How Facilitation is Key to Effective Scrum Events
As an agile coach I often have Scrum Masters come up to me becuase management is complaining there are too many meetings in Scrum and that their developers aren't 100%…
As an agile coach I often have Scrum Masters come up to me becuase management is complaining there are too many meetings in Scrum and that their developers aren't 100%…
Scrum is founded on empirical process control, and transparency is one of the three pillars. Each of the Scrum Roles exist to also raise transparency to the other Scrum Team…
Resumen: El User Story Mapping es una herramienta complementaria muy útil para visualizar el trabajo necesario para crear un producto o servicio, permitiendo a los equipos de desarrollo y stakeholders entender…
This article is part of a blog series dedicated to the book: Creating Agile Organizations - A Systemic Approach, by Cesario Ramos & Ilia Pavlichenko. Cross-functional team is the basic…
In Kürze: Das ChatGPT Product Owner Jobinterview Vor ein paar Wochen habe ich mit ChatGPT ein simuliertes Vorstellungsgespräch für eine fiktive Scrum-Master-Stelle durchgeführt. Zugegeben, ich hätte diesen „Interviewpartner“ nicht zu…
#3 blog post of the Professional Mind for Professional Scrum Series Short answer: The goal of a goal is not to get but to grow. Generally, there are…
Opinions vs. Evidence Sometimes people get confused between opinions and evidence. Opinions → internal people, very smart people, but still inside the building thinking this is what customers want. Newsflash…customers don’t…
If you're part of an agile team, you know that a skilled agile manager is crucial to your success. But what is an agile manager? What exactly does an…
Executive leaders, try giving your people time to learn 9 minutes at 9:00 AM every day. Give them the space so that they don’t have any meetings booked in…
If you’re a newcomer to all of this, you might be asking yourself: What is Agile even all about? How can organizations such as your own profit from becoming more…
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…
Why does Agile focus on values and principles rather than a prescribed set of steps? Agile exists to address the idea that no predetermined set of steps will lead to…
The video is about flow metrics in Sprint Planning on a Scrum Team. Todd Miller and Ryan Ripley mention that many people have debated the usefulness of story points and…
TL; DR: ChatGPT Product Owner Job Interview A few weeks ago, I ran a simulated job interview with ChatGPT for a fictitious Scrum Master position. Admittedly, I would not have…
The background The 2020 scrum guide was a major departure for Scrum in that most references to software development were deleted from the scrum guide. The only reference that even…