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Why Being a Scrum Master Is Not About the Process?

Scrum.org

The SM influence extends to fostering an empirical mindset, managing complex relationships, and guiding the team through continuous growth. A Scrum Master's accountability, therefore, goes well beyond just managing processes. Being a Scrum Master is more than framework compliance.

SCRUM 155
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Episode 185 – Redefining Project Success through Sustainable Project Management

Velociteach

Projects are instrumental in defining an organization’s vision for a more sustainable future. Dr. Joel Carboni talks about Sustainable Project Management, and the goal to achieve a stated objective while considering the project outcome’s entire lifecycle to ensure a net positive environmental, social, and economic impact.

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What does it take to make an Agile transformation sustain?

Scrum.org

My core activity is coaching focused on Agility, i.e. influencing people to move towards (a (higher) state of) Agile. Influencing and teaching to align people on the new goal helps, but it’s not enough. In other words: An Agile transformation is a success when it sustains. These changes hardly ever sustain.

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How Project Managers Can Lead the Way in Sustainability

LiquidPlanner

Sustainability is a critical business focus and a key driver of change in the way that organizations operate, and in the way, that project managers approach their work. This presents the project manager with huge opportunities to drive sustainable thinking in project management and become instrumental in achieving sustainable outcomes.

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Is Your Leadership Ready to Pivot from Intuition to Innovation?

Scrum.org

Evidence-Based Management: The Game Changer EBM harnesses the power of data, research, and factual evidence to guide decision-making processes. Amazon: Beyond Retail Amazon’s venture into cloud computing with Amazon Web Services (AWS) was a strategic pivot influenced by internal technology capabilities and market potential data.

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Sunsetting Scrum Masters

Scrum.org

A gradual decline in their effectiveness can be a subtle, insidious process heavily influenced by the size and culture of an organization. For example, the program to introduce Scrum is rolled out in a traditional top-down process when it should use Scrum itself for the purpose.

SCRUM 168
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Why you need to engage stakeholders (and how to do it well)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We define it like this: The systematic identification, analysis, planning and implementation of actions designed to influence stakeholders. Engagement serves two aims: It creates, uses and sustains positive interest in the work. Beyond the interest and influence grid. It minimizes or removes negative interest.