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Elevate Scrum!

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Scrum is often implemented at the team level, which can limit achieving business agility at scale. Achieve Business Agility : Elevating Scrum enables organizations to respond to changing customer needs and market demands more effectively by fostering collaboration and alignment across multiple teams working towards shared business goals.

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Stepping Into Scrum

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Starting with Scrum can feel overwhelming. It’s a framework with defined events, accountabilities, and artifacts that might seem rigid or even intimidating at first glance. The real magic of Scrum unfolds as you practice and improve over time. Scrum boards : Great for visualization, but not required.

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Defining Value in Scrum: What Does It Mean for You?

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Scrum helps people, teams, and organizations generate value.” From the Scrum Guide) But what does value actually mean? The Cambridge Dictionary defines ‘value’ as “the importance or worth of something for someone.” So, the big question: How do you define value? Why would you participate in a Professional Scrum Training?

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Scrum Masters, what are you measuring in 2025?

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Watermelon/Cobra Effect When the right measures are not defined, often the metrics tend to create a watermelon or cobra effect i.e. they lead to behaviours which are counterproductive. Velocity: In a company that I was working for, a SOW was established that defined that the Scrum Team will deliver 60 points worth of work every sprint.

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There's more to Organizational Agility than the Scrum Guide

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Let me start by saying that I am not demeaning the Scrum Guide in any way. The Scrum framework has changed the world for the better in ways that are impossible to fully quantify simply because of the scale of its impact. That being said, the Scrum framework "just" guides the interactions of the Scrum team itself.

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Scrum Teams - How to enable self-management?

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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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Navigating Delivery in Scrum: Adapting Scope and Enhancing Quality (From PM to PSM 20)

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Transitioning to Scrum, this focus shifts significantly. Instead of strictly adhering to initial requirements, Scrum teams aim to deliver maximum value through adaptive planning, iterative development, and frequent feedback loops.

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