Scrum.org

JULY 25, 2023

As Scrum.org trainers, we often come across common misconceptions from course attendees about Agile and Scrum. We tend to hear red flags of misalignment when we explore folk's current definitions and understanding of Agile and Scrum at the start of our courses. Agile eliminates the need for planning or documentation.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 22, 2021

The role of Agile Coach is growing in prominence in many organisations. From software development through to marketing and HR, whole organisations are now seeing benefits from agile adaptive approach to work, and are building internal positions for new Agile Coach roles. . The Scrum Master and Agile Coaching.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

TL; DR: Scrum Tools, Part 1. The Scrum framework is purposefully incomplete, […].” ( Source.) This half-sentence is probably one of the more often misinterpreted statements of the Scrum Guide. On the one side, it defines the necessity to enhance Scrum with other practices and tools.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 24, 2023

When working with a brand-new Scrum team, whether it's a new member joining or a Scrum Master guiding the team, the challenges often stem from preconceived notions. It's not about the tools or techniques they think they know; it's about the foundational understanding of Scrum's essence. NKDAgility can help you.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 11, 2022

This is a guest contribution from Monica Georgieff, Agile Coach and Trainer at AgileSherpas. Brought on by the struggle to respond and adapt to these times of VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity), marketers have increasingly begun to embrace an Agile approach to their project management. Monica Georgieff.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 22, 2024

TL; DR: The Rise of the Scrum GPT Fewer Jobs for Scrum Masters, and now we see the universal Scrum GPT entering the competition: Will Scrum Masters change from essential practitioners to a niche role? The job market is currently challenging for many agile practitioners, particularly Scrum Masters.

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Scrum.org

JULY 24, 2023

TL; DR: Product Discovery for Scrum Teams While Scrum excels at building and releasing Increments, it does not guarantee that those are valuable—garbage in, garbage out. Scrum teams can equally make things no one is interested in using at all. Get notified when the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book is available !

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A project management methodology is a set of principles, tools and techniques that are used to plan, execute and manage projects. Agile Methodology. What It Is: In a nutshell, Agile project management is an evolving and collaborative way to self-organize across teams. How do you know if agile is for you?

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 31, 2023

Sitting at lunch during Agile 2023, I felt deja vu. I have attended many Agile conferences. I have witnessed the growth of Scrum, the rise of DevOps, the impact of XP, the expansion of SAFe, and the growing connection to professional coaching. I have seen tool vendors come and go. At Agile 2023, I did not feel that.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 2, 2020

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.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 18, 2020

. Lean Coffee Poster The premise of Lean Coffee is relatively straight forwarded. Like-minded people that want to create or discuss something they care about use this tool to organize their conversations. Lean Coffee increases the engagement level significantly among the participants.

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MPUG

JANUARY 23, 2023

Scrum is one of the most used frameworks in Lean-Agile space , among others such as Kanban, eXtreme Programming (XP), or Scrum combined with XP. The Scrum framework comes mainly with three artifacts. Many also consider Sprint, the iteration within Scrum, as another event. In fact, MS Project Agile (i.e.,

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 14, 2023

As professionals in the fast-paced world of Agile and Scrum, we often find ourselves at a crossroads during Sprint reviews. Interpreting Negative Feedback : Using criticism as a tool for improvement. These are the kinds of issues that lean-agile practitioners relish, and others might find challenging.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Many seem to equate DevOps with specific tools like Azure DevOps or JIRA. DevOps is not about the tools we use; it's about the ideas behind them. It's about the idea that enables us to shorten those critical feedback loops, extending beyond mere dialogue about agility. Enjoy this video? NKDAgility can help! NKDAgility can help!

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

TL; DR: Value Creation in Scrum. As a tactical framework, Scrum is good at delivering Increments into customers’ hands. Nevertheless, there is a potentially hazardous void in the framework that successful Scrum teams start plugging early: how to figure out what is worth building—product discovery—in the first place.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 21, 2024

„Wie sehen Karrierestufen für Scrum Master aus?“ Diese Frage wird mir wiederholt von verschiedenen Personen gestellt: Sie wird mir von Scrum Mastern gestellt, die ein Rollenprofil oder Karrieremodell in ihren Unternehmen schaffen wollen. Diese Muster wurden auch von viel erfahreneren Scrum Mastern und Experten beobachtet.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 4, 2022

TL; DR: Business Agility, Scrum and Generative AI’s Take on Getting There. I thought it might be fun to ask ChatGPT a few questions about business agility in general and Scrum in particular. . ???? Zur deutschsprachigen Version des Artikels: Generative KI: ChatGPT von OpenAI über Business Agilität und Scrum. ??

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

OKR Theater has the potential to become a member of a big family – Scrum Theater, Agile Theater, SAFe Theater, Lean Theater, Six Sigma Theater; you get the picture. OKRs (and Scrum…) thrive in the Complex Domain. This is exactly the environment where Scrum thrives. Does that mean we need Scrum to implement OKRs?

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 7, 2020

An agile workflow can help. For a long time the agile framework influenced teams outside of the software development sector from which it originated. People are evangelical about agile. There are those who are almost rigid in their adherence to the agile framework. What Is an Agile Workflow? Assemble an Agile Team.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

A Scrum team's work can be classified into Sprint work and Refinement. To steer your Scrum Team towards success, it's essential to understand, manage, and balance these two types of work. Decode the intricacies of Scrum teamwork and unlock the path to achieving your product goals with increased efficiency.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 15, 2024

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM The quest for methodologies that offer efficiency and agility has never been rockier. Agile methodologies stand at the forefront of this quest, providing the blueprint for rapid, responsive, and customer-centric project execution. Agile methodologies offer a path to mastering these challenges.

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The Strategic Project Manager

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The concepts of scrum are powerful in business, not only in software development but also in other areas. This post reviews the basics of agile scrum roles, ceremonies, and their impact on developing strategy and managing projects. Agile Scrum Roles. The scrum team has its origins in rugby, an ultimate team sport.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 21, 2022

Rather than containing a set of work instructions, Scrum is a framework offering general principles. The simplicity of Scrum means that teams can adopt the complementary practices that work for their environment. For example, Scrum doesn’t tell teams that they need to use points. How to do that is up to the Scrum team.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 16, 2023

First, our last article touched on waste in the context of lean. Second, I am the father of a recent engineering graduate who is now working as an engineer, and part of the onboarding was a class on lean. We show some examples other than software in our Scrum Project Management book. This is where Lean principles come into play.

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Growing Agile

APRIL 15, 2020

This morning we hosted a Lean Coffee session. It was my first time hosting a virtual lean coffee. My first experience of a lean coffee was with Karen and Sam many years ago, I really enjoyed the loose structure and got so much of value that it soon became one of my favourite facilitation techniques.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Agile isn’t the right fit for every business problem–it’s simply a tool in the toolkit–one of many. . Agile frameworks should be used to solve business problems in complex environments where more is known than known. What is Agile? When is Agile the right fit? There are many flavors of Agile.

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Scrum.org

MAY 4, 2020

TL; DR: A Remote Daily Scrum with a Distributed Team. We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools; we explored virtual Liberating Structures, and how to master Zoom. This eighth article now looks into supporting a distributed Development Team organizing a remote Daily Scrum.

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Agilemania

APRIL 12, 2022

1,00,000 practitioners and 20,000 enterprises worldwide have kept faith in one thing to drive Business Agility in the enterprise. . And that’s Scaled Agile Framework(SAFe)! . As per the 15th State of Agile Survey, 38% of the respondents considered SAFe as the most popular framework for scaling agile. . What is SAFe?

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Leading Answers

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Now that my Beyond Agile book has been published, I would like to thank people who helped shape its content and ideas. David Anderson has done much to popularize and explain lean and the Theory of Constraints thinking. Agile teams often use kanban boards to visualize their work.

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Wrike

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In the realm of project management methodologies, Lean and Agile have emerged as powerful approaches that support organizations in achieving efficiency and delivering high-quality products and services. Understanding the nuances of Lean and Agile is crucial for project managers and teams seeking to optimize their processes.

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Scrum.org

JULY 3, 2023

TL; DR: Die Skalierung agiler Praktiken Agile Transformationen, bei denen die Skalierung agiler Praktiken von der Teamebene auf die gesamte Organisation im Vordergrund steht, erfordern mehr als die Implementierung von Frameworks wie SAFe®. Professional Scrum Master Schulung mit PSM I Zertifikat — 5. September 2023. ?

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Scrum.org

JUNE 27, 2022

received a question: do you believe scrum and agility can be scaled and what’s the best approach to it? And I need to add flight levels to that article, but today I’m going to talk about LeSS, disciplined agile, scrum with scale, SAFe, Nexus. LeSS — Large Scale Scrum. Disciplined Agile.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Once you complete your project management certification, you’ll need the right project management tools to manage your projects. This requires excellent analytical skills and thorough knowledge of project management methodologies, techniques and tools. Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP). CompTIA Project+ Certification.

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MPUG

MARCH 8, 2021

Many project managers utilize a Lean-Agile approach when there is high change or churn in project requirements, significant lack of clarity in scope, high complexity to their projects, and/or a larger number of risks associated with such. Two Lean-Agile Types. Iteration-based Lean-Agile. Flow-based.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 15, 2022

In this energizing 43rd Hands-on Agile session on outcome-based product planning, Jeff Gothelf clarified one thing: “Roadmapping is a flawed concept in the age of Agile. Watch the video now: Jeff Gothelf: Outcome-Based Product Planning — Hands-on Agile 43. ?? Roadmapping is a flawed concept in the age of Agile.

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The Strategic Project Manager

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Agile and lean are not the same thing but are closely related. This post looks at the idea of ‘lean agile’ and its application to project management and strategy. What Is Lean Agile Project Management? Apply Lean to Agile Projects. How can you make agile projects more efficient?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 10, 2023

Photo by Alora Griffiths on Unsplash The Ultimate Litmus Test: Go on Vacation If the outcome of an effective Scrum Master is to create a high-performing, self-managing team, the litmus test may be — what happens when you are not there? Read on for three Power-Ups to drive change, achieve results, and promote sustainable Agile practices.

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