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With the launch of the new Scrum Guide, we also created a new illustration of the Scrum framework.

Ideas on how to use Powerful Questions virtually and help teams find their own solutions to persistent problems.

20 ideas for using the new Scrum Mythbusters card deck in your organization

Help your remote team discover what happens without clear Sprint Goals. And bring back focus together!

In this post, we explore how continuous improvement is the lifeblood of Scrum Teams.

This experiment is about creating transparency around dependencies and the effect they have on your team’s ability to ship fast.

10 examples of how to use Liberating Structures during and after the Daily Scrum.

Put your understanding of the Scrum Framework to the test, with these 52 challenging cases for Scrum practitioners.

Besides the earlier published English version, there's a Russian version of the paper "Scrum: a Framework to Reduce Risk and Deliver Value Sooner" as well!

In this post, we describe one tiny experiment that creates transparency about lack of autonomy, and what happens because of it. It won’t create earth-shattering miracles, but I should start the right conversations.

In this blog post, we share our experience, recommendations, and lessons learned by providing the online PSM II class.

In this post, we describe one tiny experiment that can create big shifts in how teams experience the Scrum Events and the decisions they make during them.

Experiments, practices, and strategies that help Scrum Masters prove their value to the organization.

The contradiction and tension between the empirical process of Scrum and the often-used efficiency mindset.

An introduction of the 4 symptoms, with the symptom ‘No desire for contact with the outside world’ explained in detail.

Inspiration for fulfilling the stances of a Scrum Master, remotely.

The article explores the primary causes of zombified interaction between Scrum Teams and stakeholders.

In this blog post, we explain the Liberating Structure ‘Simple Ethnography’. We clarify its purpose, the steps to facilitate it, our findings, and examples of using it with Scrum.

An introduction of the Brazilian - Portuguese edition of the paper "The 8 Stances of a Scrum Master". The translation and new visualizations are created by Fabio Fioratti Azevedo and Danilo Almeida.

How the Scrum.org Professional Scrum Master II exercise “Management in Scrum” can be used during a job interview with Scrum Masters.

How to use the Liberating Structure 'Mad Tea' with Scrum.

An introduction of the 6 symptoms, with the symptom ‘No validation with stakeholders’ explained in detail.

Announcing our upcoming book with Scrum.org and Addison-Wesley.

This blog post gives you an overview of the paper "Liberating Structures - an Antidote to Zombie Scrum". It describes what Zombie Scrum is about and offers tangible examples of how to recognize, treat, and prevent Zombie Scrum by using Liberating Structures.

The Liberating Structure "Wicked Questions" makes paradoxical realities transparent. By doing so, you can engage in deeper strategic thinking and explore new possibilities.

An example of how to use Liberating Structures to improve the Sprint Review.

In this article, I’ve described my personal journey in becoming a Scrum Master and included recommendations for new Scrum Masters.

How a Scrum Master can use the “Strategy Knotworking” to help the Scrum Team turn their ideas and ambitions into reality.

By using an expert-less, community-driven approach, organizations are put in a position to thrive on complexity rather than being defeated by it.

Why not spend a part of your upcoming Sprint Retrospective to re-clarify the purpose of Scrum?

In this blog post, I’ll share examples of how I experienced a Developer Culture, being a Scrum Master working with Development Teams.

Critical Uncertainties is a powerful Liberating Structure helping groups develop strategies for dealing with plausible yet unpredictable futures. Strategy-making is an essential part of successful software-/product delivery with Scrum. With Critical Uncertainties, teams have an interaction pattern at hand that can support them create resilient strategies.

This article provides five examples of how Liberating Structures are valuable for Scrum Masters.

This is the start of a series of articles about the Scrum.org PSM II class. It will address the most common questions asked. This article is focused on the difference between the PSM and PSM II class.

In this blog post, we describe how to use Conversation Cafe, as a Liberating Structure, within Scrum.

This week, we are building our new website with a Scrum Team. Practicing what we preach, we are doing this in the most Agile, iterative way we can. So yes, we're making all the expected mistakes. In this post, we share what we learned about flow and releasing more often - with examples that are as real-life as imaginable :)

In this post, we explain one of the more complicated Liberating Structures called Ecocycle Planning. It helps to bring clarity in your activities as an individual or as a group of people and to identify where your energy and time you should go.

A description of experimenting with twisting the Liberating Structure 'Shift & Share' during our recent Scrum.org PSM II class.

How we used Liberating Structures, Learning 3.0 and Training from the Back of the Room to create a new learning experience with the PSM II class.

In this post, we’ll explain the Liberating Structure ‘15% Solutions‘ and how we've used it. It’s a wonderful structure that can ignite big change by starting with small, individual contributions.

In this post, we explain the Liberating Structure 'What, So What, Now What' and how we use this structure within the context of Scrum.

Read more about how the PSM-II class deepens and expands your understanding of Scrum and helps you in your professional journey as a Scrum Master.

A story of two fairly naive Dutch guys and how they created an advanced class for Scrum Masters with Scrum.org.

In this post, we bust a myth that is at the heart of why refinement feels like a chore to many Scrum Teams: the belief that ‘Product Backlog refinement’ should be done as one or more required ‘meetings’ that must be attended by everyone in the team. We also offer some alternative approaches that fit more naturally with the flow of development.

A description of the Liberating Structure "User Experience Fishbowl and how we've used it within Scrum.

As a servant-leader, the Scrum Master sometimes has to make very difficult decisions. This might even include removing someone from the Scrum Team. Obviously, this a difficult decision that should not be taken light-hearted. In this post, we'll share some perspectives on the kinds of situations where removal is a viable option and some tips to do help you do so in the best way possible.

In this blog post we've shared our ideas on "Your Scrum Master Journey" and the first steps we've made at a Dutch customer.This week Christiaan Verwijs and I facilitated a workshop at a Dutch customer in which Scrum Masters could provide a pitch for participating in "Your Scrum Master Journey".

In this blog post we’ll share the string of Liberating Structures we used at a Retrospective for a rapidly growing startup.

TRIZ is a facilitation technique to stop counterproductive activities and make space for innovation.

GameStorm is a technique for brainstorming developed by Bart Hufen from BrandNewGame. It uses gamification to identify areas for improvement and to make their impact transparent. We have adapted it for use in Sprint Retrospectives to support continuous improvement in teams.