Scrum.org

MARCH 22, 2023

One of the most exciting outcomes of Scrum being adopted by a team is innovation. The following interview is with Marjolein Pilon , a Scrum Master from the Netherlands. But I know you have some practical ideas for how Scrum and Teams can help. What if all Scrum Teams would do that? Broadly that is described as innovation.

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SCRUM Sustainability Infrastructure Technical Review 172

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

There are a lot of high expectations associated with implementation of Scrum. For example, "Scrum helps teams deliver more faster". That is the reason why many organizations implementing Scrum demand metrics that can prove it, such as velocity. Otherwise, we are spending our time and money for nothing, right? Important metrics.

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SCRUM Agile Estimate Process 180

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 2, 2023

It often lures us into the trap of deterministic estimates. Let’s investigate why deterministic estimates set us up for failure and explore pragmatic alternatives that empower decision-making while embracing uncertainty. What Are the Pitfalls of Deterministic Estimates? This approach generates better decisions.

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Agile Estimate Software Developers Software Development 156

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. ?? Question : Thank you for your application as a Scrum Master!

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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?

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SCRUM Estimate Initiating Cadence 219

Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

TL; DR: 20 Questions to Ask the Product Owner to Get up to Speed as a New Scrum Master. From Scrum Master to Product Owner, this set of questions addresses the future collaboration between the two individuals and the rest of the Scrum Team. The Essential Role of the Product Owner for the Success of the Scrum Team.

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SCRUM Agile 2017 Engineering 228

Scrum.org

JUNE 23, 2022

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. Forecasting and estimating : What is realistic to take up this Sprint? Decision-making : What to take up?

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SCRUM Planning Risk Management Estimate 164

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?

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SCRUM Estimate Initiating Cadence 179

NimbleWork

MARCH 27, 2024

Improving a team’s velocity in Agile, particularly in the Scrum framework, involves several key strategies aimed at enhancing productivity, efficiency, and effectiveness. It’s typically measured in story points or another relative estimation unit like t-shirt sizes. Ready to take your Agile journey to the next level?

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Technical Review SCRUM Estimate Agile 84

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 1, 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. Forecasting and estimating: What is realistic to take up this Sprint? Let’s start with Sprint Planning.

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Planning SCRUM Risk Management Estimate 138

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Where in the Scrum framework do reflection and learning happen? Because although learning should certainly happen there, it’s a waste of opportunities to do it *only* during Sprint Retrospectives, Sprint Reviews, or one of the other Scrum events. You’re only partially right if your answer is the Sprint Retrospective.

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SCRUM Technical Review Defining Estimate 174

Scrum.org

JUNE 19, 2022

One of the themes Scrum teams can measure with our Scrum Team Survey is refinement. Recently, we hosted a workshop and its purpose was to use all our personal experiences and creativity, to identify quick tips around refinement. Within the Scrum Team Survey, we call these 15% Solutions “Quick Tips”.

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SCRUM Technical Review Defining Risk Management 196

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

In the "Scrum from the trenches" blog post series I like to address topics that I encounter in practicing Scrum in the real world, with real Scrum Teams. In the previous "Scrum from the trenches"-blog I talked about the Sprint Goal. The Scrum Team decides how and when refinement is done. Time to read: 6 minutes.

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SCRUM Development Team Review Estimate Software Review 152

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 19, 2021

When I started as a Scrum Master, the thing that scared me the most was how to translate those lofty ideals into actual down-to-earth behavior. In it, I wondered if it was okay to add a fourth question to the set of three questions for the Daily Scrum that was provided as an example in the Scrum Guide back then. . Should I?—?as

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SCRUM Certification Estimate Closing 247

Scrum.org

AUGUST 4, 2022

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. Estimating : how much work can we as a team take on during the Sprint timebox?

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SCRUM Estimate Risk Management Risk 194

Scrum.org

JULY 27, 2021

One of the things you do as a Scrum Master is help your Product Owner in different aspects of their role. Focus is one of the five Scrum Values and a very important one, because without focus you can’t succeed. You role as a Scrum Master is to help everyone understand how to implement the value of focus in their work.

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Estimate SCRUM Agile Planning 245

Scrum.org

MARCH 8, 2021

The following guide to peer recruiting is based on my experience in participating in recruiting Scrum Team members over the last ten years. This first article will cover the Scrum Master role. ?? Join us on April 20, 2021 , for a live virtual workshop on driving product innovation with the Zones of Value framework.

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SCRUM Underperforming Technical Team Agile Engineering 191

Scrum.org

MARCH 1, 2021

TL; DR: Download the Scrum Guide 2020 Reordered Audiobook. Like the Scrum Guide 2020 Reordered, its audiobook version is based on about 95 percent of the text of the Scrum Guide 2020, extending its original structure by adding additional categories, for example, on self-management, commitments, or accountability. Adaptation.

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2020 SCRUM 2021 Lean 123

Scrum.org

JUNE 14, 2019

The Scrum Team that goes through the motions, implements all the mechanics of Scrum, and still when we look at what's going on it doesn't feel right. Steve Porter fondly named it Believably Bad Scrum. I call it Scrum Theater. Barry and Christian call it Zombie Scrum. They were becoming masters of Scrum. .

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Development Team Review SCRUM 2007 Estimate 162

Scrum.org

AUGUST 25, 2022

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. Next week we'll look at Cross-Functionality and the Scrum Master. .

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SCRUM Estimate Executing Defining 182

ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 22, 2023

Estimate Your Project Duration The project duration is the total amount of time needed to complete the project. Estimate Your Project Costs Project costs refer to the financial investment for delivering the project. Each of these costs must be accurately estimated and added together to determine the project’s budget.

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Estimate Budget Defining Risk Management 272

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Their paper provides useful insights into why the Scrum Framework might be so effective when it comes to managing complex work. Their article inspired me to apply the same insights to Scrum and to extend it with my own. This will affect all estimates and predictions. This will affect all estimates and predictions.

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2002 SCRUM 2007 2003 196

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 17, 2022

The start of the project is paced by a series of activities and workshops to set the project vision, internal and external objectives, and the project deliverables. Approaches you might consider in an Agile environment are Scrum, Kanban or Scrumban , but there are others. Secret #1: Set the pace in the beginning.

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Technical Review Development Team Review Risk Management Agile 406

Scrum.org

JUNE 26, 2023

TL; DR: Useless Agile Metrics Ideally, a metric is a leading indicator for a pattern change, allowing your Scrum team to analyze the cause in time and take countermeasures. Learn more about useless agile metrics, from individual velocity to estimation accuracy to utilization rates. ? However, what if you picked the wrong metrics?

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Agile Software Review 2021 Estimate 177

Agilemania

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In SAFe, the Scrum Master is not just a Scrum Master. SAFe defines the role of the Scrum Master as a servant-leader for the agile team who helps educate the team on various frameworks and methods, including Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming, and SAFe, ensuring that the agreed-upon agile process is duly followed.

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SCRUM Software Review Technical Review Lean 98

ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 12, 2022

There will be breakout sessions on using project management tools and techniques to help with more accurate estimates, how to keep projects on track and on evaluation of project performance. Global Scrum Gathering. There will be plenary sessions, presentations of papers, inactive workshops, round tables and more. Where: Virtual.

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2022 Technical Review PMO Underperforming Technical Team 285

Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2021

Most Scrum Teams that I encounter don’t do refinement of their Product Backlog and try to work on things that they don’t understand correctly. Updated to reflect the 2020 Scrum Guide! Updated to reflect the 2020 Scrum Guide! Although the Scrum Guide does not define Refinement as an event, you should be doing it.

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2020 Technical Review Development Team Review SCRUM 239

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 24, 2022

Think about how you are going to run remote team meetings and workshops – it is different to holding meetings face-to-face. Change Management Workshop. $79. In 2021, Cisco estimated that 82% of consumer internet traffic was video. What you can do. Brush up on your virtual leadership skills. Recommended Training. What you can do.

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2022 PMO Risk Management Artificial Inteligence 486

Scrum.org

APRIL 19, 2021

They are derived from my fourteen years of practical experience with XP and Scrum, serving both as Product Owner and Scrum Master and interviewing dozens of Product Owner candidates on behalf of my clients. Scrum is not a methodology but a framework. The Product Owner is also the most vulnerable Scrum role.

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Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Estimate Agile 253

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Any change to existing plans was met with calls for more estimates and warnings of “risk”. To address this challenge, I facilitated a brief series of workshops and coaching sessions for the Product Director and the adjacent managers/stakeholders. They managed their immediate dependencies better/smarter.

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Transportation 2011 SCRUM Initiating 164

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

When we talk about Scrum for complex Product Development, it starts from Vision and Product Backlog. What is the Product Backlog in Scrum? As per the Scrum Guide — “ The Product Backlog is an ordered list of everything that is known to be needed in the product. The Product Owner forecasts on the Product Backlog every Sprint.

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Estimate SCRUM Initiating Defining 155

Scrum.org

JUNE 12, 2020

In Scrum, the iteration is called Sprint and the mandatory rule says that at the end of the Sprint there must be a done product increment in accordance with Definition of Done or simply DoD. At the last public workshop, a group of facilitators successfully tested this tool in online format. What distinguishes both manufacturers?

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Planning Manufacturing Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 204

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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Technical Review SCRUM 2020 Estimate 210

Scrum.org

AUGUST 24, 2020

For example, I like to use the Scrum Checklist by Henrik Kniberg. All you have to do, is to run the questionnaire every four to six weeks during a retrospective, record the results, and aggregate them: In this example, we were using a kind of estimation poker to answer each question with one of the three values green, orange, and red.

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Underperforming Technical Team Agile SCRUM 2020 221

Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. COSMIC Software Estimation Approach,” Alain Abran, ICEAA Workshop, Portland Oregon, June 6?9, Estimating Probable System Cost,” Stephen A. Performance Evaluation of non?Markovian

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Estimate Software Review Software 2012 40

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Imagine you’re a Scrum Master and the line manager of your team believes that the best sign for a successful agile transformation is a steady increase in the Scrum Team’s velocity. Moreover, if the team fails to deliver on that metric something is wrong with the Scrum Team. Faking Agile Metrics for Scrum Masters.

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Agile Underperforming Technical Team Estimate SCRUM 173

Scrum.org

APRIL 11, 2022

Scrum is a tactical framework to build products, provided you identify what is worth making in advance. The following article points to 27 common Product Backlog anti-patterns – including the Product Backlog refinement process – limiting your Scrum team’s success. ???? The Product Backlog According to the Scrum Guide.

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Technical Review SCRUM Lean Agile 245