Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The Manager is concerned with the wellbeing of the Scrum Team. The Product Owner as a Manager is typically responsible for performance management and evaluating the team. There’s nothing wrong with caring for the Development Team as a Product Owner. The Product Owner as a Manager. What is a Manager?

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 19, 2018

In the previous article, we have discussed how Scrum Masters need to master many things. In this article we are going to discuss one of the stances that the Scrum Master need to master, that is the facilitation stance. So what is facilitation? facilis (v) : to make something easy or possible.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

So before diving into the Product Owner taking an Influencer stance, let’s first inspect what an Influencer is. Looking and Product Owners who are great Influencers, they are considered to be Product Owners who get things done without exercising formal authority over a person or team.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 6, 2018

The Scrum Master role is a difficult one. Often, they are the ones driving agility into the organization, making the agile practices stick and ensuring that teams, products and the organization are using an empirical process, supporting self-organization and continually improving. Context is everything for the Scrum Master.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 13, 2019

The first part contains my personal journey in becoming a Scrum Master, the second part includes recommendations for new Scrum Masters. Part 1 — Becoming a Scrum Master. Nine years ago I changed my title from Project Manager into Scrum Master. Both parts can be read as separate articles.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The Customer Representative Product Owner is the go-to person for people in the organization who want to gain a understanding of what customers (and/or users) are looking for in the product or service which the Product Owner is responsible for. The Customer Representative and Scrum.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Visionary Product Owners are people like Steve Jobs , Elon Musk , Thomas Edison and Winston Churchill. Visionary Product Owners have a relentless focus on what can be , instead of what is. It’s not like you can’t be a successful Visionary Product Owner if you’re not Steve Jobs or Elon Musk.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

This week we witnessed the launch event of the Scrum.org Professional Scrum Product Owner-Advanced class, and we could not be more excited about it. Finally, we are free to tell everyone about the best training we’ve ever created. The customer problem(s) to solve with PSPO-A. Dave Dame. “So

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

An advanced and certified Professional Scrum Product Owner-Advanced class, with PSPO-II certification! After months working in secret, we can now share the journey that Chris Lukassen and I had in creating this advanced Product Owner class. Finally, it’s here! How it all began….

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Agile Coach

JANUARY 16, 2020

I provided a Certificate of Completion because I have never believed that anyone should be ‘certified’ in anything for attending a 2-day course. When I received my CSM (Certified Scrum Master), CSP (Certified Scrum Pratitioner, and CSPO (Certified Scrum Product Owner), I didn’t need to write a test.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

Well okay, well, I’ll take it from a professional angle. More often than not in kind of either the IT product development space or IT services space. But what they’re really doing was like scrum with technical practices and things like that, I ever more aligned, it felt like to me was Scrum.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 9, 2023

TL; DR: A ChatGPT Job Interview for a Scrum Master Position. Can a large language model, not specializing in anything “agile,” pass a screening interview for a Scrum Master position? So, read on and learn whether Scrum Masters will soon be replaced with a chatbot. ?? Interviewing ChatGPT.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

We don’t know about the athletes mentioned earlier, but as a Product Owner, you want to avoid being the next Mike Tyson, Mario Balotelli or John McEnroe for sure…. A collaborative Product Owner tends to support people in their own discovery process, whether it’s about defining goals, clarifying PBIs or analyzing customer needs.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Product Owners that favor this stance are a blessing and a curse. When you bring relevant domain knowledge to the Scrum Team, they can make more informed decisions and create a better plan to achieve (Sprint) Goals. In many organizations, it seems to be expected that the Product Owner is also the Subject Matter Expert.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 12, 2020

What is a Product Owner? What are the differences between a Product Owner and Project Manager? Isn’t a Product Owner some kind of an Agile Project Manager? In this blog, we’ll dive deeper into the topic: “Product Owner vs Project Manager”. What is a Product Owner?

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The Gatekeeper is the single point of contact between the Scrum Team and the outside world. The Gatekeeper may be acting as or really being an important Product Owner, because (s)he has to answer all the Development Teams’ questions, but really not having much time for the team. The Product Owner as a Gatekeeper.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Decision Maker , which helps the stakeholders and Scrum Team to keep time-to-market short, by keeping decision-making time short. Some can be delegated to the Scrum Team or stakeholders, some the Product Owner has to take him-/herself. The Decisive Product Owner and Agile. What is a Decision Maker?

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