Scrum.org

APRIL 5, 2022

I’ve been part of the Scrum community for about 12 years. In this period, I’ve noticed a clear pattern in the majority of Scrum-related threads on social media like LinkedIn, Medium, Twitter, and so on. We are also very good at contrasting this with the ideal state of Scrum.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 17, 2023

TL; DR: ChatGPT Prompts for Scrum Practitioners. Last week, I ran an “interview” with ChatGPT as an applicant for a fictitious Scrum Master position based on questions from Scrum Master Interview Guide. Zur deutschsprachigen Version des Artikels: ChatGPT-Prompts für Scrum Master, Product Owner und Entwickler. ?

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Scrum.org

JULY 11, 2022

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. What if, for example, not all of your Scrum team’s members feel enthusiastic about the Sprint Retrospective, the critical event when the Scrum team inspects itself?

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Learning new skills and knowledge is a highly complex process that involves a wide range of factors, including individual learning personalities, situational factors, and environmental factors. The Professional Scrum Trainer (PST) community helps bring our mission to life by delivering classes around Scrum and working with customers directly.

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Scrum.org

MAY 16, 2022

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 ! The Scrum Guide on the Sprint Retrospective. The Scrum Team identifies the most helpful changes to improve its effectiveness.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 16, 2023

As an Agile Coach, he’s responsible for about 50 Scrum Masters. For about one hour we talked about how to be a servant leader for such a group of Scrum Masters. Regardless if you’re an Agile Coach or Scrum Master, servant leadership is the desired mindset, behavior, and attitude. What are ways to lead, inspire, and guide them?

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Scrum.org

MAY 30, 2022

Although research shows that these activities are useful in any Scrum team, we also recognize that teams usually start with this as they become more experienced with Scrum. Design The Box’ is a fun, creative exercise to help Scrum teams step into the shoes of their users. How is it described in the packaging?

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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. Preorder the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now for delivery in January 2024! Preorder the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now for delivery in January 2024! ?️

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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

MAY 12, 2019

I am influencing the CxOs at the moment. Can I discuss with you about running UX process in Scrum? It makes the engineers own the whole process and product if you involve them with UX process too. It makes the engineers own the whole process and product if you involve them with UX process too.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Preorder the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now for delivery in January 2024! ?️ This Week Exclusively on my Substack Newsletter : Scrum Master Anti-Patterns — An Excerpt from the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide. ? Join 525-plus peers and help create the next edition of the Scrum Master Salary Report !

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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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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

What is an Influencer? These gentlemen are in all the top-10 lists of being the ‘the best’ Politician, Influencer, world changer, etc. So before diving into the Product Owner taking an Influencer stance, let’s first inspect what an Influencer is. The Influencer is also referred to as the Politician.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 28, 2023

The complimentary practices below can help bring clarity to your thought process and can be used to potentially involve stakeholders in the process as well. The outcomes of the MOSCOW session proved invaluable to the Product Owner's process of ordering the Product Backlog. Understanding and avoiding them is crucial.

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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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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

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. Hence, the actual process will have to change over time. Scrum Master, you will need to intervene in this case. Management Anti-Patterns Regarding Scrum.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 31, 2019

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”. As a master, the being is more important because if the Scrum Master gets the being right, the doing will be manifested right by itself.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

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. Source : Scrum Guide 2017. Sprint Retrospective Anti-Patterns.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 19, 2022

And we share results from our own analyses based on actual data from stakeholders and Scrum teams that we collected through the Scrum Team Survey. Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. But adherence to a framework or prescribed process does not guarantee agility.

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Planio

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

A 3-part stakeholder management process for keeping everyone happy. Create and enforce transparent processes for communication. 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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International Institute for Learning

APRIL 5, 2023

By Mike Griffiths Welcome to part four, the last installment of this series introducing basic leadership ideas that any project manager or Scrum master can employ. This article explains influence, power and how project managers can create empowered teams that tap into the Drive motivators of autonomy, mastery and purpose.

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 15, 2024

They provide a structured approach to understanding complex processes, decision frameworks, or phenomena, serving as thinking strategies. The project objectives, the nature of the tasks involved, and the preferences of the project team influence the method choice. In effect, it may help reduce time and resource waste.

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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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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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MPUG

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Understanding variation is essential to engineering and a fundamental concept of lean; upon first blush, this exercise seems to demonstrate the idea of variation. Training is only part of the solution; the work environment (culture) and methods will significantly influence it. The class began by asking the students to draw a pig.

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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. Higher IQ profiles are often more open to change and can process new information in real-time to solve problems.

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nTask

MARCH 17, 2022

The result of the process determines whether a company will move ahead with the process or not. Go no go analysis, however, is a formal process with a set checklist. This checklist is followed throughout the organization and is a part of the decision-making process.

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Leading Answers

JUNE 9, 2017

Consultants add value by finding ways to get there, step by step, unpicking knots in process, dismantling barriers to change. It usually involves working with people who are busy trying to get their jobs done using some process they were told to use rather than had a hand in designing. 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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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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MPUG

OCTOBER 14, 2019

The retrospective process consists of two words: Retro – meaning recent past, and. You can define the retrospective process as: “A recurring workshop in which the team looks back on their work over a period, reflects upon it, and learns. The team applies this learning in future work to improve people, processes, and products.”.

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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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

During one of the recent training sessions, a participant posed an intriguing question: "What are some lesser-discussed skills that a Scrum Master should possess?" In these posts, I aim to share my insights and experiences regarding skills that are often overlooked in discussions but hold significance in becoming an effective Scrum Master.

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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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Planio

DECEMBER 14, 2018

As scrum master and agile coach Robbin Schuurman writes : “There are always too many features that would add value, therefore creating a lack of focus on the vision and goals. Planio—our project management software—offers a few unique features that can help speed up your grooming process. That’s why the Scrum Guide.

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