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How do you manage your cross-organization initiatives? How can we leverage the project to product shift for cross-org work? Find out what can be learned from Scrum Product Ownership in this article from PST Yuval Yeret.
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As a trainer, I have the unique opportunity of hearing from a lot of people practicing Scrum in many different organizations. One of the recent trends that I am thrilled to hear about is that many organizations are - at last! - starting to take note of the importance of defining their products.
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Coordination tax—that hidden cost of trying to innovate across organizational boundaries that weren’t designed for the outcomes you’re pursuing. How can we evade this tax?
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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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Denn echte Agilität erfordert tiefgreifende systemische Veränderungen in der Organisationsstruktur, der Führung und den technischen Praktiken, nicht nur die Ausführung von Ritualen.
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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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Stuck in a product discovery rut? PST Sander Dur presents the 72 Discovery Tactics Card Deck and why it should be your go-to tool for sparking fresh ideas and breaking through stale thinking. Draw from six creative themes to challenge assumptions, prototype boldly, and inspire action—whether you're ...
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Organizing product groups effectively is essential as organizations grow or shift from project-based models. Ideal product teams are small, cross-functional, flexible, and self-managed. Scaling often requires approaches like Team Topologies, with Stream-Aligned, Platform, and Enabling Teams, treatin...
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AI is rapidly transforming the role of Product Owners. Those who fail to adapt to this new productivity engine risk becoming obsolete. The PSPO-AI Essentials course helps you mitigate this risk.
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In diesem Artikel erklärt PST Simon Flossmann warum der Begriff „Stakeholder-Management“ ist irreführend und welche Fragen, Product Owner beim Stakeholder Management stellen sollten
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Why Tactical Adoption Rarely Leads to True Transformation and What to Do Instead
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Ever wonder why AI feels like more hassle than help? Discover the simple shift Product Owners can make to finally get real value—and better results—from tools like ChatGPT
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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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A Product Owner's core accountability is to maximize product value. They must know that a product's success increasingly depends on how well Product Owners connect with stakeholders and the people within the organization who might be outside of the Scrum Team. Marketing and sales teams are often the...
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This blog discusses the role of a Product Owner and how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can serve as a valuable "teammate" to help scale Product Ownership. It addresses the common criticism of the Product Owner's broad scope and explains how AI can assist with tasks, allowing Product Owners and their t...
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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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Berücksichtigen Sie vier Leitplanken bei der Entwicklung von Produkten mithilfe von generativer KI.
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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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In diesem Artikel erklärt PST Simon Flossmann 3 mentale Modelle, die Product-Ownern helfen, nicht den Überblick in der Produktentwicklung zu verlieren.
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In this "Value Delivered" episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, host Dave West and PST Jay Rahman, Founder of Fractal Systems discuss how agile principles helped a large investment bank turn a struggling multi-million dollar project into a success. (43:07 Minutes)
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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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Product Discovery is not a phase; rather, Product Discovery is a continuous process to learn fast, test early, and de-risk product decisions. It helps teams avoid building the wrong thing by validating user needs and assumptions before investing in delivery.
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Download this datasheet to learn more about the Professional Scrum Product Owner - AI Essentials training.
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Organizations define Product Manager and Product Owner roles differently. Company size, industry, and structure all play a role. Scrum makes the Product Owner accountable for maximizing value, but many companies add a Product Manager alongside—or instead of—a Product Owner. This creates variations i...
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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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Erfahren Sie, warum viele Product Owner und Manager sich um das Falsche sorgen: Nein zu sagen, anstatt zu allem Ja zu sagen. Dieser Artikel zeigt drei systematische Ablehnungstechniken auf, die die Beziehungen zu den Stakeholdern stärken und gleichzeitig die Produktstrategie schützen, um zu vermeide...
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As a Product Owner, one has to dive deep into Product Management in order to create Valuable and Useful products. One of the key aspects in Product Management is to “know thy customer”. Knowing, understanding the behaviours, attributes and traits of the customer can help the Product Owner greatly t...
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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 blog post, titled "The Art of the Sound Decision: Jonathan Gowens' Framework," outlines six key components for making high-quality decisions, drawing parallels with samurai philosophy. The core idea is that effective decisions are not just intellectual exercises but commitments to action. The...
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Most product teams are great at delivering, less so at discovering. This playful problem discovery game helps teams break out of assumption-mode and ask smarter questions. Inspired by real-world failures, it sharpens your instincts, challenges confirmation bias, and helps uncover what actually needs...
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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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This week we had a great Q&A on Forecasting and Release Planning. During the "Ask a PST" session, we answered many questions. We got so many questions, that we could not answer all of them. This blog post tries to remedy that and answers most of these from my (Dominik Maximini) perspective.
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Whitepaper
This whitepaper offers a practical guide for product professionals to identify and address ethical blind spots that can lead to harm—whether through data misuse, manipulative design, or misrepresentation.
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Podcast
In this Ask a PST episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, guest host Lindsay Velecina is joined by Professional Scrum Trainer Dominik Maximini to answer listener questions about forecasting and release planning.
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This blog explores how product definitions evolve in large companies, the debate around "sub-products," and the importance of empowering teams with a clear problem and the ability to release value. It suggests that "product-ness" might be a scale rather than binary, and that the key question is whet...
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En este artículo, el PST Alex Ballarín te explica qué son los autodiagnósticos para Product Owners y como pueden ayudarte a avanzar en el camino que necesitas para llegar a ser un product owner más estratégico.
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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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Case Study
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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According to the Scrum Guide, a Sprint can be cancelled—but only by the Product Owner, and only if the Sprint Goal becomes obsolete. But what does that even mean?
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Explains the difference between subjective goals and the objective Definition of Done in Scrum, highlighting how clear, measurable criteria ensure consistent product quality.
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Velocity is one of the most misunderstood ideas in Agile teams. This post explains what it really is. A result, not a target. Something to notice, not something to hit. We break down how velocity often gets misused, share a travel analogy that makes it real, and show how teams can use it to have bet...
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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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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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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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