, Mission, Strategie und Roadmap? Im letzten Jahr habe ich viel gelesen, recherchiert und mit erfahrenen agilen Coaches darüber gesprochen, was eine Vision, eine Mission und eine Roadmap auszeichnet. Dabei bin ich auf die folgende, überraschend einfache Erklärung gestoßen. Um dir ein Jahr Arbeit zu ersparen, teile ich sie hier mit dir:

Almost all Scrum Teams use a type of board to visualize their work giving them a better understanding of where they are currently and helping them make upcoming decisions. In this post, we investigate the techniques of effective collaboration on Sprint Board one by one.

Empiricism is one of the underlying concepts of the Scrum framework. Scrum is founded on empirical process control, and transparency is the first of the three pillars. How does this show during your Daily Scrum?

What is one of the most important aspects of holding the Scrum Master accountability? If you immediately thought about something like removing impediments and helping the team get to Done, I want you to think of the bigger picture. How you show up as a leader has the biggest impact. Not sure what that means? Read on to see why your mindset and what you bring of yourself to your Scrum practice are critical to success.

Grow confidence, celebrate small successes, and build the muscle to get through the hard stuff.

In this video podcast episode, PST Joshua Partogi share his opinion how Scrum Masters stay relevant so they won't be seen as an individual that can be replaced by Artificial Intelligence like ChatGPT.

Originalmente se tiende a asociar Scrum y la Agilidad al desarrollo de software, pero esto no ha limitado la posibilidad de su uso en diversas industrias como, por ejemplo: marketing, manufactura, la industria de la panificación, etc. La figura muestra una lista de industrias que están adoptando Scrum para mejorar su enfoque de entrega de valor y redefinir sus formas de desarrollo de producto. ¿Qué otras industrias conoces donde se usa Scrum o potencialmente puede usar Scrum?

Scrum Master mit Personalverantwortung im Team – ein Antipattern? Ich habe noch nie einen Scrum Master getroffen, der diese Idee nicht als Scrum-Antipattern bezeichnen würde. Als Argumente werden dafür meist drei Gründe angeführt:

In this vlog, PST Joshua Partogi share a guidelines as a starting point for agile.

Is your Product Ownership consistently optimizing sustainable, measurable value from your products and services? Or do you feel that Product Ownership is stuck in your company? If you fall in the second category, this video blog is for you! You will learn 6 ways to get Product Ownership unstuck by combining ideas from the world of Scrum, Agile Product Management and Co-Active Coaching.

Empiricism is one of the underlying concepts of the Scrum framework. Scrum is founded on empirical process control, and transparency is the first of the three pillars. How does this show during Sprint Planning?

Scrum is a lightweight framework for solving complex problems. The mechanics are relatively easy to understand, and your Scrum Master will help you with this. However, it is much more important for a Product Owner to exploit the benefits of Scrum from a business perspective.

What are the characteristics of a Scrum-friendly environment that supports nurturing high-performing Scrum Teams? Such an environment is your north star that your organization can always get aligned against. In this post, you will get a clear and solid image of a Scrum-friendly Environment.

I need your support, dear community. For months, I have been working on turning the popular Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide PDF into a new book from Scrum-org’s Professional Scrum Series, published by Pearson. There is one challenge, though, I like to ask for your support: which cover shall it be — red or blue?

„Als [Rolle] möchte ich [Funktion], um [Nutzen].“ User Stories, die so geschrieben sind, bergen drei große Probleme: 1. Sie ignorieren den Kontext oder die konkrete Situation. 2. Sie verwenden Personas. 3. Sie koppeln die Funktion mit dem Ergebnis für den Nutzer. Hier die Probleme im Detail:

Ha salido la quinta edición del ’The Business Agility Report’. Cómo sabes es un reporte sobre la agilidad de negocio en el mundo. Destaca sobretodo el crecimiento y gran impacto de la agilidad de negocio en todo el mundo conjuntamente con otras tendencias de 2022 que te compartimos en el siguiente video.

In the heat of "the battle" teams tend to forget why they use the Scrum framework after all and what the foundations are of it. Why do we have Sprint Planning sessions every other week, why does our Product Owner has these or those accountabilities, why did we started using a team board after all, why did... 

This is the fourth part of the four-part series on conflict. In the first part, we explored why we need conflict. In the second how to establish a space that will be conducive to exploration of ideas. In the third some techniques to review suggestions and ideas. In this post, we will explore a pattern to guide the group through a conflict objectively. 

9 von 10 Agilisten verbringen ihre Zeit damit, Dinge zu verbessern. Aber was bedeutet „besser“ eigentlich? - Ist es besser, wenn weitere Prozesse zur Qualitätssicherung eingeführt werden? - Ist es besser, wenn weitere Funktionen zum Produkt hinzugefügt werden? - Ist es besser, wenn wir stets neue Methoden in den Ablauf der Retrospektive einfügen? - Ist es besser, wenn wir noch ein weiteres Chat-Tool einführen, damit das Team besser kommunizieren kann? An welchem Punkt ist „besser“ dann gut genug? Ich nehme dir die Antwort vorweg: Wenn „besser“ „mehr“ bedeutet, dann niemals. Mehr Prozesse, mehr Features, mehr Methoden und mehr Tools sind keine Garantie für Agilität. Wenn du wissen willst, welche Frage sich Agilisten stattdessen stellen sollten dann lies weiter...

In Scrum planen wir viel: Es gibt einen täglichen Plan, wenn die Entwickler während des Daily Scrum darüber nachdenken, wie sie heute dem Sprint-Ziel näher kommen können. Natürlich spiegelt das Sprint-Ziel selbst ein größeres Etappenziel wider, das das Scrum-Team für wertvoll hält, um die Probleme seiner Kunden zu lösen. Außerdem gibt es das noch Produkt-Ziel, ein mittel- oder langfristiges Ziel des Scrum-Teams. Schauen wir uns drei kritische Probleme an, die Scrum-Teams mit Produkt-Zielen haben, und ein praktisches Tool, das Ihnen hilft, das Durcheinander zu vermeiden.

Sprint Planning is one of those events that even experienced teams don’t use to its fullest potential.  Here’s why. Many teams see the Sprint Planning event as the time for selecting which Product Backlog items (PBIs) they will deliver in the upcoming Sprint.  And that’s it.  There is so much more that teams can do to maximize the value they get from Sprint Planning.

We plan a lot in Scrum: There is a daily plan when the Developers think about progressing toward the Sprint Goal during the Daily Scrum. Of course, the Sprint Goal reflects an intermediate target the Scrum team considers valuable to solve their customers’ problems. Moreover, there is the Product Goal, a mid- or long-term objective of the Scrum team. Let’s check three critical issues Scrum teams have with Product Goals and a practical tool that helps you avoid the mess.

Are you a product owner? Do you need some coping strategies? Here are two tried and tested strategies. First, become a developer and use the notion of a product owner helper from large scale scrum. Secondly, have a speak now or forever hold your silence meeting.

This is the third part of the four-part series on conflict. In the first part, we explored why we need conflict. In the second how to establish a space that will be conducive to exploration of ideas. In this post, we will explore some techniques to objectively review ideas. 

Der Scrum Guide enthält viele Regeln und Empfehlungen, aber kannst du sie unterscheiden? User Storys zu schätzen ist nicht verpflichtend. In Scrum gibt es keine verpflichtenden Best Practices! Scrum ist ein Rahmenwerk und keine Methode. Der Scrum Guide beschreibt deshalb nur das „Was“ und nicht das „Wie“. Deshalb sind Praktiken immer nur Empfehlungen. Scrum Master, die Best Practices als verpflichtende Scrum Regeln auffassen, behindern die Agilität im Unternehmen. Agil zu sein bedeutet, sich an den Kontext anzupassen. Allerdings ist dieser für jedes Team, jedes Produkt und jedes Unternehmen verschieden. Damit du nicht auch zu diesen Scrum Mastern gehörst, findest du hier eine Übersicht der wichtigsten Regeln und Empfehlungen aus dem Scrum Guide.

In this article, I will try to give you some ideas on how a Scrum Master can serve the organization and also some practical examples.

El informe sobre el estado de Agile en 2022 es un documento que proporciona una descripción general del estado actual de las prácticas y metodologías ágiles, incluida información sobre su adopción y eficacia. Las organizaciones pueden utilizar este informe para evaluar la eficacia de sus prácticas ágiles e identificar áreas de mejora. Aqui tienes nuestro análisis para el 2022.

Does the following situation ring a bell? You enter a room and immediately get involved in a situation, listen how a problem is described, see a task or read a request. A single look, a single sentence, a small wink makes you think you perfectly know what is going on. This blogpost invites you to step back and listen before you act. It provides questioning techniques to help you as Scrum Master, Product Owner, Developer or Agile Leader to stay a little bit longer in the state of "actively do nothing" and listen before you act.

Let’s unpack what defines trust and how, although it does not sit among them, the Scrum values help build trust among team members.

Nexus es el marco ideal para escalar Scrum debido a que no modifica Scrum. Es ideal para quienes ya usan Scrum debido a que su adopción se basa en Scrum. Nexus mejora la visiblidad y transparencia de las dependencias entre los equipos, dependencias externas y de otro tipo que elevan el riesgo de no entregar incremento de producto integrado entre todos los equipos que escalan a través de Nexus. Un evento clave es el Nexus Daily Scrum donde participan al menos un integrante de cada equipo Scrum del escalamiento además del equipo de Integración, Product Owner y Scrum Master.

This is the second part of the four-part series on conflict. In the first part, we explored why we need conflict. In this post, we explore how to establish clear boundaries at the start of the event to provide the environment that will enable you as a facilitator to navigate through conflict.