TL; DR: Lipstick Agile — Happiness in the Trenches? Have you noticed how many people in the agile field are unhappy with their work situation?

Does your team struggle to get items to Done? Do they experience a high amount of spill-over into the next cycle because they are waiting on another team or another person? Do items sit in a blocked state and age out while waiting on other teams or people to complete work?

What is up awesome people? I hope you are having a great weekend.

In this post, we describe one tiny experiment that creates transparency about lack of autonomy, and what happens because of it. It won’t create earth-shattering miracles, but I should start the right conversations.

We often try to make massive change once we realize something isn't right and this doesn't normally go so well. When it comes to making progress everyone wants to LEAP; take BIGGER steps.

Since the Industrial Revolution, increasing competition has driven businesses towards strategies that preserve and increase their market share.

When I first became a Scrum Master, I heard the phrase assume positive intent over and over again. And it really resonated with me.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times : Bruce Lee

Pour bien comprendre les fondations de Scrum, nous partons du postulat que nous créons et maintenons des systèmes complexes : un systè

TL;DR: Creating an Agile Community of Practice Creating an agile community of practice helps winning hearts and minds within the organization as it provides authenticity to the agile transition — signaling that the effort is not merely a

In today's vlog I discuss five indicators to identify whether someone is the Product Owner.

In May 2019, I spoke at the Agile Manchester conference, where I presented my talk "The Product Owner's Toolbox".

What is the one thing you need to achieve everything you want with respect to health, fitness and life?

TL; DR: Exploring a Virtual Ecocycle Planning with Mural — A Live Virtual Meetup on August 20, 2020 Let’s try our favorite Liberating Structure microstructure in a remote setting with 

Fitness and health is so many different things to so many people, but what is that one thing it should be for everyone? Any idea?........................... FUN !

Regularly, we find articles from developers detailing why ‘Agile’ in general and Scrum’s nature, in particular, deserve our collective disdain.

Я Скрам Мастер и, узнавая, в чем заключается эта роль, я выяснил, что Скрам Мастерство - сложная профессия.

Scrum est un cadre de travail dans lequel les personnes peuvent résoudre des problèmes adaptatifs complexes, tout en fournissant de manière productive et créative des produits de la plus haute valeur possible.

In today's video I will explain the Scrum Master career path.

“Can an R&D team of chemists, physicists, electrical engineers, mechanical engineers and embedded software developers optimize teamwork and value by using Scrum? And can live virtual Scrum training deliver a practical Scrum learning experience to everyone on such a functionally diverse team?”

In this 2 minutes FAQ video, I will answer the frequently asked question in the agile community: does one need to be certified to be a Scrum Master?

There is no such thing as an Agile Transformation, Digital Transformation, DevOps Transformation, or any of the Whatever Transformation that you can think of or have been sold. You can’t buy agility, and you certainly can’t install it. There is no end state, no optimal outcome, No best practices. We are no longer factory workers.

Os situo en marzo de 2020. Volved atrás mentalmente a la semana del 15 a 20 de Marzo de 2020.

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. Cette série « Le meilleur de Scrum » répond à ce besoin en proposant des traductions d’une sélection d’articles de référence écrits par d’autres PSTs de chez Scrum.org.

A typical Kanban board shows a series of steps or activities that work passes through. Does this mean that Kanban is only suitable for "linear" processes? Scrum is a proven strategy for addressing complex adaptive problems, so if Kanban is linear, is it an unsuitable complimentary practice to add to Scrum?

Eine hohe Produktqualität ist Dreh- und Angelpunkt von Scrum. Der Massstab von Produktqualität in Scrum ist die „Definition of Done (DoD)“. Wer aber ist verantwortlich dafür, dass die Produktqualität erreicht wird?

Ein Produkt für Kunden verfügbar zu machen ist der einzige Weg für ein Unternehmen, mit diesem Produkt Wert zu generieren. Erst wenn ein Produkt am Markt verfügbar ist, sind Kunden bereit, Geld dafür zu bezahlen. Wer aber entscheidet, ob ein Produkt released wird?

What is up awesome people! In this vlog I will be sharing why the Product Backlog in Scrum is not only consists of User Stories and why it is not prioritised.

Do you need an emergency fund as a change agent—whether you are acting as Scrum Master, Product Owner or agile coach—

Late in the second day of my PSM classes, I usually do an exercise with my students about skills and traits.

Without skilled developers, the Scrum Framework is no more than lipstick on a pig.

Agility is not a state. Agility is an ability to change and respond to an environment you're in as an organization.  Once you realize that a binary Scrum-not Scrum stops making much sense.

In my daily life as a Scrum Master, I witness many crazy situations. I want to share my discoveries via this comic series featuring Koos Coach, the silly Scrum Master struggling to understand and master Scrum.

What’s up awesome people. I hope you had a great week and ready for the weekend. In this [2 Minutes FAQ] video, I will answer the frequently asked questions: How can the Scrum Master make the Scrum team more self-organised?

El objetivo de Scrum es maximizar la entrega de valor a través del aprendizaje de los clientes. Scrum se basa en el empirismo y si queremos potenciar sus beneficios se requiere que exista foco en le entrega de valor de negocio. Scrum es una herramienta para lograr la agilidad empresarial. 

In our Professional Agile Leadership training, we talk about changing your organisations hiring practices to hire more of the right sort of pe

Your Sprint Planning Meetings don’t have to be a chore. Your Sprint Backlog doesn’t have to be a mess. Do short backlog refinement meetings twice a week and sleep a lot.

On many occasions in the recent past, working with distributed agile teams has amplified existing organizational, technical, and cultural challenges in many organizations.

Part of the role of being a Scrum Master is to be a coach; to the team, the organisation and the individual.

 

Starting from today, I am going to start a new series on my channel which I will call the 2 minutes FAQ series.

The Siren song of SAFe

I've been using a visualization that people find useful for understanding the relationship between the various Lean/Agile requirement containers. Some people call the full model a dinosaur. Others are reminded of the snake who ate an elephant from "The Little Prince". (I'm sure there is a good connection to elephant carpaccio somewhere in here ...). In this article I'll explore this model and connect it to the stances of the Scrum Product Owner. 

In light of the new normal and the last 20 years of technological progress, we need to 

As more and more organisations move towards a higher degree of agility, they inevitably also move towards DevOps practices like Continuous Delivery to facilitate shortening the feedback loops.

In this blog post, we share our experience, recommendations, and lessons learned by providing the online PSM II class.

Habits first and then progress follows! There is a huge power in the little things.

Many organizations I have seen in my life does not care for their Development Team. Join me in a short analysis of why that happens and what - in fact - is a Development Team.