When we were developing the Professional Scrum with Kanban guide and class, Daniel Vacanti kept insisting I inspired the Work Item Aging flow metric we introduced. I was complimented, but didn’t recall the exact reference. Well, it turns out I did write and talk about this way earlier than the PSK.

Scrum helps teams solve complex problems, but even skilled practitioners can fall into common pitfalls that hold them back. PST Robb Pieper shares how to spot these mistakes and fix them to restore collaboration and deliver real value.

Scrum isn’t about compliance—it’s about engagement. By giving teams purpose, mastery, and autonomy, Scrum taps into intrinsic motivation. When people are engaged, they care, contribute, and grow. Are your teams engaged—or just going through the motions?

For more than 40 years, business experts have emphasized the importance of efficiency, specialization, and keeping people busy. The idea was that if we optimize our processes we can deliver value sooner. And for certain kinds of work, that approach works well. But not for creative work.

Peter Yang, ein renommierter Produktleader, argumentiert, dass KI die Produktrollen in zwei Gruppen aufteilen wird: Generalisten und Spezialisten. Alle anderen in der gefährlichen Mitte laufen Gefahr, verdrängt zu werden. Was bedeutet dies für die Rollen Scrum Master, Product Owner, oder Agile Coach?

What is one thing that is always true for a Product Owner? Yes, you guessed it right. Product Owner is an accountability within the Scrum Framework.

Organizations adopting AI often fixate on tools and models while overlooking the behavior change required to realize value. The AI Enablement Coach complements Scrum—not as a new team role, but as an enabling partner who helps teams integrate AI into real workflows, measure outcomes, and iterate. This post maps the role’s practices to Scrum values, events, and Evidence‑Based Management to accelerate adoption without breaking Scrum.

With the advent of AI, a new paradigm in product development is emerging where people can build and launch their product on their own. Let's see what the solution is.

In diesem Artikel erklärt PST Simon Flossmann wer von einem Training in KI profitiert.

What Peter Yang's Product Management Framework Reveals About the Future of Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches.

From wasted features to late launches, risk is everywhere. Scrum doesn’t hide it—it makes it visible and helps teams reduce it, Sprint by Sprint. Is your team truly controlling risk—or just hoping for the best?

Managing multiple products can feel overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be. In this post, PST Jason Malmstadt gives you tips on defining your products clearly, finding focus, and navigating complexity through better product management.

There is an awesome book, Peopleware, written way back in the mid 1980s. I am not sure how many folks out there have read that book or if they really understood the concepts of the book. In the very first chapter the authors make it very clear, to quote them: The major problems of our work are not so much technological as sociological in nature. And yet here we are in 2025, where we are still looking at AI to address technological problems believing somehow it will change the world around, without addressing the sociological problems underneath.

In this blog post PST Joshua Partogi shares how to map Agile Leaders maturity to the metrics they emphasise.

Slack time is not wasted time. It is the breathing room that allows teams to step back, adapt, and grow. Not to mention the ability to deal with any emergencies that happen to come up.

In diesem Artikel erklärt PST Simon Flossmann Coaching-Skills, die jeder Scrum Master haben muss.

Scrum isn’t about busywork—it’s about making outcomes more predictable. But many teams confuse predictability with fake certainty. In this post, we explore how Scrum really optimizes predictability, where teams go wrong, and what you can inspect today.

A simple 3-block framework to realign teams around: 1. Why We Exist 2. What We Do 3. How We Work

When a company tries to be product-, customer-, and operations-focused at the same time, it loses clarity and energy. Mixed strategic focuses create internal conflict, slow innovation, and weaken real competitive advantage.

Die agile Welt spaltet sich in zwei Lager: Diejenigen, die davon überzeugt sind, dass KI die Praktiker aus der Welt schaffen wird, und diejenigen, die KI als eine weitere Modeerscheinung abtun. Beide liegen falsch.

Artificial intelligence promises to supercharge software development, but it introduces a critical paradox: the ability to build the wrong thing with perfect efficiency is now greater than ever. This article delves into why human-centric frameworks like Scrum are not becoming obsolete, but are instead essential guardrails in an age of automation. It explores the new economics of amplified failure, the potential shift for developers from creators to curators, and why the most vital skill is no longer raw speed, but strategic wisdom.

Agile is often reduced to buzzwords about mindsets or methodologies, but its real value runs deeper. In this post, PST Robert Pieper explains how Agile as a strategy helps teams adapt, learn, and deliver meaningful results in a constantly changing world.

Taking a leaf out of fellow PST Sander Dur’s recent post, I would like to explore if Product Ownership and Product Management are mutually exclusive or inclusive. I personally like his analogy that the Product Owner and the Product Manager are just two different t-shirts. Now, different people have different PoVs on the two, I will be sharing my learning and experiences in this post.

When your backlog isn’t prioritized, even great teams can lose focus. In this blog, PST Jason Malmstadt explains how effective prioritization helps teams deliver faster, stay aligned, and build trust with stakeholders.

Most people don’t understand “leading” and “lagging” indicators. And that’s fine, because the terms are meaningless. They’re used by consultants to sound authoritative but lack consistent definition or practical value.

When you’re kayaking in fast whitewater, the boat tends to go wherever you look. That's because when you look at something, your whole body tends to lean that way without you even realizing it.

In diesem Artikel beantwortet PST Simon Flossmann die Frage: Welches ist das Wichtigste Scrum Event?

The Agile world is splitting into two camps: Those convinced AI will automate practitioners out of existence, and those dismissing it as another crypto-level fad. Both are wrong.

Scrum doesn’t guarantee predictability or remove risk. It helps you optimize both—if you treat it as an approach, not a process checklist. Discover how to make Scrum lead you somewhere meaningful.

Many companies water down the Scrum Master by splitting the accountability across teams, making it a side hustle, or rotating it each Sprint. It feels efficient but strips away the very impact that makes Scrum work. The Scrum Master isn’t about booking meetings, being a Jira jockey, or tracking velocity. Their true value is coaching, enabling team effectiveness, defending empiricism, protecting quality, surfacing dysfunction, and serving the organization. They don’t need to be full-time every minute, but they must be dedicated and focused. Cutting corners here is the most expensive "savings" you can make.

This article introduces four perspectives for structuring product groups and teams: frequency, criticality/uncertainty, operational dependencies, and cost of delay. Together, they help define the right scope of product groups and balance autonomy with efficiency.

Warum Produktspezialisten in die strategische Irrelevanz schlafwandeln, wenn grundlegende KI-Risiken ignoriert werden.

Show me your Review sessions and I'll easily tell you whether you're a process theater, feature factory, or product lab. How do you switch from a feature factory to a product lab? From an organization managing projects and plans to one focused on traction towards outcomes and business impact?

In this fast-paced world, we need Scrum more than ever. From the transparency created by artifacts to incremental delivery that keeps us on track, Scrum gives organizations a way to adapt and thrive. AI is a powerful tool, but instead of replacing Scrum, it makes the framework even more essential. Here are five reasons why Scrum is more relevant than ever.

Viele Meetings versanden in Konsensfloskeln statt in konkreten Vereinbarungen. Als Scrum Master kannst du das ändern: indem du vage Aussagen konsequent hinterfragst, kleine Schritte statt großer Lösungen priorisierst und mit einfachen Werkzeugen zu viel klareren Entscheidungen führst: Klartext statt Konsens!

In diesem Artikel teilt PST Simon Flossmann 3 Einsichten, wie er seine Liberating-Structures-Workshops in Zukunft verbessern wird.

AI is tremendously helpful in the hands of a skilled operator. It can accelerate research, generate insights, and support better decision-making. But here’s what the AI evangelists won’t tell you: it can be equally damaging when fundamental AI risks are ignored.

このブログでは、スクラムがプロダクトレッドグロース、マーケティングレッドグロース、セールスレッドグロースといった異なる成長戦略にどう適応するかを解説します。スクラムの基盤である「利用可能なインクリメントの提供」と「成果の検査と適応」は変わりませんが、価値の証拠、関わるステークホルダー、フィードバックループは成長モデルによって異なります。組織の戦略にスクラム実践をどう整合させ、効果と価値を最大化するかを学べます。

Many leaders I meet tell me the same story: “We’ve tried Agile. More than once. It never worked the way we were promised.” These conversations often lead to the bigger question of why Agile fails at scale—why the same methods that work well for small teams often break down when applied across an entire organisation.

One without the other? You’re either dreaming or gambling. Here’s how combining iterative and incremental turns Scrum into a value-delivery engine.

Organisationen scheinen bei ihrer KI-Transformation an denselben Mustern zu scheitern, an denen auch ihre agilen Transformationen gescheitert sind.

Is your Scrum team just going through the motions of Scrum without using it to focus on continuous improvement? Then coach the "fluffy" Scrum values to help turn them into a team focused on value.

Sometimes Scrum gets a bad rap. When I ask why an organization struggled with Scrum, I almost always hear something like “there was too much overhead.” But when I dig deeper, I usually find that the organization had imposed extra rules—rules that have nothing to do with Scrum. In other words, when Scrum “doesn’t work,” it’s almost always because the team wasn’t actually using Scrum well.

Wanting to collaborate better, gain control over an overloaded annual plan, increase job satisfaction and, in turn, reduce staff turnover: these are challenges almost every organization in every sector faces. However, the cultural industry differs significantly from the business world. It has its own unique challenges, working methods, and goals. That’s why Curious Culture, together with Scrum Facilitators, developed a two-day Professional Scrum Master training specifically tailored to the cultural sector. We spoke with Ziryan Salayi, owner of Scrum Facilitators, about what Scrum is and why it can be so effective for organizations in the artistic field.

AI Agents can take over repetitive tasks to free up our time for strategic work. However, we should learn what it is, how it works, and how we can build them. This blog shows you the starting step.

Many Scrum Teams fall into the trap of assuming there will always be another Sprint. This mindset leads to delay, complacency, and missed opportunities. Treating each Sprint like it could be your last helps teams focus on outcomes, improve continuously, and deliver real value, while they still can.

In Scrum, one of the most common misunderstandings is the difference between the Definition of Done and Acceptance Criteria. In this blog, PST Robert Pieper explains the key differences and how your team can avoid confusion.

The secret to a high-performing team lies not just in its processes, but in the ability to understand each individual. During a recent Professional Scrum Master training, we were introduced to a powerful concept from Process Communication®: the Energizer/Rebel personality type. This profile is a game-changer for team dynamics. When well-supported, these individuals are a true catalyst for collaboration and innovation. Their humor, spontaneity, and creative energy can significantly boost an entire team's engagement. However, if not properly guided, their strong personalities can also disrupt a group’s balance. For managers and Scrum Masters, understanding this profile is a unique opportunity to: Boost engagement and initiative Empower the team toward self-management Strengthen collective agility Discover how taking personality styles into account can transform your team's performance and help you fulfill the core responsibilities of a Scrum Master.

This blog explores how Scrum adapts across different growth strategies — Product-Led, Marketing-Led, and Sales-Led. While Scrum’s foundation of delivering usable increments and inspecting outcomes remains the same, the evidence of value, stakeholders, and feedback loops shift depending on the growth model. Readers will learn how to align Scrum practices with their organization’s strategy to maximize effectiveness and value.

There’s no shortage of training and frameworks on decision-making, prioritization, or time management. But what if the real issue lies elsewhere? What if the challenge is not a lack of knowledge, but a cognitively overloaded leader? This article, based on a workshop I delivered to the Agile community in 2025, explores how leaders make decisions under pressure and how they can approach it differently. The topic fascinates me, and leadership happens to be my daily work.