Scrum.org

AUGUST 21, 2023

Get notified when the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book is available ! ? Join the community and help create the next edition of the Scrum Master Salary Report ! Jeff Patton presents a practical approach, guiding you through story lifecycles and offering exercises for quick understanding.

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Scrum.org

MAY 12, 2019

I am influencing the CxOs at the moment. Some people in Senior Management are still getting used to agile leadership. Can I discuss with you about running UX process in Scrum? I think I should take a few minutes for breathing exercise and meditation. . Since you are the Scrum Master, tell us the best way to do this.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

In its theory section, the Scrum Guide refers to the three elements of empiricism: transparency, inspection, and adaptation. However, a fourth element, foundational to enable empiricism, is hidden in a sentence on Scrum Values. Read on and learn more about the complete picture of Scrum’s empiricism. ???? Empiricism.

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Leading Answers

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

This is the first in a multi-post series about emotional intelligence (EI) as the foundation for team leadership. The material comes from my Beyond Agile book and explains why a firm basis of EI is critical to becoming an effective Scrum Master, team lead, or project manager. This first post introduces EI and explains its significance.

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Agilemania

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Everyone who knows about the Scrum framework is aware of how it has benefited the software development industry. Understanding this framework is crucial for both individuals and groups due to Scrum’s global success and popularity. Who is a Scrum Master? Roles and Responsibilities of a Scrum Master.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 31, 2019

On my last year life retrospectives, I wrote about servant leadership. I was reminded by Ken Schwaber’s statement when he told me the reason why he chose the term Scrum Master rather than Scrum Coach because mastery is about the “being” and not the “doing”. To Master Scrum is to Have The Beginner’s Mind.

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International Institute for Learning

JANUARY 25, 2023

By Roman Pichler The Need for Guidance and the Lack of Transactional Power Product success is not something you can achieve on your own as a product manager or Scrum product owner. Influence and Trust as Leadership Building Blocks Effectively leading others requires that they trust you.

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 15, 2024

Possessing a toolkit that makes complex project management easier to handle and raises the success rate of the project and its leadership is undoubtedly advantageous. The project objectives, the nature of the tasks involved, and the preferences of the project team influence the method choice.

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Planio

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Project team members: The group working on the project and following the project manager’s leadership. While anyone who is impacted by the project is technically a stakeholder, key stakeholders are those who have influence and authority to dictate whether a project is a success is not. That’s the what.

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Kiron Bondale

AUGUST 1, 2016

So let’s say that you are transitioning from being a project manager on a traditional project to a team lead, Scrum Master or similar role on an agile team or team-of-teams. Aspire to embody the learnings in Greenleaf’s Servant Leadership and McGregor’s Human Side of Enterprise.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 2, 2024

Their needs, expectations, and influences are diverse. Effective Communication Recognizing cultural and social influences helps tailor communication strategies for diverse teams and stakeholders. Process Assets These are company policies, procedures, and records that influence success.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In that post, we discussed the different roles and responsibilities your coaches should have, and we asserted that it takes more than just a couple Agile Transformation Consultants teaching people Scrum to affect change. Getting people to do new things and behave in new ways is seldom a purely intellectual exercise.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

TL; DR: Scrum Anti-Patterns GPT Can a Custom Scrum Anti-Patterns GPT align teams with Scrum principles? Dive into how leveraging custom GPTs might offer a novel path through Scrum’s common hurdles, focusing on creating actual customer value in the face of organizational and team-level challenges. ?

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nTask

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

But whether you adopt Scrum, Kanban, XP or any Agile framework, in the end, it all depends on the teams involved, the leaders managing the project and the customers at the receiving end. When things don’t go as planned in case of project failure, team disputes or uncontrollable external negative influences, their morale can be affected.

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Leading Answers

JUNE 9, 2017

It is almost always people focused, and why the skills of empathy and influence are critical. Personally, I am lucky to have no interest in Facebook or other social media sites that can consume a lot of time, but a passion in learning about leadership, teams, agility and innovation. However, healthy eating coaches exist.

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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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Leading Agile

AUGUST 15, 2019

In this live session, we’re chatting with Erika Massie, Director of Global Learning and Assessment at Scrum Alliance about some recent changes in their certification options and processes, the value of becoming recognized as a CSM or CSPO, and how the right training can help you hit the ground running or advance to the next level in your career.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 18, 2022

The questions are derived from my sixteen 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. Join Stefan in one of his upcoming Professional Scrum training classes ! 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. Common Scrum Stakeholder Anti-Patterns.

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Stepping Into Project Management

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Examples: Individuals working long hours compensate by not exercising or spending less time on family matters. Organizational leadership takes note of stealth agile implementations and appreciates their success. Teams attempting scrum, may discard it and switch to kanban or vice-versa. But the journey has only now began.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

This post is for anyone who wants to inspire, change or influence others through their efforts as professionals, with emphasis on the latter. How should leadership interact with autonomous teams? What contexts are Scrum suited to, and which not? I quickly found hundreds of academic papers that investigated Scrum and Agile teams.

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Online PM Courses

DECEMBER 18, 2017

If you want to self-coach, to become a better PM, and are prepared to put in the work of doing her exercises, Susanne offers a great book. The first looks at the four essentials of team leadership in a project context, and offers a wealth of tools and tips for each. Susanne Madsen. She comes from a business project background.

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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 best books for crafting your leadership qualities. True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable. Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time.

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Leading Answers

MARCH 9, 2022

Finally, the self-reporting nature of many EQ assessments makes them susceptible to faking or unconscious influence. So too does our capacity to empathize with, work with, and influence others. These traits form the bedrock of leadership. Again, the advice is not to get hung up on the models.

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Velociteach

AUGUST 14, 2023

He’s a Scrum Alliance certified enterprise coach and a certified scrum trainer. At Adobe Systems, Peter led an agile transformation and he co-developed the certified agile leadership program from the Scrum Alliance. They were trying to adopt scrum on this product team. Scrum master does it now.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

– And that project managers crawled back in the window through the Scrum Master Program, right? And then what becomes really interesting ’cause there is… In my mind, as I was thinking about psyche in the last two weeks, I was thinking about how do you influence behaviors. The leadership’s a funny word.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 17, 2021

And so I’m looking at like all these people that were trying to adopt Scrum and what they were missing was this idea that if we can’t form complete cross-functional teams, giving them really super clear backlogs and give them the ability to produce a working passive increment of software at the end of every sprint, then it would fail.

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