Scrum.org

OCTOBER 20, 2024

I was working on a big Agile transformation with a major customer. Our Sprint Reviews turned into approval meetings. Letting the Daily Scrum Go Too Long This one’s a bit embarrassing. I let the Daily Scrum drag on for an hour. In my defense, it was my first time as a Scrum Master, and I hadn’t been trained yet.

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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 3, 2024

The essence of a standout Scrum Master lies in their ability to blend leadership with collaboration, ensuring that the team learns to self-manage and is focused on delivering exceptional value. Identifying a rockstar Scrum Master involves more than just ticking off certification boxes.

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Scrum.org

JULY 18, 2024

The Delivery Performance Domain in project management centers around delivering the project scope and quality that meet predefined objectives. Transitioning to Scrum, this focus shifts significantly. Utilize Feedback Cycles: Challenge the conventional constraints of time by employing Scrum’s short feedback cycles.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 8, 2024

As project managers transition to Scrum, understanding how to enhance the Scrum framework with complementary practices is crucial. Scrum's minimalistic design includes only essential elements, leaving room to incorporate additional practices that can be adapted or changed as teams evolve and discover more effective methods.

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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

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Can you believe the Agile Manifesto has been around 20 years? The Agile Manifesto has probably had the greatest impact on how projects are done – even how non- agile projects are done. That meeting in the Aspen Room at The Lodge in Snowbird, Utah, certainly has a lot to answer for. What does the Agile Manifesto say?

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 31, 2024

Both software products are designed for agile project management, though not exclusively. Still, they have features that agile teams use, whether for large or small projects. It focuses on kanban boards and list making, which makes it an ideal tool for agile teams and kanban workflows. Trello vs. Jira, may the best software win.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 12, 2020

Regular readers will know that I’m not an expert in Agile, by any means. I facilitate daily standup meetings for our support team. Int his article, I’ll look at 5 activities you can try in your daily team standup meeting. What’s the point of a daily standup meeting? How does a standup meeting work?

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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Elisa Cepale I facilitate daily standup meetings for our support team. In this article, I’ll look at 5 activities you can try in your daily team standup meeting. In this article, I’ll look at 5 activities you can try in your daily team standup meeting. These make the daily scrum fun! So far so good, right?

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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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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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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

OpenProject is open-source project management software designed to be used in traditional project management methodologies, but also in an agile environment or hybrid methodology. Let’s look critically at OpenProject, its uses, features and pricing to help users decide if it’s right for them. What Is OpenProject?

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The core strength of Scrum is its ability to take advantage of self-managing teams who are capable of making faster decisions, taking ownership and creating value by helping the customers to respond to ever changing needs of their domain, market. Definition of Done: The only purpose of Scrum or a Sprint is to create a DONE Increment.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Agile release planning, also known as scrum release planning, is an alternative to the traditional waterfall approach. From this grew the Agile methodology, and with it agile release planning (also known as scrum release planning). How does that fit into an agile project? What Is an Agile Release Plan?

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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

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. Teams learn through experience, reflective meetings and specific roles that add structure and manage work. Scrumban: An Agile Hybrid.

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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. Are we on track to meet the Sprint Goal?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 30, 2025

TL;DR: A Harvard Study of Procter & Gamble Shows the Way Recent research shows AI isnt just another toolits a cybernetic teammate that enhances agile work. For agile practitioners, the choice isnt between humans or AI but between being AI-augmented or falling behind those who are. A reason to embrace generative AI in Agile?

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In agile environments , where speed and flexibility are key, templates can help teams spin up user stories or feature branches, aligning with the fast-paced nature of agile methodologies. This free agile sprint plan template incorporates the entire scrum team to motivate and challenge them to drive success.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

A Scrum Master might sound like a character in a role-playing game, but it’s a serious job that’s rooted in leadership. The Scrum Master is responsible for ensuring a true Scrum process over the course of a project. Thanks to its many benefits, Scrum continues to grow in popularity. What Is a Scrum Master?

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Scrum Scrum is a lightweight framework that helps people, teams, and organisations generate value through adaptive solutions for complex problems. UX designers focus on understanding users' needs, preferences, and pain points to design solutions that meet those requirements and expectations.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 7, 2022

Agile principles are the foundations of agile. Agile is a project management methodology that allows development teams to set up a dynamic work management framework. This method is based on 12 guiding principles, known as agile principles. What Are the 12 Agile Principles? Agile Core Values.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Agile frameworks like Scrum are used in complex environments where more is unknown than known. Scrum embraces empiricism to help teams navigate these complexities. When the roadmap changes, it means the Product Owner and Scrum team have learned something new. Does this mean Scrum teams can't meet deadlines?

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 20, 2021

While agile is relatively new, it has made a big splash in the work of project management. It started in software development, but has since been adopted by other industries that have seen the benefit of agile’s iterative approach. Agile is more of an approach, and could almost be defined as a philosophy.

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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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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Mechanical Scrum can become a trap when we follow Scrum without understanding Scrum. The Scrum framework is a great place to start in order to deliver value, but it shouldn’t be itself a destination. Scrum is widely embraced because we see it working in other teams and organisations.

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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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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

JANUARY 2, 2025

Agile is the ability to respond to change while controlling risk. Agile has emerged as a huge global movement. Agile frameworks like Scrum help organisations deliver products earlier and at lower costs, giving them a competitive advantage in a fast-paced market. The Agile Manifesto The Agile Manifesto was created in 2001.

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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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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 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. The Early Days: "Another 250 Meetings? We were already frustrated with too many meetings, so why would we willingly add more? No Thanks." No Thanks."

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Accidental PM

MARCH 30, 2025

Agile, Scrum, and traditional project management methods each offer unique benefits depending on the nature of the project and the industry. Understanding the Project Management Approaches Agile Methodology Agile is a flexible, iterative project management approach emphasizing adaptability and collaboration.

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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Read on to find out how it could help your agile team set effective sprint goals through better planning and estimating. Summary review of Chpokify: If you struggle with planning poker and agile estimating in a virtual environment, Chpokify is the answer. What teams take part in scrum poker? Product: Chpokify.

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