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

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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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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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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Scrum.org

JULY 17, 2023

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. In essence, effective Agile leadership is the bedrock upon which the principles of Agile can flourish.

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Scrum.org

MAY 12, 2019

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. . Daniel: We would like to discuss the strategy to scale agility in our company. Baby steps. Ahmed: Okay then.

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Scrum.org

JULY 9, 2019

Scrum Masters lead by serving others; It sounds paradoxical, but it works. This is a blog about leadership: leadership in Scrum teams, communities, and businesses. It is also a blog about personal growth and offers a complimentary “action approach” to Scrum Masters, inspired by the book The Serving Leader.

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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. These strategies enhance team dynamics and facilitate time and budget management as the project progresses, whether for leading small teams or managing large-scale projects.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2022

OKRs aim to help you execute effectively on what matters most (your strategy), while overcoming silos, politics and turf wars , the ongoing grind (aka whirlwind ), and other management challenges. David L Marquet talks about Intent-based Leadership. The Scrum framework provides one example of how such a cadence could look.

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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. For example, the marketer has to create the marketing strategy, and the development teams have to design and build the product. Admit if you are wrong.

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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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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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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. If an organization is not transparent about vision and strategy, teams will find it significantly more challenging to become self-organizing and accept responsibility. (Or TL; DR: Remote Agile Transitions.

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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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Scrum.org

AUGUST 25, 2022

It is very similar to work engagement (Schaufeli & Salanova, 2014), which we also measure in both the Scrum Team Survey and TeamMetrics (as “team morale”). If the team is facing a stressful situation, what strategies will you apply to make the situation less stressful? Psychology of Sport and Exercise , 14 (5), 692–700.

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The IIL Blog

JULY 19, 2023

Team Collaboration is Key In addition to the tips provided earlier, here are some more strategies to further enhance stakeholder and team member engagement in product development: Conduct user research: Engaging stakeholders and team members should not be limited to internal discussions. Check out his presentation details here.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 19, 2023

So, in the presence of really well-formed teams, we might want to do Scrum and XP on top of that. In the presence of well-encapsulated products or value streams, maybe we want to do something like SAFe or Large-Scale Scrum. A lightweight, Agile governance model that ties up to the portfolio management/investment tier strategy.

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Epicflow Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Lectures and practical exercises will provide an opportunity to gain knowledge and skills in various areas of project management. . The first area will involve topics related to Agile, Lean, Scrum, Kanban, System Thinking, and other methods for improving the software development process. Pricing : information not yet available.

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Epicflow Blog

MAY 14, 2020

You can choose one of the following seminars: Disciplined Agile Lean Scrum Master: For Professionals New to Agile, Aligning the Organization Through Portfolio Management , Team Member Engagement: Alignment Up, Down, and Across the Organization, Program Management Master Class with Michel Thiry. Project Leadership. Business Analysis.

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Scrum.org

MAY 5, 2020

Being an effective and successful Scrum Master requires a wide variety of skills, knowledge, and experience. This variety is captured in the stances of a Scrum Master. The Scrum Master is expected to act as a teacher, impediment remover, facilitator, coach, mentor, and change agent. What does remote facilitation look like?

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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. Check-in exercise with faces : In the storming and norming phase, use emojis to do a check-in exercise.

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Planio

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Project team members: The group working on the project and following the project manager’s leadership. They direct the company’s strategy and also have a large interest in its outcome. Stakeholder Buy-In and Strategy. Understand expectations and create a strategy for dealing with them. Continuous Stakeholder Management.

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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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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 2, 2024

Imagine possessing the ability to seamlessly integrate the intricate web of internal stakeholders and external factors into your project strategy. Envision your projects thriving amidst the chaos, fortified by adaptive strategies and an unparalleled understanding of every variable at play.

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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. Jennise Chaffold has more than two decades of leadership experience in developing strategies to help organizations by keeping processes and people in sync.

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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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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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Scrum.org

JANUARY 23, 2023

TL; DR: Scrum Master Interview Guide 2023: The Scrum Master Role If you want to fill a Scrum Master position in your organization, you may find the following interview questions helpful in identifying the right candidate. This revised set of questions addresses the Scrum Master role.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 9, 2023

TL; DR: A ChatGPT Job Interview for a Scrum Master Position. Can a large language model, not specializing in anything “agile,” pass a screening interview for a Scrum Master position? So, read on and learn whether Scrum Masters will soon be replaced with a chatbot. ?? Question : Thank you for your application as a Scrum Master!

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 15, 2019

Aligning Teams & Backlogs to Strategy w/ Matt Smith. We’ll discuss how to create alignment from strategy to teams when you’re building a backlog. She will also share a few easy exercises you can use to get calm and grounded anytime. In this live talk with Matt Smith of LeadingAgile. Why Become Recognized as a CSM or CSPO?

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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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Leading Answers

AUGUST 6, 2022

.  However, let’s start by examining what servant leadership already contains.     Servant leadership was popularized by Robert Greenleaf and described as a mindset and set of practices. Servant leadership is a mindset and value system which recognizes that the team members deliver the project benefits.

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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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Planio

JANUARY 30, 2023

When there’s uncertainty or a lack of clear product strategy , most managers fall back on measuring output rather than outcomes. A clear connection between your overall strategy and their day-to-day work is one of the most motivating things you can give a team. Share your company strategy and make space for feedback and questions.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 12, 2020

TL; DR: 70 Scrum Master Theses. The following 70 Scrum Master theses describe the role of from a holistic product creation perspective. The theses cover the role of the Scrum Master from product discovery to product delivery in hands-on practical manner. The Role of the Scrum Master. It is not a mere management role.

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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 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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