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The 2020 Scrum Guide provides only the necessary guidelines within which teams use Scrum to deliver value. Sometimes, myths about the guidelines of the Scrum framework can result in teams adopting practices which do not add value to the Scrum Team. By exposing these myths, you can help accelerate the delivery of value for your team. In this webinar, Professional Scrum Trainer Mary Iqbal will discuss some of the most common myths about Scrum and how to correct them!

Myth 1 – Scrum is a Methodology To bust this first myth, I would prefer to differentiate between the concepts of methodology and framework. Methodology vs. Framework

Even a well-set team with clear objectives may fail to finish each thing when the Sprint ends.

Many people ask whether a Scrum Master is part of Daily Scrum. We know that the Scrum Guide tells us that Daily Scrum is for the Developers by the Developers. Scrum Master has nothing to do there and if they do attend, it might be a sign of Zombie Scrum.

In this vlog, PST Joshua Partogi shares how Sprint Review is often misunderstood as a demo or showcasing or an acceptance testing session. In this vlog, he busts myths around Sprint Review and how a Sprint Review should look like according to Scrum Guide 2020.

In a recent episode of Your Daily Scrum, Professional Scrum Trainers Todd Miller and Ryan Ripley debunk a general myth in Scrum circles: Creating a High Performing Scrum Team is NOT the Goal!

Learn from Johanna Rothman how to adapt your leadership style for agile success as a manager in an agile organization in this 54-minute long video from the Agile Camp Berlin 2021.

This workshop was delivered on 19th August 2021 and focused on introducing the core concepts of Scrum & Empiricism. I used a combination of Liberating Structures, Microsoft Teams, and Mural to deliver an interactive session.

On a recent episode of Your Daily Scrum: Professional Scrum Trainers Todd Miller and Ryan Ripley address a common criticism of Scrum: Scrum isn't really agile, it's a command and control framework!

This workshop was delivered on 5th August 2021 and focused on highlighting the value of people in the product delivery world and some of the things that need to change.

In diesem Blog untersuchen wir, woher diese Grundhaltung kommt, zeigen, wie wir damit umgehen können, leisten Überzeugungsarbeit und bieten Experimente an, d. h. wir

This episode of the Xagility podcast with John Coleman brings you 5 years worth of research by the extremely knowledgeable Christiaan Verwijs and Dr Daniel Russo. Throughout the last half decade, these two have embarked on a journey to shed more light on what it is exactly that makes Scrum Teams effective whilst also debunking some of the common myths and thought patterns.

Although Scrum has been around for more than 25 years, it is still new to many. In this session, we provide an overview of the Scrum framework, discuss how Scrum enables agility and ways that empiricism can empower the teams that use it. Like with any form of process, there are myths that arise, during this session by Project Management Update with Eric Naiburg, COO, Scrum.org, many of these myths are dispelled using facts and real-world examples.

Reflections and findings triggered by the experience interview with Jimmy Janlén.

There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone.

Scrum Teams do it all the time. It happens in Sprint Review, after Daily Scrum, in Sprint Planning, and as part of development. They discuss the upcoming work to gain a shared understanding...

We are moving toward the "Agile" Transformation. One of our goals is to increase velocities across all our teams by X%. Have you heard this?

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.

20 ideas for using the new Scrum Mythbusters card deck in your organization

If you currently are in search of the answer to this question, enjoy this video.

Help your remote team discover what happens without clear Sprint Goals. And bring back focus together!

As part of the Scrum Tapas video series, Professional Scrum Trainer Roland Flemm explores the myth that a Daily Scrum is status meeting and reveals in 2 minutes how to make your Daily Scrum event more valuable.

Distributed teams are not new, but our global pandemic has made them the norm. Atlassian University and Scrum.org team up in this webinar to explore the myth that agile and Scrum Teams need to be colocated and walk through real-world examples of how products get delivered from distributed teams.

Im skalierten Scrum finden die Daily Scrums der Scrum Teams nach dem teamübergreifenden Nexus Daily Scrum statt! Handelt es sich hierbei um einen Scrum Mythos oder Fakt?

Scrum Master aufgepasst! Der Sprint beginnt nach dem Sprint Planning. Handelt es sich hierbei um einen Scrum Mythos oder Fakt?

What's up, awesome people? I hope you are having a good weekend. Recently, many people asked me how to write a perfectly detailed user story...

One of the key stances of the Scrum Master is being a Coach. Often coaching is perceived as the art of asking powerful questions. How many times while taking a coaching stance do you ever feel like you’re chasing the coachee?

This blog is inspired by two books I read recently "The Power of Full Engagement" & "A-Team of Leaders".

Was denkst Du, handelt es sich hierbei um einen Mythos oder um einen Fakt? Die Antwort erfährst Du in meinem Scrum Mythen und Fakten Check.

In this post, we explore eight common biases, underlying research and how they distort our thinking. We also offer what you can do to reduce them.

Scrum Master aufgepasst! Handelt es sich hierbei um einen Mythos oder um einen Fakt? Hier erfährst Du die Antwort.

Facing a large number of risks while delivering products seems to be normal. And, it is. It is common and natural. What we need to do, is manage the risk.

Some may confuse the word “Foundation” in the name of the Professional Scrum Foundation course to mean simple or basic. But in truth this means it is a course for everybody to build a solid base of knowledge,

On many occasions in the recent past, working with distributed agile teams has amplified existing organizational, technical, and cultural challenges in many organizations.

In this blog post, we share our experience, recommendations, and lessons learned by providing the online PSM II class.

What's up awesome people. I hope you are all having a great week.

One of the most asked question in my PSPO class is "What is the difference between Product Manager and Product Owner?", "Who has higher authority than the other?". There are many blogs, articles and youtube videos on the internet that compares Product Manager and Product Owner.

Le Daily Scrum n’est-il pas l’événement où l’on vient vérifier que l’équipe de développement avance comme prévu ?

This podcast tackles some of the question: Scrum vs. Kanban? How about Scrum and Kanban. Why would you want to use both? Scrum is based on Empiricism, Kanban is based on Flow, Flow enhances Empiricism and Empiricism enhances Flow. Take the best Scrum teams and the best Kanban teams and take an average person looking in on them they wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

Inspiration for fulfilling the stances of a Scrum Master, remotely.

Scrum is intended as a simple, yet sufficient framework for complex product delivery.

In my daily life as a Scrum Master, I witness many crazy situations. I want to share my discoveries via this comic series featuring Koos Coach, the silly Scrum Master struggling to understand and master Scrum.

In this article, we shall investigate why the learning and development of multi-functional specialists in Scrum is the core of organizational Agility and value optimization. Many Development Teams are not collaborating as real teams, but as a collection of narrow specialists focused on "their" tasks (QA, Backend, iOS, Android).

Dwight D. Eisenhower, the World War II leader and U.S. President, wrote: “[...] plans are of no particular value, but [...] planning is indispensable”.

This is quite a long read which you can download as the whitepaper "Systems Thinking in Organizational Coaching".

Hi awesome people. Courage is one of the Scrum values and as part of my New Year's resolution this year I would like to have more courage to point out elephant in the room at the risk people may dislike me for doing it.

The Scrum Guide is quite clear on one important thing: for one product there is only one Product Owner and only one Product Backlog...

In this Scrum Tapas video, Professional Scrum Trainer Ram Srinivasan takes a look at 8 common myths and misconceptions from people about Scrum discussing why they are not true and what it really means. (10:53 Minutes)

The Gatekeeper is the single point of contact between the Scrum Team and the outside world. The Gatekeeper tends to block all connections between the Scrum Team and its stakeholders; all communication goes through him/her.

In football, the team that wins is the one that gets the ball in the other team’s goal most times. Not the one that runs the most.