A practical guide on what essential AI qualities define next-gen Scrum Masters.

The window of opportunity to build your AI competence is open now, but it will not remain open indefinitely. Start acting.

It is February 2026, and your LinkedIn feed oscillates between two narratives. Narrative #1: AI will replace agile practitioners such as Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, and everyone whose job description includes “facilitate” or “coach.” Narrative #2: Stay calm, get another certification, and wait it ...

All the first steps you need to know to start your AI journey as a Scrum Master.

Transparency, inspection, adaptation: the trio or the trap?

When time zones kill the Daily Scrum, great teams don’t lose control; they redesign how alignment works. In this blog by PST Robb Pieper, learn what replaces the Daily Scrum in high-performing async teams.

Over the last 18 months, AI has moved from a tech trend to a core capability, and Scrum Masters need to be enablers for this change. That means Scrum Masters need to not only embrace it but also serve as catalysts for it. And that is why Scrum.org released a new course, Professional Scrum Master - A...

AI is rapidly transforming the role of Scrum Masters. Those who fail to adapt to this new productivity engine risk becoming obsolete. The PSM-AI Essentials course helps you mitigate this risk.

A good Scrum Master retains something AI is trained to remove - agency.

Teams who have done Scrum training together perform better than those who haven't. It creates a shared language and shared expectations. When everyone understands not just what Scrum is, but why it works, they understand how to work together more effectively.

A practical guide to effectively evaluate the performance of Scrum Teams + Case Study.

In Part 2 of this Q&A series stemming from questions in the webinar, Managing Your AI Teammate, Eric Naiburg continues the conversation with Darrell Fernandes, diving deeper into how AI is reshaping the way Scrum Teams work. (21:32 Minutes)

A first-time Scrum Master experience often begins with resistance. Learn why teams push back, what actually builds trust, and how Scrum works when it solves real problems in PST Robb Pieper’s latest post.

Scrum Mastery is a craft that requires the right environment and a clear focus on the value chain to truly take off. Drawing from a decade of experience, PST Simon Flossmann shares five essential steps I wish I had known sooner to help you master the role and deliver real impact.

83% of Agile practitioners use AI, but most spend 10% or less of their time with it because they do not know where it fits. Learn more.

Strategies fail in translation: without an Operating Model + System aligned across AI, adaptation, and org speeds, metrics/authority/processes conflict and execution dies.

In this episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, Dave West is joined by Andrew Nimmer, Assistant Head of the Carroll Upper School, part of The Carroll School, an independent Massachusetts school serving students with language-based learning differences. Together, they explore how a cross-function...

A practical way to leverage AI to increase the Scrum Events effectiveness.

A Inteligência Artificial pode reforçar a mestria em Scrum ao apoiar o Scrum Master e as Equipas Scrum a lidar com complexidade, melhorar a qualidade da aprendizagem diária e tomar decisões mais informadas. Quando usada de forma ética e alinhada com o empirismo, a IA torna-se uma aliada poderosa na ...

A practical way to leverage AI to increase the Sprint Retrospective effectiveness.

A practical way to leverage AI to increase the Sprint Review effectiveness.

AI initiatives fail for the same reasons Agile transformations did: most failures stem from people, culture, and processes, not technology. Let me show ten prevailing failure patterns.

Psychological safety is foundational to Empiricism (Transparency, Inspection, Adaptation). If people are afraid to admit mistakes (like breaking the build), Empiricism dies. You can't have Empiricism without Safety.

Em 2026, o debate em Portugal já não é se as organizações devem adotar Scrum, mas sim como utilizá-lo de forma verdadeiramente profissional. Este artigo analisa o estado da formação Professional Scrum em Portugal, explorando a maturidade do mercado, a procura por competências Scrum, o impacto da fo...

Most teams don’t implement Scrum theory—they implement meetings. This post uses the definition of “implement” to show what Scrum is actually trying to put into operation: transparency, inspection, and adaptation. You’ll get a blunt way to spot Scrum theatre (in 30 seconds) and a practical check afte...

If tightening events haven’t improved delivery, morale, or outcomes, you’re probably fixing symptoms instead of the real constraint. In this post, PST Robb Pieper shows how to assess true Scrum team health and how to identify the one thing to fix first so multiple problems improve at once.

A practical way to leverage AI to increase the Sprint Planning effectiveness.

Learn how to leverage AI to generate insights out of your current value of DORA metrics and generate a list of improvements to move toward achieving your desired value of the metrics.

The paradigm shift is here. Andrej Karpathy, former Tesla AI director and OpenAI co-founder, recently admitted he has never felt this far behind as a programmer. If Karpathy feels overwhelmed, how should the rest of us feel?

Scrum events only work when they cause transparency, inspection, and adaptation. Many teams keep the events but quietly remove that cause — and then wonder why nothing changes. This post breaks down how Scrum turns into theatre, and how to spot it fast.

Traditional "Velocity" is often misused. This article proposes new, relevant metrics for hybrid human-AI teams, fitting perfectly into the EBM conversation.

A practical way to leverage AI to increase the Daily Scrum effectiveness.

Generative AI removes the natural constraint that expensive engineers imposed on software development. When building costs almost nothing, the question shifts from “can we build it?” to “should we build it?”

Using the AQAL model provides a sophisticated framework for Scrum Teams to diagnose why a team followed the rules of Scrum but still failed in the delivery.

Scrum events don’t work because they’re scheduled. They work because they create transparency, inspection, and adaptation. If nothing changes after your Sprint Review, Daily Scrum, or Retrospective, Scrum isn’t broken — it’s being ignored.

How often have you heard the word Empiricism in connection with Scrum? I believe almost every time someone says Scrum, they do bring up Empiricism.

AI agents have long promised productivity gains, but until now, they demanded coding skills that most agile practitioners lack or are uncomfortable with. In this article, I share my first impressions on how Claude Cowork removes that barrier.

Free up your time to focus more on the human-centric and strategic activities as a Product Pro by leveraging AI Agents.

Stop asking 'Can AI do this?' Start asking 'Should AI do this?'

AI forces organizations to align machine speed with governance and funding. In doing so, it structurally closes Product Ownership's authority gap - distributed decisions, adaptive governance, and outcome funding become unavoidable.

Scrum doesn’t just define events—it places them *inside* a Sprint for a reason. The Sprint is the container that gives coherence, continuity, and consequence to inspection and adaptation. Without it, Scrum Events become disconnected conversations instead of a learning system.

Learn how to gain entry-level Scrum Master experience, build credibility, and prove value without waiting for the job title in this latest post with PST Robb Pieper.

AI changes what work is visible. It does not change what matters in work.

New Years is a time to pause and reflect - and that applies to Scrum Teams as well. So why not plan a New Years-themed Retrospective this year?

Scrum talks about *adaptation*—but not the kind driven by opinions, pressure, or discomfort. True adaptation only happens after transparency and inspection. Without learning first, teams don’t adapt—they drift. This post challenges how Scrum Teams really use adaptation.

If the same problems return Sprint after Sprint, something in the team’s learning is not working. Action Learning strengthens Scrum by turning inspection into disciplined learning and adaptation into deliberate action.

Muchos equipos Scrum miden su productividad en base a tareas terminadas, puntos de historia o cosas entregadas, y luego toman los promedios para establecer líneas base de productividad que impulsen métricas estandarizadas de control a cumplir, pero entonces: ¿Dónde queda el aprendizaje y la mejora c...

In Scrum, inspection isn’t just “looking carefully.” It’s comparing reality to intent — the bold act of confronting what 'is' versus what 'should be.' Each Scrum Event offers that mirror moment, but only if teams dare to look without filters.

The Scrum Guide uses “event” 24 times and “meeting” only twice. That’s not random. Scrum events aren’t meant for talking—they’re meant for changing. Learn how to make every Scrum event count.

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.