What is your take on the Retrospective: A routine exercise at the end of a Sprint, supported by standard operating procedures? Or a critical part of a Scrum team’s journey of continuous improvement?

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.

The values set out in the Scrum framework are essential because they help us to navigate complex work environments as a team. At first glance, they appear straightforward but living the Scrum Values each day is challenging whether this is your first or fiftieth Sprint together. If you’re a Scrum Master struggling with this issue, you are definitely not alone. In this discussion, I’ll outline why the Scrum values matter, how to determine if they are at risk on your team, why this happens, and how to get things back on track.

El coaching, como trabajo a tiempo completo y forma de vida, es más complicado de lo que parece. Sin embargo, cuando se hace de manera efectiva, da un valor enorme. El coaching solo es un pata de las competencias del Agile Coach y ahora lo vamos a analizar.

A cross-functional team is a fundamental part of effectivity. How does this relate to the Scrum Master? Check it out! - Back to the foundations of the Scrum framework (66)

Die folgenden 14 Grundprinzipien beschreiben in groben Zügen die Grundlage für einen erfolgreichen Ansatz zum Refinement des Produkt-Backlogs.

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

The Scrum Master is basically a Project Manager right? Nope. Think beyond running Scrum events and taking notes. There is a lot more to being a master of Scrum. Discover what a Scrum Master is AND isn’t and learn the importance of self-management.

The best Scrum teams that I have worked with were supported by management leaders focused on removing impediments, providing resources, and promoting an agile mindset and culture that supports the Scrum values. It’s not an easy job. Making it more challenging are the agile leadership myths out there that can get in the way of being effective. In this article, we’ll look at three common agile leadership myths and how to move past them.

Agile for Humans has launched a new YouTube series called SUCCESSFUL FACILITATION. Episode 4 explores a facilitation technique: Training From the Back of the Room.

An approach for categorization of the Agile Principles to help see themes.

Garbage in, garbage out: Learn about 14 first principles to help your team succeed with an actionable Product Backlog.

Zwischen keinem Begriff herrscht so viel Verwirrung wie zwischen der Definition of Done und Akzeptanzkriterien. In diesem Beitrag teile ich mit dir eine Frage. Mit ihr kannst du entscheiden, ob etwas Bestandteil der Definition of Done oder ein Akzeptanzkriterium ist. Viel Spaß beim Lesen!

Muchas veces me preguntan lo siguiente: ¿Qué es un equipo multifuncional? ¿Qué es un equipo multidisciplinar? La respuesta es que un equipo multifuncional es un grupo de personas con una variedad de conocimientos que se unen para lograr un objetivo común. Por lo general, los empleados de todos los niveles de una organización hacen que esa organización sea multifuncional. ¿Tiene tu organización equipos multifuncionales? ¿Cómo de disfuncionales son?

Great facilitation makes it easier for everyone to participate, collaborate, and find shared understanding to reach the desired objective. Facilitate effective Scrum events and other meetings by starting with a well-thought-out facilitator guide.

Agile for Humans has launched a new YouTube series called SUCCESSFUL FACILITATION. Episode 3 explores a facilitation technique: Liberating Structure 1-2-4-ALL

A cross-functional team is a fundamental part of effectivity. How does this relate to the Developers? Check it out! - Back to the foundations of the Scrum framework (65)

El Product Owner no toma la decisión final sobre los cambios en el Sprint Backlog pero puede negociar con los Desarrolladores para lograr lo mejor para el producto y los clientes. Durante el Sprint el Sprint Backlog puede cambiar, los Desarrolladores pueden descubrir nuevo trabajo o el Product Owner puede darse cuenta de que un elemento urgente del Product Backlog se debe agregar. Si bien es cierto que pueden existir muchos escenarios que ameriten cambiar el Sprint Backlog está decisión del cambio corresponder a los Desarrolladores.

Agile for Humans has launched a new YouTube series called SUCCESSFUL FACILITATION. Episode 2 answers the question: "What are Liberating Structures?"

In this vlog, PST Joshua Partogi break down and maps the project management activities done by the Scrum team.

Innovation and creativity are crushed by common organizational practices. Urgency, stress, multitasking, back-to-back meetings, all contribute to the issue. Break the rut by creating intentional space for innovation and unlock your creativity.

How often have you thought: "This Sprint Review is useless and boring!" or "We are just reviewing internally what we already have seen before as a Scrum Team. We have no new feedback. Let's skip this event. Waste of time."

Scientific insights into what creates stress, and how motivation can buffer it. With 5 practical ways to reduce stress and increase motivation

So you recently started using Scrum and are struggling to get the most out of the Scrum events? Or, maybe your journey with Scrum has been going on for some time and you still feel that something is missing in your meetings. I hear you! It might be challenging to switch from well known and understood habits and practices, and introduce changes to your process of complex problem solving. In this blog post you will find some tips and tricks that will boost facilitation of your Daily Scrum. Perhaps some of the tools and techniques will help you when facilitating other events too.

Zehn einfache Prinzipien eines kritischen Scrum-Erfolgsfaktors, die Ihnen helfen werden, die Effektivität, den Teamgeist und die Reputation Ihres Scrum Teams zu verbessern.

Agile for Humans has launched a new YouTube series called SUCCESSFUL FACILITATION. Episode 1 answers the question: "What is facilitation?"

Everyone on the Scrum Team should level up their facilitation skills. In this video, Todd and Ryan explore why this skill is essential to a Scrum Team and how to improve in this critical area of complex work.

La facilitación se enfoca en ayudar a crear un entorno saludable y de seguridad donde las personas puedas generar ideas en forma creativa y de usar los diferentes puntos de vista para lograr soluciones definidas en un trabajo en equipo. Las técnicas de facilitación junto con los valores pueden potenciar la forma de llevar a cabo los eventos de Scrum, sus resultados y la autogestión durante el Sprint.

10 simple principles of a critical scrum success factor to improve your team’s effectiveness, team spirit, and reputation.

Leggendo questo articolo potrete farvi un'idea sulla Community Collective Genius Italia, creata per dare e ricevere aiuto sull'applicazione di Scrum al lavoro.

Im Daily Scrum deines Teams sprechen immer nur die Gleichen und jeder rechtfertigt sich, was er gestern getan hat? Das Resultat davon ist, dass sich das Daily Scrum ewig hinzieht. Im Folgenden findest du drei Facilitation-Tipps, die dir helfen werden, das Daily Scrum innerhalb der vorgegeben Time-Box durchzuführen:

I think of the three accountabilities in the Scrum framework as creating a balance of power.  But what happens when an individual fulfilling one (or more!) of the accountabilities in Scrum gets a bit — um — power hungry?  In this article, we will discuss a few examples of how people fulfilling each of the three accountabilities can overstep their bounds. 

A quoi correspond la facilitation dans une Scrum Team ? Qui s'assure que les événements sont correctement facilités, et comment ? Comment le Scrum Master peut servir la Scrum Team en passant le relais à ses co-équipiers ?

In this vlog, PST Joshua Partogi elaborates the synergy between the Product Owner and Scrum Master when collaborating together.

A cross-functional team is a fundamental part of effectivity. How does this relate to the Product Owner? Check it out! - Back to the foundations of the Scrum framework (64)

Daily Scrum events are filled with 3 questions and meandering discussions about tickets that are in progress. Too many topics and not enough time is the typical opinion. So, how about that Sprint Goal? Likely it’s missing or it’s the token “get all the work done” goal. Stop dividing and conquering. Create a legitimate Sprint Goal and collectively measure progress. When you have a good Sprint Goal, 15 minutes is plenty of time to make a collective plan for the day.

Many new Scrum Masters need help to gain facilitation skills to leverage the potential of diverse perspectives within their team. By improving facilitation, it should also help to improve the interactions within Scrum events and also improve participatory decision making. The purpose of this blog post is to dispel some myths around facilitation, namely what it is and who does it. It will also provide some top tips to immediately improve your facilitation skillset. 

Zertifiziert zu sein ist mittlerweile ein notwendiges Übel, um als Scrum Master eine gute Stelle zu erhalten. Neben einer relevanten Berufserfahrung sind Zertifizierungen das Kriterium, auf welches Recruiter achten. Kein Wunder also, dass mich in letzter Zeit immer mehr Anfragen mit der Frage erreichen: „Simon, wie kann ich mich am besten auf die PSU-Prüfung vorbereiten?“ Den Wunsch nach einer PSU-Zertifizierung kann ich gut nachvollziehen. Da es in Deutschland nur 2126 PSU-Zertifizierte, aber 483198 PSM-Zertifizierte gibt, stichst du mit einer solchen Zertifizierung aus der breiten Masse der Scrum Master heraus. Wie kannst du dich also auf die Prüfung vorbereiten? Bei meiner Antwort unterscheide ich zwischen zwei Personengruppen.

Jeff Gothelf: “Roadmapping ist im Zeitalter der agilen Produktentwicklung ein fehlerhaftes Konzept. Roadmaps sind ihrer Definition nach linear und wir bauen keine linearen Produkte und Dienstleistungen mehr.”

The Sprint Review is an integral event in Scrum as it gives the platform to Scrum Team to showcase the product to stakeholders and invite feedback from them. But often find the seats with the shareholder’s name on them empty.

The empirical process—and its three pillars of transparency, inspection and adaptation—involves checking where you are at by doing something, seeing how you did compared to what you were trying to do, and devising and carrying out experiments (practicing, if you will) to try and get closer to your desired outcome. This is the process that Scrum is designed to take you through with its framework, and we’d be remiss if we did not apply this same process to our learning. Learning is after all a complex problem.

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.

Epics and features are complementary Scrum practices that some Product Owners use to organize their Product Backlog. Like a folder structure, they are a convenient way to group PBIs into meaningful groups.

“Roadmapping is a flawed concept in the age of Agile. Maps, by their definition, are linear, and we don’t build linear products and services anymore. We build continuous systems.”

Scrum zu skalieren bedeutet für verschiedene Menschen verschiedene Dinge. Woran liegt das? Ich vermute, es liegt daran, dass immer noch so viele Halbwahrheiten kursieren. Diese Mythen sind so vorherrschend, dass ich sie auch in jedem meiner Scaled Professional Scrum Trainings und auf Vorträgen ansprechen und berichtigen muss. Hier die fünf weitverbreiteten Mythen im Überblick und wie du sie entkräften kannst.

Leider wird Scrum und auch insgesamt ein agiler Ansatz missverstanden als Werkzeug um zu liefern basierend auf den Erkenntnissen, die man vorher durch Design Thinking und Lean Startup gewonnen hat. Tatsächlich kann man Scrum von Anfang an gewinnbringend mit Design Thinking und Lean Startup kombinieren.

This post is the first in an ongoing series revisiting the principles behind the Agile Manifesto. This post is focused on the following important principle – “Simplicity–the art of maximizing the amount of work not done–is essential.”

A cross-functional team is a fundamental part of effectivity. How does this relate to the Increment? Check it out! - Back to the foundations of the Scrum framework (63)

Does it make sense for Project Managers to become Scrum Masters? It’s a very common practice that may have unintended consequences. Are Scrum Masters managing anything? Project management skills can be great to have on a team, but we have to learn how this works in Scrum Teams.

Wirkungsvolle Ziele zu setzen, zeichnet erfolgreiche Leader aus. Allerdings bin ich davon überzeugt, dass diese Fähigkeit jeder beherrschen sollte. Hier erhältst du 3 Einsichten, die ich in den letzten 8 Jahren bei meiner Arbeit mit Teams gesammelt habe und die auch dir helfen können, effektiv Ziele zu formulieren.