Understanding stakeholders is really important for Scrum Teams to be able to engage them in the right manner. I have found Stakeholder Persona Canvas as a lightweight tool that helps a lot in understanding them better.

Psychological Safety is an important asset of effective Scrum Teams. In this short video, we introduce psychological safety, share a familiar scenario and provide 3 tips to foster psychological safety on your Scrum Team. (4:10 Minutes)

In this episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, host Dave West chats with Willem van den Corput, VP Engineering at Lightyear and Michelle Siau, Agile Coach about how Lightyear came about, how they use Scrum to build Solar electric vehicles, coaching and more! (33:11 Minutes)

If you’re a newcomer to all of this, you might be asking yourself: What is Agile even all about? How can organizations such as your own profit from becoming more agile?

In Scrum, the Product Owner’s purpose is to maximize the value of the Scrum Team’s work (the product). Delivering value to the customer (beneficial customer outcomes) is the ultimate measure of success for the Scrum Team, including the Product Owner.

Will You Compete for a Position w/ an LLM Soon? — I took a few questions from the Hiring: 82 Scrum Product Owner Interview Questions guide and ran a ChatGPT Product Owner job interview.

Scrum could be used in all sorts of domains, but I would not be so arrogant to tell you it can be used in any domain. It has been used and you can try it in pretty much any domain, but there would be one constraint holding back Scrum or holding back your ability to do Scrum: if you cannot deliver a...

What transparency can the Product Owner bring to the Scrum Team and the stakeholders of your product? Transparency, being one of the core underlying concepts of the Scrum framework, we can expect the Product Owner to actively work on this.

The best way to support a team working on complex problems is to give them the space to determine how to do their work, rather than directing them. Learn about self-managing teams and their characteristics. Explore some myths and misunderstandings about self-management.

In this episode of Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer, Sander Dur, PST at Xebia, joins to answer questions around Scrum Mastery, Self-Management, Product Ownership, estimation, metrics and more! (57:36 Minutes)

A very interesting (and sad) piece of news made headlines in Spain recently that provides some lessons about agile product development and incremental delivery. 

What if I told you there is one 1 question you can ask to figure out where you are in the product life cycle? Moreover, what if I told you figuring out where you are can tell you the kind of complexities you can expect to deal with?

How does the Increment support Transparency? Transparency being one of the core underlying concepts of the Scrum framework. How can you use the Increment to raise transparency?

Sprint is the heartbeat of Scrum. But, how do you select the right Sprint Length?

Lean Startup provides an approach to delivering breakthrough businesses. It does that by focusing on learning and working with customers and stakeholders to explore the problem and product space. By connecting the ideas of Lean Startup with Scrum practitioners have a blueprint for exploring risk and...

PSPO Assessment Tips that will help you prepare and get a passing score.

How does the Sprint itself supports Transparency? Transparency being one of the core underlying concepts of the Scrum framework. What happens during your Sprint that could raise transparency?

Card, Conversation and Confirmation. Understand what professional confirmation looks like.

If you look at Scrum Teams all around the world, you recognize a spectrum of productivity from completely passive to fully proactive teams. Productivity is a word that is used to represent the state of our way of working as a team. But beneath it, there is a more fundamental concept called vibration...

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...

The PO must consider the impact of each stakeholder request on the overall goal and vision for the product, as well as the available resources and time constraints. Sometimes the best response to stakeholder requests is "no".

In a recent webcast (1) I mentioned that Scrum by its nature, assumes psychological safety exists in order for Scrum as a practice to function. Furthermore I would assert that for Scrum to be truly successful Scrum absolutely requires psychological safety to be established both inside and outside of...

In this vlog, PST Joshua Partogi shares what needs to be considered when appointing someone to be the Product Owner and the negative consequences that arise when the Product Owner is not the right person ...

David Ingram, VP of Global R&D at Gillette continues a discussion with Dave West, CEO at Scrum.org about how they developed a new exfoliating razor using Scrum, some of the challenges they have faced with scaling Scrum, and how they were able to adapt and evolve from a waterfall focused culture. The...

David Ingram, VP of Global R&D at Gillette chats with Dave West, CEO at Scrum.org about how they developed a new exfoliating razor using Scrum, why they chose to use Scrum to develop it and how they adapted to Scrum. They discuss how Gillette mitigated risks and made some culture shifts in the proce...

Product Owners are a critical role in the Scrum Framework, but what does a Product Owner do? This blog post will discuss the day-to-day activities of this position and explore how these accountabilities create successful projects.

What happens when a Scrum Team becomes overwhelmed with requests that stakeholders make directly to the Developers instead of the Product Owner?  

Is your Product Ownership consistently optimizing sustainable, measurable value from your products and services? Or do you feel that Product Ownership is stuck in your company? If you fall in the second category, this video blog is for you! You will learn 6 ways to get Product Ownership unstuck by c...

Empiricism is one of the underlying concepts of the Scrum framework. Scrum is founded on empirical process control, and transparency is the first of the three pillars. How does this show during Sprint Planning?

Scrum is a lightweight framework for solving complex problems. The mechanics are relatively easy to understand, and your Scrum Master will help you with this. However, it is much more important for a Product Owner to exploit the benefits of Scrum from a business perspective.

There are many ways to facilitate Daily Scrum. In this Introduction to Facilitating a Daily Scrum, you will learn three different techniques along with the benefits and challenges of each. Your team can experiment with these as they see necessary and choose whichever method helps them best focus on ...

In the heat of "the battle" teams tend to forget why they use the Scrum framework after all and what the foundations are of it. Why do we have Sprint Planning sessions every other week, why does our Product Owner has these or those accountabilities, why did we started using a team board after all, w...

Are you a product owner? Do you need some coping strategies? Here are two tried and tested strategies. First, become a developer and use the notion of a product owner helper from large scale scrum. Secondly, have a speak now or forever hold your silence meeting.

In this episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, Kurt Bittner guest hosts and has Professional Scrum Trainers Peter Goetz and Thomas Schissler on to talk about the relationship between software architecture and Agile Teams. They discuss common misconceptions Agile teams have about software archit...

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.” They will describe how companies typi...

Stakeholders want to know when things will be done, and rightfully so. But what if they demand their features to be delivered on scope, on time, and on budget? The tried-and-tested iron triangle might not be the best approach...

In this vlog, PST Joshua Partogi explains Scrum using visualisation in under 7 minutes but without cutting down its core principles

Get to know your new Scrum Team now! Explore these 7 facilitation tips to start your Scrum Team.

In this vlog, PST Joshua Partogi shares a simple guideline that he used to help teams improve their Sprint and to get them out of mini-waterfall.

Is your organization having trouble instilling self-management? Then this is the article for you!

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.

I gotta say, refining work items is usually, by far, the Scrum Team’s least popular activity.  No one gets up in the morning saying, “I can’t wait to refine the Product Backlog!” In this article, we will discuss five reasons why refining your Product Backlog is worth the time.

The brand-new Product Owner & Product Manager Salary Report 2022 is available: How do you compare to 500-plus peers?

Have you ever come across a Product Owner that has been fully empowered to make all the decisions needed for the product, without any constraints? It's pretty rare. A donut can help your Product Owner in gaining more decision-making power.

What are the different categories of product owner? This episode goes outlines all the different types of product owners as well as the characteristics/pros and cons of each by considering them against the definition of a product and how you may deliver value. Join me as I also bust a common...

Scrum is not designed to solve all problems in all business domains. There are times when Scrum used properly is a great fit for complex problem solving. But when and where does Scrum not work? When should we not be using Scrum? When would it be too much overhead for the value derived?

Many organizations are trying to improve the alignment between strategy and execution with the OKRs framework (Objectives and Key Results). There’s good intent there, but more often than not, looking under the hood, you notice:  OKRs that look more like tasks than strategic objectives – especiall...

The Scrum Events are in place to support empiricism and the delivery of value. You need to run them at least once per Sprint. But could we do them multiple times in the same Sprint? Find out in this article!

Backlog refinement is still a vastly misunderstood activity. There is no single approach to it and no time-boxed event. But why is that? And how to handle it? More on that in this article.

How the various ways of getting into a swimming pool are similar to how teams and organizations start with Scrum.