Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Esta semana me ha llegado un articulo de Volvo Cars dónde se trataba el concepto de más control y menos agile en la gestión de la organización. Nos subimos a la ola de más sensación de control y menos agile. Realmente es un problema de control y menos agile? Hasta aquí, todo correcto.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 26, 2024

Optimizing Risk Responses in professional project management resonates profoundly with the empirical foundation of Scrum. Scrum's framework inherently addresses risk by embracing uncertainty and change, making it an ideal approach for managing both opportunities and threats in complex environments.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 22, 2024

For project managers aspiring to become Scrum Masters, understanding the project management Team Performance domain in a different light is crucial. This domain, traditionally associated with the management of project teams, takes on a new dimension in Scrum.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 19, 2024

The project management principle "Navigating Complexity" finds a natural ally in the Scrum framework. Scrum is fundamentally designed to address complexity through its adaptive, iterative approach. For Project Managers transitioning to Scrum Masters, understanding how Scrum excels in navigating complexity is crucial.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 13, 2023

TL; DR: The Stoic Scrum Master – Making Your Scrum Work (30) Can wisdom from the past still be relevant to today’s VUCA-determined world? In other words: is there something like a Stoic Scrum Master? Zur deutschsprachigen Version des Artikels: Der Stoische Scrum Master – Making Your Scrum Work #30 ?

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 10, 2023

TL; DR: How To Spot Successful Scrum Masters In this article, I unravel the secrets of what makes a Scrum Master not just good but amazingly outstanding. From regularly achieving Sprint Goals, delivering value to customers, and building stakeholder rapport easily, discover the traits that set apart successful Scrum Masters.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 7, 2021

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: Help! Our Product Backlog is Out of Control!?! What do you do when the Product Backlog is out of control and no one can actually understand what you're trying to build anymore? Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller are the author of Fixing Your Scrum: Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems.

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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 Sprint Retrospective - What’s The Point?

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 22, 2024

For professional Project Managers seeking to transition into Professional Scrum Masters, the project management principle of being a diligent, respectful, and caring steward offers a valuable perspective. In Scrum, stewardship involves a broader responsibility, including the social, technical, and environmental impacts of the product.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Traditional “command and control’ techniques are less impactful in this environment and can even harm the team’s ability to deliver value. Scrum empowers teams to deliver value for complex products. In complex environments, we need to empower those closest to the work – the Scrum team – to decide how best to accomplish it.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

In the realm of project collaboration and team dynamics, the role of a Scrum Master is often shrouded in misconceptions. One of the primary myths is the perception of the Scrum Master as the team's boss. A Scrum Master is not there to micromanage or dictate the team's every move. This couldn't be further from the truth.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 22, 2024

For professional Project Managers seeking to transition into Professional Scrum Masters, the project management principle of being a diligent, respectful, and caring steward offers a valuable perspective. In Scrum, stewardship involves a broader responsibility, including the social, technical, and environmental impacts of the product.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Part of the Scrum Master accountability is finding effective tools for Product Backlog management, which often means that the Scrum Master is accountable for setting up the Scrum Board. There are many ways to create a Scrum board. There are many popular software applications which can be used to create a Scrum board.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 19, 2023

Scrum is the most popular Agile framework. According to Digita.ai’s 16th annual report, 87% of organizations using an Agile framework use Scrum. That’s up from 58% of Agile teams using Scrum, as documented in the 14th annual State of Agile report. Why is Scrum so popular? Scrum is simple; that is its power.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 16, 2022

In this blog post, we focus on one specific topic that emerged: “Can Scrum teams use Scrum and Kanban, simultaneously?”. My hunch is that most of our readers are familiar with the basics of the Scrum framework. But this is obviously an assumption, so to prevent any misunderstandings, here’s how we describe Scrum in a nutshell.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

We started this Scrum foundation series explaining we see four underlying concepts of the Scrum framework. In the past series of mails we covered the three pillars of Empiricism, the Scrum Values, and Self-Management. Let’s have a look at the Daily Scrum. what is expected more specifically for the Daily Scrum?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 3, 2020

During the Professional Scrum Training (PSM), empirical process control, which is the foundation for Scrum, is explained by the metaphor of a thermostat. Let us revisit the definition of both “empirical” and “adaptive cruise control”. And Scrum on. First things first. from Lexico.com powered by Oxford).

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 14, 2023

A common question we are often asked is, "Should I become a Scrum Master?", But building on our previous blogs, What is a Scrum Master and Giving Back: considerations for a new Scrum Master , let's delve into some questions that may aid your decision-making process. Of course, this question hinges on multiple factors.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

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. This includes not only their own role but also those of the Scrum Master and Developers.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 17, 2023

In our book —  the Zombie Scrum Survival Guide  — we dive deep into what causes Zombie Scrum, something that looks like Scrum from a distance but lacks a beating heart. We also offer 40+ experiments to recover from Zombie Scrum. Zombie Scrum is on the rise! That doesn’t usually work.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 17, 2021

On a recent episode of Your Daily Scrum , Professional Scrum Trainers Todd Miller and Ryan Ripley address a common criticism of Scrum: Scrum isn't really agile, it's a command and control framework. Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller are the author of Fixing Your Scrum: Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Scrum is a lightweight framework for solving complex problems. It's the Scrum Master's job to bring the Scrum framework to life. In my experience, there is another important success factor: Is the Product Owner able to exploit the benefits of Scrum? And yet that is no guarantee that the product will be successful.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 7, 2020

For example, take scrum. Scrum is a great framework for helping teams work more productively together. In fact, the name comes from rugby and like it, scrum is a team sport. Scrumban is part of an agile framework, a hybrid of scrum and kanban. It was created as a way to transition from scrum to kanban.

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Scrum.org

JULY 25, 2023

As Scrum.org trainers, we often come across common misconceptions from course attendees about Agile and Scrum. We tend to hear red flags of misalignment when we explore folk's current definitions and understanding of Agile and Scrum at the start of our courses. Scrum: Scrum is thought of as a methodology. What is Agile?

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

TL; DR: Lost in Communication and Collaboration Lost in Communication and Collaboration addresses two categories from the Scrum anti-patterns taxonomy that are closely aligned: ineffective collaboration at the stakeholder level, often resulting in an unsuited reporting system based on misaligned metrics. Unrealistic sales promises.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 2, 2022

For 10 years I have been using an adapted version of Scrum to organise my personal and professional life. I call this the Personal Scrum System. The Personal Scrum System is simple, and it works! Big Goals take time to achieve, and the Personal Scrum system will allow you to work towards them in small and meaningful steps.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 24, 2023

Remember that Scrum is founded on empirical process control, and that adaptation is the third pillar, following transparency and inspection. Each of the Scrum accountabilities participates in one or more adaptations. Let’s take the Scrum Master. Support your Scrum Team with Product Backlog management.

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Scrum.org

MAY 23, 2022

There is a popular myth that the scrum masters accountabilities ends with the scrum team and may not be required when the team becomes matured. As a result, many organizations limit the role of the Scrum Master to the team level. On a general note, here’s what the Scrum Master accountability journey may looks like over time.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 8, 2022

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Remember that Scrum is founded on empirical process control, and that inspection is one of the three pillars. Each of the Scrum accountabilities participates in one or more inspections. So how about the Scrum Master in the Scrum Team. The Scrum Master can ask a lot of questions for this.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Estimation is a complementary practice Scrum Teams use in Product D evelopment. Different Scrum T eams may use different estimation approaches, depending on their context, preferences, and goals. Let’s explore some of the complementary estimation approaches used by Scrum T eams, and discuss their pros and cons. ?

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Welcome to Scrum Sutra — a series where I shall share a 3-min overview of each element of Scrum and how it connects with the other elements in the bead to form Scrum Sutra. Successful use of Scrum depends on people becoming proficient in living five values.” — Scrum Guide 2020.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Scrum - The Leader’s Perspective. If you’re leading Scrum Teams or generally are a leader in an organization that’s leveraging Scrum? Are you feeling a bit left out after reading the Scrum Guide ? The Scrum Guide describes the leadership required by the Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Developers.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 13, 2024

People may not see the point when they hear about the Definition of Done in Scrum. T he Definition of Done (DoD) in Scrum is a set of criteria determining when a Product Backlog item can be considered complete. Below are ten benefits of a clear Definition of Done for the Scrum team. Prevents misunderstandings among Developers.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 30, 2024

L as retrospectivas son una parte fundamental del proceso Scrum y juegan un papel muy importante en facilitar la inspección y adaptación del proceso en el desarrollo iterativo e incremental. El objetivo es tener la oportunidad de ser transparentes acerca de los temas que preocupan al equipo Scrum. Es una paradoja interesante.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Otra gran pregunta recurrente, ¿Por qué tenemos que hacer DevOps si hacemos Scrum? . DevOps se trata de lograr la mentalidad correcta, igual que la mentalidad que necesita Scrum. Dejadme añadir que también se hacen esas entregas de manera iterativa e incremental, cómo Scrum está basado. Pero, ¿cómo logras esto? Fallar rápido.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 19, 2022

In 2010 I started my first assignment as a Scrum Master. Mostly intended to help myself reflect on my role, receive feedback from other Scrum practitioners, and make improvements accordingly. Over the years, the sum of these blog posts resulted in the paper “ The 8 Stances Of A Scrum Master ”. The 6 Scrum Master Stances.

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