International Institute for Learning

MARCH 22, 2023

By Mike Griffiths Welcome to part two of this four-part series introducing basic leadership ideas that any project manager or Scrum master can employ. Be sure to see article one that explains leadership for project managers and outlines the five leadership components covered in the series.

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Scrum.org

JULY 17, 2023

It's about creating a conducive environment for teams to innovate, collaborate, learn, and grow. When things are challenging, you see the effects of tremendous and terrible leadership up close. Outstanding leadership is the cornerstone of any thriving Agile environment. Here, we delve into the '10 Commitments of an Agile Leader.'

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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. It’s a classic.

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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. Be sure to see articles one , two , and three , which cover topics including how leadership differs from management, servant leadership, and team motivation.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 17, 2023

TL; DR: Jira Anti-Patterns If you ask people to come up with popular attributes for “Agile” or “agility,” Scrum and Jira will likely be among the top ten featured. Moreover, in any discussion about the topic, someone will mention that using Scrum running on top of Jira does not make an organization agile.

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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

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Losing the Ability to Innovate You often see companies that grow successfully to the point where it seems their ability to innovate stalls. When you look deeper, you see them struggling to cope with growing technical complexity, coordination costs across teams, and leadership bottlenecks.

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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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nTask

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Stand up meetings have been an integral part of the agile Scrum and Extreme Programming methods. Featured Resources: The Best Scrum Tools of 2021 for Agile Project Management. Daily scrums are not supposed to be those long boring meetings. Make use of the Scrum Board. Use scrum boards to get your daily updates.

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Agilemania

JANUARY 19, 2022

Implementing SAFe Student Workbook: materials and exercises from Lesson 1. Implementing SAFe Student Workbook: materials and exercises from Lessons 2 and 3. Implementing SAFe Student Workbook: materials and exercises from Lesson 3. Implementing SAFe Student Workbook: materials and exercises from Lesson 4. Design Thinking.

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Agilemania

JANUARY 10, 2022

The Scrum is still the most popular framework per the 15th State of Agile Report. With this, the Scrum Master job requirement has increased significantly. Glassdoor ranked Scrum Master No.40 In 2022, the demand for Scrum Master will only increase. Who is a Scrum Master? 40 in the list of 50 Best Jobs in America.

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The IIL Blog

JULY 19, 2023

Use facilitation techniques such as design thinking exercises, affinity mapping, or innovation games to encourage active participation and creativity. Foster a culture of innovation: Encourage stakeholders and team members to embrace a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

A couple of weeks ago Scrum.org launched the Professional Scrum Master II training. A 2-day advanced Scrum Master class designed to support Scrum Masters in their professional development. Two years ago Christiaan Verwijs and I started the process of creating this new training for Scrum Masters?—?obviously Learning 3.0.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 15, 2020

We are used to saying the Scrum is a perfect probe for organizations, as it will reliably discover all dysfunctionalities. However, shouldn’t rapid learning and being innovative now be the name of the game to preserve the organization’s future? TL; DR: Remote Agile Transitions. Failure is an inevitable part of that approach.

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Agile Technical Review SCRUM Software Review 174

Epicflow Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

January 28-29 — International Conference on Software Project Management and Project Scheduling (Australia) is expected to bring together leading academic scientists and researchers to share their experience and research results, discuss recent innovations, trends, and concerns in the field of software project management and project scheduling. .

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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. Scrum methodology and the Adaptive Project Framework (APF) can guide you on this. Leadership in project management requires continuous improvement.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 29, 2020

They have become very popular in the last years, either organized by an independent community or within organizations: When people must tackle a common complex challenge, you can release their inherent creativity and leadership as well as their capacity to self-organize. The whole exercise with a short debriefing/retrospective took about 2.5

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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

From harnessing the innovative pulse of your culture to riding the dynamic waves of market trends, the key to elevating your projects from good to great lies in mastering the project environment. Technological Advancements The rapid pace of technological innovation can offer both opportunities and challenges.

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Governance Government Influencer Technical Review 40

International Institute for Learning

JUNE 22, 2022

In my talk at the Agile and Scrum conference 2022 , which is available on-demand through September 29, 2022 , I have shared a story of transformation , implementing Lean and Agile values and principles into our operations. In a high-performing team, we set each other up to succeed , use humor and innovation to find solutions.

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Telecoms 2022 Lean Development Team Review 52

Leading Agile

JULY 3, 2023

10 years ago, it seemed that a little Scrum here and some coaching there would suffice. The package is changing at one cadence and maybe you’re trying to innovate and change at another cadence, right? And now we’re asking them to exercise different muscles during their work day and so forth.

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Leading Answers

JUNE 9, 2017

Sharpening the Saw: Building Your Skills and Knowledge In addition to organizational change management, consultants need ready access to credible research that supports their ideas—along with frameworks, training materials and exercises to perform that reinforces this work with a variety of stakeholders. However, healthy eating coaches exist.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 9, 2023

TL; DR: Can We Or Should We Change Scrum? Can we or should we change Scrum, or is it a sacrilege to tweak the ‘immutable’ framework to accommodate our teams’ and organizations’ needs? Not so fast; don’t just dismiss augmenting Scrum as leaving the path, contributing to the numerous Scrumbut mutations, giving Scrum a bad name.

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Leading Agile

MAY 16, 2023

Instead of blindly performing the ceremonies of Scrum, what it we got super disciplined about how we decompose work and flow decisions through the organization? In my world, it’s really the difference between, let’s say, doing Scrum, right? Craftsmanship and emergent design are great. They took Agile mainstream.

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Engineering Agile Software Review SCRUM 69

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

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

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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Scrum.org

JANUARY 4, 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. Join us on February 3, 2021: Hands-on Agile #29: Scrum Guide 2020 — Reloaded. Set 3: Internal Stakeholder Management.

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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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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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Planio

JANUARY 30, 2023

And providing transparency into decisions and visibility into strategy and some of the best trust-building exercises you can use. Not only that, but according to a series of McKinsey reports, diversity can inspire innovation , motivation, better decision-making, and higher quality work. Poor goal-setting. No shared vision or mission.

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Technical Review Consulting Agile Lean 78

Scrum.org

JANUARY 4, 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. Join us on February 3, 2021: Hands-on Agile #29: Scrum Guide 2020 — Reloaded.

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ActiveCollab

JUNE 20, 2017

According to a certified scrum trainer Mike Levison ){:target=”_blank”}, there are five things you must do if you want your team to become a high-performing one. Shared leadership. The Structure for Cooperation - Accepted Leadership. Creation of a high-performing team doesn’t just happen on its own. Form a stable team.

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Runrun.it

JANUARY 9, 2020

For employees, agile also means less of the top-down approach to management — employees are much more free to express their thoughts and exercise their creativity. Agile is truly a pioneering approach, and one that has been the source of other derivative and similar methodologies and processes such as LEAN, waterfall, and scrum.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 15, 2023

And so when we’re doing exercises on paper, we’re doing all the analysis, we’re doing all the design, and then we do all the building, all the tests, we’re not able to get that feedback and we’re not able to get that risk reduction. We were able to validate and reduce that risk early.

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Agile Development Team Review Software Risk Management 62

Scrum.org

JULY 13, 2020

Without skilled developers, the Scrum Framework is no more than lipstick on a pig. And more importantly, where developers can learn, innovate and experiment to become better at his craft? So there were frequent huddles for Scrum Masters, developers, testers and designers in addition to general workshops. Having to create?—?and

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Online PM Courses

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Innovative Techniques for Project Management. 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. Herding Chickens.

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Prince2 PMI Technical Review Risk Management 62

ActiveCollab

JUNE 20, 2017

According to a certified scrum trainer Mike Levison , there are five things you must do if you want your team to become a high-performing one. Shared leadership. When members concentrate more on their feelings, rather than meeting goals, team efforts tend to get treated like HR exercises - focus remains on team building.

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