Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

I recently attend the Professional Scrum Master II (PSM II) course and I'd like to share my thoughts with you about it. . I am a Professional Scrum Trainer (PST) and intend to deliver the PSM II course soon. I took the course as part of the process but viewed it with my Scrum Master head and not as a PST. . First, a confession.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 4, 2024

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM Are you looking to elevate your leadership style to foster a more dynamic, collaborative, and high-performing team? One of the secrets to unlocking your team's full potential lies in embracing the core values of the Scrum Framework. What is the Scrum Framework?

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Planio

MAY 8, 2023

On average, IT projects come with more complexity and risk, and can quickly fall to pieces without proper due diligence, management, and leadership. IT projects still require planning, control, teamwork, and leadership — and for that, organizations use IT project management frameworks to maximize their success.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 11, 2024

Dive into the world of Scrum, the Agile framework that is revolutionizing project management across industries. With its core values of commitment, courage, focus, openness, and respect, Scrum is not just a methodology— it is a pathway to creating highly effective, adaptive, and cohesive teams.

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Kiron Bondale

JULY 25, 2021

But what about changes to the team’s way of working (WoW)? Whether a team uses a scheduled cadence for reviewing their WoW such as the use of retrospectives in Scrum, or they use a just-in-time approach they will come up with improvement ideas. Some of those ideas will be all or nothing.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 11, 2021

The Product Owner is a critical role in Agile and Scrum. And although the Scrum Guide doesn’t give much guidelines around great product ownership, the role is still absolutely necessary for great Agile and Scrum Teams. A Product Owner guides the efforts of their Scrum or Agile Teams. Scrum Reading List.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 8, 2024

This domain facilitates strategic alignment, optimized delivery cadence, methodology customization, increased flexibility, and improved risk management. By embracing a clear, structured, and flexible framework, each phase of the project's life cycle can be optimized for efficiency, risk mitigation, and stakeholder contentment.

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Wrike

APRIL 12, 2023

When it comes to managing projects, Scrum and Project Management are the two most commonly utilized approaches. In this article, we will explore the differences between a Scrum Master and a Project Manager and provide insights into their roles, responsibilities, and skill sets.

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MPUG

DECEMBER 6, 2020

It is a best practice to have a 3 rd party person do this assessment. Are the Risks and Issues current, does the project have an updated project schedule, and do we hold weekly status meetings? Risks/Issues/Roadblocks – What were the roadblocks, big issues, and risks that the development team faced?

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

For example, if you focus on only the things required for today such as purchasing cloud services, or picking a tool that will not support the rest of the business, or even putting only the best people in your pilot teams you run the risk of being isolated and not being able to take their learning across the enterprise.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Safe Scrum is a framework that has gained significant popularity in recent years for enhancing team performance in an agile development methodology. By providing clear guidelines and principles, Safe Scrum enables teams to collaborate more effectively, communicate transparently, and ultimately deliver higher-quality projects.

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Scrum.org

JULY 21, 2020

What has always struck me in this discussion is the fact that Scrum is a tool useful to accomplish one primary task: delivering value to customers of emergent products in complex environments while mitigating an organization’s exposure to risk at the same time. Timeboxing and delivery : “When things are done, they are done.

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The IIL Blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

The development team was devastated. In my consulting practice, I see development teams struggling with their users. Common risks include: Lack of stakeholders and executive engagement. Misalignment can occur within the leadership team, and between leaders and their staff. Do not be surprised.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 26, 2024

With digital project management skills like effective online communication, robust leadership, data literacy, adaptability, professional and personal life stress management, and adept virtual team management, you can lead your projects to completion. Education - Coordinate online learning platforms and digital curriculum development.

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Techno-PM

JUNE 6, 2023

The roles of Scrum Master and Project Manager are often discussed in the context of project management, but they have distinct differences in their approach, responsibilities, and the frameworks they operate within. Understanding these differences is crucial for organizations and individuals looking to effectively manage projects and teams.

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International Institute for Learning

MARCH 29, 2023

By Cyndi Snyder Dionisio You can have an awesome schedule and a great risk management plan, but those won’t get the project done. Determining your team members may be easier than figuring out whether you need a project sponsor, a product owner, or both. Leadership skills are critical to project success, but so are management skills.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 8, 2018

In Scrum, Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of product being developed by Development Team. This would require the person to understand the business, market conditions and should be able to weigh in the risks and opportunities. Available - A Product Owner must be available for Development Team.

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LiquidPlanner

DECEMBER 10, 2019

With the popularity of Agile, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), and Scrum, organizations are asked to justify the project manager’s role on a project. Scrum purists reject the idea of adding a project manager to the team as the team should be able to solve all the problems with the help of the product owner and scrum master.

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Planio

JULY 4, 2022

Agile ceremonies are the fuel that keeps your development team moving forward. Agile ceremonies get abandoned when teams stop seeing the value in them. But often, the real issue is that they’re missing a key ingredient: leadership. Daily scrum ceremony. Sprint review ceremony. What are Agile ceremonies?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 18, 2020

On November 22nd, 2019, I gave the closing keynote at Scrum Deutschland, a talk called ‘The Four Things You Do To Prevent Value Delivery.’ Work (or sometimes even a transformation) is ongoing, and the organization wants a second opinion on risk or improvement factors. . Background. It’s worth a read. And there we had it.

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International Institute for Learning

APRIL 19, 2023

They build on lean-agile thinking, and standard Scrum, Kanban, and DevOps practices. They offer practitioners tools to extend and mature their agility beyond the team to programs and the broader enterprise. Disciplined Agile is methodology agnostic and supports Scrum, Kanban, Program, and continuous delivery lifecycles.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

TL; DR: ChatGPT Product Owner Job Interview A few weeks ago, I ran a simulated job interview with ChatGPT for a fictitious Scrum Master position. Admittedly, I would not have invited this “interviewee” for an interview with other team members; however, the interview produced some remarkable answers.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 2, 2020

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 which easily can impede any agile transition. Common Scrum Stakeholder Anti-Patterns.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 12, 2020

TL; DR: 70 Scrum Master Theses. The following 70 Scrum Master theses describe the role of from a holistic product creation perspective. The theses cover the role of the Scrum Master from product discovery to product delivery in hands-on practical manner. The Role of the Scrum Master. It is not a mere management role.

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Stepping Into Project Management

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

. • 10 + years in the software engineering profession • Demonstrated success designing and building high-quality commercial software applications Consider your future and apply here This came in through Mae Anne Jose Agile Coach - Hyderabad (India) Job Functions: Manages and guides the Scrum Masters in the Hyderabad office to ensure the highest Agile (..)

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Customer collaboration: Unlike the waterfall approach, where requirements are defined upfront and rarely revisited, Agile encourages regular interactions with customers throughout the development process. This allows for a better understanding of customer needs and enables the development team to adapt and make changes as necessary.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

TL; DR: Scrum Master Engagement Patterns. Last year, I ran a (non-representative) survey on how Scrum Masters are allocating their time when working with a single Scrum Team. The first article of this series will address the Scrum Master engagement with the Development Team.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 15, 2023

But as we kind of know, I think this is kind of old news is that is that when we conceptualize and we build without getting customer feedback, one of the challenges is we really risk building the wrong product or we risk building defects into the product as we go. It’s so I think about risk in that way.

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MPUG

DECEMBER 23, 2020

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. Bill Dow: So when you think about a project assessment, there’re really hundreds of things that could go wrong. The risk, the issues, the action, the schedule?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 4, 2019

The 2019 Scrum Master Trends Report by scrum.org and the State of Agile 2018 shows numbers that provide insight in the maturity of agile adoptions. More than 80% of the Scrum Masters (respondents) claim their organization is in or below a “still maturing” level. Pre-Scrum waterfall . Starting with Early Scrum.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Like a job ad for a Scrum Master position, the equivalent for the Product Owner position also reveals excellent insight into an organization’s progress on becoming agile. A Brief Refresh: The Product Owner Role According to the Scrum Guide. How this is done may vary widely across organizations, Scrum Teams, and individuals.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

By now you are probably thinking, “Well, ok, but what has it got to do with Scrum?”. Let’s start with team size. Development Teams are cross-functional, with all the skills as a team necessary to create a product Increment. Individual assignments on Scrum Teams are done for a variety of reasons.

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Planio

OCTOBER 19, 2021

And whether you’re a designer, developer, team lead, or administrator, your job requires many of the same skills that separate the best project managers: organization, effective collaboration, and being goal-oriented. Step 3: Talk to your team and create a project plan. Step 10: Create a risk management plan.

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The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The Benefits of Agile Project Management Agile project management often results in the early release of benefits due to its incremental nature. Flexibility is gained as development teams are empowered to adapt the solution as the project progresses. How to assess the success of an Agile project.

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Planio

AUGUST 1, 2022

For most development teams and startups, ‘becoming Agile’ starts and ends with how you build software. But a full Agile transformation isn’t just about the development process you use — it’s a way to bring creativity, innovation, and lean operations to every aspect of your business. Higher ROI on all your efforts.

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Leading Answers

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

So, the responsible thing to do is to agree upfront on how everyone will be kept informed of the project’s progress, risks, issues, etc. Modern agile project management tools have a variety of Kanban board and backlog viewing tools so stakeholders can review progress and task status remotely.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

I perform Go See sessions to show respect to the teams and leadership, and to understand how the work is working for them at the level of a larger group. . I had various conversations and workshops with the development teams and the leadership. Output driven development. Understand the System Dynamics.

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