Wie sollen wir erfolgreich eine agile Transformation durchführen? Sollen wir die Arbeit an eines der großen Beratungsunternehmen — McBoston — auslagern? Oder sollen wir eine agile Transformation mit ChatGPT in Angriff nehmen?

How shall we successfully pursue an agile transformation? Shall we outsource the effort to one of the big consultancies? Or shall we embark on an agile transformation with ChatGPT providing guidance?

A Scrum Master is effective when their team is effective. As the Scrum Guide says, Scrum Masters are accountable for the effectiveness of the Scrum Team.  Let’s explore what this entails.

Use story points to drive out assumptions, not estimate and forecast. Use flow metrics for that (while ignoring story point values). If you use story points and planning poker for the right thing, they both can be helpful.

Several years ago, I was the Scrum Master for a team working on a technology product.  Two of the team’s Developers told me they would like to try pair programming.  

A scenario showing how the scrum framework and metrics can help a team self manage for improvement.

Almost all Scrum Teams use a type of board to visualize their work giving them a better understanding of where they are currently and helping them make upcoming decisions. In this post, we investigate the techniques of effective collaboration on Sprint Board one by one.

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.

Vor ein paar Tagen hat OpenAI ein neues Modell einer generative KI zur Verfügung gestellt, welche "Gespräche führen" kann: ChatGPT. Ich dachte, es könnte interessant sein, ChatGPT ein paar Fragen über Business Agilität im Allgemeinen und Scrum im Besonderen zu stellen.

During refinement, the team discusses what we will deliver with each Product Backlog item. Although it's easy to drift into sorting out how we will deliver each PBI during these discussions, planning at this stage is a mistake. 

What if a Generative AI can not just answer questions but also learn while constantly improving its model? Wouldn’t that lead to the long-run obsolescence of many knowledge workers, for example, Scrum Masters, agile coaches, product managers, and Product Owners?

Life is complex, and unpredictable, and we all have to deal with it daily. The Personal Scrum System helps people find success in their lives by setting and achieving Goals.

¿Cómo acelerar la generación de ideas de innovación? Estas ideas pueden ayudar: 👉 Habilitar todos los canales de feedback 👉 Empoderar al front office 👉 Experimentar de manera continua 👉 Liderazgo centrado en el usuario

Desde principios de la década de 2000, Agile ha ganado popularidad y se ha convertido en el enfoque de referencia para la gestión muchas organizaciones de todos los tamaños y orígenes. Sin olvidar de que Agile comenzó en el desarrollo de software, rápidamente encontró su camino hacia otras industrias.

In this episode of Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer moderated by Patricia Kong, PSTs Simon Flossmann and David Spinks answer your burning questions about Scrum and the challenges you or your teams may be facing when using Scrum, particularly within the Scrum events and other scenarios when it may be difficult to reach a decision on things, that could be resolved with good facilitation techniques and skills.

Reflections and findings triggered by an experience interview with Daniel Vacanti.

Indicator's of a team's health that's beyond velocity

Agility and self-organisation were beaten to a stalemate by hierarchy and command & control. We must fight back but can't do that while continuing to frame complex red practices in a complicated blue context.

Des del punto de vista de agilidad, no debemos olvidar nunca que en 2001 el Agile Manifesto fue concebido para el desarrollo ágil de software. En las organizaciones modernas, hay una lucha constante con las que tienen éxito o fracasan en su capacidad para desarrollar, entregar y aprovechar el software que entregan. ¿Cómo entrega hoy tu organización? Te invito a ver como podría hacerlo mejor

What is Large Scale Scrum (LeSS)? LeSS is a de-scaling framework. Also referred to sometimes as a scaling framework, but it's really aimed at simplification and it's designed for product development. This article explores what large scale scrum is about as well as its events. https://linktr.ee/johncolemanxagility - social and podcast links https://linkpop.com/orderlydisruption - order training from right here

In this article, we will discuss how limiting Work in Progress can help teams deliver a done increment which meets the Sprint goal.

Between Agility and Better Business Outcomes is Employee Engagement

Cualquier persona que ejerza bajo las responsabilidades del Product Owner sabe que está muy ocupado y para ser de los mejores product owners debe desarrollar habilidades diversas. La Guía Scrum establece que las responsabilidades del Product Owner recaen en la gestión eficaz del Product Backlog. ¿Sabes cuáles? ¿Sabes que habilidades debe desarrollar un Product Owner?

In this episode of Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer Yuval Yeret answers the audience's pressing Scrum questions focused around leadership, how leadership and Scrum Mastery are intertwined, and how leaders can engage with Scrum. Yuval is co-author of the Scrum Guide Companion for Leaders.

Agile for Humans has launched a new YouTube series called SUCCESSFUL FACILITATION. Episode 4 explores a facilitation technique: Training From the Back of the Room.

Agile for Humans has launched a new YouTube series called SUCCESSFUL FACILITATION. Episode 3 explores a facilitation technique: Liberating Structure 1-2-4-ALL

Agile for Humans has launched a new YouTube series called SUCCESSFUL FACILITATION. Episode 2 answers the question: "What are Liberating Structures?"

Agile for Humans has launched a new YouTube series called SUCCESSFUL FACILITATION. Episode 1 answers the question: "What is facilitation?"

Everyone on the Scrum Team should level up their facilitation skills. In this video, Todd and Ryan explore why this skill is essential to a Scrum Team and how to improve in this critical area of complex work.

In this episode of the Women in Agile Podcast you get to meet Emily Lint, a new host joining the Women in Agile Podcast team. During the conversation Emily and our host, Leslie Morse, discuss the story of Emily’s career journey as she began embracing agile leadership after starting off as a ITIL process expert. (55:34 Minutes)

Was passiert, wenn es kein Sprint-Ziel gibt – Sprint für Sprint? Wenn das Scrum-Team immer nur an einer zufälligen Auswahl von Aufgaben arbeitet, die zum Zeitpunkt der Sprintplanung am dringendsten zu sein scheinen?

Can Scrum be used outside software development? Absolutely.

What science tells us about how work agreements create high-performing teams. And five practical areas to focus on.

What if the Scrum Team is always only working on a random assortment of work items that seem to be the most pressing at the moment of the Sprint Planning?

When will Scrum die? Some people would say it's already dying. There's so much inauthentic, Scrum being done, unprofessional, Scrum being done in the world. Whereas Scrum is part of what I call water Scrum fall, where it's put within a predictive deterministic system. We're predicting when work will be finished. When actually we’ve got so much work that where we don't know, what we don't know, that's really unauthentic. I see in those situations where the concept of done isn't even a concept there They think that done means we met the acceptance criteria when actually it's almost like the checklist for how we do things around here, the technical standards and the product quality standards, international standards, for example, that we might need to comply with.

In this article, we discuss the concept of self-management Scrum and how it is more than a Scrum Team making its own decisions.

En una iniciativa reciente en la que colaboré como Agile Coach, insistí en no plagar el Product Backlog solo con historias de usuario. ¿Por qué hice eso? Al final y al cabo, cada tarea que no era una historia de usuario tenía que reformularse. En otras palabras, que no tenía ningún valor. Creo que esto no tiene sentido, déjame explicarte por qué.

Scrum and Kanban are two different frameworks.  But did you know that your Scrum Team can use some of Kanban’s crucial elements to optimize workflow and deliver value sooner?   Combining Kanban with your Scrum practice doesn’t involve replacing events, accountabilities or artifacts.  It’s about integrating Kanban’s complementary tools to achieve better outcomes with Scrum.

How do I measure value for a major IT infrastructure piece of work? How do I measure value? Before I even get into, how do I measure value? What is value? A lot of people struggle with this. I wrote an article about this here, what is value really? I think one of the reasons why the world is in the way it is, is because we over-indexed on a couple of meanings for that.

En cada formación, consultoría o acción de acompañamiento que llevamos a cabo surge la misma pregunta, cuando usar Agile y cuando no. También por lo que vemos, hay mucha organización que le han vendido que se transformarán completamente en una organización agile. Cuando digo completamente digo la totalidad de sus departamentos y la totalidad de sus empleados. Además, se les vende Scrum a muchas organizaciones como el fin de sus males, cuando muchas veces, ese es el inicio de sus porqué intentan implementar Scrum con calzador en equipos que no deberían usarlo. Déjame mostrar cómo podemos dar un poco de luz a la decisión de usar Agile, de usar Scrum o de usar Kanban en una organización.

During the first year of the pandemic, Scrum adoption more than doubled for software development teams. According to the 15th Annual State of Agile Report, the use of agile approaches for software development grew from 37% in 2020 to 86% in 2021. This means that agile adoption for software development doubled in a single year — the first year of the pandemic. I don’t think that is a coincidence.

Did you know that there are 17 United Nation, sustainable development goals. Did you know that when you’re measuring value, you can consider societal value as part of that. And that could include consideration for those 17 United Nation sustainable development goals. Now those 17 United Nation sustainable development goals, they do compete against each other.

Cycle time is where we’re measuring how long a work item takes to get from one part of our workflow to another part of our workflow.

Como agile coach de organizaciones y de personas, a menudo me encuentro que muchos gerentes se equivocan tanto porque descuidan la función de planificación. También me he encontrado muchas veces que me han dicho que cuando somos ágiles no planificamos. Y eso no es verdad. En la agilidad se planifica un montón, pensad en Scrum o Kanban, es una planificación constante. Te expongo en este artículo 7 razones que creo que un gerente puede mejorar con autodisciplina.

How can we use Monte Carlo Probabilistic Forecasting to set expectations in scrum?

Who writes acceptance criteria?. Should you even have acceptance criteria? It's a loaded question, because it's assuming that we're using user stories. And in user stories typically you might say in order to deliver a particular type of value, some particular persona wants or needs something in order to do so, and then you typically list off your acceptance criteria.

In our recent article “Why You Shouldn’t Modify Scrum,” we discussed five reasons why modifying Scrum is counterproductive.  We’ll expand on the topic in this article by exploring five more ways organizations sometimes change Scrum and the impacts they might experience as a result.  

How can you scale in Scrum and what scaling patterns can you use?

SDLC is an acronym that means either Software Delivery Life Cycle or Systems Development Life Cycle. And it is a lie. A fiction. A total fabrication. Somebody made it up out of thin air many years ago and the idea was cemented deep into corporate bureaucracy.

​​​​​​​According to the 2020 Scrum Guide, a Scrum Team should contain members with all the skills necessary to create an Increment of usable product each Sprint. Teams that approach their work from a product perspective find this cross-functionality easier to achieve than teams that organize around the technologies required to deliver the product. Although having some technology teams in your organization might be necessary, product teams should be the default because of their many advantages. This article will discuss the five benefits product teams have over technology teams.