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Scrum o "Water Scrum Fall"
April 25, 2020
Scrum es un marco flexible que ofrece muchas ventajas para el desarrollo de productos complejos, pero puede ser fácilmente mal interpretado. Justamente esa libertad puede llevar a distorsiones en su uso.
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🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 Scrum and Personal Effectiveness
April 22, 2020
Are scrum and personal effectiveness compatible? In recent weeks I have experienced using Scrum for my personal organization.
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9 Steps To A Great Online Agile Scrum Team
April 21, 2020
As an active agile Scrum Consultant and Professional Scrum Trainer, I am constantly helping a large number of agile teams. Unsurprisingly all the teams I am supporting are experimenting with different ways to make remote working, work!
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Systems Thinking episode #4: DSRP
April 21, 2020
Like many Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches and Agile Managers, I am beginning to understand organizations are complex adaptive systems.
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Systems Thinking episode #3: Mental Models
April 21, 2020
In this episode, I will try to show how understanding mental models can significantly improve the abilities of leaders like Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches and Managers. This is because Mental Models are at the core of knowledge and learning.
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Koos Coach in the "This is not Scrum" Comic (episode 7)
April 20, 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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Remote Agile (Part 6): Sprint Planning with Distributed Teams
April 19, 2020
This sixth article now dives into organizing a remote Sprint Planning with a distributed team: practices, virtual Liberating Structures, and lessons learned.
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How to lead "Live Virtual Class" like a pro- part two (Execution)
April 18, 2020
As promised, here is the part two of the two part series "how to lead live virtual class like a pro" where I'd be emphasising on the execution part- facilitating the class effectively.
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HR in Action during the Lock down period
April 18, 2020
We all are going through a tough time – both socially and professionally. People have been asked to maintain distance to break the COVID-19 outbreak chain. Most of us have isolated ourselves for the past few weeks.
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6 Critical Lessons in Organisational Agility from the COVID-19 crisis
April 17, 2020
Nobody really saw COVID-19 coming. Most people thought it would be similar to previous virus outbreaks and peter out without any meaningful impact on our daily lives. As the situation unfolded, we struggled to fully grasp the exponential nature of it.
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What Should Be The Focus For The Product Owner?
April 16, 2020
Large numbers of Product Owners begin their work by creating requirements. In some situations, these scopes are dictated by others. Their work mainly consists of describing demands, thus apparently appearing as a scribe in their role.
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🇫🇷 Podcast - Etincelles de Scrum
April 14, 2020
Chacun d’entre nous à eu un déclic concernant Scrum, nous avons compris que c’était la route à emprunter, un comportement que nous souhaitions adopter, des valeurs alignées avec les nôtres.
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Remote Agile (Part 5): The Remote Retrospective with a Distributed Team
April 14, 2020
The Scrum Master encourages the Scrum Team to improve, within the Scrum process framework, its development process and practices to make it more effective and enjoyable for the next Sprint.
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The Stages of Scrum Mastery
April 14, 2020
When we learn new skills, we experience different emotions at different stages of the learning process.
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¿Qué el Scrum profesional?
April 14, 2020
No sé sobre el resto de ustedes, pero personalmente siempre promociono Professional Scrum cuando hablo, enseño, entreno, asesoro, etc.
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The Sprint Goal Lifecycle
April 13, 2020
In this blog post I explain why the Sprint Goal is key for an effective implementation of Scrum and how it is widely present in the Scrum framework by exploring its “lifecycle”.
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Myth: You Can't Do Projects With Scrum
April 13, 2020
Scrum is intended as a simple, yet sufficient framework for complex product delivery.
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How to lead "Live Virtual Class" like a pro- part one (Preparation)
April 13, 2020
Are you working remotely during the COVID-19 outbreak? Are you looking for some tips/tactics to lead virtual training for your teams?
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Struggling with Sprint Goals
April 10, 2020
Having a Sprint Goal in some cases is not easy. Having a good Sprint Goal is even more difficult.
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How To Be A Good Scrum Master During A Crisis
April 9, 2020
Many teams are finding that they need to adjust to a new reality amid the covid-19 pandemic. Strategic plans lie in tatters, urgent unplanned work fills the board, stakeholders are hammering teams with requests, and routine has gone out of the window. This is a time for a Scrum Master to be pragmatic, calm, and outcome focused: providing delivery leadership without allowing process to get in the way.
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Learning Scrum using Minecraft Education
April 8, 2020
Facing the COVID-19 pandemic, we are all staying home for the safety of our people. This is a hard time for all of us. While classes are re-scheduled in the Fall, some of us Scrum trainers are refocusing our energy to help the household while others are investigating how to conduct interactive online training.
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Remote Agile (Part 4): Anti-Patterns — Pitfalls Successful Distributed Teams Avoid
April 7, 2020
This fourth article now addresses basic remote agile anti-patterns — the pitfalls any distributed team wants to avoid to become successful.
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How Do I Get My First Scrum Master Job?
April 6, 2020
Ever wonder how to get your first Scrum Master job with little to no experience? It’s a question I often get in my Professional Scrum classes.
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Upcoming White Paper: The Stages of Scrum Mastery
April 6, 2020
Good Scrum Masters are passionate.
Great Scrum Masters are dispassionate.
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Koos Coach in the "This is not Scrum" Comic (episode 6)
April 4, 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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The 4 Soils - Sprint Retrospective
April 2, 2020
In every Sprint, Sprint Retrospective is an excellent chance to inspect and adapt the way of working.
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Remote Agile: Practices and Tools [Video]
April 2, 2020
Watch the Replay of the Remote Agile Practices & Tools Live Virtual Class
At the end of March, we ran a Remote Agile Practices & Tools class with about 30 participants from all over Europe, the Eastern Seaboard, and Canada.
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How our PST community rallies in response to COVID-19
April 1, 2020
Scrum.org CEO Dave West looks back at March and how the Scrum.org Community has rallied in the wake of COVID-19.
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Sprint Planning : 5 Dysfunctions
March 31, 2020
Every Sprint starts with a Sprint Planning event. It is very crucial to ensure that the Scrum Team comes to a shared understanding of what and how are they going to deliver a “Done” increment that creates maximum business impact.
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Working Remotely? This Will Hit You Next!
March 31, 2020
While working remotely might feel good right now, we are up for trouble. Anxiety-invoked behavior and stress are likely to happen very soon. Let's discuss what is coming at us.
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¿Cuál es la diferencia entre Scrum y Agile?
March 31, 2020
En la reunión del Manifiesto Ágil en 2001, se escribió un conjunto de 4 valores respaldados por una docena de principios.
Esto era el inicio de lo que es Agile.
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Remote Agile (Part 3): Mastering Zoom
March 30, 2020
In this third post of the Remote Agile series, we address the tool at the heart of working with a distributed team as a Scrum Master, Agile Coach, or Product Owner: Zoom.
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[VLOG] What Are The Differences Between Scrum Master And Product Owner
March 26, 2020
In today's vlog, I discuss about the differences between the Scrum Master and the Product Owner role.
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Slow Conversations For An Ever Faster Moving World
March 25, 2020
The urgency of having the right type of conversation, especially today in a remote setting, has significantly increased overnight. This blog provides a perspective on a particular type of conversation and my own “personal experiences” that show we need them more than ever.
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Your Agile Team Needs a Therapist
March 24, 2020
See Robert (Robb) Pieper from Responsive Advisors give his talk "Your Agile Team Needs a Therapist" to an awesome group at Music City Agile 2017 in Nashville, TN.
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Remote Agile (Part 2): Virtual Liberating Structures
March 24, 2020
This follow-up post now delves into virtual Liberating Structures, answering the question of how we can make use of the powerful toolbox of inclusive and collaborative practices in a remote setting.
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Our 10 Tips to Have Productive and Engaging Virtual Meetings
March 23, 2020
Trying to make virtual meetings work with your team? We've made many mistakes in our virtual meetings over the years. In this post, we share our ten most helpful tips for having engaging and productive meetings online.
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3 Steps to Becoming an Agile Coach
March 22, 2020
Completing an Agile Coaching certification doesn’t make you an Agile Coach. So where do you start and how do you chart your own journey?
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Leadership in Times of Corona
March 22, 2020
Let's talk about behavior leaders need to exhibit in these difficult times.
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The Third Of Four Things You Do To Prevent Value Delivery
March 18, 2020
On November 22nd, 2019, I gave the closing keynote at Scrum Deutschland, a talk called ‘The Four Things You Do To Prevent Value Delivery.’
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Koos Coach in the "This is not Scrum" Comic (episode 5)
March 18, 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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Remote Work - How to Work from Home Efficiently
March 17, 2020
Interesting times have come. Due to danger of coronavirus spread many organizations decided to switch to the remote work model. Besides the influence on Scrum implementation, this might be a new situation for you personally.
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Remote Agile (Part 1): Practices & Tools for Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, and Product Owners
March 17, 2020
Agile has always been about colocation, about direct communication, physical boards, and all the other haptic and analog moments to create value in the digital realm...
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Agile Forecasting Techniques for the Next Decade
March 16, 2020
The Old Farmer’s Almanac is the oldest continuously published periodical in North America. It was first published in 1792 by Robert B. Thomas who wanted an almanac “to be useful with a pleasant degree of humor. Many long-time Almanac followers claim that its forecasts are 80% to 85% accurate.
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Causes for Zombified Interaction between Scrum Teams and Stakeholders
March 16, 2020
The article explores the primary causes of zombified interaction between Scrum Teams and stakeholders.
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[VLOG] How To Use Scrum With Kanban
March 15, 2020
in today's vlog I am sharing with you how to use Scrum with Kanban.
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Refinement Revised
March 13, 2020
One of the topics that often is unclear when starting with Scrum. You can teach ‘what’ it is. Sometimes it helps to point north to ‘why’ we do refinement. Good facilitation skills definitely help during refinement as well as a toolbox of structures and techniques will help with the ‘how’.
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How the Scrum Values Could Help us Cope with COVID-19 Outbreak
March 13, 2020
Even if you don't know what the Scrum Framework is all about, or even if software development (and for that matter, any kind of product development) or delivery is not your area of work and have stumbled upon this blogpost while doing your research on COVID-19, I urge you to read on.
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Product Owner vs Project Manager
March 12, 2020
What is a Product Owner? What are the differences between a Product Owner and Project Manager? Isn’t a Product Owner some kind of an Agile Project Manager? These are some of the questions we often get from people in our Scrum.org classes.