Scrum.org

AUGUST 1, 2024

In Scrum, the approach to uncertainty involves embracing short feedback cycles and to continuously refine understanding of user needs and challenges, thus significantly enhancing adaptability and responsiveness. I hope you find value in these short articles and if you are looking for more clarifications, feel free to take contact.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Examples of scope creep. Example of scope creep in software development. Example: The customer sees a wireframe of the software and decides that it’s so good they want to extend functionality and add in more product options for the end user. Example of scope creep in construction. Example of scope creep in Scrum.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 19, 2024

Kanban and scrum are agile project management methodologies that can be used for similar purposes, but each has its unique pros and cons. As a project manager, it’s important to understand the difference between kanban and scrum so you can determine the best approach for your team. What Is Scrum?

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

There are many common myths about Scrum. Here are a few examples: Scrum is only for software development: While Scrum was initially developed for software development, it is now used in various industries, including finance, healthcare, marketing, and education. Scrum means no deadlines: Scrum does not mean no deadlines.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Scrum can help your team cut costs, reduce waste, and boost efficiency. In this Responsive Advisors Lightning Round, Professional Scrum Trainers Robb Pieper , Jason Malmstadt and I explore Agile principles like maximizing the work not done, eliminating unnecessary features, and setting clear Sprint Goals to keep your team focused.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

But if you’re working in an agile environment, the Gantt chart isn’t the right tool for your iterative approach to project management. A burn up chart is a tool used in agile project management to measure progress. It’s used for tracking work in a project schedule or during a sprint in a scrum.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 24, 2024

From the Scrum Guide: “Scrum is a lightweight framework…” Let’s have a closer look at what this means? From Cambridge Dictionary: Lightweight “Weighing only a little or less than average” … euh… Scrum is lightweight. Of course, we’re not worried about Scrum tipping the scales physically. Scrum on! Then adapt.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 7, 2020

An agile workflow can help. For a long time the agile framework influenced teams outside of the software development sector from which it originated. People are evangelical about agile. There are those who are almost rigid in their adherence to the agile framework. What Is an Agile Workflow? Assemble an Agile Team.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Then we’ll get into some examples to fully illustrate their meaning. Besides the examples above, an operational process asset can be any practice or knowledge from anything used to execute or govern the project, even lessons learned from previous projects and historical data. Here are some of the more common examples.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 1, 2020

Regular readers will know that I’m not at all experienced in formal Agile project management, but I know it is something that I need to know more about. Today I’m partnering with Eylean to give you an overview of three agile methodologies: Scrum, Kanban and Scrumban. Agile Methods: The Basics. Agile is agile is agile?

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Scrum.org

APRIL 8, 2025

Can we do 100% Scrum and SAFe simultaneously? This question emerged during a recent Scrum.org Professional Scrum Master Advanced training in Germany . Some time ago, the company started an Agile transformation and hired me to learn more about Scrum and how it could benefit them. My answer to this question is: you cant.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Reflecting on Two Decades of Agile Over 20 years ago, while working as a Software Engineer on an Air Defense System, I found myself in a traditional waterfall context. Yet, within this rigid framework, my team and I began exhibiting Agile behaviors—cross-functionality, curiosity, and a relentless drive to adapt our ways of working.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 15, 2021

Here are the main project management certifications offered by the PMI: Project Management Professional (PMP): This certifies that you’re a capable project manager who is competent in waterfall and agile project management. Knowledge of agile and lean approaches such as Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, among others.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 27, 2020

A scrum board is a critical tool for successfully practicing its namesake, the agile framework, scrum. If you’re unfamiliar, scrum is useful for teams that work on complex, adaptive problems. In short, scrum is lightweight, simple to understand, but difficult to master—even with the help of scrum software.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 27, 2025

At a recent Professional Scrum Master Advanced course, we were discussing how to promote engagement at the Daily Scrum when Mark Kuzik , lean champion and Director at Argus Machine in Canada suggested shaking things up by trying Management by Exception at the Daily Scrum. For example: Is anyone having any trouble?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 4, 2022

The scrum methodology was developed as a response to rigid project management approaches such as the waterfall method, which didn’t adapt to the needs of agile product and software development teams. We’ll explore the scrum methodology in-depth, but before that, let’s start with a simple scrum definition. Scrum Values.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 23, 2024

When organizations try to apply leadership concepts that were developed for simple, predictable environments to an Agile environment, it creates a lot of waste - not to mention frustration, lost opportunity, and a failed Agile adoption. Scrum teams who use velocity for planning purposes usually select a point system of some kind.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 4, 2025

In such situations, agile leadership provides a valuable differentiator. Agile leadership, which considers itself flexible, collaborative, and value-driven, plays a perfect role in the very special needs of startups. Let's investigate how agile leadership can help startups endure and thrive in such conditions in the present scenario.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Did you know, one survey found that the most common reason to adopt agile is to be able to deliver products more quickly? Yet the same survey found that 75% of people did not believe their organisation had a culture that supported agile ways of working. Discovering the recipe for team agility. This matches my experience.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 27, 2023

Are you considering the LearnQuest Scrum Master Certification ? However, I’m not and never have been, an agile expert. I’ve worked with Scrum teams and Agile development teams, I used Kanban during lockdown to help plan our days and the homeschooling, but I can’t say that I’m experienced in Agile ways.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 7, 2020

For example, take scrum. Scrum is a great framework for helping teams work more productively together. In fact, the name comes from rugby and like it, scrum is a team sport. Scrumban: An Agile Hybrid. Scrumban is part of an agile framework, a hybrid of scrum and kanban.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 14, 2025

Most organizations wait way too long to adopt some portfolio-level agility practices. Theyve been told, You cant scale whats broken, so they wait until they nail agile at the team and product group level. Going all in on agile teams was one alternative. Are Your Traditional Portfolio Processes Inhibiting Innovation and Agility?

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Scrum.org

JULY 3, 2024

The Scrum Master role carries significant weight – you're accountable for the Scrum Team's effectiveness. That responsibility can be daunting, leading some Scrum Masters to try tackling everything simultaneously (leading to burnout), while others prioritize what feels most comfortable (producing low impact).

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 25, 2022

What Is Agile Project Management? Agile project management is an iterative approach to delivering a project through short planning cycles called sprints. By using incremental steps towards completing a project, agile teams can easily adjust their project plan or product development plan to better meet their customer requirements.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 17, 2025

TL; DR: Bridging Agile and AI with Proper Prompt Engineering Agile teams have always sought ways to work smarter without compromising their principles. Regarding generative AI, there is a better way for agile practitioners than reinventing the wheel team by teamthe Agile Prompt Engineering Framework.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 1, 2024

This article aims to demonstrate that agile practices, the ones we so passionately teach, can be applied beyond the obvious. Changing the organizations and applying Scrum (or any other framework) is even harder. We started writing the book from a Scrum Master perspective. We initially tried to apply Scrum to write.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Agile Frameworks as a Starting Point Agile frameworks offer a way to navigate these challenges. Patterns Over Prescriptions Rather than enforcing a fixed set of rules, effective Agile frameworks offer patterns flexible building blocks that help teams address challenges in their own way. Take the Daily Scrum, for example.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 3, 2019

The scrum master is a key member of the scrum team, but also a somewhat misunderstood one, which can make the hiring process problematic. Put simply, the scrum master is the person responsible for promoting and supporting scrum. However, as important as the scrum master is, the position is not project leader.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Agile leadership , for instance, requires more than simply following practices -it demands the right mindset and ensuring you have the right people "on the bus," as Jim Collins suggests in Good to Great. Agile thrives on collaboration, continuous improvement, and its core principles and values.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 19, 2023

Agile methods need Agile teams — teams that think differently and work in ways that support responsive delivery. An agile mindset, and a set of shared values, principles, and often Agile tools, help Agile teams succeed. So why are agile teams different to other types of ‘classic’ project team?

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 31, 2019

More along the lines of project management, though, is the Agile Manifesto. Agile is a bit of a controversial topic in the field. Either way, agile offers a fast and nimble way to work that first benefited software development before expanding its reach to almost every industry. What Is Agile? You’re not alone.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 7, 2025

While often associated with formal positions in a hierarchy and the power to direct others or allocate resources (a common feature of traditional management), the critical aspect for Scrum is decision-making power within a specific scope. Scrum leverages this by intentionally distributing authority.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 23, 2025

Agile/Product Management Perspective Vibe Coding and Alignment with Agile Principles From an Agile perspective, vibe coding presents intriguing possibilities. The core Agile principle of responding to change over following a plan perfectly aligns with vibe codings flexibility.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 29, 2020

Scrum is a flexible framework that’s designed to help self-organized teams execute projects quickly in an agile environment. Thus, successful agile sprints make use of scrum software and scrum artifacts to convey key information, deliver transparency and keep the project rolling on time. Product Backlog.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 22, 2024

One of the biggest reasons agile fails to take root inside these organizations is resistance or hesitation from their executive teams. Their hesitation toward Agile often comes from a place of caution, rooted in a preference for traditional methods that provide clear metrics and established processes.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 12, 2019

These days, it seems like everybody is all about doing things agile. So if a foundation of agile is working fast and changing rapidly and often, while continuing to iterate on the project, what’s the definition of done in agile? But first, let’s get some more background on agile and its methods.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 17, 2025

One of the first things you learn about Scrum is that it has five events. One of these events is the Daily Scrum: a short, 15-minute daily check-in for Developers. At the end of our first Sprint, during the Retrospective, someone pointed out that the Daily Scrum alone would add over 250 meetings a year. No Thanks."

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