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Feb 27, 2020
Great perfomance and great teacher.
Great perfomance and great teacher.
Tomaz
Feb 26, 2020
Glad I made the choice for this course
Glad I made the choice for this course. Roland is a great teacher and made the entire experience fun and interactive. Highly appreciated!
Elliot Elchanan Hagemeijer
Jun 26, 2019
Good training structure
Good training structure, understandable delivery, lot of examples and practical activities. Thanks for training!
Igors Baibuss
Jun 26, 2019
A great training that showcased…
A great training that showcased practical situations, tools and mindset to have. The structure was very engaging and required active participation to experience the methods used.
Edgars Vilumsons
Jun 25, 2019
Awesome training facilitation
For experienced Scrum Master the content shouldn't be new, but how it was facilitated - fascinated!
Yehor Kachanov
Mar 19, 2019
Excellent 2-day training/course
Excellent 2-day training/course. Learned a lot from Roland. His advice and training are very clear and to the point.
Remco Mooijweer
Mar 18, 2019
Energetic teacher
Really energetic teacher, with much knowledge about the scrum framework and can relate it too our work environment.
Elwin Poelhekken
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Roland Flemm is an experienced Scrum Master and an Organisational Design consultant. He works as on large and small scale Scrum adoptions and as a Professional Scrum trainer.
Roland has a background in application development (.Net and Java) and in infrastructure engineering (IBM WebSphere & Portal) for over 20 years. Since 2013 he is dedicated to working as a Scrum Master and LeSS Coach.
Besides coaching, he regularly publishes articles, he developed the Scrum learning resource Scrumcards and is the creator of humorist movies. Roland enjoys speaking at international conferences and strongly believes that fun and diversity at the workplace is essential for success. Click here to see a movie of Roland teaching.
What do others say about Roland?
“Roland has the agile way of working in his genes, that’s why he works with passion and drive. He keeps a clear focus on the goal without concessions.”
Adrie Dolman MSc (NL)
“I found Roland to be a really helpful mentor, experienced coach, great teacher. He knows how to give space and proper feedback to others, encouraging everyone to focus on continuous improvement.”
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Feb 27, 2020
Great perfomance and great teacher.
Great perfomance and great teacher.
Tomaz
Feb 26, 2020
Glad I made the choice for this course
Glad I made the choice for this course. Roland is a great teacher and made the entire experience fun and interactive. Highly appreciated!
Elliot Elchanan Hagemeijer
Jun 26, 2019
Good training structure
Good training structure, understandable delivery, lot of examples and practical activities. Thanks for training!
Igors Baibuss
Jun 26, 2019
A great training that showcased…
A great training that showcased practical situations, tools and mindset to have. The structure was very engaging and required active participation to experience the methods used.
Edgars Vilumsons
Jun 25, 2019
Awesome training facilitation
For experienced Scrum Master the content shouldn't be new, but how it was facilitated - fascinated!
Yehor Kachanov
Mar 19, 2019
Excellent 2-day training/course
Excellent 2-day training/course. Learned a lot from Roland. His advice and training are very clear and to the point.
Remco Mooijweer
Mar 18, 2019
Energetic teacher
Really energetic teacher, with much knowledge about the scrum framework and can relate it too our work environment.
Elwin Poelhekken
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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.
Urgent items
There might be urgent changes popping up during the Sprint. How do we deal with them?
How does your team handle mid-sprint changes?
Do you add them to the Sprint and work harder? (What does that mean for the planning you did?)
Do you refuse to take them in, like Wolmoed suggests? (What does that do to our flexibility?)
Do you work with the PO to estimate the new items and see which items in the Sprint can be replaced? (And possibly also investigate in the retrospective what made these items emerge!)
Self-Organization
Things to think about:
What do you think of this interpretation of self-organization?
What behavior do you observe from Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Team members, management (and maybe yourself) that hinders self-organization?
Feb 23, 2020
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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.
Failing the Sprint
Sometimes or many times teams "the sprint fails". What does it mean to fail the Sprint? Is all failing to be considered a bad thing?
What does “failing the Sprint” mean to you?
Not finishing all PBI’s?
Having missed opportunities for collaboration?
Delivering software that is not valued by the customer?
Missing Requirement
The team works on turning requirements into working software. The software development work is complex. During the Sprint, new work can be discovered and in some cases, they require decisions to be taken by the Product Owner. The Product Owner "owns the product" and should have the full mandate and authority to make product decisions.
Things to think about:
Which decisions can be taken without consulting the Product Owner?
What does it tell you if your Product Owner often needs a stakeholder to approve a decision?
Who is "the impediment" in this story?
Feb 9, 2020
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In my previous 2 episodes of this series on Systems Thinking, I elaborated on what Systems Thinking is and on the Wicked Problems Systems Thinking is trying to solve. In this episode, I want to explore Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS).
Feb 2, 2020
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Before and during the Sprint, effort needs to be put into coordination to ensure the Scrum Teams deliver a working integrated product. This situation can be improved with Multi-team Product Backlog Refinement sessions.
Jan 26, 2020
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In my daily life as a Scrum Master, I witness many crazy situations. I want to share my experiences via this comic series featuring Koos Coach, the silly Scrum Master struggling to understand and master Scrum.
Failing is Learning
Empirical Process Control is at the heart of Scrum and required to work in complexity. Failing is an intrinsic part of learning. Trust and safetly are needed to create an environment in which teams get the space to learn.
Some thoughts:
Too much tolerance on failing (teams not finishing the work in the sprint for instance) is an impediment for Scrum.
Too little tolerance on failing (blaming people for mistakes) reduces transparency.
How is failing perceived in your organization?
The Daily Scrum
The Daily Scrum is a key inspection moment. The Scrum Master needs to ensure that the event takes place. This is true, but the Scrum Master also needs to assess if the team is mature enough to self-organise.
If this story resonates with you, please share:
What does this behavior tell you?
How would you call this kind of Scrum?
What actions can the Scrum Master take to improve the quality of the Daily Scrum?
Jan 24, 2020
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In this article, I want to clarify the need for agility in modern businesses and what agility in organisational design actually is.
Jan 18, 2020
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roland flemm
In my daily life as a Scrum Master, I witness many crazy situations. I want to share my experiences via this comic series featuring Koos Coach, the silly Scrum Master struggling to understand and master Scrum.
Jan 14, 2020
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In a series of blog posts, I want to share how you can use Systems Thinking to resolve complex problems.
Jan 12, 2020
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In a series of blog posts, I want to share how you can use Systems Thinking to resolve complex problems such as software teams not delivering the right software fast enough.
Dec 28, 2019
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A customer I was working with asked me to help out with the intake process for recruiting a new Scrum Master and a new Product Owner. I asked them what they had so far. They provided a clear job description describing what they wanted to see from the candidates.
Sep 10, 2019
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