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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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DECEMBER 10, 2023

TL; DR: How To Spot Successful Scrum Masters In this article, I unravel the secrets of what makes a Scrum Master not just good but amazingly outstanding. From regularly achieving Sprint Goals, delivering value to customers, and building stakeholder rapport easily, discover the traits that set apart successful Scrum Masters.

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APRIL 16, 2024

This article was published in the AskScrum.com newsletter in the previous weeks. Subscribe to AskScrum.com to be the first to receive articles like this. When a team moves away from Scrum, the Scrum Master role often evolves. The evolution of a Scrum Master's role when a team moves away from Scrum is a transformation.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

TL; DR: The Scrum Master Salary Report 2024 — How Do You Compare? The Scrum Master Salary Report 2024 is the fifth edition of the industry survey after 2017, 2019, 2022, and 2023. In the complete report, you will find more detailed information; just down your copy of the Scrum Master Salary Report 2024 by clicking the banner below. ?

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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In this article, we will dispel 3 Scrum myths. Now, I’m not saying the Loch Ness Monster is real… but I am saying that Scrum is not dead. Myth 1: Scrum Is 'Dead' The reality: Scrum, the most popular Agile framework, has seen significant growth in adoption over the past few years. for more on this topic.)

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APRIL 26, 2024

For heads of delivery, engineering or product aiming to enhance their teams' performance and efficiency through Scrum or other agile frameworks, integrating behavioural insights into the adoption process can be transformative. The Relevance of MINDSPACE to Scrum Adoption Adopting Scrum can be daunting. What is MINDSPACE? .

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MARCH 20, 2022

One of the clichés about Scrum is that it is “easy to understand but difficult to master” The first part of that is obvious with the Scrum Guide is only eleven pages (if you don’t count the title page, purpose and table of contents). However, the immutable design of Scrum is where challenges occur.

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APRIL 29, 2024

The Development Approach and Life Cycle Performance Domain is pivotal for project managers transitioning to Scrum Masters. This domain covers the methodologies and life cycle phases of project management, offering a perspective that's crucial when moving to the iterative and incremental world of Scrum.

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APRIL 15, 2024

Transitioning from a traditional project manager to a Scrum Master requires a shift in mindset, especially in how you engage with stakeholders. In Scrum, the focus shifts from managing stakeholders in a project to fostering collaboration and alignment in a product or initiative environment.

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JANUARY 30, 2024

The Scrum Master accountability is not fading. However, the Scrum Master role is evolving rapidly to be more capable and standing for true leadership in an ever-changing work environment. Recently, there's been speculation about the relevancy of the Scrum Master role. To note that roles and accountabilities are different things.

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MARCH 12, 2024

This article was first published in the AskScrum.com newsletter. Subscribe to AskScrum.com to be the first to receive articles like this. Becoming a Scrum Master requires interpersonal skills, adaptability, continuous learning, and a clear focus on goals and team dynamics. Being a Scrum Master is more than a role.

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MARCH 26, 2024

Optimizing Risk Responses in professional project management resonates profoundly with the empirical foundation of Scrum. Scrum's framework inherently addresses risk by embracing uncertainty and change, making it an ideal approach for managing both opportunities and threats in complex environments.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In Kürze: Der Scrum Master Gehaltsreport 2024 — Wie schneiden Sie im Vergleich ab? Die Studie „Scrum Master Gehalt 2024“ ist die fünfte Ausgabe der Branchenumfrage nach 2017, 2019, 2022 und 2023. Im vollständigen Scrum-Master-Gehaltsbericht finden Sie ausführlichere Informationen. Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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JANUARY 24, 2024

By upholding Scrum and advocating for the team's needs and growth, a successful Scrum Master fosters a healthy and productive team culture, reflected by the team's ability to deliver quality products. Experienced Scrum Masters have a product mindset and are focused on delivering value to the customer. © 2024 wowefy.com

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JANUARY 31, 2023

Lean Startup and Scrum Reis and Blank talk about using these ideas to build and scale a business, but the ideas hold true at the product or even feature level. In 2016, Gartner created a diagram that showed how Design Thinking, Lean Startup, and Scrum combined. The Scrum Events are best when they are based on evidence.

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APRIL 1, 2024

The professional project management principle to embrace adaptability and resiliency aligns seamlessly with the core tenets of Scrum. Scrum, with its empirical approach and emphasis on cross-functional, self-managing teams, inherently cultivates adaptability and resiliency.

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Scrum.org

MAY 29, 2023

In the past years, Johannes Schartau, Christiaan Verwijs, and I wrote many articles on Zombie Scrum. Heck, we even wrote a complete Zombie Scrum Survival Guide ! I’d like to believe that since our book, Zombie Scrum completely disappeared. But Zombie Scrum is still present in different shapes and forms.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This article was first published in the AskScrum.com newsletter. Subscribe to AskScrum.com to be the first to receive articles like this. Being a Scrum Master is more than framework compliance. Scrum is a lightweight framework that helps teams and organisations to deliver value while managing complexity.

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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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MARCH 19, 2024

The project management principle "Navigating Complexity" finds a natural ally in the Scrum framework. Scrum is fundamentally designed to address complexity through its adaptive, iterative approach. For Project Managers transitioning to Scrum Masters, understanding how Scrum excels in navigating complexity is crucial.

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APRIL 8, 2024

The project management principle to enable change to achieve the envisioned future state is inherently supported by the Scrum framework. Scrum's approach, characterized by close stakeholder involvement and iterative development, naturally facilitates the adoption of new behaviors and processes.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

TL; DR: Lost in Communication and Collaboration Lost in Communication and Collaboration addresses two categories from the Scrum anti-patterns taxonomy that are closely aligned: ineffective collaboration at the stakeholder level, often resulting in an unsuited reporting system based on misaligned metrics. Unrealistic sales promises.

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JULY 26, 2021

TL; DR: Abandoning Scrum. Can a Scrum team simply decide to abandon Scrum? After all, the Scrum team is self-managing, according to the Scrum manual, also known as the Scrum Guide. Shall I notify you about articles like this one? Join the poll on abandoning Scrum on LinkedIn!

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JANUARY 22, 2024

For professional Project Managers seeking to transition into Professional Scrum Masters, the project management principle of being a diligent, respectful, and caring steward offers a valuable perspective. In Scrum, stewardship involves a broader responsibility, including the social, technical, and environmental impacts of the product.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 3, 2023

What are the 5 events in Scrum? Chances are that you said something like “Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, and…. The Sprint is the most commonly overlooked event in Scrum. In fact, many people don’t even realize that it is an event in Scrum. Can you name them?

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The purpose of the Scrum Master is to improve the effectiveness of the Scrum team, which can mean coaching the team and coaching the organization in the use of Scrum. However, determining whether a Scrum Master is effective can be challenging, as their impact is often indirect and not always easy to measure quantitatively.

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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. Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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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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Scrum.org

JANUARY 22, 2024

For professional Project Managers seeking to transition into Professional Scrum Masters, the project management principle of being a diligent, respectful, and caring steward offers a valuable perspective. In Scrum, stewardship involves a broader responsibility, including the social, technical, and environmental impacts of the product.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 11, 2022

How can a Scrum Master serve the organization? . There is a very sad joke about Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters regarding work at organization level – “an Agile Coach is a person who works with the organization and makes sure the Scrum Master doesn’t ”. However, there is no misunderstanding when it comes to the Scrum framework.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 1, 2024

Something was missing. For one or another reason I always went back to two small papers; a manifesto and a framework: the Manifesto for Agile Software Development ( [link] ), and the Scrum framework ( [link] ). While I was already using the Scrum framework since 2001, be it in a Zombie way, it was time to take agility dead seriously.

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APRIL 22, 2024

For project managers aspiring to become Scrum Masters, understanding the project management Team Performance domain in a different light is crucial. This domain, traditionally associated with the management of project teams, takes on a new dimension in Scrum.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Scrum of Scrums describes one of the first approaches to scale Scrum and is often confused with Nexus Daily Scrum. . Even experienced Professional Scrum Trainers, which I encounter in the Scaled Professional Scrum Train the Trainer, sometimes confuse this. This meeting is called the Scrum of Scrum.

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OCTOBER 31, 2022

TL; DR: When Should a Team Stop Using Scrum? When is the time to look beyond Scrum? outlive their utility sooner or later; why would Scrum be an exception? Scrum is a tool, a helpful practice but neither a religion nor a philosophy. Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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DECEMBER 2, 2023

Scrum is the most popular Agile framework today, with over 90% of Agile teams using the Scrum framework (16th annual State of Agile report from Digital AI). The idea behind Scrum is empiricism , or making decisions based upon what is known. Scrum encourages self-organization and trusts teams to manage their own workloads.

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JANUARY 3, 2022

TL; DR: Scrum 2022 — Getting You Started as Scrum Master or Product Owner. Probably, you are considering how to further your Scrum Master career or Product Owner career in 2022. Maybe, I can support you in that regard with a set of articles, documents, and LinkedIn polls I authored that proved to be the most popular in 2021.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

A Scrum Master should know the “why” behind Scrum and Agile principles, apply facilitation techniques, coaching, and mentorship, and exhibit solid leadership focusing on team empowerment and growth. Here are the top skills that a Scrum Master should have: 1. This article was first published in the AskScrum.com newsletter.

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