In Part 2 of this Q&A series stemming from questions in the webinar, Managing Your AI Teammate, Eric Naiburg continues the conversation with Darrell Fernandes, diving deeper into how AI is reshaping the way Scrum Teams work. (21:32 Minutes)

I find that when people start to actually use Scrum, they often forget that they are supposed to be a team. They assign each individual a task or Product Backlog Item, and then that individual goes off and works on it alone.

Scrum Masters (at least in my part of the world) are often people seeking the transition to the role of a ‘Manager’ or a management position. However, when they land into this role amongst a highly technical team, they become clueless. This is because the one thing that they were moving away from be...

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Scrum Mastery is a craft that requires the right environment and a clear focus on the value chain to truly take off. Drawing from a decade of experience, PST Simon Flossmann shares five essential steps I wish I had known sooner to help you master the role and deliver real impact.

In diesem Artikel erklärt PST Simon Flossmann 10 Warnsignale, die Führungskräfte bei der Wahl ihre Scrum Master achten sollten.

83% of Agile practitioners use AI, but most spend 10% or less of their time with it because they do not know where it fits. Learn more.

Struggling in a Scrum Master and Developer dual role? In this post by PST Robb Pieper, learn a 3-step framework to balance expertise with self-management, set technical guardrails, and build team independence.

Most teams don’t struggle with Scrum events. They struggle with what the events are supposed to produce: transparency you can trust, inspection that changes minds, and adaptation you can see the next day. A quick reality check: signal → sense-making → action. No signal, no Scrum.

When you limit work in progress, it makes pretty much everything from waterfall to Scrum better.

Psychological safety is foundational to Empiricism (Transparency, Inspection, Adaptation). If people are afraid to admit mistakes (like breaking the build), Empiricism dies. You can't have Empiricism without Safety.

Learn how to leverage AI to create a step-by-step action plan to resolve the conflicts you see in the Scrum Team.

Most teams don’t implement Scrum theory—they implement meetings. This post uses the definition of “implement” to show what Scrum is actually trying to put into operation: transparency, inspection, and adaptation. You’ll get a blunt way to spot Scrum theatre (in 30 seconds) and a practical check afte...

In this episode of the Scrum.org Community podcast, Dave West sits down with Brodie Green, Director of Agile Delivery Services at Pega, to unpack Pega’s two-decade-long agile evolution. From early whiteboard planning to experimenting with various scaling frameworks, Pega has continually adapted its ...

In this blog, I explain the motivation behind the creation of the new self-paced training course, "Effective Stakeholder Collaboration for Scrum Teams" that I created with Glaudia Califano and is endorsed by Scrum.org.

If tightening events haven’t improved delivery, morale, or outcomes, you’re probably fixing symptoms instead of the real constraint. In this post, PST Robb Pieper shows how to assess true Scrum team health and how to identify the one thing to fix first so multiple problems improve at once.

Scrum is designed for complex work. That kind of work can’t be reduced to checklists, scripts, or rigid instructions. It requires people who can think, experiment, apply their experience, and adapt when reality doesn’t match the plan.

Self-managing teams are how strategy comes to life. They’re also how organizations know when strategy needs to shift. In this article, we explore the building blocks of self-managing teams, what keeps organizations stuck, and practices that help.

The paradigm shift is here. Andrej Karpathy, former Tesla AI director and OpenAI co-founder, recently admitted he has never felt this far behind as a programmer. If Karpathy feels overwhelmed, how should the rest of us feel?

Scrum events only work when they cause transparency, inspection, and adaptation. Many teams keep the events but quietly remove that cause — and then wonder why nothing changes. This post breaks down how Scrum turns into theatre, and how to spot it fast.

Impediments are those blockers that prevent the Scrum Team from achieving the Sprint Goal. You can leverage AI to effectively help you with the removal process.

What makes a Sprint valuable? If at the end of the Sprint, the Scrum Team is able to meet the goal and stakeholders, users expectations. A Sprint is not just about delivering functionality, it is an opportunity to experiment and validate assumptions about what Value is being created or delivered. ...

Marc Kaufmann und Simon Flossmann arbeiten seit vielen Jahren als Scrum Master daran, Neues in Organisationen zu etablieren. In diesem Webcast stellen sie vor, was sich dabei bewährt hat. Dabei teilen sie keine abstrakten Theorien, sondern praktische Ansätze und einfache Modelle. Denn sie haben die ...

The world isn’t slowing down. Technology is evolving faster than most organizations can keep up and we all know requirements are constantly changing. But we don’t need a better plan - we need better ways to learn, and we need to keep our options open.

Prior to blaming the Scrum Master, organisations must ask themselves, do we value a culture where truth can be shared without retribution? Do we have clear guidelines in place, or have we shifted the ambiguity and the risk to the Scrum Master? Are we actually prepared to face the uncomfortable, that...

Scrum often isn’t what fails to scale, portfolio design does. Teams can run a good Scrum and still be slow because the real constraint sits upstream in funding, governance, and decision rights. Your product portfolio type determines which dependencies help you win and which ones quietly slow you ...

A practical way to leverage AI to increase the Daily Scrum effectiveness.

in diesem Artikel teilt PST Simon Flossmann drei Fragen, die sich jedes Scrum Team stellen sollte, wenn ihr Product Backlog mehr als 100 Einträge hat.

Using the AQAL model provides a sophisticated framework for Scrum Teams to diagnose why a team followed the rules of Scrum but still failed in the delivery.

If you drive your car without a destination, you are NOWHERE at the end of the day. The Sprint Goal is the destination of your Sprint trip. You should learn how to effectively create it.

Scrum events don’t work because they’re scheduled. They work because they create transparency, inspection, and adaptation. If nothing changes after your Sprint Review, Daily Scrum, or Retrospective, Scrum isn’t broken — it’s being ignored.

Scrum is everywhere, but too often it’s not delivering the results leaders expect. Join PSTs Robb Pieper and Jason Malmstadt of Responsive Advisors and Scrum.org as they unpack the most common reasons Scrum fails to deliver real value.

Self-managing teams with specialists and experts often fail quietly. The problem is not expertise. In this blog, PST Robb Pieper explains what actually breaks self-management and why most leaders miss it.

Somewhere along the way, when "Agile Consultants" began rebranding the Scrum Master as exclusively a "Coach," the role became dangerously hands-off. The result? A generation of Scrum Masters who are disconnected from the reality of product development.

Learn how to gain entry-level Scrum Master experience, build credibility, and prove value without waiting for the job title in this latest post with PST Robb Pieper.

In my practice, I get the chance to talk to a lot of different individuals from many organizations. Here are some of the things that really stood out to me about 2025.

In diesem Artikel fasst PST Simon Flossmann zusammen, was im Alltag für Scrum Master wirklich zählt.

In vielen Unternehmen hängen die Werte und Prinzipien des Agilen Manifests (wenn überhaupt) irgendwo an der Wand – zwischen Vision-Statement und Kaffeeküche. Gelebt werden sie selten. Stattdessen wird Scrum eingeführt wie ein neues Prozesshandbuch: Meetings ersetzen Denken, Jira ersetzt Verantwortun...

New Years is a time to pause and reflect - and that applies to Scrum Teams as well. So why not plan a New Years-themed Retrospective this year?

Scrum talks about *adaptation*—but not the kind driven by opinions, pressure, or discomfort. True adaptation only happens after transparency and inspection. Without learning first, teams don’t adapt—they drift. This post challenges how Scrum Teams really use adaptation.

The Scrum Guide is short—but every word is packed with intent. In this series, we explore its language one post at a time, connecting each phrase to real-world professional Scrum practice. You’ll never look at “collective intelligence” or “relationships and interactions” the same way again.

If the same problems return Sprint after Sprint, something in the team’s learning is not working. Action Learning strengthens Scrum by turning inspection into disciplined learning and adaptation into deliberate action.

Muchos equipos Scrum miden su productividad en base a tareas terminadas, puntos de historia o cosas entregadas, y luego toman los promedios para establecer líneas base de productividad que impulsen métricas estandarizadas de control a cumplir, pero entonces: ¿Dónde queda el aprendizaje y la mejora c...

Scrum’s events are called formal for a reason. It’s not about rigidity—it’s about visibility and shared responsibility. Formal events ensure everyone inspects, adapts, and learns together. Skip them, and you lose transparency, alignment, and trust.

In diesem Artikel beschreibt PST Simon Flossmann, was er lieber früher über Scrum Masterei gewusst hätte.

What makes self-managing teams effective? And how are they also cost-effective? In this live Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer session, Professional Scrum Trainers Robb Pieper and Jason Malmstadt will leverage their experiences to tackle your toughest questions about the business impact of self-manag...

The article explains that psychological safety does not promote repeated avoidable mistakes but instead fosters transparency, learning, and responsible professional behavior. It highlights that teams with high psychological safety are more likely to openly discuss errors, leading to meaningful impro...

Your Agile events aren’t failing because people lack training. They’re failing because your organization adopted the rituals while rejecting the transparency, trust, and adaptation that make them work. And often, the dysfunction of mechanical ceremonies isn’t a bug. It’s a feature.

I am often asked, how many teams can a Scrum Master support? Like so many things in Scrum, the answer is that it depends. The maturity of the teams, the organizational structure, the priority of the work and even the seniority of the Scrum Master are all factors to consider. There is no single, "...

Scrum Masters often fall into the trap of facilitating every Scrum event, turning themselves into meeting hosts instead of enabling self-management. The Scrum Guide doesn't require the Scrum Master to run any event. Their accountability is to create the conditions where the team can facilitate their...