Scrum.org

JANUARY 30, 2024

In times of organizational challenges, the temptation to cut costs often leads some to view Agile frameworks as a luxury rather than a necessity. However, dismissing Agile as a luxury is a mistake that comes from underestimating the transformative power of Agile frameworks for solving complex problems.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

“ I am looking for people who dare to dream, not for people that will explain what cannot be done. ” —Jack Knott, Former E-Pack Digital Printing CEO Not too long before the COVID-19 pandemic broke loose, early 2020, I got a phone call from the Vice President of R&D of a biochemical startup company.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 1, 2023

In the agile world, Scrum stands out as a Goldilocks framework. It was modified to accord with the 2020 Scrum guide. Scrum consists of five events, three artifacts, and three accountabilities, supported by the five Scrum values , empiricism , and the values and principles in the Agile manifesto.

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SCRUM Agile 2020 Innovation 185

Scrum.org

APRIL 16, 2020

I do want to talk about the virus, but more in the context of agile transformation and business agility. If you are interested in the role of an agile transformation coach , here is a starting point for that journey. Before we get started, let’s define Business Agility and the Agile Alliance offers some useful help.

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Agile Retail 2020 Innovation 201

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

In the 2020 Scrum Guide, the Definition of Done is created by the Scrum Team. Note if you want to see my take on the 2020 Scrum Guide overall, check out this article.). This change is related to another change in the 2020 Scrum Guide. I will explain the intention of the change and what it means for Scrum Teams.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

At the core of all manufacturing innovations are research and development (R&D) teams. As of 2020, the U.S. As 42% of fast innovators are also strong innovators, R&D teams are always racing to push new products to market. Related: Agile vs Waterfall and the Rise of Hybrid Projects.

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Manufacturing Development Team Review Innovation Engineering 310

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

It’s a lot to read, so here are some spoilers drawn from common themes I heard time and time again in the interviews: Agile : if you don’t know enough about it, you need to start learning. It can serve as a baseline, but most project managers ought to layer some sort of agile certification on top of it. Find her on Twitter.

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2023 Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Underperforming Technical Team 417

International Institute for Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Major changes to project management will occur in 2020 due to much of the new material that the Project Management Institute (PMI) has published and will be testing on in the new version of the Project Management Professional (PMP) ® exam beginning in June 2020. The skills needed can vary based upon the type of strategic project.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 20, 2020

Investing in agile would underpin this approach by introducing ways of working that reduce complexity, improve collaboration and bring the customer to the forefront of each decision. Reaching Agile Maturity Ahead of Plan. Company-wide agile awareness and engagement activities established a strong foundation for change.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 30, 2024

In this article we focus on the Scrum Master role in an organisation, that includes but it’s not limited to the Scrum Master accountability from the Scrum Guide 2020. This includes a deeper understanding of business agility, openness to new practices, an expanded toolkit, and a combination of technical and soft skills.

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2024 SCRUM 2020 Innovation 194

Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The goal of a SM is to grow the teams to thrive, innovate, and deliver exceptional products. There is an important difference between the Scrum Master accountability, as described in the Scrum Guide 2020, and the Scrum Master role, as it is lived in different organisations.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

TL; DR: Getting Hired as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach Are you considering a new Scrum Master or Agile Coach job? Read on and learn how to employ search engines, LinkedIn’s people search, reach out to peers in the agile community, and analyze the event markets in the quest for your next Scrum Master job.

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SCRUM Agile Engineering 2024 185

Scrum.org

JANUARY 31, 2021

Updated to reflect the 2020 Scrum Guide! In my experience, organisations recognize agility as a means to improve their value, yet tend to lack focus and commitment to moving towards it. Let’s forget as well the 20 years of the success of agility when there is focus and courage. We need evidence…. Subscribe to A Wee Dram!

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Innovation Consulting Prince2 Monitoring 242

Scrum.org

JUNE 4, 2020

TL; DR: Exploring Virtual Open Space Technolgy — A Live Virtual Meetup on June 25, 2020. Join the 24th Hands-on Agile meetup on June 25th, 2020. the agenda and assignments) and putting it in the hands of all the participants generates commitment, action, innovation, and follow-through. Agile Camp Berlin 2019 Video.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 24, 2022

We see technology evolving, new tools, consolidation, innovation and more. In the APM Salary and Market Trends survey 2021 , 61% of respondents reported that working from home options were an important criterion for choosing a new role, up from 52% in 2020. Are you waterfall or Agile ? Change is inevitable – we all know that.

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2022 PMO Risk Management Artificial Inteligence 489

Scrum.org

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Before we talk about the comparison and contrast between Scrum Master and Agile Leader, people often compare and contrast Scrum Master and Agile Coach, and they often ask me, what’s the difference? They should be well versed on product management, design, other agile and lean agile approaches.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 35,000-plus subscribers. ?? September 27, 2022 : Join 200-plus peers at the 45th Hands-on Agile Meetup: FAST: An Innovative Way to Scale with James Shore. Source : Scrum Guide 2020. Source : Scrum Guide 2020. Source : Scrum Guide 2020.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

TL; DR: Diana Larsen on the Agile Fluency Model. On October 12, 2022, agile innovator Diana Larsen delved into the Agile Fluency® Model. After a short introduction to the model, we shifted to an ask-me-anything-style discussion of the groundbreaking view of agile and teams. ?? The Agile Fluency® Model.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 3, 2024

Capital One schrieb : „Die agile Rolle in unserer Tech-Organisation war für unsere früheren Transformationsphasen von entscheidender Bedeutung, aber mit zunehmender Reife unserer Organisation ist der natürliche nächste Schritt die Integration agiler Lieferprozesse direkt in den Kern unserer Entwicklungspraktiken.“ Was meine ich damit?

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SCRUM Agile 2023 2022 185

Scrum.org

JULY 15, 2024

The data above is taken from the annual " State of Agile " report from Digital.ai. Later, the Agile Manifesto, written in 2001, identified 12 principles and 4 values which are important to the smooth operation of Agile teams. Most early Agile teams were software development teams.

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Software Developers Software Development Software Review SCRUM 194

Scrum.org

MARCH 19, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of Agile methodologies, the Scrum Guide has served as a beacon for countless teams striving for excellence in project management and product development. By doing so, we honor the essence of Agile—responding to change with insight, innovation, and resilience.

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2017 SCRUM 2020 Innovation 186

Scrum.org

JANUARY 25, 2021

Read on and learn how to employ search-engines, LinkedIn’s people search, reaching out to peers in the agile community, and analyzing the event markets in the quest for your next Scrum Master job. ?? You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 29k other subscribers.

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SCRUM Technical Review Engineering Lean 237

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups. For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. These are my lessons learned on making ‘agile’ — including Scrum as a framework — work in a fast-growing startup. Participation is free.).

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Most of us spend the majority of our waking hours at work, and the agile framework can make it infinitely more pleasant and efficient. The 15th annual State of Agile Report reveals that over 90% of the teams working within an agile framework use Scrum. Professional Agile Leadership. Professional Scrum Master .

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SCRUM Software Review 2021 Agile 251

Scrum.org

JANUARY 4, 2021

You can sign up here for our weekly ‘Food of Agile Thought newsletter’ and join 29k other subscribers. ?? Join us on February 3, 2021: Hands-on Agile #29: Scrum Guide 2020 — Reloaded. These should allow an interviewer to deep dive into candidates’ understanding of Scrum and their agile mindset.

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SCRUM Technical Review Software Review Agile 253

Scrum.org

JULY 24, 2023

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 48,000-plus subscribers. ? ? ?? Why the Scrum Guide Lacks Product Discovery as a Concept The Scrum Guide 2020 emphasizes the role of the Product Owner in managing the Product Backlog but does not define the product discovery process.

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SCRUM Lean 2020 Innovation 172

Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2020

A Product Owner is an innovator at heart and thus a value creator for customers and organizations if given a chance to work in an agile manner. Source: Scrum Guide 2020.). Source: Scrum Guide 2020.). Agile roadmaps are based on objectives and are usually theme- or goal-oriented. The Product Owner Theses.

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Technical Review SCRUM Cadence 2020 248

Scrum.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Build internal capability to innovate or improve time to deliver value. Remote or otherwise, goal clarity is key to business agility. Zen Ex Machina is an enterprise agile consultancy specialising in agile transformation. Scrum.org (2020) The Evidence-Based Management Guide. About Zen Ex Machina. References.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 17, 2021

A few years ago, before the pandemic, I visited an Agile conference in Kyiv, Ukraine. At the very end of it there was a panel discussion with some of the big names in the European Agile world. One of the panelists replied: ‘Why use something that claims to be agile, but is only updated once every 3 years or so’. Why indeed?

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SCRUM 2007 2020 Innovation 218

Scrum.org

MAY 17, 2021

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 31,000-plus other subscribers. ?? Join more than 210 peers from May 27-29, 2021 , for the Virtual Agile Camp Berlin 2021, a live virtual Barcamp using open space technology principles and practices. This aggregation is from the Scrum Guide 2020 Reordered.).

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SCRUM Software Review Technical Review 2021 218

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

During the 19th Hands-on Agile meetup, 30-plus people addressed the path to becoming a successful Scrum Master or agile coach, following up on the “ Scrum Master Career 2020 — Using Ecocycle Planning to Identify Opportunities ” meetup we had in December 2019. The Slide Deck We Use at the Hands-on Agile Meetup.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 26, 2021

According to the 2020 Scrum Guide, "The Scrum framework is purposefully incomplete, only defining the parts required to implement Scrum theory. Fostering innovation within the Scrum team. The workshop provides a foundation for the role that leaders play in creating the conditions for a successful agile transformation.

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SCRUM Leadership 2020 Agile 212

International Institute for Learning

MAY 26, 2020

By Scott Ambler | Vice President, Chief Scientist of Disciplined Agile at Project Management Institute. This post is a supplement to Scott’s upcoming keynote at IIL’s Agile & Scrum 2020 Online Conference ]. In this blog I describe the mindset behind PMI’s Disciplined Agile (DA) tool kit, overviewed in Figure 1.

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Agile 2020 Lean SCRUM 125

Scrum.org

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Exclusively on my Substack Newsletter : The Importance of Quality for Agility — An Excerpt from the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide (7). ? You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 49,000-plus subscribers. ? Preorder the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now for delivery in January 2024! ?️

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SCRUM Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Agile 203

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Myth 1: Scrum Is 'Dead' The reality: Scrum, the most popular Agile framework, has seen significant growth in adoption over the past few years. According to the annual State of Agile report from Digital AI, Scrum adoption surged from 58% to an impressive 87% of Agile teams between 2020 and 2022. for more on this topic.)

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SCRUM 2020 2022 Agile 194

Scrum.org

MAY 26, 2021

One failure symptom of a botched agile transformation is the frustrated Scrum Master. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 31,000-plus other subscribers. ?? You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 31,000-plus other subscribers. ??

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