Sind mehrere Product Owner nötig, um Scrum effektiv zu skalieren? Nein.  Dass in skalierter Produktentwicklung mehrere Product Owner von Nöten sind, ist ein weit verbreiteter Irrglaube. Dieser Beitrag räumt mit diesem Irrglauben auf. Wird die Product Owner Rolle durch mehrere Personen skaliert, f...

The Agile Culture gap is the nr. 1 cause for immature Agile implementations. You should read this blog if you want to understand how culture affects Agile transformation.

Scrum has proven to be an effective product delivery framework for all sorts of products. However, Scrum is equally well suited to build the wrong product efficiently as its Achilles heel has always been the product discovery part.

The most common cause of a Scrum Team (ST) not accomplishing their Sprint Goal, not having things DONE at the end of the Sprint , is that everybody is busy individually working on their Sprint Backlog items. When you look at the Scrum board, most of the things are OPEN / IN PROGRESS, touch tim...

TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. These are my lessons learned on making ‘agile’ — including Scrum as a framework — work in a fast-growing start...

With the Scrum Team Survey, you can create transparency with your team around five core questions: Are you building what stakeholders need? Are you shipping fast enough?...

Over the years of working in both traditional and agile environments, I have noticed a pattern. It is something I now call a culture of escalation.  In this post, I will share the common causes of a culture of escalation and some tips for breaking out of the pattern.

As the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Agile Manifesto has arrived, in this blog post I look back at how the world has changed over the past 20 years and what it may look like over the next 20. 

A simple model to better understand why and when something is valuable to your team and its stakeholders (in commercial organizations)

Garbage in, garbage out: Learn more on how a piece of paper and a pencil can turn around the perception of your Scrum Team among stakeholders and customers.

Das kontinuierliche Liefern von nutzbaren Done Inkrementen ist das zentrale Element von Scrum. Will man Scrum auf ein Element reduzieren, dann wäre das genau das.

Garbage in, garbage out: This webinar addresses ten common Product Backlog anti-patterns that prevent Scrum Teams from living up to their potential.

Like a job ad for a Scrum Master position, the equivalent for the Product Owner position also reveals excellent insight into an organization’s progress on becoming agile.

Gathering the metrics for Evidence-based Management in software organisations can be a strenuous task and I have a number of customers that are fretting on what to collect and from where. Here I try to create an understanding of the ‘what’ that we need to collect. Updated to reflect the 2020 Scru...

Le Product Backlog est une liste ordonnée et évolutive de tous les travaux jugés nécessaires par le Product Owner pour créer, publier, maintenir et entretenir un produit.

The Product Owner in Scrum originally called the ‘agile product manager’ describes the responsibilities necessary to focus the team on delivering value. But for many Product Managers, the role causes confusion. Is the Product Owner owner someone different, is it an additional set of responsibilities...

Are you considering a new Scrum Master job? However, you are not sure that it is the right organization? Don’t worry; there are four steps of proactive research to identify suitable employers or clients for Scrum Masters and avoid disappointment later.

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: Can you have too many Product Backlog Items? This comes up in our Product Owner class quite a bit. The short answer is: YES!

I'm hearing from more and more companies that are using the Entrepreneurial Operating System® (EOS®) and are also looking at or practicing Agile e.g. using Scrum. In discussions with these companies two key questions surface time after time: My teams want to use Agile/Scrum - is that...

As of January 10, 2021, Scrum.org has renamed the former Professional Scrum Developer Training (PSD) to Applying Professional Scrum for Software Development (APS-SD). At the same time, the Professional Scrum Foundations (PSF) training has also been renamed to Applying Professional Scrum (APS).

Zum 10. Januar 2021 hat die scrum.org das bisherige Professional Scrum Developer Training (PSD) in Applying Professional Scrum for Software Development (APS-SD) umbenannt.

TL; DR: Scrum Master Anti-Patterns from Job Ads Job ads for Scrum Master positions reveal great insight into an organization’s progress on becoming agile. I analyzed more than 50 job ads for Scrum Master positions to gain these. Learn more about what makes job ads such a treasure trove with the f...

En quoi les compétences d'un chef de projet sont précieuses en agilité ? Quelle est la place du chef de projet avec Scrum ? Nous y répondons précisément dans cet article.

Como sou um Trainer oficial da Scrum.org, recebo essa pergunta constantemente, e por isso resolvi colocar todos meu conhecimento nesse artigo.

I've been asked several times now about Nexus and SAFe - what are the similarities, differences, etc. If you’re not familiar with either Nexus or SAFe I recommend taking a look at the Nexus Guide and the SAFe whitepaper first.

There have been a few changes in Scrum Guide 2020, and I am really excited. These changes focus on ‘Values’ within the framework of Scrum...

On today's episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: Can one person be both the Scrum Master and Product Owner on a Scrum Team?

Story Points and velocity have been used for many years in the Scrum community and have been engrained so much in the way that things are done that most folks believe that they are part of Scrum.

In the The Evidence-Based Management Guide we talk about the Intermediate Strategic Goal and I likened that to the Product Goal in the 2020 Scrum Guide.

While the new Scrum Guide is less prescriptive and more inclusive, it also ties loose ends by including elements better, namely the previously free-floating Sprint Goal and the Definition of Done with the creation of Scrum commitments. This inclusion works remarkably well in the former’s case; regar...

Der Nexus Guide -- der Leitfaden zur Skalierung von Scrum -- wurde aktualisiert! Der Nexus Guide 2021 enthält weniger Vorschriften, Erklärung von spezifischer Terminologie und einen Ergänzender Theorieabschnitt.

Many organisations wrestle with the seeming incompatibility between agile and release management, and they struggle with release planning and predictable delivery.

In my last post about Professional software teams creating working software David Corbin made a good point. How do you determining what “Free from fault or defect” means? Since that is different for each Product and may change over time you need to focus on Quality and reflecting that quality in a D...

Most Scrum Teams that I encounter don’t do refinement of their Product Backlog and try to work on things that they don’t understand correctly.

Los Equipos Scrum son multifuncionales, es decir que los miembros aportan todas las competencias necesarias para crear valor en cada Sprint. Son autoorganizados y autogestionados. La autoorganización es el punto de partida para el empoderamiento y colaboración como cultura que se requiere pa...

Which Role is right for me? One question I frequently get from my students which role should I pursue? Should I become a Product Owner or Scrum Master? While there is no binary answer, I tried to put some of my thoughts as a blog. I hope you will find this useful. If you, – enjoy creating...

What is up awesome people? I hope you had an awesome holiday break. As you may have noticed, there have been several changes introduced in Scrum Guide 2020. Scrum no longer emphasizes roles but instead accountabilities...

This blog addresses unanswered audience questions from the Scrum Pulse Webinar - A Cycle Time Journey: 164 to 8 Days in 6 Months.

If you are looking to fill a position for a Product Owner in your organization, you may find the following 71 interview questions useful to identify the right candidate.

Sempre recebo perguntas do tipo: O que é um Líder Ágil? Preciso me tornar um? O que ganho com isso? Resolvi então escrever esse artigo, para tentar ajudar a comunidade.

As 2020 comes to an end, you are probably considering how to further your career as a Scrum Master or Product Owner in 2021.

"How do you get an inexperienced Product Owner to concentrate on the why's and the value delivered by a feature/requirement, rather than a list of what's e.g we must gather a,b,c... x,y,z info from our users"

The Evidence-Based Management Guide describes not only a Strategic Goal but also an Intermediate Strategic Goal that is needed to evaluate and adapt your progress towards your intended visions of your product.

Together with my colleagues Uwe Schirmer and Kurt Bittner, I have compiled a book that contains many of our own stories and those we experienced while working with customers and students: The Professional Scrum Team. Maybe they provide value to you. 

This book is for anyone who works with Scrum Teams or wants to become more effective as a Scrum Team member or leader.

L’apport le plus notable de la version 2020 du Guide Scrum est l’ajout d’un Product Goal au Product Backlog. Cette nouvelle caractéristique du Product Backlog vient accroître la transparence de cet artéfact Scrum. Explorons ensemble ce que le Product Goal implique et comment en tirer parti en 7 ques...

In the 2020 Scrum Guide, Ken and Jeff augmented the idea of the Sprint Goal. The Sprint Goal is a commitment to ensure transparency and focus against progress during a Sprint.

TL;DR: The Scrum Product Owner in 58 Theses The following 58 Product Owner theses describe the PO role from a holistic product creation perspective. They cover the concept of the Product Owner role, product discovery, how to deal with external and internal stakeholders, product portfolio and p...

The 2020 version of Scrum Guide was released recently and everyone is talking about the changes been made in it and how it is going to impact their current ways of working as compared to its previous version.

La nueva guía de Scrum 2020 define que una de las responsabilidades del Scrum Master es causar o provocar que se resuelvan los impedimentos.