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. ??

ChatGPT 193

ChatGPT Generative AI SCRUM Agile 193

Scrum.org

MARCH 17, 2020

TL; DR: Remote Agile, Part 1: Practices & Tools for Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, and Product Owners. 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. Moreover, admittedly, I love index cards.

Agile 242

Agile SCRUM Lean Energy 242

Scrum.org

JUNE 26, 2023

TL; DR: Useless Agile Metrics Ideally, a metric is a leading indicator for a pattern change, allowing your Scrum team to analyze the cause in time and take countermeasures. What if these useless agile metrics lead you in the wrong direction while providing you with the illusion that you know where your team is heading?

Agile 188

Agile Software Review 2021 Estimate 188

Scrum.org

JANUARY 31, 2024

The Scrum.org Professional Scrum with User Experience I (PSU I) assessment is a 60-minute timeboxed assessment. Here are some tips on taking (and passing) the Scrum.org Professional Scrum with User Experience I (PSU I) assessment and gaining certification: Ideally, attend a Scrum.org Professional Scrum With User Experience course.

SCRUM 170

SCRUM Lean Certification Agile 170

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.

SCRUM 176

SCRUM Lean 2023 Agile 176

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

TL; DR: The Scrum Guide Reordered. The Scrum Guide Reordered 2020 is based on about 95 percent of the text of the Scrum Guide 2020, extending its original structure by adding additional categories, for example, on self-management, commitments, or accountability. The Origin of the Scrum Guide Reordered. Scaling Scrum.

2020 199

2020 SCRUM Lean Certification 199

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.

SCRUM 232

SCRUM Technical Review Software Review Agile 232

Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

In Kürze: Die 4 Elemente der Scrum Empirie. In seinem Theorieteil verweist der Scrum Guide auf die drei Elemente der Scrum Empirie: Transparenz, Inspektion und Adaption. Ein viertes Element, das die Grundlage für die Empirie bildet, ist jedoch in einem Satz über die Scrum-Werte versteckt. Die Theorie der Scrum Empirie.

SCRUM 181

SCRUM 2020 Cadence Lean 181

Scrum.org

JULY 26, 2023

In Kürze: Produktentdeckung für Scrum Teams Scrum eignet sich zwar hervorragend zum Erstellen und Releasen von Inkrementen, aber es ist keine Garantie dafür, dass diese wertvoll sind. Scrum-Teams können auch Dinge entwickeln, an denen niemand interessiert ist. Professional Scrum Master Schulung mit PSM I Zertifikat — 5.

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SCRUM Lean Innovation 2020 135

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.

Agile 208

Agile Lean SCRUM Closing 208

Planview

JULY 9, 2019

This blog is part of a series on Lean portfolio management for the enterprise. If you haven’t already, we recommend reading: Part 1: What is Lean Portfolio Management? Part 2: Lean Portfolio Management: Lean Budgets and Investment Funding. Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE). Support program execution.

Lean 74

Lean Agile PMO Engineering 74

Scrum.org

MARCH 1, 2021

TL; DR: Download the Scrum Guide 2020 Reordered Audiobook. Like the Scrum Guide 2020 Reordered, its audiobook version is based on about 95 percent of the text of the Scrum Guide 2020, extending its original structure by adding additional categories, for example, on self-management, commitments, or accountability.

2020 132

2020 SCRUM 2021 Lean 132

Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

In its theory section, the Scrum Guide refers to the three elements of empiricism: transparency, inspection, and adaptation. However, a fourth element, foundational to enable empiricism, is hidden in a sentence on Scrum Values. Read on and learn more about the complete picture of Scrum’s empiricism. ???? Empiricism.

2020 203

2020 2022 SCRUM Cadence 203

Scrum.org

MARCH 24, 2020

TL; DR: Remote Agile (Part 2): Virtual Liberating Structures. Last week, we addressed basic practices and tools of remote agile with distributed teams. LS for Scrum. More than a year ago, my Berlin Hands-on Agile meetup started exploring the possibilities to use Liberating Structures specifically in the context of Scrum.

Agile 170

Agile Consulting SCRUM Lean 170

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

In vielen großen Unternehmen geraten Scrum-Teams in die „Feature Factory“-Falle und konzentrieren sich mehr auf die Produktion von Funktionen als auf die Schaffung echter Werte. Schade, dass diese Entwicklung agile Prinzipien untergräbt und den langfristigen Erfolg und die Innovation gefährdet. Erfahren Sie wie!

Innovation 163

Innovation SCRUM Lean 2024 163

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

TL; DR: The Illusion of Velocity In this article, I explore the pitfalls of ‘The Illusion of Velocity’ in agile contexts, peeling back the layers of traditional metrics as leadership tools. Preorder the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now for delivery in January 2024! ?️

Leadership 178

Leadership Underperforming Technical Team 2007 Agile 178

Techno-PM

OCTOBER 17, 2022

What is Lean Project Management? Lean project management is a type of project management that is based on the principles of lean manufacturing. Lean manufacturing is a type of manufacturing that is focused on eliminating waste in all aspects of the manufacturing process. Download Project Management Templates !

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Lean Manufacturing SCRUM Agile 36

Growing Agile

JUNE 15, 2017

This assessment is for you to take to see where you are on your journey to becoming an agile coach. We have broken the large topic of being an Agile Coach into 5 main areas. The topics below are just examples and by no means a definitive list, since the world of agile coaching is large. Everyone is in a different place.

Agile 105

Agile Technical Review Lean SCRUM 105

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Preorder the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now for delivery in January 2024! ?️ Exclusively on my Substack Newsletter: Developer Anti-Patterns — An Excerpt from the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide (3). ? Join 575-plus peers and help create the next edition of the Scrum Master Salary Report ! Harvard Business Review.

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Underperforming Technical Team 2007 SCRUM Agile 157

Scrum.org

JANUARY 13, 2020

TL; DR: Product Mindset and OWnership in Scrum Teams. How is that supposed to scale, you might ask, isn’t that approach turning the Product Owner into the Scrum team’s bottleneck, impeding value creation rather than spearheading it? Well, cargo cult Scrum might end up in that dead-end. What Do We Know about our Customers? .

SCRUM 148

SCRUM Lean Closing Sustainability 148

Agilemania

JANUARY 19, 2022

If you aspire to become an Agile Coach and then need to lead the SAFe implementation in your organization, becoming a SAFe Program Consultant is the right choice. Gather the Study Content: The first step is to go to the Scaled Agile Community website and download the workbook from the Learn > My Learning section.

Certification 98

Certification Lean Technical Review Consulting 98

Digite

JANUARY 7, 2018

Several good books have been written on Kanban and its application to various business processes, especially to Scrum, since David Anderson published his original Kanban “blue book”. 31 pages, ET to read: 50 min, Published July 19th, 2012 by Lean-Kanban University). Scrumban and Other Essays on Kanban Systems for Lean Software Dev.

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Lean Software Review 2010 2014 79

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Agile transformation is a highly contextual journey. Growing Team-Level Autonomy For many organizations we know, "agile transformation" means creating "agile teams". This dimension is closely related to what Scrum calls the "Definition of Done" and the DevOps call techniques of "Continuous Delivery".

Innovation 177

Innovation Lean Agile Consulting 177

Agilemania

MAY 21, 2021

Scaled Agile provides well-thought-through and comprehensive training material for all its courses and also sets a high bar around the assessment. Do spend time on concepts like Lean-Agile mind-set, the core values, and principles of SAFe as well. Take time and explore further the topics that you are not comfortable with.

Lean 98

Lean Certification SCRUM Agile 98

Agilemania

MAY 21, 2021

Scaled Agile provides well-thought-through and comprehensive training material for all its courses and also sets a high bar around the assessment. Do spend time on concepts like Lean-Agile mind-set, the core values, and principles of SAFe as well. Take time and explore further the topics that you are not comfortable with.

Lean 95

Lean Certification SCRUM Agile 95

Henny Portman

JULY 26, 2020

Levine wrote with People Over Process – Leadership for Agility a very pragmatic and down to earth book about leadership and agile projects. The classic formulation of agile in the Agile Manifesto has no role for leadership. To download: QRC (Leadership for agility, 200725) v1.0.

Software Review 93

Software Review Process Lean Leadership 93

Scrum.org

APRIL 28, 2022

Das Sprint Planning ist ein zentrales Scrum-Ereignis, welches entscheidet, wie sich das Leben Ihrer Kunden mit dem nächsten Inkrement verbessern wird. Sie können sich hier für den Newsletter „Food for Agile Thought“ anmelden und sich über 35.000 Abonnenten anschließen. ?? In Kürze: 20 Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns. Nehmen Sie am 30.

SCRUM 172

SCRUM 2020 Planning Agile 172

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Scrum has proven to be an effective product delivery framework for all sorts of products. However, Scrum is equally well suited to build the wrong product efficiently as its Achilles heel has always been the product discovery part. How that is supposed to happen is nowhere described in the Scrum Guide. Think of “MVP.”).

Software Review 148

Software Review Technical Review Cadence SCRUM 148

Agilemania

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

You can download the apps on your computer or phone and they’ll install automatically when you sign into your G Suite account. Kanban Tool is a good way to get started with agile development. Multiple projects can be managed using this web-based agile project management tool. Scrum Master. Certified Agile Coaching.

2022 98

2022 Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Lean 98

Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This year’s RICS project management conference has the theme ‘Remaining Lean and Agile in a Changing Work Environment’ I’m not sure if they are partnering with the APM as in previous years but the agenda is already up on the site and looks interesting. Agile and Beyond: Yspilanti, Michigan, USA, 17-18 May 2018.

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2018 PMO 2016 PMI 234

Scrum.org

MAY 5, 2022

Keine andere Rolle in Scrum kann so sehr zu mittelmäßigen Ergebnissen beitragen wie der Product Owner — Garbage in, Garbage out. Wenn Sie also einige Anti-Muster in Ihrer täglichen Arbeit erkennen, warum bitten Sie dann nicht den Rest des Scrum-Teams um Unterstützung? Die Rolle des Product Owners nach dem Scrum-Guide.

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SCRUM Technical Review Software Review 2020 173

Scrum.org

JANUARY 26, 2020

This is quite a long read which you can download as the whitepaper "Systems Thinking in Organizational Coaching". This paper is geared toward Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, and change agents that work with large change initiatives. Misunderstanding of the Scrum Master Role. Dependence on the Scrum Master.

2006 231

2006 Underperforming Technical Team Consulting SCRUM 231

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.

2018 300

2018 Artificial Inteligence Consulting Underperforming Technical Team 300

LiquidPlanner

MAY 11, 2017

To learn more about the challenges facing manufacturers today, download the free 2017 State of Project Management in Manufacturing report here. Waterfall, agile, scrum, critical path—there’s a wide range of project management methodologies, and they’re rarely one size fits all. As we move into Industry 4.0, in this eBook.

Manufacturing 111

Manufacturing 2017 Lean Engineering 111

ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

Agile A methodology for project and product management, typically used to deliver software projects in an iterative way with short bursts of work called “sprints” Though initially designed as a process for IT and engineering projects, it has since been successfully applied to other industries like marketing.

Software Review 393

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Lean Event Chain 393

Leading Answers

MARCH 3, 2020

Meanwhile, in 1960, Tom Gilb described his Evolutionary Value Delivery approach (or Evo for short) that is widely accepted to be a forerunner of agile approaches. These ideas became the concepts embodied in backlogs by today’s agile approaches and frameworks.   Visualizing work is a major component of lean thinking.

Aerospace 125

Aerospace PMI Agile Defining 125

Gunther Verheyen

JULY 25, 2018

At the Scrum Day Germany 2018 edition (12 June) Cornelius Dufft shared his appreciation of my book “ Scrum – A Pocket Guide ” with me. I am grateful that Cornelius agreed to make his summary/review available here as a downloadable PDF. Gunther is an authority in the area of Scrum. Warm regards.

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SCRUM 2018 Lean Agile 41