Scrum.org

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. Components of MINDSPACE - Messenger : We are heavily influenced by who communicates information.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Power skills include: Communication (written and verbal) Listening Stakeholder engagement Conflict management Negotiation Influencing Leadership Team building Change management. Then you can tailor your application to mention agile approaches, predictive or hybrid ways of working.

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

If you want to be successful at Agile Transformation —especially at scale—you’ll need more than Agile Coaches teaching your teams the ceremonies of Scrum or how to do SAFe and LeSS. To be successful, your company will need an array of people to take on various Agile roles and responsibilities. Agile Coach’s Responsibility.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Perhaps these individuals are influencing you through a blog, online videos, online courses, or books. Grab a cup of coffee as I share seven influencers that I follow. His passions are Agile, project management methodologies, and PMOs. I am grateful for these leaders and their influence in the world of project management.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 22, 2024

The job market is currently challenging for many agile practitioners, particularly Scrum Masters. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 49,000-plus subscribers. Exciting news for Agile enthusiasts! a game-changer in the world of Agile. Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 19, 2022

What is the business case for Agile teams? We think we do well to base our beliefs about Agile more on evidence. This post is our attempt to bring an evidence-based perspective to the business case of Agile teams. Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 19, 2021

They include: Communication (written and verbal) Listening Stakeholder engagement Conflict management Negotiation Influencing Leadership Team building Change management. Then you can tailor your application to mention agile approaches, predictive or hybrid ways of working. Hard skills. Describe your project management skills.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Is an Agile Transformation Coach any different than being an Agile Coach? When most people think about Agile Coaches, they tend to think about a person who comes in and assists the teams with things like: Learning Scrum, SAFe, LeSS. If that’s your definition of an Agile Transformation Coach, you’d be right—but only partially.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 31, 2024

I previously wrote about 5 ways productivity culture kills business agility. This is a key skill that helps us influence change and create greater impact that is in alignment with our intentions. And this is because our own individual choice is where our power to influence and create change starts. Where do we go from here?

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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. The Sprint Review is an opportunity for inspecting both and providing feedback that will then be considered and perhaps reflect in the Product Backlog, influencing future work.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

It’s too bad that this shift undermines Agile principles and hampers long-term success and innovation. This approach stifles agility and innovation, leading to a feature factory mindset that focuses on executing predefined plans rather than adapting to change.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Join us as we dissect this pivotal triad and its influence on project success. In Agile Product Management, the triad (often compared to a 3-legged stool)refers to the integral relationship between the Product Goal, stakeholders, and the Product Backlog. Recognizing and leveraging their expertise is not just an Agile best practice.

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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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Lynne Cazaly

JULY 6, 2023

I'm coming for you, New Zealand It's exciting to be planning a return visit to Wellington, New Zealand (August 14 - 18, 2023) for some live in-person workshops! Use the 10 change tools I'll share and demonstrate in the workshop to better engage, lead and impact in change and transformation. It's been a while, pre-pandemic, you know!

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Agilemania

JANUARY 24, 2022

What is Scaling in Agile? Agile is a set of values and principles. Agile is an umbrella term for a group of iterative product development frameworks. Most organizations started their Agile journey with one of the frameworks mentioned above, and Scrum is the most popular one. Scaling Agile Frameworks. What is SAFe?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Retrospective Antipatterns is a great book for those in agile project management – especially if you’ve read all the classics. Making Risk Management Work is a slim read but it’s full of tips for how to run effective risk management workshops. It will teach you how to influence others, even when you are not directly managing them.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

In the previous article, Agile Transformation – Success Factors part 1 , there was a strong focus on key levels that should be taken first into consideration. Agile Transformation efforts might be difficult. For instance: They create the agile transformation vision and act accordingly. They foster a positive, agile culture.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

TL; DR: Agile Management Anti-Patterns. Learn more about agile management anti-patterns the aspiring servant leader should avoid during the organization’s transition: From applying the Stage-Gate® approach through the back door to the ‘where is my report’ attitude to other beloved signs of applied Taylorism.

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Scrum.org

JULY 14, 2021

How can Scrum Masters and Agile coaches support this through exercises and workshops? For example, perhaps the number of plants in the team room has a microscopic influence on their effectiveness. The only contextual factor that seemed to have a small (positive) influence was the experience of Scrum teams.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 24, 2022

Think about how you are going to run remote team meetings and workshops – it is different to holding meetings face-to-face. Change Management Workshop. $79. Take a change management class (like my fab workshop which has loads of templates and support resources included). Are you waterfall or Agile ? What you can do.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 12, 2018

” The conference will look at how the profession is delivering value in a transforming world and transitioning from a position of facilitation to influence. The focus will be taking Agile to the next level in your organization. There is a good mix of presentations, hands-on workshops and coaching. July to September 2019.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Stick with what you can influence: you know broadly what the objectives and goals are. If you work in an agile team , this happens through backlog grooming and sprint planning. I know you can’t always do this, as we’ve said above, and in agile projects, it’s almost a badge of honor not to have all the requirements at the beginning.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 26, 2021

Leaders and managers are critical enablers in helping their organizations be successful, yet the role of leaders and managers in an agile organization can be quite different from what they are used to. The workshop provides a foundation for the role that leaders play in creating the conditions for a successful agile transformation.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Beyond the obvious technological adoption, it demands a comprehensive rethink of processes and strategies to foster innovation and agility. Stay agile by routinely revisiting your data, evaluating the impact of previous decisions, and fine-tuning your approach. Otherwise, it can remain an elusive dream.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Learn from Daniel Stillman how designing powerful questions helps you coach, create, connect, and lead from the 35th Hands-on Agile meetup of October 5, 2021. ?? Watch the video with Daniel Stillman now: Hands-on Agile #35: Designing Powerful Questions to help you Coach, Create, Connect and Lead. ?? Learn About Daniel Stillman.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

He’s known from the various books he wrote: “ Agile Product Management With Scrum ”, “ Strategize ”, and “ How To Lead In Product Management ”, and the many tools he created, like the Product Vision Board, Product Management Framework, and the Product- and Sprint Goal templates. Other DIY workshops to consider are….

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Scrum.org

MAY 8, 2023

Product Owners own Product at the Agile Team level. Product Managers own Product at the teams of agile teams level (Agile Release Trains). SAFe takes the perspective of learning from experience in the trenches and what patterns organizations are using and applying lean/agile principles as needed to help organizations evolve.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 5, 2022

To me, it seems that this kind of polarizing discourse is exactly what drives so many teams and organizations away from Scrum and Agile. This often happens when teams cannot influence impediments or don't know how to do so, and their well-intentioned improvements remain superficial. Don’t you do the same with Zombie Scrum?”.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 14, 2023

Successful Scrum Masters continuously find ways to improve their practice to have greater influence and impact on their teams and organizations. By embracing continuous learning as Scrum Masters, we gather empirical data we can use to increase our influence and impact. That’s a missed opportunity. Longing to have more impact?

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Agile working agreement is a crucial component of successful teamwork in the realm of project management. Additionally, we will provide actionable steps to create, maintain, and measure the impact of an agile working agreement. Maintaining and Updating Your Agile Working Agreement An agile working agreement is not a static document.

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Agile Coach

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

I didn’t renew my contract many months later because I couldn’t see any evidence that this organization was interested in being Agile. Well, I was the Agile Consultant. I was hired because there was a smattering of agile-y stuff on my Monster profile, and my CSM designation was some sort of proof I had a clue.

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Scrum.org

MAY 26, 2020

TL; DR: The Agile Movers & Shakers Interview w/ Christiaan Verwijs & Barry Overeem. If so, you can subscribe here and join 26k agile peers. The Agile Movers & Shakers Interview with The Liberators Christiaan Verwijs & Barry Overeem. What brought you to ‘agile?’. From there, a lot of what we call “Agile” makes much sense.

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MPUG

MARCH 18, 2021

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Jeff Bongiovani’s session, SIPOC Workshop Facilitation – Part 1, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Welcome to part one of MPUGs training course, SIPOC Workshop Facilitation. Workshops, ask questions, drive towards something better.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The design and agility of these teams enables them to respond quickly to evolving market situations, while improving employee engagement and effectiveness. The best practice is to run multiple workshops where leaders and several different team members collaborate to craft a direction. Watch ‘ Agile Leadership Nutshell ’.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 28, 2022

So how do we influence change while supporting the people making the changes? The ones implementing the change—leaders, influencers, or stakeholders— need to have a vision or a hypothesis for the change when it’s complete. Engage the leaders and influencers to align them to why we want to make the change and what it will look like.

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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. It is no surprise that the researchers conclude that “Product Owners perform a wide range of challenging activities which require experience and high-status in order to be able to exert influence”. When agile meets the enterprise.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Transparency is critical for agility, but often the power of transparency is challenged by long-hold cultural norms. I was helping an organisation adopt agile ways of working across six teams. We held a series of workshops to upskill everyone and had kicked off strongly. Situation. We had started well.

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