Webcasts

In this webinar, Professional Scrum Trainer Ravi Verma explores these questions with a US military veteran and practicing Scrum Masters – Mike Torrence. Mike draws upon his lived experience to share the top barriers his Scrum Teams have typically faced on the path to self-management and some practices that have helped him break-through.

The idea of self-managing teams who have flexible scope and timelines can be perceived as daunting to some executives and senior leaders. In this session, Professional Scrum Trainer, Mary Iqbal talks about some of the common misconceptions about Scrum and Agile in general from a leader’s perspective and how to overcome them.

In this ScrumPulse Webcast moderated by Dave West, CEO of Scrum.org, Tomasz Maj, Expert at McKinsey, and Rishi Markenday, Professional Scrum Trainer, discuss their research and initial findings as presented in the new paper titled - “In pursuit of value, not work.” 

Join Professional Scrum Trainers Evelien Roos and Laurens Bonnema for this Scrum Pulse webinar focused on 50 Scrum Master frequently asked questions. In this session, they share the answers to some of the most popular questions they get from students during their training courses. This session is based on their handy ebook.

What do the Scrum Framework and an Olympic journey have in common? Turns out, a lot. Olympian, PSM and entrepreneur Toby Jenkins was trained by, and is now coached by, PST and Scrum Master Ferzeen Anis. In this session, Ferzeen and Toby draw lessons from lived experience in applying Scrum, building businesses and working toward achieving an Olympic dream. 

Sometimes when Scrum Masters, other Scrum Team Members or Agile Coaches facilitate conversations for teams, they will reflect questions back to the team members or say, "it depends." Join PST Andy Hiles, Jessica Martin, Agile Coach and PST Ravi Verma in a panel discussion hosted by Patricia Kong, where they share their experiences with creating psychological safety in teams by using effective facilitation skills in conversations and other interactions.

In diesem Scrum-Pulse-Webcast erklärt Professional Scrum Trainer Simon Flossmann die Grundlagen effektiver Facilitation.
Dazu wird er die Groan Zone vorstellen, grundlegende Facilitation-Prinzipien erklären und Tipps geben, wie damit die Scrum Events effektiv facilitiert werden können.

In this webinar, Patricia Kong and PST David Spinks discuss the group dynamics involved in decision making and how facilitation skills can help a Scrum Team navigate through periods of frustration, confusion or disengagement to reach true alignment on their collective decisions.

Dans ce webinaire Scrum Pulse, Fabio Panzavolta, PST, Scrum.org, partage avec les participants en quoi le Scrum professionnel est différent et comment il requiert les valeurs de Scrum, une mentalité et des méthodes de travai et de pensée différentes, en se concentrant sur les résultats et un environnement qui soutient le Scrum professionnel, y compris la confiance.

The Scrum Guide doesn't provide a complete list of the skills required for any of the accountabilities on a Scrum Team. Instead, the Scrum Guide simply states that the Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of the product resulting from the Scrum Team’s work. In this Scrum Pulse webcast, PST Mary Iqbal explores the accountability of the Product Owner and walks through characteristics of an effective Product Owner.

Are you a leader in an organization that’s leveraging Scrum? In this webinar, Professional Scrum Trainer Yuval Yeret, co-author of the Scrum Guide Companion for Leaders, looks at the different elements of Scrum and reflects on an effective way for leaders to engage with them. Throughout the session, Yuval explores topics in this new guide, shares stories from the trenches and more.

The purpose of the Sprint Review is to inspect the outcome of the Sprint and determine future adaptations. It is an impactful Scrum event that can potentially make or break your organization’s Scrum adoption. However, it might also be one of the most misunderstood and poorly facilitated Scrum Events...

La agilidad puede verse como una estrategia de negocio, una estrategia empresarial a través de la cual las empresas pueden mejorar, mantener y desarrollar su ventaja competitiva en el mercado. La agilidad es un cambio cultural que promueve el trabajo en equipo y la entrega de valor a los clientes...

Scrum was originally developed for complex software development projects, but is now being used on almost any type of team-based product work. The framework as defined in the Scrum Guide is a simple yet powerful way to bring order to complexity through learning by providing frequent opportunities for frequent feedback on both how we work and the thing we have and will be working on.

The Scrum Guide includes five Scrum Values that are important to every successful implementation of Scrum. The Scrum Values are Courage, Commitment, Focus, Openness and Respect. The Scrum Guide says, "These values give direction to the Scrum Team with regard to their work, actions, and behavior...

Did you know there is a growing profession that focuses purely on coaching? The work in this area has inspired thousands of agilists to develop rich coaching capabilities used to unlock the full potential of the people and teams they work with. Coaching helps people, teams, and organizations navigate the human dynamics of change and turn uncertainty into value...

In this interactive session, Richard Kasperowski from With Great People, lays out the case for Continuous / Extreme Teaming. Session participants will join in a flight of fun learning activity-sets. These will give you a taste of team awesomeness and how to start when you go back to work...

In this discussion moderated by Patricia Kong, Professional Scrum Trainers Glaudia Califano, Reshma (Simran) Nagrani and Mica Syjuco breakdown what resonates with them regarding this theme of “Break the Bias” and then discuss how Scrum can help alleviate bias in their work as women in the Agile community and also in their personal lives...

En este webinario, Fabian Schwartz, PST, utilizó estudios de la Universidad de Stanford y Google para demostrar que no es importante a quién poner en el equipo, sino cómo funciona el equipo.  Luego demostró cómo el enfoque de “equipo A” de las fuerzas especiales militares permite buenos equipos multifuncionales...

The 2020 Scrum Guide provides only the necessary guidelines within which teams use Scrum to deliver value. Sometimes, myths about the guidelines of the Scrum framework can result in teams adopting practices which do not add value to the Scrum Team. By exposing these myths, you can help accelerate the delivery of value for your team...

In this webinar, Professional Scrum Trainer Ravi Verma shares seven concrete steps that purpose-driven Scrum Masters can take to avoid and escape this trap while reclaiming their Scrum Master superpower...

Words matter, especially when working in any team setting. Words that are spoken or written by one person can have different meanings when read or heard by another. Scrum Teams have multiple members, which means the interpretation of words used in the team setting increases with each member...

Las dependencias pueden perjudicar de la entrega de valor porque impiden y retrasan la entrega de un incremento integrado de producto de todos los equipos Scrum trabajando sobre un producto...

In this Scrum Pulse webinar, Professional Scrum Trainer Mary Iqbal discusses the common signs of pretending to be agile and how you can use Empiricism to stop pretending...

We know that Scrum is a framework, and the Scrum Team works together to define their own process within the boundaries of the Scrum framework. This includes their practices, tools and interactions, how they fulfill the accountabilities of their Scrum roles, and how they utilize the artifacts and events...

The complexities of product delivery require coordination using both a framework and tools that work together, allowing you to effectively integrate multiple teams who are working on the same product...

Let us delve into the abyss of Scrum anti-patterns — from bad to really bad to ultimate, baddest anti-pattern imaginable — and what you as a Scrum practitioner can do about it. In this Scrum Pulse webinar, Professional Scrum Trainer Stefan Wolpers brings his top ten Scrum anti-patterns for a 20-minute introduction to the topic...

Algunas empresas han adoptado la agilidad, pero todavía están usando métricas tradicionales como tiempo, costo y alcance principalmente para medir el éxito de su transformación ágil, lo cual, genera mayor desperdicio y retrasa la entrega de valor...

eimagine, a full-service Indianapolis US-based information technology consulting company, used the Nexus framework to replace legacy systems for a large project for a state government agency that provides connects senior citizens with social services, health care, and their communities...

In this webinar moderated by PST Ravi Verma with Anca Tanase, PST Magdalena Firlit and PST Nagesh Sharma, they propose one possible approach that evidence based Agile organizations can take to overcome these challenges. They will propose 10 steps that can be followed in 21 days or less to integrate EBM with Scrum to achieve these outcomes...

Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) act as goal-setting framework for defining and tracking objectives and their outcomes. OKRs are often misunderstood and are a powerful practice to create razor sharp organizational focus. Isn’t Scrum about goals and focus as well? There is the Vision, the Product Goal, the Sprint Goal as well as the Sprint Review...

El Scrum Master es un líder servicial, un rol transformador, un rol de cambio. Su forma de actuar es indirecta, facilitando en todo momento la autogestión del Equipo Scrum para lograr el Objetivo del Producto...

In this webinar, Professional Scrum Trainer Martijn Magermans and Agile HR Expert Astrid Karsten, author of Toolkit for Agile Talent Development, take you with them on a journey through agile HR from a Scrum perspective. This webinar is for both HR professionals with an interest in Agile & Scrum and for Scrum Professionals with interest in HR...

In 2020 and 2021, more than 1,153 participants from over 20 countries and organizations from less than 50 to more than 10,000 employees participated in a hands-on survey on agile metrics launched by Berlin-Product-People. The goal of this survey was to learn about who is using what agile metrics in which context to get a better understanding of how becoming agile is progressing at a team level or within an organization...

Although Scrum has been around for more than 25 years, it is still new to many. In this session, we provide an overview of the Scrum framework, discuss how Scrum enables agility and ways that empiricism can empower the teams that use it...

Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) are a powerful tool for setting and measuring goals, but like all power tools, they can come with great responsibility. Matt Hodgson, CEO and Executive Agile Coach of Zen Ex Machina and Patricia Kong, Product Owner of Enterprise Agility at Scrum.org will discuss how to use OKRs in informed ways, so that they can help organizations improve focus and lift outcomes...

This question comes up often: “I am a project manager and our company is moving to agile or Scrum, does that mean I will now become a Scrum Master?” In response, we hesitate and then give the unwelcomed answer of “It depends.” And it really does depend...

By combining Professional Scrum with Kanban principles and metrics we have a phenomenal opportunity to ask the right questions sooner, solve the right problems faster and measure more of what matters. In this webinar, Professional Scrum Trainer Jim Sammons discusses the Professional Scrum with Kanban “4x4”...

Scrum is commonplace in the software industry, but its ideas and principles can be applied to other domains and contexts. Can the ideas of Scrum help Biotech firms deliver more value, whilst navigating the complexities of innovation? Can Scrum work in an environment where experiments take time, failure is likely, partnerships are proliferating, and roles are highly specialized?

Evidence-Based Management (EBM) es un enfoque empírico que ayuda a las organizaciones a mejorar continuamente los resultados de los clientes, las capacidades organizativas y los resultados comerciales en condiciones de incertidumbre...

In this webinar, Anca Tanase and Ravi Verma recap their journey of scaling Professional Scrum across 21 teams using the Nexus framework. They share the key challenges they faced and the lessons they learned when scaling multiple Nexuses to form a Nexus+ of teams that were not only geographically distributed across 3 continents, but also represented 6 distinct organizations...

Radical disruption and social media go hand in hand, yet with things moving so quickly, there is a constant need to inspect, learn and change. Can Scrum improve how your digital marketing team works to help your business pivot faster to deliver more value?

In his book "The Professional Scrum Team", which is a part of the Scrum.org "Professional Scrum" series at Pearson. He and his co-authors consistently use stories to set the stage and illustrate problems throughout the book. The reader can relate this story to their own experience, which makes it easier to understand the importance and point of the message that comes afterwards...

In the world of Professional Scrum there are many goals and objectives: Vision, Strategic Goal, Product Goal, Nexus Sprint Goal and Sprint Goal.

What does each mean, how do they impact each other, when do you use which one and how can you prevent confusion? In this webinar, Professional Scrum Trainer Ralph Jocham walks through the different goals in Scrum and shares examples of how they are used and how to avoid challenges when using them.

In this discussion, Ralph Jocham, Don McGreal, and Patricia Kong discuss how to improve goals by adding specific measures to know when goals are achieved, how to seek toward goals using empiricism, and how to choose measures to help inform improvements. They will talk about Evidence-Based Management, a framework developed by Scrum.org to help organizations use empiricism to set goals and make progress toward those goals...

In this webinar, we follow the journey of Mike Torrence - a US Military Veteran who took on the role of the Scrum Master, and his Scrum Team, as they navigated challenges that were getting in the way of creating reliable forecasts for stakeholders. Professional Scrum Trainer Ravi Verma helps to guide this discussion...

This webinar with Professional Scrum Trainer Martin Hinshelwood, Emeka Unachukwu, Head of Training Programs and Anthony Dele Daniel, Training Director from Jolsons-Chi, along with Grace Johnson explores Scrum adoption in Nigeria and they explain the benefits of learning and applying Professional Scrum...

Numerous industry surveys have shown organizations receive a number of benefits from being agile. Unfortunately, the collection and analysis of empirical evidence is rarely conducted. Without robust empirical measures, many turn to the symbols they can see - measuring velocity, team happiness, and getting teams to "self assess" their capability...

In this webinar, Professional Scrum Trainers Fabio Panzavolta and Gunther Verheyen walk you through the company's fascinating journey. They will share an experience and the lessons learned from this agile transformation...

In this webinar, Professional Scrum Trainer Stefan Wolpers will addresses ten critical anti-patterns in Product Backlog management, that both Scrum Masters and Product Owners should address immediately, once identified...

The new year is finally here! And it is time to start understanding the new version of the Scrum Guide released in late November. Now, with organizations looking for ways to have a bounce back in 2021 and greater agility helping them lead the way, a question must be asked. How do agile organizations recognize value and what can the Scrum Guide updates teach us about connecting outputs to realized value?

In this webinar with Pragmatic Institute, Dave West CEO and Product Owner, Scrum.org  addresses these questions showing how the Product Owner naturally fits into an agile product delivery organization...

During the Scrum.org webinar, they offer you a fresh perspective on Zombie Scrum, share key insights from the book, and discuss their latest findings on the relentless on-going research. To give you a good start fixing Zombie Scrum in your organization, some of the most powerful experiments will be shared during the session! So join the webinar, and let's fight Zombie Scrum, together!

In this webinar, Ram Srinivasan and Dr. Gervase Bushe introduce a research-based, and time-tested model that explains how teams and leaders can build effective partnerships where people learn from each others' collective experience and collaborate better...

La Guia Scrum 2020 se publicará en noviembre, y traerá novedades importantes. En esta sesión, podréis preguntar a Alex Ballarin, un Professional Scrum Trainer cosas como...

How many calendar days does it take your teams to take a "Sprint Ready" item all the way to production deployment? How is your current cycle time impacting your Business? What would be possible for your Business if your cycle time was 8 calendar days?

n this presentation, Ellen Gottesdiener CEO EBG Consulting and Dave West CEO Scrum.org share why this question is so vital to the success of your product. They discuss principles for defining products, and approaches they have seen work as companies wrestle with the fundamental question, “What is Your Product?”

Is it hard to bring together people in and outside your company to really focus on delivering? In this webinar, we will discuss the power of using a Lean Agile Procurement approach to shrink value stream cycles by months. The creator of this approach, Mirko Kleiner and Professional Scrum Trainer Simon Reindl explore how using this technique establishes an Agile way of working from the outset...

Un gran Product Owner tiene que estar enfocado en producir experiencias e impactos sorprendentes en los clientes a la vez que soporta el cambio de la organización hacia la agilidad con un enfoque de producto brindando el soporte necesario para que el equipo de desarrollo pueda optimizar el trabajo que realiza...

Written in 2001 the Agile Manifesto states that in-person interactions are the most effective way to facilitate communication. As technologies and connectivity have evolved, so has the ability for teams to work in different ways. Successful organizations are embracing these new ways of working and reaping tremendous benefits as a result...

In this webinar, Professional Scrum Trainer Lachlan Heasman and Eric Naiburg take attendees through some of the practices from the Scrum.org Professional Scrum Master II class that Scrum Masters can use to better serve their Scrum Team(s) focusing on the different stances that a Scrum Master may take on...

Agility is a buzz word that can be interpreted to mean different things to different people. In this session, we explore some of these questions and more together...

How can Liberating Structures be used to fortify Scrum Teams? Join this virtual User Experience Fishbowl and learn from practitioners how they have used the Liberating Structures Conversation Cafe and/or User Experience Fishbowl to support their Scrum Teams...

In this webinar with Professional Scrum Trainer Mark Wavle, you will learn about and apply the Actionable Awareness Canvas and the set of skills it prompts you to use, pausing your own viewpoints, slowing down your thinking, and broadening your awareness...