Scrum.org

OCTOBER 3, 2023

What are the 5 events in Scrum? Chances are that you said something like “Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, and…. The Sprint is the most commonly overlooked event in Scrum. In fact, many people don’t even realize that it is an event in Scrum. Can you name them?

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

When used with Scrum and the value-based metrics of the Evidence Based Management (EBM) framework, the ability for the enterprise to inspect and adapt its initiatives in order to meet the challenges of disruptive change increases both the relevance and outcomes driven by OKRs supported by Scrum's empiricism. .

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Scrum.org

APRIL 24, 2024

One of the first things that people new to Scrum learn about is the five events. The five events in Scrum are 1) the Sprint, 2) Sprint Planning 3) Daily Scrum, 4) Sprint Review and 5) the Sprint Retrospective. When people first start learning about Scrum, it can seem like Scrum requires many meetings.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

SAFe includes Scrum - so how come many Scrum practitioners and thought leaders consider it unsafe? It takes advantage of established frameworks and techniques that work well - Scrum being the first and foremost of those. SAFe's Scrum Master is more of an Agile Team Lead. I hear a lot of questions and claims.

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Scrum.org

MAY 25, 2024

Kanban and Scrum are two powerful methods/frameworks in the Agile world, each offering distinct benefits for managing work and delivering value. Before diving into Kanban, ensuring that your Scrum foundation is solid is crucial. Before diving into Kanban, ensuring that your Scrum foundation is solid is crucial.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Scrum is the most popular Agile framework. According to the latest State of Agile survey from Digital.ai, 90% of teams who are using an Agile framework are using Scrum. I like to think that this is because Scrum is a goldilocks framework … with just enough - but not too much - structure. That is the power of Scrum.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 22, 2024

How to Communicate the Value of Agile to Executives Instead of emphasizing the team-level aspects of Agile like Scrum, standups, retrospectives, Kanban boards, and burndown charts, focus on how Agile practices can improve predictability, reduce risks, lower cost, and enhance the company’s ability to respond to market changes.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Figuring out the right Cadence . It’s all about finding the “goldilocks” cadence that provides frequent enough transparency and the opportunity to inspect and adapt at the right level. There can be a different cadence for everyone involved in achieving an OKR as compared to the cadence involving all stakeholders interested in that OKR.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The teams at his company had well established cadences for their Scrum events; well-oiled Daily Scrums that are done within 15 minutes and result in transparency of what the team will do for the next 24-hours. The Scrum Guide is explicit in stating that Scrum is a framework.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 5, 2021

In December 2020, my friend Adrian Galarza and I delivered a Scrum.org Scrum Pulse Webinar - A Cycle Time Journey: 164 to 8 Days in 6 Months that summarized the journey of Adrian’s Scrum Team. STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT: How did the scrum masters engage stakeholders outside the team to show up and collaborate more? BACKGROUND.

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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.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 11, 2019

Intended audience: Scrum masters, Product owners, Managers and Agile coaches. I was successful with optimising for feature size that could be delivered in a two-sprint cadence. This approach is ideal to get a cadence from the influx of new features to done, closing the empirical process control loop from design to delivery.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

I was hired by a bank to help them to get started with agile and Scrum. Most people who see the value of the Scrum Master role will agree that a seasoned scrum master can support up to three experienced teams when sprinting. But is one Scrum Master enough to start up three teams from scratch simultaneously? Day 4 and 5.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 7, 2023

In Scrum, the Product Owner is accountable for maximizing product value for the customer. That’s the focus of the entire Scrum framework, where value is delivered frequently and incrementally. But sometimes, the customer can jeopardize the value the Scrum Team is set to deliver. Sometimes, there’s a middle ground.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 25, 2022

TL; DR: Scrum Master Anti-Patterns. Join Stefan in one of his upcoming Professional Scrum training classes ! Scrum’s Sprint Planning aims to align the Developers and the Product Owner on what to build next, delivering the highest possible value to customers. Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

I was hired by a bank to help them to get started with agile and Scrum. Most people who see the value of the Scrum Master role will agree that a seasoned scrum master can support up to three experienced teams when sprinting. But is one Scrum Master enough to start up three teams from scratch simultaneously? Day 4 and 5.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 22, 2020

Scrum, in its more general definition, is a simple framework to help us address complex challenges. Product development is the subset of complex problem domains where Scrum took root first; by explicitly acknowledging software and new product development to be complex work, serving to deliver complex products in complex circumstances.

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Scrum.org

JULY 21, 2023

Professional Scrum with User Experience: Gaining the Competitive Edge Discover how Professional Scrum with User Experience Training offers your team a competitive edge through a synergistic approach that enhances product success.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

What is the ‘Navigating the Scrum Events’ Series? If you or your team are new to Scrum, you can use this as a starting point to answer, “what should we be doing and why?” for each Scrum Event. The Sprint Sprint Planning Daily Scrum Sprint Review Sprint Retrospective The Sprint - What’s The Point? page to learn more.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 22, 2024

I once worked with a Scrum team that deliberately underestimated the size of Product Backlog items during refinement to enable them to pull oversized items into the Sprint, bypassing the team agreement that restricted larger items from being pulled into the Sprint. The Scrum team doesn't 'disappear into a dark room' for months.

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Kiron Bondale

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Each agile framework provides its own ceremonies but given that Scrum is still the most commonly referenced one, let’s focus on that framework’s events. The Scrum Guide calls sprints the heart of Scrum as these time boxes set the cadence for all other events.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Recently, I connected with Evan Cook, the founder of Head Down Heart Up (HDHU), a fitness and nutrition organization that has “The Perfect Fitness Framework,” which is a program based on Scrum, designed to simplify food and fitness. When did you start using Scrum, and why did you choose it as the model for the Perfect Fitness Framework?

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

I often see User Experience (UX) Designers struggle to align focus, work, and approach with Scrum Teams building increments of product in iterations of 30 days or fewer. I'm trying to work side-by-side with the team, but I'm always a bit ahead of them, so what should we talk about in our Daily Scrum?". "I UX and Scrum: Better Together.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

SAFe includes Scrum - so how come many Scrum practitioners and thought leaders consider it unsafe? It takes advantage of established frameworks and techniques that work well - Scrum being the first and foremost of those. SAFe's Scrum Master is more of an Agile Team Lead. I hear a lot of questions and claims.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Every Scrum event has a maximum allowable time period to carry it out, called a timebox. There seems to be a misunderstanding about applying timeboxes in Scrum. While Scrum events have a maximum amount of time, they do not have a minimum amount of time. Scrum Event Timeboxes. The first event in Scrum is the Sprint itself.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 29, 2022

What is one of the most important aspects of holding the Scrum Master accountability? Read on to see why your mindset and what you bring of yourself to your Scrum practice are critical to success. Read on to see why your mindset and what you bring of yourself to your Scrum practice are critical to success. Open and curious.

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MPUG

DECEMBER 28, 2020

A new version of Scrum guide was released last month. It contains commitments for each of the Scrum artifacts. Product Goal also reflects one of the values of Scrum: “Focus.” Now, every artifact in Scrum comes with a commitment. The formal artifacts in Scrum are three: Product Backlog. Commitment based Artifacts.

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nTask

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Compared to other methodologies out there like scrum , this methodology might seem unpredictable or unorganized due to its flexibility, but in reality, the Kanban project management methodology operates in certain choreographed rhythms. What are Kanban Cadences? To learn about Kanban cadences, you need to know about cadences first.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2020

TL;DR: The Scrum Product Owner in 58 Theses. The Product Owner theses also address the Product Owner’s part in Scrum events from Sprint Planning to Sprint Review to Sprint Retrospective, and the Daily Scrum. The Product Owner is also the most vulnerable Scrum role. Do you want to get this article in your inbox?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 20, 2019

This question "What is the duration of a Sprint" is seemingly simple, but depending on the interviewing situation, company, interviewer, and their familiarity with Scrum you might need to give them more or less details and answer additional questions your answer might bring up. Scrum, But. Sprint Duration - Where Size Matters.

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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.

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Kiron Bondale

MAY 26, 2019

For those teams which use an iteration-based cadence for their delivery such as those who have implemented the Scrum framework there have multiple feedback loops to help them improve. Teams which don’t use feedback loops with their products and their processes should not consider themselves to be very agile.

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Digite

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

In this article, he outlines the similarities of the two as WIP Limiting, Pull-based systems – with cadences and a focus on learning – while also explaining their differences. A question that I often get while speaking with people is: What is the difference between Kanban and Scrum? You will enjoy this excellent article.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 2, 2018

If you’re also an experienced Scrum practitioner, you probably associate the time you started to use Scrum with the time you started to release more frequently. Transcending Scrum and the Sprint Increment? Before you recycle your copies of the Scrum Guide – can I ask you a couple of questions though?

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2021

Updated to reflect the 2020 Scrum Guide! The 2020 Scrum Guide. If you can’t ship working software at least every 30 days then by its very definition, you are not yet doing Scrum. Either we are handed an existing product, or we are the team that built it and are switching to Scrum. You are not yet doing Scrum.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 2, 2018

If you’re also an experienced Scrum practitioner, you probably associate the time you started to use Scrum with the time you started to release more frequently. Transcending Scrum and the Increment? Before you recycle your copies of the Scrum Guide – can I ask you a couple of questions though? You were pretty proud.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 30, 2023

We cover how to create these scatter plots in the Applying Flow Metrics for Scrum and Professional Scrum with Kanban classes. Armed with the data, you can set realistic deadlines, allocate resources efficiently, and prevent delays that might disrupt your delivery cadence. Kanban #Scrum #DigitalTransformation FlowMetrics.

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