Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The Product Backlog is the heart of Scrum, serving as the central hub for all potential work the Scrum Team might tackle. Achieve a shared understanding among the Scrum Team and stakeholders about what's in the Product Backlog and, more importantly, why it is in its current state. The objective? It was a frustrating period.

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Scrum.org

MAY 30, 2022

Although research shows that these activities are useful in any Scrum team, we also recognize that teams usually start with this as they become more experienced with Scrum. That’s why we created the do-it-yourself workshops. The workshops and experiments are: Generate Insights And Ideas For Your Product With “Design The Box”.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The Product Backlog is the heart of Scrum, serving as the central hub for all potential work the Scrum Team might tackle. Achieve a shared understanding among the Scrum Team and stakeholders about what’s in the Product Backlog. It aims to offer a clear and transparent roadmap for everyone involved in the product’s journey.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 26, 2021

More than 50 individuals were identified to participate on Scrum teams in support of this new product, and few of them had experience in Scrum. . The individual to whom I was speaking looked back at me and said, "There is no such thing as a 'resource manager' in Scrum". Creating a culture of trust supported by the Scrum values

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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. How this question is answered, impacts the entire Scrum team.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 16, 2023

As an Agile Coach, he’s responsible for about 50 Scrum Masters. For about one hour we talked about how to be a servant leader for such a group of Scrum Masters. Regardless if you’re an Agile Coach or Scrum Master, servant leadership is the desired mindset, behavior, and attitude. What are ways to lead, inspire, and guide them?

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In Scrum, the Product Owner’s purpose is to maximize the value of the Scrum Team’s work (the product). Delivering value to the customer (beneficial customer outcomes) is the ultimate measure of success for the Scrum Team, including the Product Owner. We can consult with Developers on the Scrum Team for ideas.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 14, 2022

You can download the PDF here or check the package that includes 30 Quickstart workshops ! . If you’d like to dig deeper with your team, we also offer a selection of more extensive do-it-yourself workshops and additional resources to investigate team morale more fully. Scrum Team Survey. How To Prepare. Online Delivery.

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Scrum.org

JULY 11, 2021

In this blog post, we focus on one specific question that was raised: “How to measure the success of an Agile Coach or Scrum Master?”. The success (or failures) of an Agile Coach or Scrum Master is not that straightforward to measure, and any causality with the success of a team you coach is difficult to prove.

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Scrum.org

MAY 4, 2023

By Lavaneesh Gautam , Professional Scrum Trainer Effective Stakeholder Engagement is key to the success of the product and one of the essential skills all product people should have. By Lavaneesh Gautam , Professional Scrum Trainer Question 1: What Message Do We Want To Provide? What channels we will use to pass that message?

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Scrum.org

MAY 2, 2022

You can download the PDF here or check the package that includes 30 Quickstart workshops ! . Psychological safety makes it easier and safer for teams to learn and try new things and positively influences team performance. Scrum Team Survey. So if you haven’t already done so, take the Scrum Team Survey with your team.

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Scrum.org

MAY 15, 2022

You can download the PDF here or check the package that includes 30 Quickstart workshops ! . If you'd like to dig deeper with your team, we also offer a selection of more extensive do-it-yourself workshops and additional resources to investigate the use of Sprint Goals more fully. Scrum Team Survey. How To Prepare.

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Scrum.org

MAY 8, 2023

How does it differ from the Scrum Guide? As a Professional Scrum Trainer who’s also a SAFe Fellow/SPCT, here’s my perspective… Product Ownership is a crucial element in improving Outcomes SAFe and Scrum both consider product ownership crucial to maximizing outcomes in environments of complexity and uncertainty.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 15, 2024

Beyond Scrum , several Agile frameworks were developed to address the unique needs and challenges of projects and teams. It encourages continuous delivery and improvement without the fixed iterations of Scrum. XP is definitively Agile and fundamentally distinct from the Waterfall model.

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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. The Scrum Guide seems pretty clear about what Product Owners are accountable for.

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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. Global Scrum Gathering: Austin, Texas, USA, 20-22 May 2019. There is a good mix of presentations, hands-on workshops and coaching.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Is it really that important that they are autonomous, able to release frequently, interact closely with stakeholders and spend all that time on continuous improvement? And we share results from our own analyses based on actual data from stakeholders and Scrum teams that we collected through the Scrum Team Survey.

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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. The TL and EL typically work closely with executives and delivery leadership to create, execute, and drive the Transformation strategy within the organization.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 8, 2020

A Day in a Life of a Scrum Master. The Scrum Team gather around their team desk to hold the Daily Scrum. Daniella is their Scrum Master. Let's talk after the Daily Scrum, so you can help me understand the situation a bit better.". Daily Scrum ends. A Scrum Master's main responsibility. It's 9:30 am.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 4, 2022

If you’d like to dig deeper with your team, we also offer a selection of more extensive do-it-yourself workshops and additional resources to investigate team morale more fully. Scrum Team Survey. So if you haven’t already done so, take the Scrum Team Survey with your team. And what seems to be influencing our morale?”.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

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. The fact is that Transformation requires more than Agile Coaches teaching people the ceremonies of Scrum or how to do SAFe and LeSS. Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, etc.

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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. There may be exclusions, such as those steps included in product demonstrations.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 9, 2022

With the Scrum Team Survey , we measure task- and relationship conflict. Scientific research by Karen Jehn and her colleagues (2001) has shown that a moderate amount of task-related conflict increases productivity for non-routine tasks — which Scrum teams usually engage in. You can download this workshop from our webshop here.

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International Institute for Learning

APRIL 5, 2023

By Mike Griffiths Welcome to part four, the last installment of this series introducing basic leadership ideas that any project manager or Scrum master can employ. This article explains influence, power and how project managers can create empowered teams that tap into the Drive motivators of autonomy, mastery and purpose.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

TL; DR: Scrum Anti-Patterns GPT Can a Custom Scrum Anti-Patterns GPT align teams with Scrum principles? Dive into how leveraging custom GPTs might offer a novel path through Scrum’s common hurdles, focusing on creating actual customer value in the face of organizational and team-level challenges. ?

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Not only does the employees’ engagement matter regarding the topic of goals, but also the clear direction for the organization enables unexpected positive changes (for example, HR, Law, Finance - once they cooperate with Scrum Teams and Product Owners, frequently change their way of working and processes are simplified).

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Agilemania

MARCH 3, 2022

Scrum is a lightweight framework through which people can address complex problems while productively and creatively delivering products of the highest quality. . Scrum is based on 3 pillars of empirical process control that are difficult to master for many teams. Scrum has 3 roles that are central to its success-.

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Scrum.org

MAY 26, 2020

Christiaan and Barry are both Professional Scrum Trainers (PST) with Scrum.org, dedicated early adopters of Liberating Structures, and co-authors of the upcoming Zombie Scrum Survival Guide. Both are Professional Scrum Trainers and Liberating Structures enthusiasts. Also, they are co-authors of the upcoming Zombie Scrum book .

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Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

But what they’re really doing was like scrum with technical practices and things like that, I ever more aligned, it felt like to me was Scrum. I mean, everybody’s like very familiar with Agile and Scrum and things like that but I wouldn’t call them agile coaches per se.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

If you’d like to dig deeper with your team, we also offer a selection of more extensive do-it-yourself workshops and additional resources to investigate team morale more fully. And what seems to be influencing our morale?”. 5 min) Briefly introduce the problem the Scrum team will focus on. Option 1: Conversation Cafe.

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Agile Coach

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

” Had today’s-me existed along side of 7-years-ago-me he’d have wondered why in the bloody hell a relatively newly minted Certified Scrum Master, was having an organizational-level conversation with a senior manager and director. Not even close. What comes to mind when you hear the term Organizational Scrum Master ?

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Henny Portman

JULY 10, 2019

Four Steps to Effective Performance Meetings (by Daniel Burm) discusses four fundamental principles to keep in mind for people leading performance meetings: it’s not about you, close the loop, achievable next steps, and ask open questions. Forces that influence doing are understanding, willing, able and being enabled.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 14, 2019

You can define the retrospective process as: “A recurring workshop in which the team looks back on their work over a period, reflects upon it, and learns. One of the widely used iteration-based Agile frameworks is Scrum where every iteration is known as a Sprint. Look at the wording closely. Step 5: Close the Retrospective.

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Wrike

AUGUST 25, 2023

What’s more, the rise of globalization and the interconnectedness of markets have also influenced modern management strategies. Trust: In traditional management approaches, leaders often micromanaged their employees, closely monitoring their every move.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 24, 2022

When people first look at the Scrum framework, they often see the roles and the events first. They see only the structure of Scrum; who wears the hats and when. But Scrum and the Agile methodologies it builds on are so much more. Scrum is a great example of a motivation framework. And that makes sense.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 19, 2021

Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. Are good Scrum Masters and Product Owners what makes the difference? The dotted lines represent the influence of external drivers on the success factor, while the arrows display the relations among success factors.

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Scrum.org

MAY 18, 2021

While I had seen many things around the Scrum Master for my post on Hiring a Professional Scrum Master , this was a little bit more of a discovery session, which is why I asked some of my trusted colleagues at Scrum.org to help out. Key Influencers: Fredrik Wendt | Scrum.org , Ralph Jocham | Scrum.org , Andy Hiles | Scrum.org.

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