Scrum.org

APRIL 1, 2022

Long has spoonfeeding solutions and off-the-shelf feature descriptions prevailed in many development teams. Although some issues might have been fixed, I rarely see the full potential of a Scrum Team being achieved. Agility is necessary for survival. We seek out frameworks in the hope of solving our issues.

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Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Innovation Leadership 213

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 31, 2022

According to the Scrum guide, Scrum teams typically have 10 or fewer people, including Developers, Scrum Master and Product Owner. But what happens with a Scrum team that includes more than 10 people? What if the Scrum team has 10, 15 even more people? Some people check out. .

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

In the fast-paced world of software development, agility and efficiency are paramount. This is where Scrum, an agile framework, comes into play. Within Scrum teams, the role of a Product Owner is pivotal. In this article, we'll explore these crucial areas for a Scrum Product Owner's success.

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SCRUM Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team Certification 155

Scrum.org

AUGUST 11, 2021

Of late, I've been noticing an interpretation of the Scrum Master role - the Scrum Master as An FFFCDO for Developers - a Fierce, Ferocious, Fearsome Chief Defense Officer! What is the Scrum Master protecting the Developers from? Who are the persecutors the Scrum Master protecting the Developers from?

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Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Leadership Energy 225

Scrum.org

JULY 5, 2022

During the first year of the pandemic, Scrum adoption more than doubled for software development teams. According to the 15th Annual State of Agile Report, the use of agile approaches for software development grew from 37% in 2020 to 86% in 2021. Transparency. The Product Backlog. The Sprint Backlog.

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Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Software Review Development Team Review 188

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. ??

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ChatGPT Generative AI SCRUM Agile 179

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Join the Mastering Agility Discord community. Long has spoon-feeding solutions and off-the-shelf feature descriptions prevailed in many development teams. Although some issues might have been fixed, I rarely see the full potential of a Scrum Team being achieved. Agility is necessary for survival.

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Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Innovation Leadership 165

Scrum.org

JUNE 1, 2023

Embracing self-management can be challenging for teams transitioning to Scrum. Taking direction from a manager or team leader is easier in some ways—just do what you’re told to do. Most often, though, teams moving to self-management find it infinitely more satisfying. They are also more successful. Let’s look at how.

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Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM 2023 Sustainability 160

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 17, 2022

TL; DR: Scrum Master Interview (6): Demand Creates Supply and the Job Market for Agile Practitioners is No Exception. 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.

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SCRUM Planning Underperforming Technical Team Agile 199

Scrum.org

MARCH 14, 2022

Scrum is simple, but that simplicity means that each of its elements is essential. Teams that mess with the framework are messing with Scrum. Teams that make changes to the elements limit Scrum's effectiveness and aren't really using Scrum. . The team struggled to deliver a Done Increment each Sprint. .

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SCRUM Underperforming Technical Team 2020 Defining 188

Scrum.org

AUGUST 3, 2020

Does your team struggle to get items to Done? Do they experience a high amount of spill-over into the next cycle because they are waiting on another team or another person? Do items sit in a blocked state and age out while waiting on other teams or people to complete work? Dependencies are an epidemic in software development.

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Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review Development Team Review 235

Scrum.org

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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ChatGPT SCRUM Artificial Inteligence Agile 150

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

According to the 2020 Scrum Guide, Scrum teams are “self-managing, meaning they internally decide who does what, when, and how.” The most empowered Scrum teams in my experience not only decide who does what, when and how, they also control the structure and organization of the Scrum team itself. .

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 9, 2023

TL; DR: Can We Or Should We Change Scrum? Can we or should we change Scrum, or is it a sacrilege to tweak the ‘immutable’ framework to accommodate our teams’ and organizations’ needs? Not so fast; don’t just dismiss augmenting Scrum as leaving the path, contributing to the numerous Scrumbut mutations, giving Scrum a bad name.

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SCRUM Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team 146

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. ?? Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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ChatGPT SCRUM Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 219

Scrum.org

JANUARY 18, 2022

Every Scrum Team, at some point, will struggle with how to facilitate the Daily Scrum. It's the Daily Scrum, not the "stand-up.". It's a collaborative working session where the Developers on a Scrum Team update their work and plan to progress towards their Sprint Goal over the next 24 hours.

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Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM 2020 Executing 207

Scrum.org

JANUARY 17, 2023

TL; DR: ChatGPT Prompts for Scrum Practitioners. Last week, I ran an “interview” with ChatGPT as an applicant for a fictitious Scrum Master position based on questions from Scrum Master Interview Guide. Zur deutschsprachigen Version des Artikels: ChatGPT-Prompts für Scrum Master, Product Owner und Entwickler. ?

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ChatGPT Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Technical Review 169

Scrum.org

JANUARY 29, 2024

( Japanese version・日本語版 ) When picturing an effective and truly agile product development team, one often imagines a software development team, pushing some software to production every day, maybe multiple times a day, ala Amazon. In other words: “have we built the right thing?”.

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Agile Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review 172

Scrum.org

JULY 31, 2023

TL; DR: Scrum Anti-Patterns Taxonomy As the editing process of the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide is nearing its end, it is time to take the next step. The brand new Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide offers 180-plus anti-patterns organized by roles, events, artifacts, and commitments. That is helpful for any Scrum practitioner.

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SCRUM Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 2023 149

Scrum.org

JUNE 6, 2022

When people ask me the best way for their team to transition to Scrum, I have to tell them that there isn’t an easy answer because every organization is unique. Keeping that in mind, here are some general steps to consider if implementing Scrum is on your horizon. . Is Scrum the right fit for your business problem?

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SCRUM Underperforming Technical Team Defining Agile 230

Scrum.org

JUNE 6, 2022

TL; DR: Scrum Stakeholder Anti-Patterns. Learn how individual incentives and outdated organizational structures — fostering personal agendas and local optimization efforts — manifest themselves in Scrum stakeholder anti-patterns that easily impede any agile transformation to a product-led organization. ????

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SCRUM Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Agile 198

Scrum.org

JUNE 5, 2023

Create Scrum Master Interview Questions? Previously, I tested how ChatGPT would answer questions from the Scrum Master Interview Guide; see below. Back in January 2023, I would not have taken the next step in the Scrum Master interview process, inviting ChatGPT to a full-size interview with several Scrum team members.

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ChatGPT SCRUM Underperforming Technical Team Artificial Inteligence 129

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.

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Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Lean Event Chain 393

Scrum.org

MAY 10, 2022

Fourth blog, in a blog series about the upcoming book: Creating Agile Organizations - A Systemic Approach, by Cesario Ramos & Ilia Pavlichenko. It is not a sign that a team or a particular department lacks courage or abilities. Also, it is not necessarily a sign that a particular framework or method is bad.

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Technical Review Agile Software Review Underperforming Technical Team 191

Scrum.org

JULY 18, 2023

This article describes an A-type ecosystem for (software) product development, the prevalent dynamics in it, and the solutions to improve performance using Org Topologies™ mapping. At the A-level, as per the Org Topologies™ map, the work is done by the teams at the Feature level. These teams work with Scrum.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Agile Transportation 148

Scrum.org

APRIL 18, 2022

TL; DR: Scrum Master Anti-Patterns — 20 Signs Your Scrum Master Needs Help. The reasons Scrum Masters violate the spirit of the Scrum Guide are multi-faceted. Typical Scrum Master anti-patterns run from ill-suited personal traits to complacency to pursuing individual agendas to frustration with the team itself.

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SCRUM Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Agile 199

Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

TL; DR: Scrum Master Interview Questions on Scrum Anti-Patterns. 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. Which makes any Scrum Master interview a challenging task.

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SCRUM Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review 2020 203

Project Bliss

JULY 26, 2020

A scrum master servant leader can lead his team to greatness with this advice from Geoff Watts’s wonderful book Scrum Mastery. Please see the Editor’s note below regarding the variation in spelling of the term Scrum Master. Scrum’s framework is easy to understand but hard to master.

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Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Influencer 2009 156

Scrum.org

APRIL 5, 2022

I’ve been part of the Scrum community for about 12 years. In this period, I’ve noticed a clear pattern in the majority of Scrum-related threads on social media like LinkedIn, Medium, Twitter, and so on. As a community, we excel at putting our fingers on the sore spots of what teams and organizations do wrong.

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SCRUM Underperforming Technical Team Influencer Closing 205

Scrum.org

MAY 16, 2022

Hence, learn more about 21 common Sprint Retrospective anti-patterns that will hold back your Scrum team. ???? You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 35,000-plus subscribers. ?? Join Stefan in one of his upcoming Professional Scrum training classes ! Source : Scrum Guide 2020.

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SCRUM 2022 Underperforming Technical Team Agile 181

Scrum.org

JULY 17, 2023

Agile has become more than just a buzzword in our complex world. Agility is a mindset, a skillset, a culture, and a driving force behind successful, flexible, and responsive organisations. The Agile Leader's commitment goes beyond mere lip service to the Agile Manifesto. In the Agile world, this couldn't be truer.

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Agile Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Leadership 126

Scrum.org

JANUARY 30, 2023

TL; DR: Agile Transformation with ChatGPT or McBoston? I was interested in learning more about a typical daily challenge many agile practitioners face: How shall we successfully pursue an agile transformation? Or shall we embark on an agile transformation with ChatGPT providing some guidance?

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ChatGPT Agile Artificial Inteligence Consulting 185

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

In my Professional Scrum Training and coaching sessions with teams, I’m often asked about how to navigate organizations’ centralized planification. We will discover what they are, how they support Scrum teams to better achieve their goals, and why this is a game changer. . How do DAOs support Scrum Teams?

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Agile Underperforming Technical Team 2011 SCRUM 218

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Are there any boundaries to where a transparency created by a Scrum Master should not reach? When looking at Scrum pillars, we clearly see: transparency, inspection and adaptation as core beliefs on which Scrum stands. A Scrum Master works with the Scrum Team for some time. Let’s see what will happen.

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SCRUM Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Agile 163

Scrum.org

AUGUST 24, 2023

Nobody is perfect on Day 1 Coaching teams is like nurturing a garden. Just as you can't expect a barren land to blossom into a lush paradise with a single gesture, you can't transform a team's dynamics and practices in one sweeping motion. It can be intimidating, and the team wasn’t ready for it.

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Underperforming Technical Team 2023 SCRUM Executing 162

Scrum.org

MAY 3, 2021

Agile frameworks such as Scrum have continued to gain traction because of their ability to vastly improve business outcomes and employee engagement. Scrum is a lightweight framework that helps people, teams, and organizations generate value through adaptive solutions for complex problems. Private vs. public class.

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SCRUM Underperforming Technical Team 2015 Governance 194

Scrum.org

APRIL 29, 2022

Do you start a new Scrum team by explaining the roles, artifacts, and events? Do you rarely consider how to build coalitions and persuade people in power to support your work with Scrum? Are you thinking about the psychological needs of people and how to motivate them to work with Scrum? I think this is problematic.

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