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Explores how Scrum Masters and Product Owners balance leadership, authority, and team autonomy to ensure accountability, effective self-management, and organisational alignment.
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As a Scrum trainer, I get the chance to speak with people from many different industries—finance, healthcare, tech, education, government. Because of my unique position, I get a chance to notice trends in the industry. Here is what I am hearing a lot about lately.
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Scrum wraps around existing practices—not to protect them, but to help you inspect and improve them. Learn how this works and what your team should wrap, replace, or retire.
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AI has the potential to be either constructive or destructive. Awareness helps you utilize AI responsibly and ethically. But what does Responsible and Ethical AI mean?!
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Transparency is a core pillar of Scrum—but what happens when the environment punishes openness? In this episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, Professional Scrum Trainer David Spinks joins host Dave West to explore the complexities of transparency in unhealthy organizational cultures. (29:13 Mi...
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Yes, outcomes matter. And we can’t measure our success as Scrum Masters by outcomes alone. In this follow-up to Part 1, I explore the deeper, less-visible indicators of impact—like how we show up in difficult moments, how our teams respond to conflict and change, and how we grow our capacity to lead...
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Scrum provides the framework—you bring the methods. This post explores what it means that "various processes, techniques, and methods can be employed within the framework," and how to choose the ones that truly serve your team's purpose.
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In today’s volatile business environment, Agile leaders must embrace a growth mindset to lead effectively. This article explores the neuroscience behind mindset theory, offers practical insights from business case studies (e.g., GE, Xerox), and shows how Agile leadership aligned with continuous lear...
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Argues that the Scrum Master role requires proven mastery and real-world experience, not entry-level skills or certifications, and should be earned within the team, not assigned.
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When a new Scrum Team first starts working together, they go through some common growing pains. Knowing what to expect for a new Scrum Team can help make things go a little smoother.
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Scrum Master vs Project Manager. They are two very different roles/accountabilities. How do we reconcile or differentiate the two? Find out in this blog with PST Robert Pieper.
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What’s the real challenge in Scrum? Not velocity. Not tools. It’s how people relate, decide, and collaborate under pressure. Scrum guides that—not with instructions, but with structure. Here's how.
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Two topics that keep crossing my path these days are trust and resilience. Trust as the foundation for collaboration, and resilience as the ability to deal with challenges, stress, and setbacks—and to emerge stronger.
In this blog post, I want to share some first-aid interventions that can help b...
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The purpose of the Scrum Master is to improve the adoption of Scrum. So, it makes sense that the Scrum Master should ask the question What does a high-performing Scrum Team look like
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Scrum Bingo is a fun way to reflect and sometimes laugh at our routines. But it also reminds us to be intentional with our words, honest with our blockers, and respectful of the team's time.
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Scrum Teams treat feedback and data as a neutral and objective input, not a tool to confirm biases. By basing their decisions on objective results rather than optimism or personal opinion, Scrum Teams ensure they are continuously learning and adapting based on what the data actually reveals, not wha...
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Explains how the Scrum Master is accountable for enabling effective product delivery, fostering team success, and ensuring each sprint produces a usable, valuable increment.
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Scrum actually has very few rules. It’s a simple framework with just enough—but not too much—structure to help teams work together. It’s flexible. It’s lightweight. And it gives teams the space to learn, adapt, and improve continuously.
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In diesem Artikel beschreibt PST Simon Flossmann 3 Hebel für bessere Teamleistung.
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Is the outcome of your meeting to schedule another meeting? In this short video, I identify three deeper challenges behind this frustrating dynamic and walk you through how to shift the pattern, starting with what’s in your control.
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How often do you have to escalate? In this short video, I identify three common causes behind this frustrating dynamic and walk you through how to shift the pattern, starting with what’s in your control.
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Scrum depends on the intelligence of the people using it. That means learning, understanding, and making reasoned decisions. Is your team thinking—or just doing?
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A fast-growing food industry company transformed its approach to product development and collaboration by adopting Professional Scrum—across both software and culinary teams.
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In diesem Artikel teilt PST Simon Flossmann 3 Wahrheiten über Scrum, die er gerne am Anfang seiner Scrum-Master-Karriere gewusst hätte
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Scrum, como marco ágil, promueve la autoorganización, la mejora continua y la entrega de valor incremental. Sin embargo, muchas organizaciones intentan escalarlo desde la jerarquía, obviando el poder real de su red informal. ¿Qué ocurre cuando reconocemos que el cambio cultural profundo —como adopta...
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Scrum Events nerven Entwickler? In diesem Artikel erklärt PST Simon Flossmann, was Scrum Master dagegen unternehmen können.
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Most teams plan a Sprint with one question in mind:
"What can we deliver this Sprint?"
But here's a different take.
What if, within every Sprint, we planned across all three horizons of innovation?
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Scrum isn’t a finished product—it’s a starting point. What completes it? The collective intelligence of your team. This post explores what that really means, what gets in the way, and how you can unlock it in your day-to-day Scrum practice.
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Podcast
In this episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, host Dave West and Brendan Mcsheffrey, Managing Partner at Kendall AI explore the Kendall Framework—a method for training AI using principles from lean, agile, and design thinking. (33:42 Minutes)
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Sprint capacity planning is one of the most often used complementary practices by Scrum Teams. This article from PST Dr. Pawel Rola provides all the basic information and practical examples to help you plan your next Sprint capacity.
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In this webinar, PST Joanna Płaskonka explores the impact leaders—both formal and informal—have on fostering trust, openness, and innovation within their teams. In this session you will learn how your actions, words, and leadership style can create an environment where team members feel safe to spea...
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The Scrum Framework is simple, yet many misconceptions exist about applying Professional Scrum. We often notice cheat sheets and Scrum frameworks that do not match the Professional Scrum Standards. That is why we have decided to change our Scrum Framework poster and align it to Professional Scrum an...
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Despite 25 years of the Agile Manifesto, countless books, conferences, and armies of consultants, we’re still collectively struggling to make Agile work.
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Scrum isn’t missing pieces—it’s purposefully lean. This post explains why the framework only includes what’s required to implement its theory, and how teams can avoid over-complicating it with extras that dilute focus and slow down learning.
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Es gibt einen Weg, ethische KI und Agilität zu verbinden, indem vier pragmatische Grundsätze festgelegt werden: Datenschutz (Klassifizierung von Informationen), Wahrung menschlicher Werte (Definition der Rollen von KI und Mensch), Validierung der Ergebnisse (Verifizierungsprotokolle) und transparent...
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Das sind nur einige der Fragen, die sich Scrum Master stellen, wenn es um ihre berufliche Entwicklung geht. In diesem Webcast beleuchten die PSTs Marc Kaufmann und Simon Flossmann verschiedene Karrierepfade für Scrum Master. Sie teilen ihre Erfahrungen aus über 30 Jahren, die sie zusammengenommen in...
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One of the biggest mistakes I’ve seen in Agile adoption is the separation of design and development into different teams, each with their own Product Owner and their own Product Backlog.
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In diesem Artikel teilt PST Simon Flossmann 10 Coaching-Fragen für Scrum Master.
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Ryan Brook outlines five principles; Consent, Safety, Restraint, Relevance, and Integrity for professionalising the mentor stance in Scrum Mastery. He distinguishes mentoring from coaching, emphasising relational fit, ethical presence, and reflective practice. This post sets the foundation for a ser...
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Agile teams face ethical challenges. However, there is a lightweight framework that integrates with existing practices, protecting sensitive data and human expertise while enabling teams to confidently realize AI benefits without creating separate bureaucratic processes.
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Scrum’s power lies in its simplicity. It defines only the essentials—leaving space for teams to adapt, experiment, and grow. This post explores why the Scrum framework is purposefully incomplete and how that gives teams the freedom to find what really works in their context.
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In this episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, Patricia Kong talks with Professional Scrum Trainer Joanna Plaskonka about why psychological safety is critical for effective Scrum Teams. (22:16 Minutes)
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Ken Schwaber und Jeff Sutherland haben am Ende ihrer Scrum-Trainings stets betont, dass es wichtig sei, nun selbst Erfahrungen zu sammeln. Fachkonferenzen bieten hierfür eine ideale Plattform für Feedback und Weiterentwicklung. Sie sind eine gute Ergänzung zur agilen Community im eigenen Unternehmen...
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It isn't just individuals who can suffer from burnout. Sometimes, it's the whole Scrum Team. PST Mary Iqbal explores this serious problem in her latest blog post.
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The Untold Story: How the Revolutionary Scrum Master Role Lost Its Way
Once envisioned as transformative change agents, Scrum Masters have increasingly become mere meeting facilitators in many organizations. Drawing from two decades of experience guiding agile transformations, this article exposes ...
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Case Study on Breaking the Tech Barrier: Implementing Scrum in Both Technical and Non-Technical Teams to Drive Measurable Business Outcomes.
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Scrum isn’t about ticking boxes or increasing velocity—it’s about achieving meaningful goals. This post unpacks how goal clarity fuels effective Scrum and what happens when teams forget that purpose comes first.
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In this article, I discuss Scrum in toxic environments, how Scrum Master's push for transparency might be doing more harm than good, and I give some advice for those in such a situation.
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In this blog, PST Alex Ballarin explains how OKR and Scrum provide a powerful system for strategy execution and team alignment. This provide huge value both for executives and teams!
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In this final post, I reflect on the importance of professional standards when teaching Scrum. It’s not just what we teach, but how we behave that shapes learning. Inclusion, integrity, and clear boundaries build trust. As a former teacher, I’ve seen how conduct can make or break a learning environm...
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