Scrum.org

OCTOBER 12, 2020

TL; DR: 70 Scrum Master Theses. The following 70 Scrum Master theses describe the role of from a holistic product creation perspective. The theses cover the role of the Scrum Master from product discovery to product delivery in hands-on practical manner. The Role of the Scrum Master. It is not a mere management role.

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Scrum.org

JULY 5, 2022

During the first year of the pandemic, Scrum adoption more than doubled for software development teams. According to the 15th Annual State of Agile Report, the use of agile approaches for software development grew from 37% in 2020 to 86% in 2021. It is, in essence, the plan for what the Scrum Team will do next.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 18, 2020

We have redesigned our Scrum Framework poster and have made some changes. . . . Scrum Events . The heart of Scrum is a Sprint, a time-box of one month or less” [2]. To emphasize, that in Scrum everything happens within a Sprint, we visualized the Sprint as a gray dotted line surrounding the other Scrum elements.

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Scrum.org

MAY 19, 2020

This post is an excerpt from the book we’re writing, the ‘ Zombie Scrum Survival Guide ’. The thumbnail description of Zombie Scrum is that it looks like Scrum, but without a beating heart. The same goes for Zombie Scrum. With the Scrum Guide as a checklist, you’d say that the team is doing ‘Scrum by the book’.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 16, 2022

In Kürze: Scrum Entwickler Fehlverhalten. Nachdem wir bereits Fehlverhalten von Scrum Mastern, Interessenvertretern und Product Ownern beschrieben haben, befasst sich dieser Artikel mit Fehlverhalten der Scrum Entwickler, wobei wir alle Scrum Events sowie das Produktbacklog berücksichtigen. Quelle : Scrum Guide 2020.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Scrum Team Accountabilities and responsibilities can be confusing, misunderstood, and lack shared understanding between its members and the organization. This is especially true for new Scrum Team members, yet I also have experienced this with teams who have been using Scrum for several years.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 3, 2023

What are the 5 events in Scrum? Chances are that you said something like “Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, and…. The Sprint is the most commonly overlooked event in Scrum. In fact, many people don’t even realize that it is an event in Scrum. Can you name them?

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 11, 2021

TL; DR: Scrum Commitments. While the new Scrum Guide is less prescriptive and more inclusive, it also ties loose ends by including elements better, namely the previously free-floating Sprint Goal and the Definition of Done with the creation of Scrum commitments. The Scrum Guide 2020. What are Scrum Commitments?

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Scrum.org

JULY 25, 2022

Read the English version of the 2020 Scrum Guide and EBM Guide carefully several times. . Read the Scrum Glossary carefully . Go through the following open assessments several times until you pass them with 100% in less than 10 minutes. Please note that the book is based on the Scrum Guide 2017.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Like a job ad for a Scrum Master position, the equivalent for the Product Owner position also reveals excellent insight into an organization’s progress on becoming agile. A Brief Refresh: The Product Owner Role According to the Scrum Guide. How this is done may vary widely across organizations, Scrum Teams, and individuals.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 4, 2022

TL; DR: Business Agility, Scrum and Generative AI’s Take on Getting There. I thought it might be fun to ask ChatGPT a few questions about business agility in general and Scrum in particular. . ???? Zur deutschsprachigen Version des Artikels: Generative KI: ChatGPT von OpenAI über Business Agilität und Scrum. ??

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2021

Most Scrum Teams that I encounter don’t do refinement of their Product Backlog and try to work on things that they don’t understand correctly. Updated to reflect the 2020 Scrum Guide! Updated to reflect the 2020 Scrum Guide! Ready Backlog just means that the Developers can select it with confidence.

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Henny Portman

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Yesterday, November 18th, there was a 3-hour virtual event to celebrate the launch of the 2020 Scrum Guide with nearly 20,000 registrants. Can you imagine It’s been 25 years since the launch of the first Scrum Guide? Can you imagine It’s been 25 years since the launch of the first Scrum Guide? To watch the event.

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MPUG

DECEMBER 28, 2020

A new version of Scrum guide was released last month. It contains commitments for each of the Scrum artifacts. The Product Owner (PO) is the person who is responsible in building, and clearly communicating product goal to the team. Product Goal also reflects one of the values of Scrum: “Focus.” Commitment based Artifacts.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Today, the 18th of November 2020 Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland released an update to the Scrum Guide. One team focused on one product. One main thing to also remember, Scrum is still Scrum and although these changes were made, the cores of Empiricism, Inspection, and Adaptation remain at its heart.

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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

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

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 invited this “interviewee” for an interview with other team members; however, the interview produced some remarkable answers.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 31, 2021

Updated to reflect the 2020 Scrum Guide! Sure Scrum has traditionally focused on the team, and the best measure for a team is “Remaining Work”. From that, we can create Velocity and Burndown to help the Product Owner plan and the Development Team deliver. The dark side! So what can we measure?

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 15, 2022

Join Stefan in one of his upcoming Professional Scrum training classes ! ?? ?? ???? Advanced Professional Scrum Master Online Training w/ PSM II Certificate — September 6-9, 2022. ?? ?? What [shall we] do when a product requires many development teams? What would be the 3 or 4 first steps in a 5000 ppl organization?

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 18, 2022

Nehmen Sie an einer von Stefans kommenden Professional Scrum-Schulungen teil ! ?? ?? ???? Advanced Professional Scrum Master Online Training w/ PSM II Certificate — September 6-9, 2022. ?? ?? What [shall we] do when a product requires many development teams? What would be the 3 or 4 first steps in a 5000 ppl organization?

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 29, 2022

The best Scrum teams that I have worked with were supported by management leaders focused on removing impediments, providing resources, and promoting an agile mindset and culture that supports the Scrum values. In organizations new to Scrum, this misunderstanding can lead to tension between teams and managers.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 31, 2020

Despite the rapidness of the change, moving to remote worked surprisingly well for many teams, because they were used to some degree of remote work before. Especially development teams and technology firms in general have many years of experience with allowing their workforce to do their jobs from wherever and whenever they like.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 15, 2020

This post is an excerpt from the book that we’re writing, the ‘ Zombie Scrum Survival Guide ’. The Scrum Framework urges teams to involve stakeholders. But many Scrum Teams struggle to do so. In case you’re wondering what is meant by ‘stakeholders’ as used within Scrum, check the article “ Actual stakeholders?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 20, 2024

According to the 2020 Scrum Guide , Scrum team members should be “self-managing, meaning they internally decide who does what, when, and how.” On the one hand, some Scrum team members think that self-managing means doing whatever they want. Our answer comes straight from the Scrum guide.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

For people new to scrum, the training focuses sufficiently on the first 2 expectations of sprint planning, that they need to come up with the sprint goal, which is the ‘WHY’ we are doing this sprint and the ‘WHAT’ of the sprint, meaning the list of items that help us deliver that WHY. Code Review. Peer Review. Code Refactoring.

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The IIL Blog

JULY 31, 2024

My project managers were cross trained as scrum masters to help transform their development teams. In my classes and consulting practice, I encourage people to identify and thoroughly assess their stakeholders. Our teams should be a source of creativity and innovation. Unfortunately, it was not that simple.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 22, 2019

For years, I’ve fulfilled the role of Scrum Master for many different organizations and Scrum Teams. These teams were mostly focused on software development. These organizations were able to attract the smartest developers and create products customers loved. Examples of a Developer Culture.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2021

Updated to reflect the 2020 Scrum Guide! Any software that you create is an organisational asset and decisions to cut quality need to be reflected in your company accounts and as such those decisions need to made by your executive leadership and should not be made by Developers.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2021

Updated to reflect the 2020 Scrum Guide! Water-Scrum-fall or maybe Scrummerfall but whatever you call it the reality is that this is just small waterfalls and in the case above not really that small at all. This is not the action of a Professional Scrum Team , but that of, at best amateurs and at worst cowboys.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

With the release of the 2020 version of the Scrum Guide, we now have Product Goals but what are they? See the Professional Scrum Product Owner book for more details. Development teams and stakeholders can “see” how they connect. Try aligning your Product Goals with quarterly business reviews.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 7, 2022

Considering just how popular the notion of fluid teams has become, I think it is important to weigh the evidence that supports it or contradicts it. Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. It takes time to develop teams. This post is my attempt to do this.

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Agilemania

MARCH 7, 2022

Scrum is the most popular framework as per the 15th State of Agile Report. As a result, more companies are joining the agile Agile journey, with the agile adoption rate going from 37% in 2020 to 86% in 2021. . One of the critical roles in Scrum is Product Owner. Why Become a Professional Scrum Product Owner?

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nTask

DECEMBER 2, 2020

By providing this transparency and being open about how the project went, you can create an environment of trust where your team knows that they can easily highlight concerns. Aid your Team to Learn and Develop. Team development is essential to ensure that your team continuously improves.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 25, 2022

This has always been a huge struggle for us and most of the teams we’ve been part of. Unfortunately, many developers and development teams still burn more hours than are probably good for them. It has been thoroughly tested and verified through experiments, case studies, and field research (Deci & Ryan, 2020).

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Gunther Verheyen

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In the summer of 2019 I got in touch with O’Reilly Media about their ambition to add a book about Scrum to their “97 Things” series. For that reason I did not want any specific Scrum accountability in the title. For that reason I did not want any specific Scrum accountability in the title.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2021

From January 10th, 2021 the Scrum.org assessments have changed to support the 2020 version of the Scrum Guide. Even though Scrum has not changed significantly, some of the wording and descriptions of Scrum have changed. For a more complete description of the 2020 version of the Scrum Guide please go here. . .

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Planio

MAY 8, 2023

On average, IT projects come with more complexity and risk, and can quickly fall to pieces without proper due diligence, management, and leadership. Similar situation: IT projects are still risky, with project managers facing the threat of development bugs, failed deployments, and system downtime. And that’s no simple job.

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