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In this podcast Professional Scrum Trainer Joshua Partogi shared how Scrum Masters can propel agility in the company by demonstrating behaviours that reflect the Scrum Values.

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

Scrum Values make the use of Scrum successful. How can the Scrum Master use these to grow trust within the team even more? Check it out!

Scrum Values make the use of Scrum successful. How can the Developers use these to grow trust within the team even more? Check it out!

Scrum Values make the use of Scrum successful. How can the Product Owner use these to grow trust within the team even more? Check it out!

Scrum Values make the use of Scrum successful. How can these values bring more Transparency to your Increment? Check it out!

What are the problems or negative consequences with making decisions by committees?

Scrum Values make the use of Scrum successful. How can these values bring more Transparency to your Sprint Backlog? Check it out!

Scrum Values make the use of Scrum successful. How can these values bring more Transparency to your Product Backlog? Check it out!

Scrum Values make the use of Scrum successful. How can you and your Team live these values during the entire Sprint? Check it out!

Scrum Values make the use of Scrum successful. How can you and your Team live these values during the Sprint Retrospective? Check it out!

Scrum Values make the use of Scrum successful. How can you and your Team live these values during the Sprint Review? Check it out!

Scrum Values make the use of Scrum successful. How can you and your Team live these values during the Daily Scrum? Check it out!

How to Fail as an Agile Coach in Scrum by Scrum.org trainer Chee-Hong Hsia.  ​​​​​​​Helping organisations in their Agile journey sustainably while respecting the three Scrum accountabilities. A must-read if you're a dedicated Agile Coach or working with Agile Coaches in your organisation where Scrum is being adopted.

As mentioned earlier, Scrum is founded on empiricism - transparency, inspection, and adaptation. Empiricism is only possible in certain cultures and contexts. Leaders have the role of creating and nurturing the culture and shaping the context.

A few years back I wrote 2 popular posts that talked about the best Scrum Masters I ever worked with. This time around I am going to share some stories about the best Product Owners I have encountered. This post is about Gerry, the proxy Product Owner who was successful!

A few years back I wrote 2 popular posts that talked about the best Scrum Masters I ever worked with. This time around I am going to share some stories about the best Product Owners I have encountered.

I have recently started down the path of certification with Co-Active Coaching as I wanted to improve my coaching skills; to know more about what great coaching looks like, to immerse myself in a community that will help me improve my abilities and to have credibility in my own mind about my own skills.

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.

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...

When people form a Scrum Team they have to figure out how to become a real team, rather than a collection of individuals. The Scrum Team Charter Canvas is a helpful tool to facilitate Scrum Team formation.

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... 

What's the Difference Between Scrum & Agile?

Many years ago, when I began working with clients on full-scale agile transformations (beyond the team-level or product perspective), I realized that organizations would benefit from a practice that help them experiment toward more agility. As a result, I crossed paths with the world of Kata.

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.

In this blog, PST Joshua Partogi shares a technique to introduce and improve organisation agility using the Scrum Values.

It is quite common to see someone who is called a Product Owner not really have ownership over the product. This kind of Product Owner  is often lacking vision and demotivates the Developer. In this video podcast I discussed how we can help the Product Owner take ownership of the product. Enjoy folks.

TheScrumMaster.co.uk has created The Simple Guide To Scrum – 1 Pager. A condensed and visual representation of Scrum on 1 page.

Hey what's happening awesome people? I hope you had a great weekend. One of my youtube channel viewers asked me what should happen when the developers try to remove the Scrum Master from the Scrum Team? A very interesting indeed.

A few years ago, I bumped into an ex-colleague of mine who was working with someone who I had also previously worked with - both of us were, or had been, a Scrum Master for this ex-colleague.

Together with my colleagues Uwe Schirmer and Kurt Bittner, I have compiled a book that contains many of our own stories and those we experienced while working with customers and students: The Professional Scrum Team. Maybe they provide value to you. 

The following are the changes that struck me the most in the 2020 Scrum Guide...

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?

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.

What is agile – I asked everyone what it means to them. Got responses like “being flexible,” “respond faster,” “move quickly,” and “adapt to change,”

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. 

The Scrum Team gathers around their team desk to hold the Daily Scrum.

This blog post talks about using the Fish! philosophy for Sprint Reviews.

Choosing how you will walk through your day, having fun with your colleagues and clients, actively listen and participating in collaborations, and ensuring others also have a great day...

"He puts everything in place to get the ball up to the final third of the pitch and then trusts his team to finish the job in the only area of the field that can’t be planned for."

Let's explore how the "soft" Scrum Values directly translate into "hard" business value. Cha-Ching!

Bringing transparency by inspecting the Product Backlog and adaptation (building) the Sprint Goal, a forecast, and the Sprint Backlog.

Choosing how you will walk through your day, having fun with your colleagues and clients, actively listen and participating in collaborations, and ensuring others also have a great day. I have written a short story a while ago about the basics of the Fish! Philosophy for being an outstanding team member.

As a servant leader, a Scrum Master focuses on the needs of others, before her/his needs...

Openness is one of the 5 Scrum Values and in this blog post we want to take a closer look at this particular Scrum Value and how it relates to Agile Transformations when it is elevated from a Scrum Team level to an organizational level.