Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Scrum is a framework within which teams work together to deliver products in complex environments. The Scrum framework includes five events: The Sprint Sprint Planning Daily Scrum Sprint Review Sprint Retrospective. Each of the five events in Scrum is time boxed. Why are events time boxed?

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

As an agile coach I often have Scrum Masters come up to me because management is complaining there are too many meetings in Scrum and that their developers aren't 100% utilised on developing the products. Why is it that so many people walk away from a Scrum event saying it was a waste of time, boring or not relevant to them?

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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 Review - What’s The Point?

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 9, 2023

Context You only have to read Scrum Master job descriptions to observe the importance given to facilitation in organizations' applications. Employers expect the Scrum Master to facilitate Scrum events. The Scrum Master must naturally act as a guide in this difficult, even painful exploration.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 18, 2023

5 Grundsätze für die effektive Moderation von Scrum Events Unerfahrene Scrum Master glauben, sie müssten möglichst viele Facilitation-Techniken kennen. Zweckmäßigkeit: Scrum Master helfen dem Team, das Ziel nicht aus den Augen zu verlieren. Scrum Master helfen dem Team, ein gemeinsames Verständnis zu schaffen.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 21, 2022

Rather than containing a set of work instructions, Scrum is a framework offering general principles. The simplicity of Scrum means that teams can adopt the complementary practices that work for their environment. For example, Scrum doesn’t tell teams that they need to use points. How to do that is up to the Scrum team.

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Scrum.org

MAY 30, 2022

There are five events in Scrum. But just going through the motions and having each of the events on the calendar is not enough. To get the most out of Scrum, your team needs to understand the purpose behind each of the five events. . It’s a container that includes all of the other events. Daily Scrum.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 4, 2022

Many well-meaning Scrum practitioners have misconceptions about Scrum, which sometimes leads to creating “rules” that do not exist in the framework. Scrum is deliberately incomplete because the framework is used in complex environments where simple best practices won’t fit all situations.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Früher dachte ich, ich würde die Scrum Events erfolgreich moderieren, wenn ich folgende Punkte beachtete: Ich wiederholte das Ziel des Meetings, um sicherzustellen, dass es von allen verstanden wird. Seitdem ich das realisiert habe, gestalte ich Scrum Events anders. Schauen wir uns gemeinsam die Events in Scrum an.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 18, 2021

A Scrum Event is a meeting. Rather than replicate the name and pain of meetings, the Scrum Events are designed to replace them and be all that you need. The power of the Scrum Events is in the way they're time-boxed and in their purpose. Let's take a closer look at the events. Daily Scrum.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

It might surprise you that even those with years of Scrum practice sometimes make statements about the framework that are, well, inaccurate. The Scrum Guide outlines how teams can learn to work together to deliver complex work. Last week , we discussed some of the most common, if well-meaning, misconceptions about Scrum in general.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Every Scrum event has a maximum allowable time period to carry it out, called a timebox. When I tell someone that the Sprint Planning event is timeboxed at eight hours, I usually receive shocked looks. There seems to be a misunderstanding about applying timeboxes in Scrum. Scrum Event Timeboxes. Eight hours!”

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Scrum.org

MARCH 28, 2023

A fundamental part of Scrum is the ideal of continuous improvement. Scrum Teams are always getting better. The special ingredient that makes these Scrum events successful is a healthy dose of positivity. In this event, we inspect ourselves and what we can do better. That's never easy.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 12, 2024

As many scrum masters set out on their journey, they are often as new to their role as their manager. This post (inspired by Ben Horowitz author of “The hard things about hard things”) is for scrum masters, and people who work with scrum masters, and explores what good and bad looks like.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 27, 2022

I've used a facilitator guide to prepare for Sprint Retrospectives, Sprint Reviews, story mapping sessions, refinement, teaching Scrum, Scrum Master Communities of Practice, Vision statement creation, meet-ups, and more. It starts at least a week before the event. I'll start off by brainstorming the different steps of the event.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 28, 2021

It's time to look at the Scrum Events. In previous posts in the Scrum Guide for Leaders series we explored what Scrum means for Leaders , using the Scrum Values to create a Scrum-friendly culture , and how to effectively support the Scrum roles/accountabilities. Next, we turn to the Scrum events.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 17, 2023

Artikel der „Scrum im Selbststudium“-Artikelreihe. Scrum ermöglicht Unternehmen, regelmäßig und häufig neu zu entscheiden. Was können wir tun, wenn es unwahrscheinlich ist, dass das Scrum Team das Sprint-Ziel erreichen wird?“ Und jedes Event liefert einen spezifischen Blickwinkel auf die Arbeit des Scrum Teams.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 3, 2021

When using the Scrum framework, the Retrospective is the final event in a Sprint. During this event, the team discusses how the Sprint went regarding individuals, interactions, processes, tools, and their Definition of Done. Like all other events in the Scrum framework, the Sprint Retrospective is timeboxed.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 10, 2022

According to the 2020 Scrum Guide, “The purpose of the Sprint Retrospective is to plan ways to increase quality and effectiveness.” Scrum Teams must take the Retrospective seriously to achieve these outcomes. Teams that choose to skip the Retrospective miss out on a lot and aren’t practicing Scrum.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 18, 2022

Throughout this blog, I use a variety of terms such as meeting, event, and workshop ostensibly as synonyms. Whilst this is a Professional Scrum leaning piece, facilitation is not an art solely associated with Scrum, and therefore the language I use isn’t either. Does this gardener sound like a Scrum Master to you?

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Scrum.org

MAY 30, 2022

Is your Scrum team comfortable with doing all the Scrum events remotely? No, in fact, what you will be reading today isn’t a good, nor is it a complimentary Scrum practice. I often see that the lack of meeting rooms can potentially constrain a Scrum team’s way of working. Scrum Facilitators podcast on demand!

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Scrum.org

MARCH 11, 2021

On today’s episode of YOUR DAILY SCRUM: Why isn't product backlog refinement a Scrum Event? Today's question is about Product Backlog Refinement and why it isn't an official Scrum Event. Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller are the author of Fixing Your Scrum: Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 7, 2022

With the global pandemic, all of these live events have looked very different over the past couple years. Do you know of an upcoming event to add to the list? It is the largest project management event in the region and will be entering its seventh year. Many have been delayed or postponed, though most are back for 2022.

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Kiron Bondale

MARCH 20, 2022

One of the clichés about Scrum is that it is “easy to understand but difficult to master” The first part of that is obvious with the Scrum Guide is only eleven pages (if you don’t count the title page, purpose and table of contents). However, the immutable design of Scrum is where challenges occur.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 11, 2023

The Definition of ‘Done’ is probably the most misunderstood concept of the Scrum framework. Scrum Guide 202 0 The Definition of ‘Done’ provides a shared understanding among Creators-(The Scrum Team- Developers, Product Owner, and Scrum Master) as well as Inspectors (the stakeholders). It supports Scrum Events.

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The Digital Project Manager

JANUARY 16, 2023

The post The 5 Scrum Events Or Ceremonies: The Ultimate In Depth Guide appeared first on The Digital Project Manager. The agile mindset is based on the Agile Manifesto, which reads: We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 8, 2024

The project management principle to enable change to achieve the envisioned future state is inherently supported by the Scrum framework. Scrum's approach, characterized by close stakeholder involvement and iterative development, naturally facilitates the adoption of new behaviors and processes.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 20, 2024

The presence of a Scrum Master goes beyond facilitating Scrum Events and meetings and resolving impediments. The Scrum Master encourages the team to embrace change, not as a challenge but as an opportunity for growth and innovation. Transparency and Trust: The Scrum Master helps the team focus on their work.

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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

MARCH 20, 2022

The new Scrum Guide 2020 mentions Scrum is founded on empiricism and lean thinking. While Scrum Events remove the need for any other meeting, at times unintended wastes get injected in those events. In this article, let’s take Daily Scrum as an example to help understand, identifying and eliminating the 8 wastes.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 16, 2023

Da Liberating Structures erst mal anders sind als die übliche Art und Weise, ein Meeting zu moderieren, schrecken noch viele Scrum Master davor zurück, sie in den Scrum Events zu verwenden. Damit du nicht dazugehörst, gebe ich dir in diesem Artikel einen Einstieg in die Anwendung von Liberating Structures in Scrum Events.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 19, 2024

This post was inspired by a recent conversation with a colleague about the evolving role of the Scrum Master and the words found in the 2017 Scrum Guide that led my colleague to vanish from the Scrum world, thinking it was a scam.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 1, 2024

The professional project management principle to embrace adaptability and resiliency aligns seamlessly with the core tenets of Scrum. Scrum, with its empirical approach and emphasis on cross-functional, self-managing teams, inherently cultivates adaptability and resiliency.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 6, 2023

Schon lange, bevor Scrum nicht mehr richtig funktioniert, sind die ersten Probleme in Scrum Events zu erkennen. Angefangen damit, dass das Scrum Team die bevorstehende Arbeit im Refinement nicht besprochen hat oder die Entwickler sich nicht auf den Funktionsumfang verpflichten wollen. Niemals mehr als 1/20.

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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

APRIL 16, 2024

When a team moves away from Scrum, the Scrum Master role often evolves. The evolution of a Scrum Master's role when a team moves away from Scrum is a transformation. Team Collaboration Advocate: A former Scrum Master's expertise in fostering team collaboration remains valuable.

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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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