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[2 Mins FAQ] Do I Need To Be Certified To Be A Scrum Master?
July 16, 2020
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?
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The Inevitability of change
July 15, 2020
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.
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¿Cómo podemos ser ágiles en tiempos de pandemia global?
July 14, 2020
Os situo en marzo de 2020. Volved atrás mentalmente a la semana del 15 a 20 de Marzo de 2020.
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Le meilleur de Scrum : "Conseils pour les roadmaps produit agiles & exemples" par Robbin Schuurman
July 14, 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.
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Is Kanban linear?
July 14, 2020
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?
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Wer ist verantwortlich für Produktqualität?
July 13, 2020
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?
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Wer trifft den Release-Entscheid?
July 13, 2020
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?
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[VLOG] Why the Scrum Product Backlog Is Not Only User Stories And Is Not Prioritised
July 13, 2020
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.
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Speaking Truth to Power 2.0 — Taking A Stand as an Agile Practitioner
July 13, 2020
Do you need an emergency fund as a change agent—whether you are acting as Scrum Master, Product Owner or agile coach—
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The Subtle Difference Between Skills and Traits
July 13, 2020
Late in the second day of my PSM classes, I usually do an exercise with my students about skills and traits.
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Grow a culture of innovation and learning with frequent Developer Huddles
July 13, 2020
Without skilled developers, the Scrum Framework is no more than lipstick on a pig.
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Organizations with the best Scrum claim they don’t have it
July 13, 2020
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.
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Koos Coach in the "This is not Scrum" Comic (episode 11)
July 10, 2020
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.
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[2 Mins FAQ] How Can The Scrum Master Make The Scrum Team More Self-Organised?
July 9, 2020
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?
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Scrum no es una metodología prescriptiva, es un marco de trabajo
July 9, 2020
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.
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Luddites have no place in the modern organisation
July 8, 2020
In our Professional Agile Leadership training, we talk about changing your organisations hiring practices to hire more of the right sort of pe
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Sleeping Your Way to a Better Backlog
July 7, 2020
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.
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Agile Laws & Distributed Teams: From Conway to Goodhart to Parkinson
July 7, 2020
On many occasions in the recent past, working with distributed agile teams has amplified existing organizational, technical, and cultural challenges in many organizations.
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Coach the Person - Not the Problem
July 7, 2020
Part of the role of being a Scrum Master is to be a coach; to the team, the organisation and the individual.
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[2 Mins FAQ] Can One Person Be Both The Scrum Master And The Product Owner?
July 3, 2020
Starting from today, I am going to start a new series on my channel which I will call the 2 minutes FAQ series.
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Many organisations are lured to SAFe by the song of the Sirens
July 2, 2020
The Siren song of SAFe
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Advanced Scrum Product Ownership - Riding Dinosaurs
July 2, 2020
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.
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80% of communication is non-verbal
July 1, 2020
In light of the new normal and the last 20 years of technological progress, we need to
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Live Site Culture & Site Reliability Engineering
July 1, 2020
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.
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How delivering the live virtual Professional Scrum Master II class surprised us
July 1, 2020
In this blog post, we share our experience, recommendations, and lessons learned by providing the online PSM II class.
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Progress follows Habits !
July 1, 2020
Habits first and then progress follows! There is a huge power in the little things.
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Development Team - the most omitted Scrum role
June 30, 2020
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.
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Inspiring Product Development with Sprint Review Canvas
June 30, 2020
A Sprint Review is perhaps one of the most difficult elements in the product development with Scrum.
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Le meilleur de Scrum : "Les Trois Piliers de L’Empirisme (Scrum)" par Hiren Doshi
June 30, 2020
Lors de mes formations Scrum ou en coachings d'organisations, 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 » contribue à répondre à ce besoin en proposant des traductions d’une sélection d’articles de référence écrits par d’autres PSTs de chez Scrum.org.
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Using MIT’s Unhangout to Host a Virtual Barcamp or Open Space
June 29, 2020
TL; DR: Results of a Test of Using Unhangout to Host Virtual Barcamps
Last week, 30-plus attendees of the 24th Hands-on Agile meetup ran a virtual Barcamp experiment w/ MIT’s Unhangout, an open-source platform for organizing attendee-driven v
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Strive For Balance
June 29, 2020
Extremes are everywhere - with nutrition, training, health, mindset, software, hardware, frameworks, business, competition , process, tools and people etc.
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The value of respect can be a gift!
June 28, 2020
A few years ago, I became acquainted with a lady running a charity for a child who was having medical bills pile up. She was holding a charity bazaar to raise money for the child's family.
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Fitness and Agility
June 28, 2020
Personal Fitness and Business Agility have a lot in common. Both are about bringing small, sustainable changes in your day to day behaviours, habits and mindset.
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Refinar usando tus product backlog items usando un User Story Canvas
June 27, 2020
Cuando queremos construir una buena base de conocimiento a partir de una historia de usuario, entonces necesitamos hablar sobre las personas, las necesidades de las partes interesadas, el contexto del uso del producto, el dominio comercial, las restricciones, la disponibilidad de datos, etc.
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[VLOG] What Are The Differences Between Project Management and Product Management
June 26, 2020
What's up awesome people. I hope you are all having a great week.
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Commitment is not free overtime
June 26, 2020
Commitment is key. Commitment is somethins every team, every manager, every organization wants and needs. Commitment promises better results, engaged people, good relationship with work and many other benefits. The problem is that it can be misunderstood.
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“Spotify Model” – 10 lessons in transplantology
June 25, 2020
The Spotify "model" pops up as either advocated practice (especially by large consulting companies) or some sort of a hoax and hated practice. I wrote this text few years back, but it appears to be valid more than ever.
Join me in discovering 10 lessons from my "spotify" encounters.
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¿Qué herramientas uso para facilitar remotamente en un entorno ágil?
June 25, 2020
La idea de este video es obtener algunas prácticas concretas de trabajo en línea, desarrollar algunas habilidades y reunirse nuevamente y compartir nuevos conocimientos y preguntas.
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Slaying the Dragons and How to Successfully Descale at Scale
June 24, 2020
Many organisations don't really want to change how they do business and believe that they can continue in the way they always have while still getting better at delivering software.
They are wrong!
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Scrum escalado con Nexus
June 23, 2020
Scrum está dirigido a un único Producto producido por un solo Equipo Scrum. Dos equipos, y a veces tres, pueden usar Scrum para desarrollar un solo producto. Pero a medida que se agregan más equipos, los equipos necesitan un poco más que Scrum para administrar sus dependencias entre equipos para garantizar que puedan ofrecer incrementos de productos que funcionen.
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Configuring Microsoft Teams for Live Virtual Training
June 23, 2020
Like most tools, if you want to run successful training in Microsoft Teams you need to do some homework and some configuration before your class.
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Complex Refinement with User Story Canvas
June 23, 2020
Usually conversation between developers and Product Owner goes around acceptance criteria just to negotiate scope of requirements for one user story, but knowledge and context are not conveyed in the same structured way. User Story Canvas can help Scrum Team to fix these problems by focusing team to confirm more complex aspects.
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Delivering Live Virtual Classes in Microsoft Teams and Mural
June 22, 2020
With the new normal, I have been delivering all of my
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Agile Movers & Shakers (7): Ryan Ripley — Host of the Agile for Humans Podcast
June 22, 2020
TL; DR: The Agile Movers & Shakers Interview w/ Ryan Ripley
Today’s guest is Ryan Ripley. Ryan is a Professional Scrum Trainer (PST) with Scrum.org.
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Are we really living the Agile Values by insisting on co-located teams?
June 20, 2020
For many years, many of us have had strong opinions about the importance of having teams that are co-located.
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Are you missing product market fit opportunities?
June 20, 2020
Would like a tool that delivers better product and customer outcomes and actually pays for itself? Read on.