Scrum.org

MARCH 4, 2024

For professional Project Managers transitioning to Professional Scrum Masters, this concept requires a nuanced understanding. Scrum, by its nature, is a framework designed for adaptability and responsiveness, not tailored in the traditional sense. Focus on Value Delivery: In Scrum, the focus is always on delivering value.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 17, 2020

TL; DR: Scrum Master Interview Questions (1). Scrum has proven time and again to be the most popular framework for software development. Given that software is eating the world , a seasoned Scrum Master is nowadays in high demand. Though whatever the case, we can say for sure that Scrum is very popular in software development.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

TL; DR: How to Sabotage A Product Owner — 53 Anti-Patterns from the Trenches to Avoid. One of my favorite exercises from my Professional Scrum Product Owner classes is how to best sabotage a Product Owner as a member of the middle management. Join Stefan in one of his upcoming Professional Scrum training classes ! ????

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

PRINCE2 has its roots in the UK public sector and government but is now used and loved around the world. They all help you learn how to manage a project lifecycle through controllable stages and implement appropriate governance, including a project board. You don’t learn how to work with others. PRINCE2 Agile Foundation.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Scrum Methodology. What It Is: Scrum is a short “sprint” approach to managing projects. The scrum methodology is It’s ideal for teams of no more than 10 people, and often is wedded to two-week cycles with short daily meetings, known as daily scrum meetings. It’s led by what is called a Scrum master.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The more Scrum Teams are empowered to make and own decisions about their work, the more benefits they will realize. The Scrum Guide gets an update. The 2017 version of the Scrum Guide said the following about the Scrum Team: "Scrum Teams are self-organizing and cross-functional. The change. What's in a word.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 18, 2021

TL; DR: My Top Ten Worst Scrum Anti-Patterns. I recently was invited to a Scrum.org Webinar, and I picked a topic close to my heart: the worst Scrum anti-patterns. So, without further delay, here are my top ten of the meanest, baddest Scrum anti-patterns I have experienced. ?? My Top Ten Worst Scrum Anti-Patterns.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 26, 2024

Myth #3 Agile has no governance As many Agile transformations shun good management and seldom provide solid guidance for senior leadership, governance tends to fall by the wayside. We show our clients how to build and maintain lightweight governance practices, appropriate reporting and remain in consistent conversations with teams.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

How do we decide what’s most valuable to the organization, and then how do we make trade-offs with scarce resources to pull from to achieve our most valued goals? . To figure out how to deal with this and find the answers, we need some sort of governance model. But we break all the ones we can. .

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Does the LEGO Group face Zombie Scrum issues as well? How is “value” defined at the LEGO Group? In this blog post, we focus on one specific topic that emerged: “How a culture of learning and experimentation can prevent Zombie Scrum”. Zombie Scrum? Zombie Scrum looks like Scrum from a distance.

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Inloox

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In this article we will show you how to bring order into this chaos. Scrum and Kanban are among the most popular methods in agile management. Scrum as a framework for productive product development and Kanban as a useful tool for controlling processes and maintenance activities actually pursue two different goals.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 26, 2021

One of the pillars of our book the Zombie Scrum Survival Guide , and the Scrum framework itself, is “Ship It Fast”. Maybe a Scrum team goes into a Sprint Review highly enthusiastic because after 3 Sprints they finally released an updated API to the staging environment. How did it impact the team, product, or its stakeholders?”.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 10, 2023

Scrum is an agile way of working in which projects are broken into blocks, which are called sprints. The sprint planning meeting involves the scrum master, scrum product manager and the scrum team. This is a collaborative effort called a scrum ceremony. Daily Scrum Meeting. Sprint Planning Meeting.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 17, 2022

After completing a successful Agile pilot, many organizations overlay standard Scrum roles, artifacts, and ceremonies across the remainder of the organization in hopes that these practices will take root. The 3 Things at scale take the form of Structure, Governance, and Metrics. Governance. Practices-Driven Transformation.

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Agilemania

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

To synchronize and coordinate the planning and feedback loops, the leadership team makes choices at a fixed cadence that is followed by both the operations (the tasks they carry out) and the governance (the reviews they conduct). How To Put Lean Portfolio Management Into Action? The post How To Implement Lean Portfolio Management?

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The IIL Blog

MAY 9, 2018

The Nuts and Bolts of Agile and Scrum. Agile and Scrum: What’s the difference? It seems like almost every company, regardless of their industry, is practicing Agile and Scrum in some way and at some level of proficiency. If you’re new to Agile and Scrum, you may be scratching your head wondering first, what are they?

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

We have good practices based on governing constraints. A governing constraint means to ensure that the decision-making process has been following certain rules or policies. What enabling constraints are part of Scrum? With complicated problems, we know what we don't know, the known unknowns. Enabling constraints can be manifold.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 1, 2024

I previously wrote about the meaning of self-management with examples in a Scrum context. It is my observation that very little guidance on how to actually achieve self-management is provided in the agile space, often leading to the chaotic scenarios or a path back to micro-management as I discussed in the aforementioned article.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

One of the ways that we help our clients create strategic alignment is by implementing a four-tiered governance model that has a dedicated strategy team, or investment team on top. IT requires a shift in how you think about funding and what it means to have a system of delivery. Want to Listen Instead?

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In Scrum, the Product Owner’s purpose is to maximize the value of the Scrum Team’s work (the product). Delivering value to the customer (beneficial customer outcomes) is the ultimate measure of success for the Scrum Team, including the Product Owner. We can consult with Developers on the Scrum Team for ideas.

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International Institute for Learning

MARCH 29, 2023

You may also need to figure out how to balance project management needs and scrum master needs. Scrum Master A scrum master facilitates events, removes impediments, and supports the team in maintaining alignment with Agile values and principles. A scrum master is not a manager, they are much more of a facilitator.

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Agilemania

MARCH 10, 2022

To help you and others who are new to SAFe, we’ve written a detailed guide as to how to choose the right certification. . SAFe Scrum Master Certification. This course emphasizes the characteristics of an effective scrum master. Release Train Engineers who have to train Scrum Masters can also pursue this course.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 19, 2023

In Kürze: Jira Anti-Patterns Wenn Sie jemanden bitten, populäre Attribute für „Agile“ oder „Agilität“ zu nennen, werden Scrum und Jira wahrscheinlich unter den ersten zehn Nennungen sein. Außerdem wird in jeder Diskussion über das Thema jemand erwähnen, dass die Verwendung von Scrum zusammen mit Jira eine Organisation nicht agil macht.

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Project Pulse Journal

MAY 3, 2024

Governance - Establishing a clear governance framework ensures accountability, decision-making clarity, and oversight throughout the program, aligning with organizational policies and goals. By standardizing project management processes, the PMO ensures consistency, efficiency, and quality in project execution.

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Leading Agile

JULY 26, 2023

However, in practice, often we find ourselves engaging in unproductive activities within the Scrum framework without truly driving organizational change. There is a middle ground between simply adopting Scrum and figuring everything out on the go, and the pressure of getting everything exactly right and flawless.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 10, 2023

By Lavaneesh Gautam , Professional Scrum Trainer In the previous article (Stakeholder Exploration: Part 1 of 4 Steps of the Stakeholder Engagement) , we discussed: “Stakeholder”- who are they? Here is the link to the article on how to use Empathy Mapping Canvas. Stakeholder Engagement” What does it mean?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 21, 2021

Iterations are perfect for developing solutions like a website, and the structure of an over-arching program framework provided the governance and schedule expectations that executives wanted to see. Or do you have to have sub-teams working in a truly agile way, with sprints and a backlog and the trappings of Scrum?

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LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

In How to Sell Project Management to Senior Executives Who Don’t Want It , Pcubed’s Adam Balfour advises that you find the project manager who’s leading the team that’s stretched to its limits. For example, the United States federal government adopting Agile has meant a rise in job openings requiring Agile project management expertise.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

JANUARY 30, 2020

Agile is moving beyond technology and is now widely used in financial services, government, and professional services companies. It is also changing how operational groups manage their work. Several hundred thousand people have taken Scrum Master certification courses with the expectation they will be prepared to lead a Scrum team.

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The IIL Blog

MAY 17, 2023

Public Sector Project Manager Selection In most government agencies, PMs were seen more so as project monitors rather than project managers. The assignment as a government project monitor was seen as an add-on to one’s normal job. Executive sponsorship was merely eyewash for government agencies.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 21, 2024

Here are four prominent examples which you may also consider as agile methodologies and frameworks: Scrum Scrum is one of the most widely used agile frameworks. Scrum is led by Scrum Masters or Agile Project Managers, who help the team achieve results.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Basically committing to our organizations that we not only have a point of view, but we have a plan for how to get there, I think is the next frontier of this conversation. As change agents is leaders within our organizations, we have to have a point of view on what is the right organizational metaphor for figuring out how to form teams.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 3, 2018

This article, How To Make 2018 A Successful Year for Your Projects , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management. You can scroll down and get the highlights, and then read all the advice in the How To Make 2018 A Successful Year for Your Projects ebook. XP, scrum, lean, etc.) I’m sure you do. Get the ebook!

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Scrum.org

JULY 21, 2020

What has always struck me in this discussion is the fact that Scrum is a tool useful to accomplish one primary task: delivering value to customers of emergent products in complex environments while mitigating an organization’s exposure to risk at the same time. Seriously, how hard can Scrum be if the manual comprises of 18 pages, right?).

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 19, 2018

In the previous article, we have discussed how Scrum Masters need to master many things. In this article we are going to discuss one of the stances that the Scrum Master need to master, that is the facilitation stance. So what is facilitation? The outcome of the facilitated event is a high-quality decision.

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International Institute for Learning

APRIL 19, 2023

For a Scrum Master timing is everything. Contrary to popular belief, most Scrum Masters LOVE to be busy and hate making you or anyone else in the organization wait unnecessarily. In any circumstance, good Scrum Masters are like DR. Strange… They are masters of time. Guess what… Neither does a Scrum Master!

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Complex work lives in the domain of problems that have never been solved before, products and services and solutions that have never existed before, and deep uncertainty about how to do the work even when you have a team of deeply experienced, skilled, and knowledgeable people. Only then will they know, with certainty, how to do the work.

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