Scrum.org

JUNE 1, 2022

Do your Daily Scrums feel like a pointless ritual where everyone just lists what they’ve done yesterday, and what they do will do today? In our work with Scrum teams, we’ve been part of teams that had it. So Scrum was doomed from the start. We also explore how these insights create a strong foundation for the Scrum framework.

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Scrum.org

MAY 20, 2019

The 2019 edition of Scrum Day India is happening on Saturday 20 July 2019, in Gurgaon (Delhi NCR). Sanjay Saini, owner of Agile WOW ("Agile Ways of Working"), kindly invited me, as an independent Scrum Caretaker, to open and close the event. Check out all Professional Scrum classes in India !

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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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Scrum.org

MARCH 22, 2021

Some time ago, someone on Reddit asked whether there would be any other profession that requires attending a 2-day training class and would then pay as well as a Scrum Master job. This attitude is precisely why the 47 Scrum Master Interview Guide exists: Prevent imposters from slipping through the hiring process and causing damage.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 17, 2020

TL; DR: Scrum Master Interview Questions (1). Scrum has proven time and again to be the most popular framework for software development. Given that software is eating the world , a seasoned Scrum Master is nowadays in high demand. Then sign up for the Food for Agile Thought newsletter and join 26k other subscribers.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

TL; DR: The Successful Scrum Master Meetup. 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.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

A very interesting (and sad) piece of news made headlines in Spain recently that provides some lessons about agile product development and incremental delivery. Agile teams face these problems all the time. Agile organizations accept that they don’t know everything. But I think the problem runs a little deeper than that.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 15, 2019

Last week, the biggest conference in the Agile industry took place in Washington DC at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center. We were proud to be a sponsor of this event and we were even more excited about catching up with friends—both old and new. Creating a Culture that Supports Agility w/ Rachel Howard.

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Scrum.org

JULY 23, 2023

“ Danach waren alle Augen der übrigen Scrum-Trainer-Kandidaten auf mich gerichtet. Diesen Montag im Juni 2019 in London, der Teil meiner Trainerausbildung zum Professional Scrum Trainer war, werde ich nie mehr vergessen. Als Scrum Master können wir niemanden zwingen, etwas zu tun. Nutze Emotionen.

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International Institute for Learning

APRIL 19, 2023

By Alan Zucker Disciplined Agile® (DA) and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) are two popular, second-generation agile methodologies. They build on lean-agile thinking, and standard Scrum, Kanban, and DevOps practices. They emerged about a decade after the Agile Manifesto.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 10, 2022

A Sprint is considered to be a mini-project within a Scrum project. However, many Agile practitioners do not follow this practice. In this article, we will take a scenario for Sprint in a Scrum project and follow the steps needed to close a Sprint Project. The Daily Scrum events are not all complete.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 19, 2019

In 2017 I was talking to the head of the Agile Coach Group of a large bank. The birth of spreadsheet Agile adoption. The result is what I call spreadsheet Agile Adoption and the approach usually goes like this: Step 1. Taylor inspired spreadsheet Agile adoption. The book is 528 pages long and contains 94 Scrum patterns.

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MPUG

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

While Scrum and Kanban are two frequently used, individual Lean-Agile frameworks, many management practitioners use Hybrid-Agile approaches. When a combination of predictive, iterative, incremental, and/or Agile approaches are applied to projects, we see what we call a “hybrid” approach. Our Scenario.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 20, 2020

Investing in agile would underpin this approach by introducing ways of working that reduce complexity, improve collaboration and bring the customer to the forefront of each decision. Reaching Agile Maturity Ahead of Plan. Company-wide agile awareness and engagement activities established a strong foundation for change.

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Gunther Verheyen

MAY 20, 2019

The 2019 edition of Scrum Day India is happening on Saturday 20 July 2019, in Gurgaon (Delhi NCR). Sanjay Saini, owner of Agile WOW (“Agile Ways of Working”), kindly invited me, as an independent Scrum Caretaker, to open and close the event.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Over the last years, I have spent some amount of time obtaining the highest of Agile Pokemon badges: the Professional Scrum Trainer. I already obtained my Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) certificate. The requirements for step one are as follows: 4+ years of experience as Scrum Master. Even if it was just a ripple.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

TL;DR: Agile Workspace Means Choice Among a Diversity of Spaces . If you want your organization to become agile, adding more whiteboards to the workspace will not suffice. The Agile Workspace: A Worthwhile Investment. Download the latest Gensler’s survey from 2019 for free. Agile Workspace Anti-Patterns.

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MPUG

MARCH 13, 2023

A Sprint is a mini-project within a larger Scrum project, and it’s usually timeboxed for two to four weeks. Agile/Scrum, after all, is all about change. In fact, one of the principles in the Agile manifesto states: Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. You have to add this column.

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Scrum.org

MAY 5, 2019

Scrum Masters are often understood mostly as “team coaches”. The Scrum Guide emphasizes that Scrum Masters are responsible for leading and coaching organisations in the adoption of Scrum and causing change that increases the productivity of the Scrum Team. No role that came before does what Scrum Masters do.

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Gunther Verheyen

DECEMBER 11, 2019

During the fall of 2019, I got totally consumed (and sometimes drained and overwhelmed) by an exciting new Scrum book project. O’Reilly Media envisioned adding a book about Scrum to their “97 Things” series and got in touch with me (through Dave West of Scrum.org). Events, not meetings.” holds 8 essays.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. From our own quantitative research with 1.200 Scrum Teams , we know that teams are more effective when they are more aware of the needs of their stakeholders. This post is part of our “in-depth” series.

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MPUG

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Two frequently and widely used charts in projects using Agile frameworks are the Burndown and Burnup Charts. These charts are important because, in Agile approaches, emphasis is on getting the work done and having working increments in every iteration or a timebox as much as possible. Scrum Project Scenario.

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Henny Portman

MARCH 1, 2020

Scream is a framework built as an imitation of Scrum, giving unwitting observers the appearance that the organization might be using Scrum. After detailed descriptions of the roles, events, artifacts and rules you get a list of supporting practices. Conclusion: Scream isn’t a new tree in the agile forest.

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Gunther Verheyen

APRIL 1, 2021

If you happen to have attended one of the many online events I have been in last year, you know how important the above quote is for me. In my case, it largely boiled down to further increasing my independence as a Scrum Caretaker. Gunther independent Scrum Caretaker. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Dear reader.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 29, 2020

Last week, 30-plus attendees of the 24th Hands-on Agile meetup ran a virtual Barcamp experiment w/ MIT’s Unhangout, an open-source platform for organizing attendee-driven virtual open space events. Join the 25th Hands-on Agile meetup on August 20, 2020, to explore the virtual Ecocycle Planning. Open Space Technology.

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Agilemania

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Scrum Master is a job rising in demand in the last decade. The search term ‘Scrum Master jobs’ grew in popularity by 37% in the last 5 years. Validating this fact is Glassdoor’s 50 Best Jobs of 2021 , where Scrum Master is ranked at 40 and received a job satisfaction rating of 4.0. . Who is a Scrum Master? Scrum Team.

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Gunther Verheyen

DECEMBER 26, 2023

My work as an independent Scrum Caretaker via my one-person company Ullizee-Inc is the sole source of money for our family. Scrum is what I do for a living. Scrum is what I’ve been practicing for the past 20+ years. I’ve noticed how the term “Scrum Caretaker” resonates with people across the planet.

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Scrum.org

JULY 25, 2020

In May 2019, I spoke at the Agile Manchester conference, where I presented my talk "The Product Owner's Toolbox". This was important for the group AND this is why in Scrum we have some many opportunities to Inspect, Adapt and be Transparent - the 3 pillars of Empiricism. Are we buliding the right thing" .

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Scrum.org

APRIL 21, 2020

Like many Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches and Agile Managers, I am beginning to understand organizations are complex adaptive systems. This overview was created at the 2019 WPI systems academic seminar: “What is Systems Thinking?”. Let’s look at a Scrum example. Image by D.

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Gunther Verheyen

DECEMBER 19, 2018

In 2013 I accidentally created a book, “Scrum – A Pocket Guide” In 2018 I deliberately evolved my Scrum travel companion into a second edition. I am humbled over the many unanticipated consequences of the accidental creation of my pocket guide to Scrum. In July 2016 they were added to the Scrum Guide.

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Henny Portman

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Friday September 13, I was one of the 40 participants of the second Agile NXT Future Friday conference organized by Xebia in Hilversum, the Netherlands. It was, similar as the first AGILE NXT Future Friday, perfectly organized, interesting topics, great food, and enough time to network. The Responsive Organization.

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Agilemania

MARCH 6, 2023

Agilemania is a dedicated team of passionate professionals focused on consulting organizations in transforming businesses with digital and Agile. Agilemania as a platform evolves out of the passion for agile and the training of the founding members for whom customer satisfaction is paramount. This reflects in our training too.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Settle in, make yourself a brew and enjoy learning from people who actually live scrum day in day out. . This second post in the ‘Agile ADHD’ series from me, Sally Waters, and my husband Francis, is all about the details of how we implement Scrum at home. Nothing helped with this until we tried Scrum. Steve Trapps.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 7, 2019

Would you like to make 2019 a successful year for your projects? I asked people two questions: What should people managing projects be aware of as we go into 2019 to make 2019 their most successful year ever? What will you be doing in 2019 to have your most successful year ever? I’m sure you do. So I made you an ebook.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 3, 2018

It’s a lot to read, so here are some spoilers drawn from common themes I heard time and time again in the interviews: Agile – if you don’t know enough about it, you need to start learning. In 2018, it might seem like we could let our increasingly agile, multi-disciplinary, and highly collaborative teams just get on with it.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2019

On October 7th, 2019 LeadingAgile will hold its first-ever conference—Elevate Agile. In this episode of SoundNotes, LeadingAgile CEO and Founder, Mike Cottmeyer explains why Elevate Agile exists and how we hope it will shape the conversation around business and organizational Agility moving forward. LinkedIn: [link].

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Leading Agile

JUNE 17, 2019

Her work includes interfacing with the leaders of high profile organizations and pairing with them in order to help Transform their organization to achieve true Business Agility. She’s also someone who believes in giving back to the Agile community. For information on Volunteering for the Scrum Alliance: [link].

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