Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Many conferences have early bird pricing so it is worth checking out the events that interest you as soon as you can in case you need to get corporate funding to attend. Make sure you sign up for the free Attend a Conference Checklist before you go to any of these events. Global Scrum Gathering: Austin, Texas, USA, 20-22 May 2019.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

The Scrum Master has to keep changing styles and stances as and when needed. However, when someone with not enough knowledge or experience picks up this hat, it often leads to Scrum Master Anti Patterns. Anti-pattern: Scrum Master as a technical lead This person has played a role of technical lead for quite long.

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APRIL 5, 2022

I’ve been part of the Scrum community for about 12 years. In this period, I’ve noticed a clear pattern in the majority of Scrum-related threads on social media like LinkedIn, Medium, Twitter, and so on. We are also very good at contrasting this with the ideal state of Scrum.

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JULY 25, 2021

In December 2020, Johannes Schartau , Christiaan Verwijs , and I published the Zombie Scrum Survival Guide. We wrote it to help readers understand why Scrum so often descends into Zombie Scrum and to offer practical and down-to-earth help. Zombie Scrum isn’t something you fix with one simple experiment. What happened?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 2, 2020

TL; DR: Scrum Stakeholder Anti-Patterns. Learn how individual incentives and outdated organizational structures — fostering personal agendas and local optimization efforts — manifest themselves in Scrum stakeholder anti-patterns which easily can impede any agile transition. Common Scrum Stakeholder Anti-Patterns. The Sprint.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 15, 2024

TL; DR: Sunsetting Scrum Masters In this article, I uncover indicators that a Scrum Master’s or Agile Coach’s journey is coming to a close; they are sunsetting Scrum Masters. Preorder the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now for delivery in January 2024! ? Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 9, 2025

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. Effect: The Scrum Team started filling up the backlog with unrelated work items just to hit the mark of 60 points of work. Impact - The force or influence on something.

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DECEMBER 7, 2023

Scrum is the most popular Agile framework. According to the latest State of Agile survey from Digital.ai, 90% of teams who are using an Agile framework are using Scrum. I like to think that this is because Scrum is a goldilocks framework … with just enough - but not too much - structure. That is the power of Scrum.

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NimbleWork

OCTOBER 21, 2024

These top 25 influencers for 2025 aren’t just keeping up with the trends—they’re setting them, reshaping how teams collaborate, innovate, and deliver in today’s fast-paced world. What distinguishes these influencers in the landscape of project management thought leadership?

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 8, 2022

Large Scale Scrum is still Scrum, although there is one case study that is non-Scrum. My thoughts : I think there are possibilities for a Large Scale Scrum implementation to be without Scrum in careful hands. Like Scrum, Large Scale Scrum is based on transparency. How does it differ from Scrum?

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Scrum.org

JUNE 6, 2022

TL; DR: Scrum Stakeholder Anti-Patterns. Learn how individual incentives and outdated organizational structures — fostering personal agendas and local optimization efforts — manifest themselves in Scrum stakeholder anti-patterns that easily impede any agile transformation to a product-led organization. ????

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

. Scrum Artifacts. In our final entry in the Scrum Guide companion for Leaders series (see parts 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ) we turn to the Scrum Artifacts. Scrum’s artifacts represent work or value. These commitments exist to reinforce empiricism and the Scrum values for the Scrum Team and their stakeholders.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

TL; DR: Scrum Anti-Patterns GPT Can a Custom Scrum Anti-Patterns GPT align teams with Scrum principles? Dive into how leveraging custom GPTs might offer a novel path through Scrum’s common hurdles, focusing on creating actual customer value in the face of organizational and team-level challenges. ?

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Scrum.org

MAY 8, 2021

Great Scrum Masters are professionals who have swiftly mastered the delicate art of convincingly winning in the field of office politics. . Concentrate on Your Arena of Influence . Such events are marked by gossiping/complaining beyond our control. Everything boils down to communications and relations in-between humans. .

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Scrum.org

APRIL 12, 2024

As many scrum masters set out on their journey, they are often as new to their role as their manager. This post (inspired by Ben Horowitz author of “The hard things about hard things”) is for scrum masters, and people who work with scrum masters, and explores what good and bad looks like.

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Scrum.org

JULY 13, 2021

One of these beautiful people is my individual supervision coach - Judith Cohen , who encouraged me to explore the connections between my two worlds - Co-Active Training Institute's #coactivecoaching and the scrum I learned from Ken Schwaber and Scrum.org. CO-ACTIVE AND SCRUM. The coach is the Scrum Master. COACH AND COACHEES.

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Scrum.org

JULY 11, 2022

There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. What if, for example, not all of your Scrum team’s members feel enthusiastic about the Sprint Retrospective, the critical event when the Scrum team inspects itself?

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Scrum.org

APRIL 9, 2024

Fortunately, Scrum offers a structured framework that can guide you through. Here's how Scrum addresses ten common challenges that managers face, providing clear solutions through its empirical approach. The clear definition of Scrum accountabilities enhances team focus and sets clear expectations for each member's contribution.

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Scrum.org

JULY 11, 2021

In this blog post, we focus on one specific question that was raised: “How to measure the success of an Agile Coach or Scrum Master?”. The success (or failures) of an Agile Coach or Scrum Master is not that straightforward to measure, and any causality with the success of a team you coach is difficult to prove.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 5, 2023

TL; DR: The Three Daily Scrum Questions Won’t Die The Daily Scrum serves a single purpose: inspecting the progress toward the Sprint Goal by reflecting on yesterday’s learning. One of the recurring issues is the continued popularity of the “three Daily Scrum questions” from the Scrum Guide 2017. What will I do today.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The Scrum.org Professional Scrum Master II class contains an exercise called “Management in Scrum”. It explores how management is an integral part of Scrum, and how this is often different in ‘real-life’. It also shows how it impacts the empirical process of Scrum and what a Scrum Master can do to remove any limitations.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 10, 2023

TL; DR: How To Spot Successful Scrum Masters In this article, I unravel the secrets of what makes a Scrum Master not just good but amazingly outstanding. From regularly achieving Sprint Goals, delivering value to customers, and building stakeholder rapport easily, discover the traits that set apart successful Scrum Masters.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 18, 2022

TL; DR: Scrum Master Anti-Patterns — 20 Signs Your Scrum Master Needs Help. The reasons Scrum Masters violate the spirit of the Scrum Guide are multi-faceted. Typical Scrum Master anti-patterns run from ill-suited personal traits to complacency to pursuing individual agendas to frustration with the team itself.

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Scrum.org

MAY 12, 2019

I am influencing the CxOs at the moment. Can I discuss with you about running UX process in Scrum? Since you are the Scrum Master, tell us the best way to do this. That is just a snapshot of one day of my life as a Scrum Master. These days more and more people are asking me "What does the Scrum Master do all day?".

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 19, 2018

In the previous article, we have discussed how Scrum Masters need to master many things. In this article we are going to discuss one of the stances that the Scrum Master need to master, that is the facilitation stance. In fact, facilitation requires skills and facilitating an engaging event itself is an art. That is quite sad.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 3, 2021

There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. Neglecting the critical Scrum artifact for continuous value creation is one of the common Scrum anti-patterns. Source : Scrum Guide 2020.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Over the years I've seen numerous Scrum adaptions, and I thought perhaps it would be interesting, to sum up, some of the common misinterpretations of Scrum. As my journey in the realm of scrum continues, I have a hunch that this blog will never be finalized. . Scrum the abbreviation: It's Scrum, not SCRUM.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2021

He’s known from the various books he wrote: “ Agile Product Management With Scrum ”, “ Strategize ”, and “ How To Lead In Product Management ”, and the many tools he created, like the Product Vision Board, Product Management Framework, and the Product- and Sprint Goal templates. How this question is answered, impacts the entire Scrum team.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 25, 2022

TL; DR: Scrum Master Anti-Patterns. The Sprint Planning is a core event that defines how your customers’ lives will improve with the following Product Increment. Join Stefan in one of his upcoming Professional Scrum training classes ! This resulting plan is created by the collaborative work of the entire Scrum Team.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 10, 2023

Photo by Alora Griffiths on Unsplash The Ultimate Litmus Test: Go on Vacation If the outcome of an effective Scrum Master is to create a high-performing, self-managing team, the litmus test may be — what happens when you are not there? Pick one event and dig into making it a powerful and engaging conversation with actionable impact.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The purpose of estimation in Scrum is to size higher ordered Product Backlog items so they can be completed within a single Sprint. Sprint Success: The Ultimate Goal The heart of Scrum lies in its Sprint, a time-boxed event during which a Scrum team collaboratively works to complete a set of Product Backlog items.

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MAY 16, 2022

What event could better embody Scrum’s principle of empiricism than the Sprint Retrospective? Hence, learn more about 21 common Sprint Retrospective anti-patterns that will hold back your Scrum team. ???? Join Stefan in one of his upcoming Professional Scrum training classes ! The Scrum Guide on the Sprint Retrospective.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Are you excited about the new Scrum Guide? We certainly are, if only because every version makes it more clear what Scrum is really about?—?which The Scrum framework itself is subject to empiricism too, as evidenced by the new version of the Scrum Guide that was released on November 18. which is also our mission.

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AUGUST 8, 2022

After the season-opening event, it was clear to everyone: Ferrari just might have a championship-winning car in their hands. A number of factors are influencing these variables, like weather conditions, the temperature of the track, time spent closely behind other cars, and the aggressiveness of driving style to name a few.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2021

There is little point to Scrum when you don’t involve stakeholders. After all, Scrum Teams exist to deliver valuable and useful outcomes to their stakeholders. Yet, many Scrum Teams struggle to involve their stakeholders, and that makes this one of the core symptoms of Zombie Scrum. It’s a bit of platitude, right?

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JUNE 24, 2022

When people first look at the Scrum framework, they often see the roles and the events first. They see only the structure of Scrum; who wears the hats and when. But Scrum and the Agile methodologies it builds on are so much more. Scrum is a great example of a motivation framework. And that makes sense.

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APRIL 16, 2024

When a team moves away from Scrum, the Scrum Master role often evolves. The evolution of a Scrum Master's role when a team moves away from Scrum is a transformation. It allows for broader organisational influence, fostering agile principles across different organisational layers and business units.

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