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| Barry Overeem

How To Lead Scrum Masters With Liberating Structures?

March 16, 2023

How Liberating Structures and servant leadership create an environment for Scrum Masters to find support, offer help, and draw inspiration

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| Barry Overeem

Improve your Team's Concern Psychological Safety!

March 12, 2023

Teams are more effective when they operate in environments that make it safe for members to take interpersonal risks. For example, to admit they don't know something, to offer feedback, to offer help, or to ask for help.

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| Barry Overeem

Create a Learning Environment for your Team!

March 10, 2023

Teams are more effective when they operate in environments that encourage learning and experimentation. Yet organizations and teams vary in how they recognize the value of learning and continuous improvement.

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| Barry Overeem

Learn How To Effectively Share Essential Needs With Management

March 2, 2023

A do-it-yourself workshop to have Scrum teams clearly express what they need from management, stakeholders, and the supporting organization with “What I Need From You”

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| Barry Overeem

Improve the Quality of your Team's Retrospective!

March 1, 2023

Teams are more effective when they learn HOW to learn. They focus on small and actionable improvements and make sure to follow up on them until they are completed, before moving on to the next.

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| Barry Overeem

Improve your Team's Concern for Quality!

February 24, 2023

There is no point in Agile methodologies like Scrum when the work that teams deliver is of low quality. So it is important that teams develop a shared understanding of what high-quality means in their context.

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| Barry Overeem

Improve How your Team Uses Metrics!

February 17, 2023

Teams are more effective when they use metrics to periodically evaluate how things are going. Metrics provide a more objective perspective on the process of teams and can reduce biases.

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| Barry Overeem

Experiment: Limit The Maximum Length Of Your Product Backlog

January 16, 2023

Add a constraint to the length of the Product Backlog and see what happens next.

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| Barry Overeem

Experiment: Take The First Steps To Automate Integration & Deployment

December 29, 2022

Grow confidence, celebrate small successes, and build the muscle to get through the hard stuff.

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| Barry Overeem

Experiment: Dig Deeper Into Problems And Potential Solutions, Together

November 29, 2022

Use "Discovery & Action Dialogue" and learn how to ask questions that include different perspectives, and to identify specific and actionable solutions.

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| Barry Overeem

A Quickstart To Improve (Scrum) Team Morale

November 15, 2022

Three simple Retrospective formats based on the Liberating Structures “Conversation Cafe”, “Troika Consulting”, and “Discovery & Action Dialogue”.

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| Barry Overeem

Experiment: Support Scrum Teams To Express Clear Requests For Help

November 4, 2022

Encourage your Scrum team to establish more effective communication patterns that make a lasting impact with “What I Need From You”.

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| Barry Overeem

10 Options To Start With Scrum

October 30, 2022

How the various ways of getting into a swimming pool are similar to how teams and organizations start with Scrum.

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| Barry Overeem

Can Scrum Teams Use Scrum And Kanban, Simultaneously?

October 17, 2022

Reflections and findings triggered by an experience interview with Daniel Vacanti.

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| Barry Overeem

Spark Self-Organization In Groups With Open Space Technology

September 21, 2022

Within the Scrum community, Open Space Technology is a common practice. This post can be useful to make the most out of it!

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| Barry Overeem

Use Proven Success Factors From The Past, To Improve Your Team In The Present

September 6, 2022

A do-it-yourself workshop that uses Appreciative Interviews to share success stories from the past, Ecocycle Planning to create transparency about the present, and 15% Solutions to identify improvements for the nearby future.

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| Barry Overeem

Experiment: Use Formal and Informal Networks to Drive Change

August 31, 2022

Use the Liberating Structure "Social Network Webbing" to find people in your organization who are facing similar impediments and work together to remove them.

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| Barry Overeem

Inspect And Improve The Performance Of A Scrum Team With “Generative Relationships STAR”

August 17, 2022

In this blog post, we describe the purpose of Generative Relationships STAR, how it works, and when you could use it with your Scrum Team.

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| Barry Overeem

How To Skillfully Navigate Conflict In Your Scrum Team?

August 10, 2022

3 Do-it-yourself workshops to help your Scrum team improve (the lack of) task- and relationship conflict

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| Barry Overeem

Quick Tips To Improve The Autonomy Of Your Scrum Team

July 28, 2022

Spark small and incremental change in your Scrum team, with our community-driven actionable quick tips

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| Barry Overeem

Make A Business Case For Continuous Delivery With Your Scrum Team

July 4, 2022

How much money and time can actually be saved by automating your deployment pipeline?

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| Barry Overeem

How To Refine Your Improvements Into Actionable Quick Tips?

June 28, 2022

Why refinement is an essential skill for Scrum teams to create small, specific, and realistic improvements.

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| Barry Overeem

How Product Backlog Refinement Can Prevent or Fix Zombie Scrum

June 19, 2022

Spark small and incremental change in your Scrum team, with our community-driven actionable quick tips.

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| Barry Overeem

How To Make Product Discovery An Integral Part Of Your Scrum Team?

May 31, 2022

7 Do-it-yourself workshops and experiments to discover new valuable features through experiments, field testing, and research.

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| Barry Overeem

Programmer- or Product Developer? Why The Difference Matters!

May 20, 2022

In this blog post, I explain the difference between the attitude of a programmer and a product developer, why it matters, and some tips to make the shift.

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| Barry Overeem

Quickstart To Improve How Your Team Uses Sprint Goals

May 16, 2022

Three simple retrospective formats based on the Liberating Structures "Conversation Cafe", "Troika Consulting", and "Discovery & Action Dialogue"

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| Barry Overeem

The 11th Essential Success Factor To Resolve Zombie Scrum

May 5, 2022

Practical ideas on how to improve Scrum, personally.

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| Barry Overeem

Quickstart To Improve Your Team's Psychological Safety

May 2, 2022

Three simple retrospective formats based on the Liberating Structures "Conversation Cafe", "Troika Consulting", and "Discovery & Action Dialogue"

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| Barry Overeem

A Quickstart To Improve Your Scrum Team's Morale

April 14, 2022

Three simple retrospective formats based on the Liberating Structures "Conversation Cafe", "Troika Consulting", and "Discovery & Action Dialogue"

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| Barry Overeem

Mind The (Scrum) Gap!

April 5, 2022

How to support Scrum Teams to effectively bridge the gap between their current and desired state

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| Barry Overeem

Start A Stakeholder Treasure Hunt With Your Scrum Team

March 29, 2022

Try this experiment and go on a journey to find your real stakeholders!

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| Barry Overeem

The 6 Stances Of A Scrum Master

March 19, 2022

A detailed description of how the Scrum Master role embodies 6 stances, and why I don’t consider “servant leader” and “manager” valid stances anymore

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| Barry Overeem

A Quickstart To Improve Team Morale

March 4, 2022

Three simple retrospective formats based on the Liberating Structures "Conversation Cafe", "Troika Consulting", and "Discovery & Action Dialogue"

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| Barry Overeem

Take Your Scrum Team’s Definition Of Done To The Next Level!

February 28, 2022

3 Do-it-yourself workshops to create, use, and improve your Definition of Done

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| Barry Overeem

Make Learning An Ongoing Activity, Not A Scrum Event

February 21, 2022

A collection of powerful questions & opportunities to help your team reflect, learn, and improve, continuously.

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| Barry Overeem

7 Quick Tips To Make Your Scrum Team More Self-Managing

February 7, 2022

Spark small and incremental change in your Scrum Team, with our community-driven actionable quick tips.

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| Barry Overeem

10 Quick Tips To Improve Cross-Functionality Within Your Scrum Team

January 4, 2022

Spark small and incremental change in your Scrum team, with our community-driven actionable quick tips.

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| Barry Overeem

How Scrum Teams Can Benefit From The Principles Of Liberating Structures

December 14, 2021

Familiarize yourself with the principles of Liberating Structures and learn how they can strengthen your Scrum Team.

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| Barry Overeem

A Simple Exercise To Define The Product Of Your Scrum Team

November 29, 2021

Why it matters to have a shared understanding of the product your Scrum team is building.

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| Barry Overeem

How A Culture Of Learning And Experimentation Can Prevent Zombie Scrum

November 8, 2021

As long as the Scrum team has the drive to learn and to run experiments to figure out what works for them, Zombie Scrum (or fake Agile) won’t find futile ground and can’t take root!

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| Barry Overeem

10 Success Factors To Resolve Zombie Scrum

July 25, 2021

In this blog post, I share 10 success factors that emerged from a community meetup. These factors helped Scrum practitioners prevent or fix Zombie Scrum in their team and organization.

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| Barry Overeem

How To Measure The Success Of A Scrum Master?

July 12, 2021

Reflections and findings triggered by the experience interview with Jimmy Janlén.

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| Barry Overeem

How To Run A Sprint Review, Online?

June 28, 2021

A real-life example of how we facilitated an online Sprint Review.

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| Barry Overeem

When The Scrum Master As A Teacher Becomes A Preacher

April 26, 2021

Why the distinction between teacher and preacher matters, how you can recognize a Scrum preacher, and what we recommend instead

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| Barry Overeem

Improve How Your Scrum Team Uses Metrics

April 12, 2021

4 Do-it-yourself workshops to improve how your team uses metrics and how to measure the things that really matter!

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| Barry Overeem

"Ship It Fast": What It Means, Why It Matters, And How To Improve

March 26, 2021

What is the common perception of what “ship it fast” means? What seems to be important about shipping fast? And what are ideas to improve the situation in your team or organization? Check the article to find inspiration.

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| Barry Overeem

3 Do-It-Yourself Workshops To Get Started With Product- And Sprint Goals

February 26, 2021

Use the do-it-yourself workshops to improve how your Scrum Team uses Product- and Sprint Goals.

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| Barry Overeem

8 Do-it-yourself workshops and experiments to help Scrum Teams engage and involve their stakeholders

February 15, 2021

We created 8 do-it-yourself workshops to help Scrum Teams engage and involve their stakeholders. Give it a try, and let us know how it went. Let’s unleash organizational superpowers, together!

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| Barry Overeem

Improving the Daily Scrum with Liberating Structures

December 7, 2020

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

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| Barry Overeem

Experiment: Reiterate the Purpose of the Product at the Start of Each Scrum Event

November 30, 2020

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.