Your stakeholders aren’t the enemy. They’re allies you haven’t asked yet. The Meta-Retrospective brings them into the room to work through what’s broken and what’s working; no agile jargon but real actions, and stakeholder buy-in for what needs leadership support.

Most organisations do not fail at agility because of their teams. They fail because their operating model quietly pulls them back to the Industrial assumptions they are trying to escape. The structures, metrics and leadership habits designed for stable, predictable work remain in place, no matter ho...

What Agile practitioners knew about AI adoption - and why traditional change management was solving yesterday's problem

Skipping events? Trimming “non-essential” parts of Scrum? You’re not optimizing—you’re weakening the framework. Learn why Scrum’s value emerges only when its events and accountabilities are combined into one rhythm.

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...

I am often asked whether a Developer can support more than one Scrum Team. The answer is yes, but it's not ideal. Being on multiple teams means attending two (or more!) Sprint Plannings, two Sprint Reviews, two Retrospectives, and two sets of refinements. Not to mention two Daily Scrums—every single...

81% of Singapore businesses use Agile, but 57% say their teams don't understand it. Discover the real cost of bad Agile implementations and how to spot the warning signs before it's too late.

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.

AI won't make product managers obsolete - but it will expose who has been doing real strategic thinking and who has been hiding behind administrative tasks. The future belongs to Cognitive Orchestrators who set intent, shape ethical constraints, and elevate decision quality - not passive reviewers o...

Most teams move slowly not because they lack effort, but because 75–85% of their delivery time is spent waiting in queues, handoffs, and decision delays — flow efficiency exposes this hidden latency.

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...

I am a big fan of the annual State of Agile report from Digital.ai. Each year, the report looks at things like why organizations adopt Agile, what frameworks they use and what challenges they’re facing. But this year was different.

Scrum Teams don’t just need skills—they need expertise: deep understanding built through experience and curiosity. Expertise isn’t about knowing everything; it’s about learning fast, connecting dots, and turning insight into smarter action. Because in complex work, speed of learning beats depth of k...

Self-organization is not something that needs to be earned. And besides that - to be honest - deciding what teams' people will work on is not rocket science either. By trusting the team to own how they work together to deliver the product, the organization is empowering them to figure out the best w...

A 40+ team retail division transformed delivery through a fundamental culture shift: from starting work to focusing on finishing it, creating trusted predictability.

In last week's Professional Agile Leadership class, I asked leaders to share what interview questions that they would use to find a great Scrum Master. With their permission, I’m sharing the questions that the group came up with.

Scrum Teams don’t need all skills from day one—they need the courage and discipline to practice. Skills are muscles, built by doing, reflecting, and improving together. The real question isn’t which skills you have today, but which skills you’ll practice tomorrow.

When Scrum Teams blend Kanban with Scrum, they benefit from more predictable delivery, early detection of spikes in demand, sustainable pace, and data-driven decisions.

This article identifies the success factors for agility that are absent in your organization. It gives you concrete Monday-morning actions to test what’s actually possible within your sphere of influence to drive change, because agility matters.

In Scrum, *collectively* doesn’t mean everyone must master every skill. It means the team as a whole has the skills to deliver value. Discover why this matters, how to avoid the “Lego block” myth, and how to grow resilience by sharing and acquiring skills.

On this episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, Dave West welcomes Professional Scrum Trainer Bogdan Onyshchenko to explore the Agile Product Operating Model (APOM). They discuss how APOM offers a holistic, principle-based approach for product organizations—going beyond Scrum to address team mot...

Scrum events serve a purpose, but are they all necessary for every team? In this post, PST Jason Malmstadt discusses why each Scrum event exists and whether all of them are truly needed.

The Psychological Safety Radar helps you build a space where people: Speak with honesty Listen with empathy Learn with humility Grow with courage

Organizations adopting AI often fixate on tools and models while overlooking the behavior change required to realize value. The AI Enablement Coach complements Scrum—not as a new team role, but as an enabling partner who helps teams integrate AI into real workflows, measure outcomes, and iterate. Th...

In this special episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, Dave West sits down with Ken Schwaber, co-creator of Scrum, to celebrate 30 years since the initial introduction of Scrum at OOPSLA 1995, based on the paper, The Scrum Development Process.(29:59 Minutes)

What Peter Yang's Product Management Framework Reveals About the Future of Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches.

In this blog post PST Joshua Partogi shares how to map Agile Leaders maturity to the metrics they emphasise.

Artificial intelligence promises to supercharge software development, but it introduces a critical paradox: the ability to build the wrong thing with perfect efficiency is now greater than ever. This article delves into why human-centric frameworks like Scrum are not becoming obsolete, but are inste...

Agile is often reduced to buzzwords about mindsets or methodologies, but its real value runs deeper. In this post, PST Robert Pieper explains how Agile as a strategy helps teams adapt, learn, and deliver meaningful results in a constantly changing world.

The Agile world is splitting into two camps: Those convinced AI will automate practitioners out of existence, and those dismissing it as another crypto-level fad. Both are wrong.

In this fast-paced world, we need Scrum more than ever. From the transparency created by artifacts to incremental delivery that keeps us on track, Scrum gives organizations a way to adapt and thrive. AI is a powerful tool, but instead of replacing Scrum, it makes the framework even more essential. H...

Is your Scrum team just going through the motions of Scrum without using it to focus on continuous improvement? Then coach the "fluffy" Scrum values to help turn them into a team focused on value.

Sometimes Scrum gets a bad rap. When I ask why an organization struggled with Scrum, I almost always hear something like “there was too much overhead.” But when I dig deeper, I usually find that the organization had imposed extra rules—rules that have nothing to do with Scrum. In other words, when S...

Wanting to collaborate better, gain control over an overloaded annual plan, increase job satisfaction and, in turn, reduce staff turnover: these are challenges almost every organization in every sector faces. However, the cultural industry differs significantly from the business world. It has its ow...

AI Agents can take over repetitive tasks to free up our time for strategic work. However, we should learn what it is, how it works, and how we can build them. This blog shows you the starting step.

Many Scrum Teams fall into the trap of assuming there will always be another Sprint. This mindset leads to delay, complacency, and missed opportunities. Treating each Sprint like it could be your last helps teams focus on outcomes, improve continuously, and deliver real value, while they still can.

The secret to a high-performing team lies not just in its processes, but in the ability to understand each individual. During a recent Professional Scrum Master training, we were introduced to a powerful concept from Process Communication®: the Energizer/Rebel personality type. This profile is a ...

Scrum is all about creating a Done increment that generates value for its users. However, you might come across teams that do almost everything in the name of Scrum except creating a Done Increment. Spillovers almost every Sprint. Sprint Goals not achieved, at times they are not even defined.

One of the key aspects of Scrum is that each Sprint should result in a Done, usable increment of product. But what happens if your team struggles to achieve this? Here are ten practical ideas that your team may consider adopting to help improve your ability to get to Done.

In this recorded episode of a live Ask a PST session held on September 16, 2025, PST Ryan Brook answered a wide variety of challenging questions from Agile practitioners! (59:01 Minutes)

Waste hides in “the way we’ve always done it.” In Scrum, Lean thinking is about spotting waste—whether it’s defects, overproduction, bloated backlogs, or wasted talent—and making it smaller, less important, or gone. Here’s how to see it, reduce it, and free your team’s focus.

A modern, agile approach to transforming legacy software, which is often too risky for a complete rewrite is possible. The strategy combines three key elements: the Strangler Fig Pattern, an incremental method of building new services around an old system; AI-powered code generation tools like Blitz...

The first line of the Agile Manifesto—“We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it”—captures the humility and curiosity of its authors, yet it is often overlooked. Agile was born as a mindset of exploration, not a recipe of fixed practices. Today, many o...

Why Knowledgeable Agile Practitioners Are Perfectly Positioned for the AI Era and the Era of ‘Good Enough’ Agile Is Over.

The Scrum Guide urges teams to base decisions on what is observed. But what does that look like in real teams, with real complexity? Let’s unpack the word and its impact.

Effective Agile-transformation needs: deep and narrow change, top-down and bottom-up support, and strict volunteer contracts — driving 2x–5x gains in speed and adaptability.

Wir haben das alle schon erlebt: Sie bereiten sich auf die nächste Retrospektive vor und bitten ChatGPT um Hilfe: „Ich brauche ein paar Vorschläge für die Retrospektive“, tippen Sie. Was bekommen Sie zurück? Allgemeine Retrospektivenmuster, die Sie schon hundertmal gesehen haben.

What a shame: We are often ignoring the benefits of Meta Prompting, or having a conversation with the AI, before proceeding to the task.

If you’ve ever been a Developer on a Scrum Team, you’ve probably experienced this moment: you’ve completed all of the work you originally planned for the Sprint, and there are still a few days left. What now? It might seem like a good idea to just pull more work into the Sprint, but that sometimes c...

Your LLM tool doesn’t think. It’s a statistical AI parrot: sophisticated and trained on millions of conversations—but still a parrot. Teams that fail with AI either don’t understand this or act as if it doesn’t matter. Both mistakes are costly.