Scrum.org

APRIL 18, 2022

TL; DR: Scrum Master Anti-Patterns — 20 Signs Your Scrum Master Needs Help. The reasons Scrum Masters violate the spirit of the Scrum Guide are multi-faceted. Typical Scrum Master anti-patterns run from ill-suited personal traits to complacency to pursuing individual agendas to frustration with the team itself.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 6, 2022

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 Learn how individual incentives and outdated organizational structures — fostering personal agendas and local optimization efforts — manifest themselves in Scrum stakeholder anti-patterns that easily impede any agile transformation to a product-led organization. ????

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Scrum.org

MAY 16, 2022

What event could better embody Scrum’s principle of empiricism than the Sprint Retrospective? Hence, learn more about 21 common Sprint Retrospective anti-patterns that will hold back your Scrum team. ???? Join Stefan in one of his upcoming Professional Scrum training classes ! Source : Scrum Guide 2020.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 25, 2022

TL; DR: Scrum Master Anti-Patterns. The Sprint Planning is a core event that defines how your customers’ lives will improve with the following Product Increment. Join Stefan in one of his upcoming Professional Scrum training classes ! Also, the Developers need to create a plan on how to accomplish their forecast. .

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Scrum.org

MARCH 14, 2023

This time we are focussing on the following Agile principle – “At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjust its behavior accordingly.” But it was a surprisingly rare practice in most organisations I encountered before Scrum & Agile became more widespread.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In many large organizations, Scrum teams fall into the ‘feature factory’ trap, focusing more on churning out features than creating real value. It’s too bad that this shift undermines Agile principles and hampers long-term success and innovation. Preorder the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now for delivery in January 2024!

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Scrum.org

JUNE 3, 2021

There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. Neglecting the critical Scrum artifact for continuous value creation is one of the common Scrum anti-patterns. Source : Scrum Guide 2020.

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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. Do you want to get this article in your inbox?

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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?”. In short: it’s very difficult to measure because even if a team or organization is successful, are they successful because of your contribution, or despite it? The Purpose Of A Scrum Master.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

And in no particular order we start with: Mark Phillips Mark Phillips High performing teams are motivated by an exceptional vision. The vision becomes a touchstone for difficult discussions with stakeholders, a path to unity for all project participants and a guide post for decision making with your team throughout the project.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In the past years, Liberating Structures quickly gained popularity within the Scrum community. You might know that there are 33 official Liberating Structures, and its co-developers are Henri Lipmanowicz & Keith McCandless. Maybe you’re even part of the global community that helps to refine existing & develop new structures!

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 19, 2021

A traditional or Waterfall software development lifecycle includes a long and detailed planning period to define requirements before beginning development. I have little experience or high time pressure; therefore, the estimate is influenced. But teams still need to estimate their work to forecast releases.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Walker discovered that the most successful sports teams that ever existed all shared one single element: They all had a team captain with 7 overlapping traits that made them extremely successful. In this blog we will explore what Agile Leaders can learn from these extremely successful team captains.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 26, 2021

The second stage refers to gathering data so that the Scrum Team can have data-informed Retrospectives. As I have observed in practice, many Scrum Teams either limit the data gathering part of the Retrospective, thus lacking vital information. Join Stefan in one of his upcoming Professional Scrum training classes !

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Leading Answers

MARCH 9, 2022

Moving from left to right in the same row, we see the next step in our development is recognizing emotions in other people, artwork, etc. The third branch, Understanding and Analyzing Emotions ; Employing Emotional intelligence, describes the stages of linking emotions to events, other emotions, and common patterns and chains.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 19, 2018

In the previous article, we have discussed how Scrum Masters need to master many things. In this article we are going to discuss one of the stances that the Scrum Master need to master, that is the facilitation stance. In fact, facilitation requires skills and facilitating an engaging event itself is an art. That is quite sad.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 29, 2022

Do you start a new Scrum team by explaining the roles, artifacts, and events? Do you rarely consider how to build coalitions and persuade people in power to support your work with Scrum? Are you thinking about the psychological needs of people and how to motivate them to work with Scrum? This is an opinion piece.

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

There may be some measure of formalism, but little tracking or attempts at interventions to control or influence the project. Perhaps we would choose an Agile approach such as Scrum in those cases, not an entire abandonment of any project management principles. Ad hoc is a degradation further. Random number in, random number out.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 4, 2019

TL; DR: Scrum Master Anti-Patterns. Scrum Master anti-patterns: The reasons why Scrum Masters violate the spirit of the Scrum Guide are multi-faceted. They run from ill-suited personal traits and the pursuit of individual agendas to frustration with the team itself. The Scrum Master According to the Scrum Guide.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

What event could better embody Scrum’s principle of empiricism than the Sprint Retrospective? The Scrum Guide on the Sprint Retrospective. The Scrum Master encourages the Scrum Team to improve, within the Scrum process framework, its development process and practices to make it more effective and enjoyable for the next Sprint.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

While everyone will appreciate the effort, participating in a 2-day workshop does not mean that they mastered navigating the waters of dual-track Scrum, for example. However, it is a sign of mistrust, though, if the management uses the budget permanently as a means of controlling the teams, making them “pitch” every two months or so.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 3, 2023

TL; DR: Workshop Design with ChatGPT The following article explores whether we can use ChatGPT-4 to create workshops for agile practitioners; for example, Scrum Masters. Join Stefan in one of his upcoming Professional Scrum training classes ! ? Get notified when the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book is available !

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 27, 2020

Sprint Planning is a core event, defining how your customers’ lives will improve with the next Product Increment. The purpose of the Sprint Planning is to align the Development Team and the Product Owner on what to build next, delivering the highest possible value to customers. Source : Scrum Guide, 2017.

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Scrum.org

JULY 15, 2018

This is the third in a series of posts exploring Scrum Mastery. In our first post, we introduced the 4 dimensions of Scrum Mastery. In the second post, we explored how to grow a strong team identity. Now we will explore the team process dimension. How do you work as a team to maximize the benefits of Scrum and agility?

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Whether you are just starting out, developing your project manager resume, or a seasoned professional, mastering the Project Management Buzzwords is non-negotiable. Agile team A cross-functional group of individuals (e.g., Business case An organization will develop a document to justify the investment in a project (i.e.,

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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. A primary reason is poor stakeholder engagement. Poor alignment with project objectives and expectations. Develop mitigation strategies. This experience is not unique.

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Planio

MARCH 7, 2018

The humble meeting gets a bad rap. pretty much everyone) and you’ll see a nightmare-inducing pileup of meetings, events, alarms, and reminders taking over their time. Regular, fast, and efficient meetings are one of the surest ways to keep a project moving (and are an integral part of Agile and Scrum project management ).

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Scrum.org

APRIL 21, 2020

Like many Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches and Agile Managers, I am beginning to understand organizations are complex adaptive systems. One of the powerful properties of Scrum is that it makes a very clear distinction in roles, events and artifacts. Let’s look at a Scrum example. Imagine we observe a poorly functioning team.

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Planio

JULY 22, 2020

Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable. The best books for building better habits (for yourself and your team). Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good habits & Break Bad Ones. Gantt Chart.

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Velociteach

OCTOBER 2, 2023

With Rich Maltzman, he also is the co-author of the book “How to Facilitate Productive Project Planning Meetings” and its update, “ Great Meetings Build Great Teams: A Guide for Project Leaders and Agilists.” Rich is also focused on consulting and teaching, and has developed curricula and taught at several universities.

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International Institute for Learning

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

These tools were developed in the 1950s to manage the U.S. But there are always design changes or unexpected events. The plans will be more realistic, helpful and lead to happy customers and project teams. I knew an executive who was fond of the phrase, and to no one’s surprise was a poor project leader.

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Project Bliss

MAY 24, 2017

When you finish reading this post, you’ll have a better understanding of each, what each looks like when applied to a simple project, and reasons why each might be good or bad approaches for your team. The team repeats the same steps over and over. The team also reassess the work as they develop the solution.

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Scrum.org

MAY 24, 2021

I believe branding this behaviour as a binary concept like “good” or “bad” rather than evaluating it in a spectrum doesn’t help at all. Agile Manifesto, Scrum Framework) to change this mindset and put individuals over processes from the outset. We will try to evaluate these sources in a Scrum Team context.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 3, 2018

High performing teams are motivated by an exceptional vision. The vision becomes a touchstone for difficult discussions with stakeholders, a path to unity for all project participants and a guide post for decision making with your team throughout the project. The commitment and optimism you show to your team. Proper briefs?

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Epicflow Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Besides, it will make you better understand the project’s weaknesses and correct them correspondingly. Take part in industry-related webinars, seminars, conferences, meetups, discussions, and events alike. As a rule, product knowledge is a must for the marketing team and of course product manager. Risk Management.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

More often than not in kind of either the IT product development space or IT services space. We like to consider ourselves kind of a full stack consultancy in the sense that you know, obviously, you have to deal with the work surface levels and what the teams are doing but you know, how do you orchestrate teams across dependency boundaries?

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Sprint Retrospective is the last Scrum event within a Sprint. During this event entire Scrum Team- Scrum Master, Product Owner & Development Team inspects the Sprint and decides how to improve the next Sprint. we are always dependent on team X’. Source: Scrum.org. Inspire more questions.

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