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Liberate your Sprint Review from being just a demo. There is much more to it than that! I'm sharing eight things you should do in the Sprint Review

In 2020 the Scrum Guide introduced the classification of three commitments -

Since I first started working with Scrum in 2005, I have wondered what would eventually come along to replace it. Scrum has now been around for over 25 years, so surely something else would emerge?

How does your Scrum Master supports adaptation in order to minimise deviations from agreed goals? Each of the Scrum Accountabilities has a role to play. So does the Scrum Master. Check it out!

Are your Developers really making VALUABLE adaptations towards the next Product Goal? In order to minimise deviations from agreed goals? Each of the Scrum Accountabilities has a role to play. So do the Developers. Check it out!

How does your Product Owner support adaptation in order to minimise deviations from agreed goals? Each of the Scrum Accountabilities has a role to play. So does the Product Owner. Check it out!

How does your Increment support adaptation in order to minimise deviations from agreed goals? Each of the Scrum Artifacts serve to adapt. So does the Increment. Check it out!

How does your Sprint Backlog support adaptation in order to minimise deviations from agreed goals? Each of the Scrum Artifacts serve to adapt. So does the Sprint Backlog. Check it out!

How does your Product Backlog support adaptation in order to minimise deviations from agreed goals? Each of the Scrum Artifacts serve to adapt. So does the Product Backlog. Check it out!

TL-TR La réussite de l’entreprise est directement liée la satisfaction des utilisateurs aujourd’hui mais aussi dans la durée.

How does your Sprint in its totality support adaptation in order to minimise deviations from agreed goals? Each of the Scrum Events serves to adapt. So does the Sprint itself. Check it out!

How does your Sprint Retrospective support adaptation in order to minimise deviations from agreed goals? Each of the Scrum Events serves to adapt. So does the Sprint Retrospective. Check it out!

How does your Sprint Review support adaptation in order to minimise deviations from agreed goals? Each of the Scrum Events serves to adapt. So does the Sprint Review. Check out our tips!

How does the Daily Scrum support adaptation in order to minimise deviations from agreed goals? Each of the Scrum Events serves to adapt. So does the Daily Scrum. Check out our tips!

How does Sprint Planning support adaptation in order to minimise deviations from agreed goals? Each of the Scrum Events serves to adapt. So does Sprint Planning. Check out our tips!

How can the Scrum Master detect undesirable variances in progress towards agreed goals? Each of the Scrum accountabilities participates in one or more inspections. So does the Scrum Master. Check out our tips!

How can Developers detect undesirable variances in progress towards agreed goals? Each of the Scrum accountabilities participates in one or more inspections. So do the Developers. Check out our tips!

Each of the Scrum accountabilities participates in one or more inspections. So is the Product Owner. Go check it out!

Each of the Scrum Artifacts is inspected in one or more Scrum Events to detect undesired variances. So is the Increment. Go check it out!

When we are confident that we know everything, certain that our perspective is correct and our plan is good, we miss things. Sometimes these things are critical.

Each of the Scrum Artifacts is inspected in one or more Scrum Events to detect undesired variances. So is the Sprint Backlog. Go check it out!

Each of the Scrum Artifacts is inspected in one or more Scrum Events to detect undesired variances. So is the Product Backlog. Go check it out!

Each Scrum Event serves Inspection, the second pillar of Empiricism. So does the Sprint itself. How? Find out ...

In this blog post, PST Ravi Verma shares tips on how to manage outcomes with Evidence-Based Agility

Each Scrum Event serves Inspection, the second pillar of Empiricism. So does the Sprint Retrospective. How? Find out ...

Each Scrum Event serves Inspection, the second pillar of Empiricism. So does the Sprint Review. How? Find out ...

Each Scrum Event serves Inspection, the second pillar of Empiricism. So does the Daily Scrum. How? Find out ...

Each Scrum Event serves Inspection, the second pillar of Empiricism. So does Sprint Planning. How? Find out ...

What transparency can the Scrum Master bring to the Scrum Team and the stakeholders of your product? Transparency, being one of the core underlying concepts of the Scrum framework, we can expect the Scrum Master to actively work on this.

What transparency can the Developers bring to the Scrum Team and the stakeholders of your product? Transparency, being one of the core underlying concepts of the Scrum framework, we can expect the Developers to actively work on this.

We've all had challenges with various stakeholders coming to us with a whole bunch of different information and wanting a whole bunch of different things. Who do I listen to? What’s most important?

There are loads of blog posts, articles and podcasts about agile - what it should be, what it should do, how it should look? The problem is that a lot of what’s out there is hypothetical and not based on field experience.

What transparency can the Product Owner bring to the Scrum Team and the stakeholders of your product? Transparency, being one of the core underlying concepts of the Scrum framework, we can expect the Product Owner to actively work on this.

How does the Increment supports Transparency? Transparency being one of the core underlying concepts of the Scrum framework. How can you use the Increment to raise transparency?

Scrum is founded on empirical process control, and transparency is one of the three pillars.

How does the Product Backlog supports Transparency? Transparency being one of the core underlying concepts of the Scrum framework. How can you use the Product Backlog to raise transparency?

How does the Sprint itself supports Transparency? Transparency being one of the core underlying concepts of the Scrum framework. What happens during your Sprint that could raise transparency?

I'm slightly uniquely placed in that I am a Scrum Master, Professional Scrum Trainer and Scrum Coach, as well as being a Rugby Coach, and as such I've always been intrigued by the name Scrum...

How does the Sprint Retrospective supports Transparency? Transparency being one of the core underlying concepts of the Scrum framework. What questions can you ask with your team about your Sprint Retrospective to raise transparency?

How does the Sprint Review supports Transparency - one of the core underlying concepts of the Scrum framework.

How does the Daily Scrum support Transparency - one of the core underlying concepts of the Scrum framework.

Welcome back to the professional Scrum foundations series. As introduced last week, empiricism is one of the underlying concepts of the Scrum framework.  Scrum is founded on empirical process control, and transparency is one of the three pillars.

Complaining is like releasing gas. It’s a natural occurrence. Everyone does it. But no one wants someone else to do it next to them. How to complain less and do more by Sahin Guvenilir.

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... 

“Thanks for the feedback!” “I’ll put it on the backlog.” Or, the dreaded: “Let’s talk about that offline.”

The term organizational agility is everywhere these days, but what does it really mean? Can we even define it at all? Deepen your understanding of the manifesto and why it is essential to implementing healthy agile that delivers meaningful value.

Have you ever noticed people keep talking about things, but they've not aligned with what their words mean? I have seen agility measured as the number of "agile teams" and the "number of training attendees" more often than I like to admit.