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Feb 27, 2020
I really liked the training
I really liked the training. It was informative, while still being entertaining. Specifically I liked the techniques that were used to involve all of the participants to get to know each other and to familiarize the participants with the training stuff.
Hans-Peter Schreiter
Feb 24, 2020
Recommendation!
Stefan Wolpers was an extremely competent instructor. He taught us the subject very well. We learned and laughed a lot. Absolute recommendation!
Joe Landen
Feb 21, 2020
Great interactive class!
I really enjoyed the PSM class from Stefan Wolpers!
The class was based on the concept "scrum is easy to understand but difficult to master", so instead of having a boring frontal lesson Stefan constantly challenged us with funny exercises on how to apply Scrum!
I would really say that only after a 2-day class I really have a better feeling of what are the difficulties in applying scrum and how to overcome them. Also he made us "self-organize" giving clear instruction but leaving us free to accomplish the tasks and it was interesting to see how the "self-organisation" concept of scrum can practically applied.
Viviana Marino
Dec 4, 2019
Professional Scrum Master Workshop
Time flew by during Stefan Wolpers‘s PSM training workshop! He tackled the subject matter with much humour, insight and clarity whilst greatly encouraging interaction and discussions. I thoroughly enjoyed Stefan’s workshop and highly recommend it especially if one is wanting to get up to speed quickly. Thank you Stefan for this worthwhile experience :-)
Natasha Prevost-Freer
Oct 22, 2019
Great training
Great training. It was fun and I have learned a lot I will use in my projects.
Andreas Holtschulte
Oct 17, 2019
Great training experience
Great training experience.
It was very interactive with many room for exchange of thoughts and discussions. Furthermore the workshop is well balanced between knowledge input and active training with practical examples.
I can recommend this for everybody who wants to get a first glance on SCRUM.
Just one minor issue is that everything is based on the development of Software and is not easy to translate into Hardware development. But although this was also tried to tackle by our SCRUM teacher.
Martin Walther
Oct 10, 2019
awesome
The experience of the facilitator made this course unvaluable.
Aurélie Ferron
Sep 20, 2019
I learned a lot!
It was very fun, all the questions answered and openly shared.
The information was very interesting and well presented as well as prepared. Stefan has all the knowledge to make this training enjoyable and adaptable to the skills of the group, also is very open to answer questions at all times.
Analucia Tamez Torres
Sep 19, 2019
Thanks for the helpful training!
Got a lot of inspiration of methods to use for facilitating workshops with my team. Also it refreshed my understanding of the scrum principles and enables me to reflect them for me and with the team. Thanks to Stefan for the helpful training!
Felix
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Stefan's Bio
Scrum found me back in 2006 when the Development Team of my then client asked me to become their Scrum Master and talk some sense into the founder.
At the time, I had no clue what that would entail, but I wanted to help and agreed anyway, and I have been working in the industry ever since as Scrum Master, Product Owner, or agile coach. Typically, my clients fall into two categories: fast-growing, venture capital-backed startups, or large (non-tech) corporations. In both cases, dealing with culture while introducing Professional Scrum has been my focus.
I love sharing knowledge and creating community, thus providing others with new perspectives and opportunities—which is also reflected in my engagement in the agile community: I blog, I curate the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, I host a global Slack community of agile peers, and I am the founder of the Agile Camp Berlin conference.
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Feb 27, 2020
I really liked the training
I really liked the training. It was informative, while still being entertaining. Specifically I liked the techniques that were used to involve all of the participants to get to know each other and to familiarize the participants with the training stuff.
Hans-Peter Schreiter
Feb 24, 2020
Recommendation!
Stefan Wolpers was an extremely competent instructor. He taught us the subject very well. We learned and laughed a lot. Absolute recommendation!
Joe Landen
Feb 21, 2020
Great interactive class!
I really enjoyed the PSM class from Stefan Wolpers!
The class was based on the concept "scrum is easy to understand but difficult to master", so instead of having a boring frontal lesson Stefan constantly challenged us with funny exercises on how to apply Scrum!
I would really say that only after a 2-day class I really have a better feeling of what are the difficulties in applying scrum and how to overcome them. Also he made us "self-organize" giving clear instruction but leaving us free to accomplish the tasks and it was interesting to see how the "self-organisation" concept of scrum can practically applied.
Viviana Marino
Dec 4, 2019
Professional Scrum Master Workshop
Time flew by during Stefan Wolpers‘s PSM training workshop! He tackled the subject matter with much humour, insight and clarity whilst greatly encouraging interaction and discussions. I thoroughly enjoyed Stefan’s workshop and highly recommend it especially if one is wanting to get up to speed quickly. Thank you Stefan for this worthwhile experience :-)
Natasha Prevost-Freer
Oct 22, 2019
Great training
Great training. It was fun and I have learned a lot I will use in my projects.
Andreas Holtschulte
Oct 17, 2019
Great training experience
Great training experience.
It was very interactive with many room for exchange of thoughts and discussions. Furthermore the workshop is well balanced between knowledge input and active training with practical examples.
I can recommend this for everybody who wants to get a first glance on SCRUM.
Just one minor issue is that everything is based on the development of Software and is not easy to translate into Hardware development. But although this was also tried to tackle by our SCRUM teacher.
Martin Walther
Oct 10, 2019
awesome
The experience of the facilitator made this course unvaluable.
Aurélie Ferron
Sep 20, 2019
I learned a lot!
It was very fun, all the questions answered and openly shared.
The information was very interesting and well presented as well as prepared. Stefan has all the knowledge to make this training enjoyable and adaptable to the skills of the group, also is very open to answer questions at all times.
Analucia Tamez Torres
Sep 19, 2019
Thanks for the helpful training!
Got a lot of inspiration of methods to use for facilitating workshops with my team. Also it refreshed my understanding of the scrum principles and enables me to reflect them for me and with the team. Thanks to Stefan for the helpful training!
Felix
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Stefan Wolpers
This fourth article now addresses basic remote agile anti-patterns — the pitfalls any distributed team wants to avoid to become successful.
Apr 7, 2020
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Watch the Replay of the Remote Agile Practices & Tools Live Virtual Class
At the end of March, we ran a Remote Agile Practices & Tools class with about 30 participants from all over Europe, the Eastern Seaboard, and Canada. The participants agreed on recording it and make it available to the agile community. We edited the recording slightly; for example, we removed the waiting time during the exercise timeboxes. Otherwise, the video accurately reflects how one way of collaborating with a distributed team using Zoom breakout rooms may work.
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The Learning Path of the Remote Agile Class
The Remote Agile Practices and Tools class is based on a Liberating Structures string, starting with Impromptu Networking. During the introduction, the participants were also tasked to take notes on why their last conversation partner attended the class in the first place. We then used this information to aggregate and cluster a list of challenges the participants as a whole are facing the moment. (We used the Lean Coffee format for this purpose while working on a Fun Retro.io board.) Once the issues were clustered and ranked, we created six teams via Zoom breakout rooms to work on the six highest-ranking topics simultaneously, creating 15 % Solutions, which each team introduced then via Shift & Share to the whole class. We closed the class by attending to our parking lot.
Except for three teaching blocks of about 20 minutes in total, the whole Remote Agile Practices & Tools class of 2:45 hours comprised of interactive work:
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I recommend the following additional reading to learn more about Remote Agile practices and tools:
Remote Agile (Part 1): Practices & Tools for Scrum Masters & Agile Coaches.
Remote Agile (Part 2): Virtual Liberating Structures.
Remote Agile (Part 3): Mastering Zoom.
Download the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide: 160-plus ways to improve your way of Scrum.
Apr 2, 2020
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Stefan Wolpers
In this third post of the Remote Agile series, we address the tool at the heart of working with a distributed team as a Scrum Master, Agile Coach, or Product Owner: Zoom.
Mar 30, 2020
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Stefan Wolpers
This follow-up post now delves into virtual Liberating Structures, answering the question of how we can make use of the powerful toolbox of inclusive and collaborative practices in a remote setting.
Mar 24, 2020
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Stefan Wolpers
Agile has always been about colocation, about direct communication, physical boards, and all the other haptic and analog moments to create value in the digital realm...
Mar 17, 2020
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Stefan Wolpers
After covering the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, this article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact. Learn more about what to look out for if you want to support your fellow teammates.
Mar 11, 2020
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Stefan Wolpers
Learn how individual incentives and outdated organizational structures — fostering personal agendas and local optimization efforts — manifest themselves in Scrum stakeholder anti-patterns which easily can impede any agile transition.
Mar 2, 2020
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Stefan Wolpers
This article goes into detail how anti-patterns can evolve and possibly create other issues for the Scrum Team.
Feb 24, 2020
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Stefan Wolpers
During the 19th Hands-on Agile meetup, 30-plus people addressed the path to becoming a successful Scrum Master or agile coach, following up on the “Scrum Master Career 2020 — Using Ecocycle Planning to Identify Opportunities” meetup we had in December 2019.
Feb 17, 2020
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Stefan Wolpers
Welcome to the Agile Movers & Shakers interview series. Today’s guest is Dave West.
Feb 11, 2020
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