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...

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...

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.

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.

The Scrum Master role is at risk of fading away unless the profession changes. Too many organizations misunderstand the accountability, reducing it to administrative tasks instead of leadership. The Scrum Masters who will thrive are those who grow beyond facilitation, actively protect empiricism, in...

Why the Goldilocks Approach to Context Provision Works with Generative AI — An Experiment with GPT-5.

In this episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, Dave West is joined by Darrell Fernandes to tackle questions from a recent webinar on the Agile Product Operating Model and incentives (44:47 Minutes).

This blog explores the future of knowledge work with AI, arguing that teams will remain relevant due to technical debt and organizational resistance to change, even if AI tools lead to smaller teams. It also asserts that Scrum remains valuable for individuals, offering discipline, transparency, and ...

Let’s explore how a Scrum facilitator embodies each Scrum Value

This post challenges teams that claim to be Agile by spotlighting one brutally honest metric: Days Since Last Release. Release frequency is a clearer indicator of agility than velocity or story points. By tracking how long it has been since the last release, and striving to keep that number at zero,...

I tried the new ChatGPT Agent mode, a valuable new tool for those who cannot program?

In this post, I share my own personal experience transitioning from traditional product development to agility. We explore the #1 challenge to being a great Scrum Master and the three ways it most frequently shows up. We also look at better approaches.

PST Bart Versteegen recently answered some burning listener questions about the Scrum Master Accountability. Tune in for great insights!

With tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude, facilitators can shift from **manual mode** to **mastery mode**. You just need to know the right questions to ask of both your participants and your AI assistant.

Scrum exposes what’s not working—but doesn’t stop there. Its real power lies in what happens next: creating moments for deliberate, continuous improvement. This post explores what that really means, and how teams can turn visibility into action.

Not everyone is ready for Scrum. This blog explores common personality types that resist Scrum ways of working, such as The Pessimist, The Perfectionist, and The Order-Taker, and explains why they struggle. You’ll also learn practical ways Scrum Masters can coach these individuals, reduce friction, ...

In a recent conversation with an executive leader, she shared a very interesting insight: “Leadership is a lot like being a glorified Scrum Master.” It may sound surprising to you at first, but the more I think about it, the more it makes sense to me.

Scrum makes the impact of your practices visible—whether you like what you see or not. Learn what that means, and how to use it to improve your team's outcomes.

Discover how generative AI can supercharge Agile coaching in high-pressure environments.

Scrum wraps around existing practices—not to protect them, but to help you inspect and improve them. Learn how this works and what your team should wrap, replace, or retire.

Many Scrum Masters fall into the trap of quoting the Scrum Guide verbatim, mistaking recitation for servant leadership. Quoting the rules isn't the same as understanding them. This post explores why simply reading from the Guide can frustrate teammates and stakeholders, lack context, and hinder team...

Ever wonder why AI feels like more hassle than help? Discover the simple shift Product Owners can make to finally get real value—and better results—from tools like ChatGPT

Scrum isn’t about Jira, velocity, or checklists—it’s about how people relate, interact, and make decisions together. Learn why relationships and interactions are the heart of the framework.

In this "Value Delivered" episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, host Dave West and PST Jay Rahman, Founder of Fractal Systems discuss how agile principles helped a large investment bank turn a struggling multi-million dollar project into a success. (43:07 Minutes)

When a new Scrum Team first starts working together, they go through some common growing pains. Knowing what to expect for a new Scrum Team can help make things go a little smoother.

Scrum Teams often track velocity but struggle to turn data into lasting improvement. In this Scrum.org webinar, PST Stefan Wolpers explores how AI tools analyze complex team data—velocity trends, stakeholder signals, and even psychological safety indicators—to craft smarter, more targeted Retrospect...