Scrum.org

AUGUST 6, 2020

Some may confuse the word “Foundation” in the name of the Professional Scrum Foundation course to mean simple or basic. But in truth this means it is a course for everybody to build a solid base of knowledge, understanding and practical application of Professional Scrum. What is complexity? What is empiricism?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 7, 2023

Since I became a Professional Scrum Trainer in November, I have been asked a lot about the current state, and the future perspectives, for Scrum and agile development in Japan, where I’ve worked for the last six years. So much so that many consider the paper to be part of the roots of Scrum. Why is that?

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 6, 2020

Some may confuse the word “Foundation” in the name of the Professional Scrum Foundation course to mean simple or basic. But in truth this means it is a course for everybody to build a solid base of knowledge, understanding and practical application of Professional Scrum. What is complexity? What is empiricism?

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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Agile is an umbrella term encompassing a variety of frameworks and approaches to value delivery in complex environments. The word agile came into widespread use following the creation of the Agile Manifesto in 2001. The Agile Manifesto includes four values and 12 principles that describe a better way to approach complex work.

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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. You can sign up here for our weekly ‘Food of Agile Thought newsletter’ and join 29k other subscribers. ??

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Techno-PM

MARCH 15, 2022

The agile scrum master certification provides a way for people to get trained in the latest project management techniques. The training includes everything from hands-on exercises to lectures to prepare participants well when they take the exam at the end of the course. What is scrum? Who is a scrum master?

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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. You can sign up here for our weekly ‘Food of Agile Thought newsletter’ and join 29k other subscribers. ??

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LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 16, 2018

If you’re fresh out of Certified Scrum Master training, you are likely invigorated to start applying the Agile and SCRUM based techniques to your next project. Based on the classroom exercises, you’re excited to try new concepts and apply the magic cure-all that will solve all waterfall-based project problems.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2022

OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) have become the latest management framework to suffer the fate of becoming popular too quickly, to the point where in many organizations, OKRs are a theater/charade with little useful substance or benefits. What are OKRs even about? What are OKRs even about? . Let’s start with the basics.

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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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Scrum.org

MAY 6, 2022

Why many Scrum teams struggle with continuous improvement, and how you can do better. Are members of your team wondering what the point is of talking about improvement when nothing ever happens? We are also creating the Scrum Team Survey to help teams diagnose themselves and identify where to improve.

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Agilemania

OCTOBER 31, 2022

As software expands its wings in all industries, the demand for skilled product managers continues to grow. The role and responsibilities of the product owner includes identifying the business needs & market opportunities, establishing project objectives, and managing the product development process from ideation to final release.

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Agilemania

JANUARY 10, 2022

The Scrum is still the most popular framework per the 15th State of Agile Report. However, with the agile adoption rate going from 37% in 2020 to 86% in 2021 , more companies are set to join the bandwagon. . With this, the Scrum Master job requirement has increased significantly. Glassdoor ranked Scrum Master No.40

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 14, 2021

I've been asked several times now about Nexus and SAFe - what are the similarities, differences, etc. The Nexus group of teams is very similar to the Agile Release Train (ART) construct. The Nexus group of teams is very similar to the Agile Release Train (ART) construct. Lean/Agile Leadership.

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Leading Agile

JULY 3, 2023

10 years ago, it seemed that a little Scrum here and some coaching there would suffice. Today, Agilists must have a plan for incorporating DevOps practices into the early stages of Agile Transformation. Career incentives may discourage people from being agile, and then we ask them to be agile.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 19, 2023

If you were king for a day, and you could change the hearts and minds of the people inside your organization over night; what would you do next? And would you be able to guarantee those actions would lead to greater Business Agility? It’s not that leaders are anti-Agile. What would you do differently the next day?

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 25, 2022

Although this is often the result of “death marches” and similar requests from management, there are also many situations where developers do this out of their own will. Although this is often the result of “death marches” and similar requests from management, there are also many situations where developers do this out of their own will.

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Planio

JULY 22, 2020

The number one thing every project manager needs to level up their skills is experience. A good project management book. While there are tons of fantastic resources online for learning how to be a better project manager (such as this blog!) Jump to a section: The best books for mastering the fundamentals of project management.

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LiquidPlanner

MAY 15, 2018

Related: Adopting Agile is an Exercise in Change Management. Given these challenges, how does applying Agile practices improve the relationship? IT and business teams speak entirely different languages and the recommendation is to introduce terms like scrum, product owner, sprints, backlog, user stories and story points?

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2023

And that’s typically how I think about a lot of the talks that I give because everything in the agile communities about doing it and learning from it and sharing with people and getting feedback and figuring out how to do it better and that kind of stuff. Systems are a Predictor of a Balanced Culture Okay, fair enough.

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Velociteach

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The podcast by project managers for project managers. Leonard demonstrates that music and project management share common principles as he offers a unique perspective on fostering a high-performing project team through the integration of music, productivity, workplace culture, and neuroscience. Welcome to Manage This.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 15, 2023

Companies that adopt Agile never do it just for the sake of adopting Agile. Usually, they assume it will benefit them, and maybe they’re clear upfront on what that benefit is; maybe they aren’t. They do know that Waterfall wasn’t working, so Agile will fix those problems, right?

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Leading Agile

MARCH 17, 2021

This is Mike Cottmeyer's talk from AgileIndy 2021 on The Executive's Guide to Why Agile Transformation Fails. Announcer] This is Mike Cottmeyer’s talk from AgileIndy, 2021 on “Why Agile Transformation Fails.” So I got involved with agile back in like 2003 and I was working in this company called CheckFree.

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