Why perfect is the enemy of good - using lean change to apply agile in context

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: How Does A Scrum Team Build Trust?

Sometimes the challenging Sprints help us appreciate the great ones!

You will fall down on the floor if you lost your balance, or any effect from the outside moves your body away from the center of your balance axis. How to avoid that? You need to know where is the point of your balance and how to keep it.

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: How Do You Facilitate the Daily Scrum without the 3 Questions? Today's question is from Jodie who wants to know about alternatives to the 3 questions when facilitating the Daily Scrum.

Recently, I have been discussing some reasons why Agile Transformation may fail or go slowly. In this blog, I am presenting some success factors that might help your organization move toward Agility.

The audiobook of the Scrum Guide 2020 is a 22-minute long MP3 file. We are planning to make it available on other platforms, too.

In the previous article, Agile Transformation – Success Factors part 1, there was a strong focus on key levels that should be taken first into consideration. That was a high level overview.

Have you been wondering how you can measure the impact of your Scrum Masters? And how these Scrum Masters or Agile coaches can really help with the bottom-line result?

In this blog post, Joshua Partogi talks about the meaning of true leadership of the Scrum Master.

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

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: Where Does a Business Analyst Fit on a Scrum Team?

Scrum is hard. To be more specific, learning Scrum is easy, using Scrum to develop complex products is hard.

This post will explain how the Product Owner can leverage the Product Goal to improve the engagement with stakeholders during product development because it provides context on why the Scrum Team is doing the work.

En Scrum la planificación no es una etapa o un evento único, es una actividad continua durante todo el Sprint. La Adaptación continua no es sinónimo de desorden o improvisación.

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: Help! The Product Owner and Developers Don't Get Along! Today's question is a tricky one.

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: What is the Benefit of Having a Sprint Goal?

November 2020 was the launch of the Scrum Guide update. It seems like only yesterday but was over 3 months ago...

Sind mehrere Product Owner nötig, um Scrum effektiv zu skalieren? Nein.  Dass in skalierter Produktentwicklung mehrere Product Owner von Nöten sind, ist ein weit verbreiteter Irrglaube. Dieser Beitrag räumt mit diesem Irrglauben auf. Wird die Product Owner Rolle durch mehrere Personen skaliert, führt es zu Wertminimierung, steigendem Risiko und unnötiger Verlängerung der Time to Market. Es ist somit eine ineffektive Art, Product Ownership zu skalieren.

The Agile Culture gap is the nr. 1 cause for immature Agile implementations. You should read this blog if you want to understand how culture affects Agile transformation.

Scrum has proven to be an effective product delivery framework for all sorts of products. However, Scrum is equally well suited to build the wrong product efficiently as its Achilles heel has always been the product discovery part.

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: Can the Sprint Backlog Change During a Sprint?

Too many teams struggle with “Effort Estimation”. Too often they ask me to help them make an accurate estimate of their effort. Well, not sure this is achievable :)

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: Does a Scrum Master Need Technical Skills? Today's question is from a viewer who wants to know whether or not a Scrum Master NEEDS technical skills to be successful in their role.

The most common cause of a Scrum Team (ST) not accomplishing their Sprint Goal, not having things DONE at the end of the Sprint , is that everybody is busy individually working on their Sprint Backlog items.

Dies ist die Geschichte über ein Scrum Team, das Scrum nutzt, um ein Produkt zu entwickeln und um dabei früh und häufig zu lernen, wie es den Wert des Produktes für die Nutzer:innen optimieren kann…

Product roadmaps provide a way to understand where a product is headed, but the information provided on most of them doesn’t help to clear the clouds of confusion about whether the product is heading in the right direction

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: Can a Manager Be THE Scrum Master? Today's question is from a viewer who wants to know if a manager can also be the Scrum Master?

TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner.

With the Scrum Team Survey, you can create transparency with your team around five core questions: Are you building what stakeholders need? Are you shipping fast enough?...

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: How Do I Avoid Playing Favorites as a Scrum Master? Today's question is from a viewer who wants to know how to avoid playing favorites as a Scrum Master.

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!

Over the years of working in both traditional and agile environments, I have noticed a pattern. It is something I now call a culture of escalation.  In this post, I will share the common causes of a culture of escalation and some tips for breaking out of the pattern.

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.

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: How Should Organizations Treat Agile Consultants? Today's question is about how contractors and consultants are treated in Agile organizations.

Today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: What Does a Scrum Master Do with a Quiet Team?

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: How does a Scrum Master help a blocked Scrum Team? Barbara sent in a question asking what to do when, as a Scrum Master, when an impediment blocks the Scrum Team.

In this blog post, I talk about the managerial dilemma.

As the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Agile Manifesto has arrived, in this blog post I look back at how the world has changed over the past 20 years and what it may look like over the next 20. 

A simple model to better understand why and when something is valuable to your team and its stakeholders (in commercial organizations)

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: What are the pros and cons of capacity sprint planning vs velocity sprint planning? A YouTube viewer sent a question asking about the pros and cons of Capacity Sprint Planning vs.

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: What happens when a Scrum Developer doesn't commit?

Hey, Scrum Masters! This one's for you!

Garbage in, garbage out: Learn more on how a piece of paper and a pencil can turn around the perception of your Scrum Team among stakeholders and customers.

Das kontinuierliche Liefern von nutzbaren Done Inkrementen ist das zentrale Element von Scrum. Will man Scrum auf ein Element reduzieren, dann wäre das genau das.

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: What is the typical day for a Scrum Masters? A YouTube viewer sent in a question asking about the typical day in the life of a Scrum Master.

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: What is the hardest part about being a Scrum Masters? Ben F. left a comment and asked Todd and Ryan about the hardest part of being a Scrum Master.

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: Which books do you recommend for Scrum Masters?

Like a job ad for a Scrum Master position, the equivalent for the Product Owner position also reveals excellent insight into an organization’s progress on becoming agile.

Here are some simple examples of Product Goals, Sprint Goals and the relationship between them.