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What's the Best Way to Document Requirements on a Scrum Team?

October 6, 2023
How you manage requirements and ‘desirements’ can depend greatly on your team, company, needs, compliance, legal, etc… but what is the best way to write them? In this video Professional Scrum Trainers Greg Crown and Robb Pieper give some recommendations on how you can capture requirements, document them and share them with your team.
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Committees: The Silent Time-to-Market Killers

October 4, 2023
In this video, Martin delves into a topic that many organisations grapple with: the impact of committees on time-to-market. 🚀📊 He questions the common notion that removing committees can reduce time-to-market by up to 50%. Is it true or just another statistic plucked from thin air?
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The Forgotten Scrum Event

October 3, 2023
What are the 5 events in Scrum? Can you name them? Chances are that you said something like “Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, and…. umm…..”
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Creating a Product Wall (1/7)

October 2, 2023
Product Walls are great tools that radiate information and support informed decision-making in the empirical world. Equally, it can be pretty tricky to build them. In this series, Ryan Brook and Sander Dur talk you through an example Product Wall and its components.
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Different Ways to Know your Customers

September 30, 2023
Product Owners must know their customers to succeed in today’s competitive markets. There is a common agreement among experts involved in product management about it. A lot has been said about this topic. In this blog post, I discuss the different ways to know your customers. To make it more practical, I share some tools to ease application in the work environment.
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Scrum: The Revealer of Challenges

September 29, 2023
In this video, Martin 🎥 delves deep into the essence of Scrum, highlighting its role not as a problem solver, but as a revealer. He draws a vivid picture, likening Scrum to a mirror 🪞. It reflects back to us the challenges and obstacles we face, making them visible so we can address them head-on.
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Increase Your Product Backlog's Transparency

September 28, 2023
Product Owners are accountable to provide stakeholders have a clear understanding of the product's direction. In this new episode of the take5IRL podcast, Jeff and Mike explore methods for enhancing transparency. Discover how providing transparency to the Product Backlog can foster a shared vision and facilitate meaningful collaboration with stakeholders.
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How to Make Your Org More Agile

September 28, 2023
How do you “implement agile” in an organization that has no experience with agile practices? Or does the phrase “implementing agile” even make sense? If agility is more of an outcome than something you do, how do you take an organization that is new to agility, and help them become more flexible and adaptable? PST's Robert Pieper, Gregory Crown, and Jason Malmstadt share their thoughts.
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Great Product Owners Facilitate Toward great Product Backlogs

September 28, 2023
This blog explores the crucial role of a Product Owner (PO) in managing the Product Backlog. Through facilitation, a PO can enhance team and stakeholder understanding of the Product Backlog, turning it into a narrative that drives everyone towards a shared vision and product goal. We discuss how the skills of storytelling and workshop facilitation, underpinned by core facilitation principles, significantly improve a PO's ability to navigate through backlog management and stakeholder engagement.
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Deciphering the Enigma of Story Points Across Teams

September 28, 2023
🚀 Diving deep into the world of Story Points! 📊 Ever wondered about their true value and how they fit into the bigger picture of team performance? Dive into my latest article where I unravel this enigma. Let's journey together from the subjective realm of Story Points to the tangible metrics of throughput and value. 🔄💡 #Agile #Scrum #ValueDelivery

Ready or Not? Demystifying the Definition of Ready in Scrum

September 27, 2023
Over time, various myths and beliefs have surrounded the concept of the Definition of Ready. What does it entail? It's all about the conditions that must be met for a Product Backlog Item to be considered ready for action and understood enough by the entire Scrum Team so that it can be pulled into the Sprint Backlog during Sprint Planning. While some embrace it enthusiastically, others avoid it like a burning flame. In this article, we aim to dispel any lingering doubts so that you can confidently decide "To use Definition of Ready or not to use."

Gestión del Product Backlog con el curso Professional Scrum Product Backlog Management Skills de Scrum.org

September 27, 2023
La Gestión del Product Backlog (en inglés Product Backlog Management) es una de las habilidades más importantes que debe dominar un Product Owner.  El Product Backlog es una lista ordenada de todo el trabajo que se debe realizar para entregar el producto.  El Product Owner es responsable de garantizar que sea lo más valioso y completo posible.
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How to Track Progress during a Sprint?

September 27, 2023
The Daily Scrum can be reduced to a status meeting where likely a Scrum Board or a Burn Down chart is referenced perhaps… but do these tools help with transparency? They certainly can, but how are you using them? If your stakeholders and other product participants could know what the progress is at all times, this could be a game changer.

Refinamiento emergente

September 26, 2023
El refinamiento del Product Backlog es esencial para mejorar la entrega de valor. El refinamiento es una actividad continua que se realiza en cada Sprint balanceando la entrega de valor en cada con la proyección adecuada de refinamiento.
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Can Product Owners Delete Aging Product Backlog Items?

September 26, 2023
It's common for Product Owners to be concerned with keeping every idea on their Product Backlog until it's a delivered solution. But what if that idea has been there for 10 years… should it still remain? PST's Jason Malmstadt and Greg Crown give some ideas on how you can handle aging Product Backlog items.
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An Overmanaged Product Backlog

September 26, 2023
Overmanaging a Product Backlog can be wasteful. Product Backlog Items are no guarantee of value so details should be added with the minimum amount of detail to perform the work.
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Unravelling Sprint Planning: Setting the Tone for Success

September 26, 2023
In this video, we delve deep into the essence of Sprint Planning, shedding light on its pivotal role in Scrum. From understanding the Product Backlog to setting clear Sprint Goals, we explore how this process sets the tone for a successful Sprint and the importance of striking a balance between planning and delivery.
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How Do I Measure the Success of a Scrum Master?

September 26, 2023
Determining whether a Scrum Master is effective can be challenging, as their impact is often indirect and not always easy to measure quantitatively. In this article, we will explore key indicators that can help you evaluate the effectiveness of a Scrum Master.