Scrum.org

JUNE 19, 2023

Retrospectives are a crucial component of the Scrum framework, providing teams with a dedicated space to reflect on their performance and identify opportunities for growth. I once had the opportunity to work with a Scrum Master who followed an identical Retrospective agenda for over a year.

Innovation 205

Innovation SCRUM Agile Sustainability 205

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 25, 2021

We started the Scrum Guide for Leaders series with a discussion of what Scrum means for you as a Leader. Next, we discussed the conditions where Scrum's Empiricism, Self-Management, and Continuous Improvement can thrive. Next, We are turning to the Scrum accountabilities/roles. Scrum Team. Product Owner.

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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

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 Leadership Consulting Defining 200

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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Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Sustainability 194

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 12, 2020

When I started working for White October we followed the conventional “scrum” format, where the team get together, share what’s new, what’s challenging and what’s happening, and everyone gives feedback and makes suggestions to unblock each other. In Scrum, the development team attend the daily standup meeting.

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SCRUM Agile Energy Development Team Review 355

Scrum.org

JUNE 1, 2022

Do your Daily Scrums feel like a pointless ritual where everyone just lists what they’ve done yesterday, and what they do will do today? In our work with Scrum teams, we’ve been part of teams that had it. So Scrum was doomed from the start. We also explore how these insights create a strong foundation for the Scrum framework.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 6, 2023

The Scrum framework has transformed how teams approach complex work by creating an environment where teams use structured collaboration to deliver value sooner and focus on continuous improvement. The Scrum Master is crucial in setting the tone for open communication and ensuring confidentiality.

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Innovation SCRUM 2023 Energy 178

Scrum.org

JANUARY 25, 2021

TL; DR: Scrum Master Job — 4 Steps to Identify Suitable Employers or Clients. Are you considering a new Scrum Master job? Don’t worry; there are four steps of proactive research to identify suitable employers or clients for Scrum Masters and avoid disappointment later. The Scrum Master Job Market Is Promising.

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SCRUM Technical Review Engineering Lean 204

Scrum.org

MAY 17, 2021

There are plenty of Scrum stakeholder failures. Given that Scrum is a framework with a precise and concise yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. Explore with me three widespread examples of how stakeholders fail their Scrum teams in three short video clips, totaling 6 minutes and 5 seconds. ??

Software Review 185

Software Review SCRUM Technical Review 2021 185

Scrum.org

JUNE 17, 2020

Last week, Simon Flossmann , one of our Patrons , took the opportunity to raise the following challenge: “How can a Scrum Master prove its value to the organization such that (s)he isn’t considered to be the first asked to leave in a crisis?”. Recommended experiments, strategies, and practices are: Clarify the Scrum Master role.

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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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2020 2022 SCRUM Cadence 204

Scrum.org

JULY 17, 2023

It's about creating a conducive environment for teams to innovate, collaborate, learn, and grow. Agile leaders create an environment where teams feel safe to experiment and learn from failure, encourage collaboration, and innovation is the norm. The Agile Leader's commitment goes beyond mere lip service to the Agile Manifesto.

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Agile Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Leadership 141

Scrum.org

JUNE 8, 2020

TL; DR: Results of a Virtual Strategy Session for Scrum Masters Regarding Remote Work. They identified robust and hedging strategies for Scrum Masters and agile coaches regarding the challenges of remote work and distributed agile teams. The whole exercise with a short debriefing/retrospective took about 2.5

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SCRUM Agile 2020 Innovation 125

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

"There's no predictability/commitment in Agile/Scrum". They are either already victims of "Bad Scrum" or are basing their concerns off of a lot of "Bad Scrum" going on out there. Why didn't I just say "Agile/Scrum provides great predictability" and get it over with? The Risk Burndown Exercise.

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Underperforming Technical Team Risk SCRUM Executing 133

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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ChatGPT Technical Review 2023 SCRUM 194

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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2022 SCRUM Certification Software Review 75

ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 20, 2020

One of the largest series of conferences for project managers in North America, the Project Summit has industry innovators who help professionals be more productive, and learn best practices, skills and strategies to succeed. Global Scrum Gathering. For the agile enthusiast, this scrum gathering takes place twice a year since 2013.

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2020 PMO PMI Underperforming Technical Team 261

The IIL Blog

JULY 19, 2023

Agile Team Engagement is Not Always Easy Here are a few tips for engaging stakeholders and team members in product development: Involve stakeholders in the planning process. It’s important to involve them in the planning process so that they can provide input and feedback. Communicate regularly with stakeholders. Celebrate successes.

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Innovation 2023 Agile Estimate 78

Scrum.org

AUGUST 6, 2018

The Scrum Master role is a difficult one. Often, they are the ones driving agility into the organization, making the agile practices stick and ensuring that teams, products and the organization are using an empirical process, supporting self-organization and continually improving. Context is everything for the Scrum Master.

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SCRUM Certification Innovation Agile 89

Agilemania

JANUARY 19, 2022

We’ve broken down the process into 3 steps to help you with the SPC exam-. 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. Design Thinking.

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Certification Lean Technical Review Consulting 98

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. This affects product innovation as well as GTM innovation and other key business processes. . These opportunities are identified and validated via a Due Diligence (DD) process.

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Technical Review Software Review Agile Innovation 198

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Innovators showcase their ideas or products and gather meaningful feedback in short cycles. This blog post will describe how we’ve experimented with a twist in this exercise during a recent Scrum.org PSM II class. In the first part of the exercise the participants generate a list of all must-do and must-not-do activities.

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SCRUM Closing Innovation Construction 132

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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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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Certification 2022 SCRUM Consulting 52

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

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Scrum.org

JULY 7, 2020

Adding more people to a team or project to accelerate delivery also contradicts another agile law, Hackman’s law: “ The larger a group, the more process problems members encounter in carrying out their collective work […] worse, the vulnerability of a group to such difficulties increases sharply as size increases.”. Hackman’s Law.

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Technical Review Agile Software Review Software Engineering 143

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. The process continues to be ruled by (annual) budgets, and risk-mitigation by committee is still the norm, becoming even more counter-productive during a remote agile transition. TL; DR: Remote Agile Transitions.

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Agile Technical Review SCRUM Software Review 183

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 20, 2016

When I started working for White October we followed the conventional “scrum” format, where the team get together, share what’s new, what’s challenging and what’s happening, and everyone gives feedback and makes suggestions to unblock each other. But the traditional scrum format didn’t work for our team and made meetings flat.

Energy 150

Energy SCRUM Agile Innovation 150

International Institute for Learning

MARCH 15, 2023

By Mike Griffiths Welcome to part one of a four-part series introducing basic leadership ideas that any project manager or Scrum master can employ. The image below shows how team member productivity contributions can vary from net-negative Undermining or Resistance on the left-hand side all the way to Passionate Innovation on the right.

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Leadership PMI Technical Review Innovation 59

nTask

DECEMBER 21, 2021

As we discussed, a product backlog is not a list or a collection of technical specifications that the product development team has to fulfill for the development process to progress. Well, for that, we have a process called product backlog management. Let’s take a look at the core principles of the product backlog management process.

2022 78

2022 Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Development Team Review 78

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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SCRUM ChatGPT Technical Review Development Team Review 194

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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Scrum.org

APRIL 2, 2019

Ask a Scrum practitioner and they'll give you 3-4, maybe 5, if he’s real good, values Scrum holds dear. It takes time and hard work (with a lot of tears in the process) to peel the “self-awareness onion”. Surprisingly, a simple 5 whys exercise helps here greatly. Next ask a different question, “What ARE the values?

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Underperforming Technical Team Construction SCRUM Controlling 120

Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 15, 2024

They provide a structured approach to understanding complex processes, decision frameworks, or phenomena, serving as thinking strategies. Process improvement strategies and lean principles like Just-In-Time (JIT) Production and 5S Methodology might be some methods that project managers would be familiar with.

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Artificial Inteligence Underperforming Technical Team 2024 Lean 52

The IIL Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Case studies on how agile methodologies have been applied to mission planning and how scrum has been used in spacecraft construction were discussed, as well as topics such as developing and delivering software, reliability and reuse of software, onboard processing, and communication. Representing Scrum, Inc.

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Aerospace Agile 2018 Information Technology 84

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? But at some point, the ideation of features and requirements and the decisioning process looks a lot more like an assembly line in a factory than it does boutique delivery.

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Engineering Agile Software Review SCRUM 69