Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2025

The Scrum Master is often called upon to coach and mentor the Scrum team and its stakeholders - even leadership. A common misconception is that boosting morale requires organizing after-work activities, like happy hours or team-building exercises. But Scrum Masters are human. Conclusion Great Scrum Masters are invaluable.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

We all know that developing ourselves intellectually requires sustained dedicated effort toward continual learning. We also know that keeping ourselves physically fit requires sustained dedicated effort toward healthy activities like proper nutrition, exercise, and active lifestyles. Photo by Chanan Greenblatt on Unsplash.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 6, 2020

How does Scrum framework help us develop and sustainable deliver complex products? Are you supporting Scrum Teams in a leadership role, stakeholder, or other capacity and want to understand how Scrum works and how to collaborate together? The rules, roles, and principles of Scrum are leveraged during the exercises.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 18, 2022

Product Ownership is a leadership position in the first place. Consequently, support your Scrum team on its path to fully embrace Scrum, namely self-management, as the entrepreneur level is focused on product leadership. Invite users to collaborative exercises, for example, user story mapping, etc.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

To learn more about how to support agile teams, leaders should consider attending the Professional Agile Leadership - Essential class. Agile processes promote sustainable development. Delivery in smaller releases is a much more sustainable approach. . . Professional Agile Leadership. Conclusion. For Product Owners . .

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Short-Term Focus : Driven by quarterly results or immediate performance metrics, these organizations push for quick deliveries, often at the expense of long-term value or sustainable development. Exercise Empirical Process Control : In your Retrospectives, identify instances where the feature factory mindset prevailed.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 10, 2023

Mike Cohn describes a high-performing team as one that “sustainably exceeds expectations in achieving clear goals. You feel your Product Owner understands and honors the concepts of sustainable pace, the importance of setting the vision and Product Goal, and the radical collaboration that Scrum encourages.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 17, 2023

So in March 2023, I embarked on a non-representative research exercise to learn how organizations misuse Jira from a team perspective as I wanted to understand Jira anti-patterns. After all, one purpose of any organization is to exercise resilience in the face of change.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 13, 2020

The Steps and Exercises of the Product Mindset Workshop. Once the Product Owner has refreshed the team’s understanding of what the product vision is, we move on to the product box exercise. Allocate about 45 minutes to the product box exercise. . Allocate approximately 30 to 45 minutes to the exercise. .

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The answer to that question is feeding a whole industry; think servant leadership, radical candor, or psychological safety, to name a few. Source : Scrum Guide 2020. How do you build trust beyond the simple reference to “everyone needs to live Scrum values?” Everyone trusts a successful team. .

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 4, 2021

It reflects a non-agile, opportunistic mindset that values instant gratification—more sales—over a sustainable product development strategy. They are also associated with their sustainability from a financial point of view. Usually, this kind of attitude is encouraged by the management in pursuit of meeting sales targets.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 21, 2023

Jeff Patton presents a practical approach, guiding you through story lifecycles and offering exercises for quick understanding. It introduces a sustainable approach to product discovery, addressing the challenge of aligning customer value with business value. The Minimum Viable Library — Leadership Edition.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 16, 2023

Regardless if you’re an Agile Coach or Scrum Master, servant leadership is the desired mindset, behavior, and attitude. Servant Leadership Here’s how I describe servant leadership in the paper “ The 6 Stances of a Scrum Master ”. Servant leadership proves to be the backbone of the Scrum Master role.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Enhancing Scrum to consider these elements allows for a more holistic approach to solving customer problems sustainably. Demonstrating the ROI of proposed changes can be instrumental in gaining leadership support. Example: Including stakeholders in Product Backlog management issues; for example, with User Story Mapping exercises.)

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Scrum.org

MAY 9, 2019

Think back to when you first learned a new game, new skill, new exercise, how to play an instrument, draw, paint, etc. If the fear of not meeting a specific target is layered on top of this by leadership it creates a feeling of anxiety. The problem is: the old way of working is not sustainable. Learning new skills takes time.

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Scrum.org

MAY 5, 2020

Everything, with servant-leadership as the foundational mindset and attitude. How to show servant-leadership and ‘read the room’ when you’re not physically present with the team? Start a “Scrum Question of the Week” exercise. Remote Servant Leadership. Working remotely requires you to rethink your role as a Scrum Master.

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Scrum.org

JULY 17, 2023

When things are challenging, you see the effects of tremendous and terrible leadership up close. Outstanding leadership is the cornerstone of any thriving Agile environment. In essence, effective Agile leadership is the bedrock upon which the principles of Agile can flourish.

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Project Risk Coach

AUGUST 22, 2016

I made changes in my life that helped me create and sustain more energy. Here are the things I’ve found to be most helpful: Exercise daily. When I’m dragging or feeling down, one thing that can get me going again is exercise. Sometimes I don’t feel like walking, going for a run, or doing upper body exercises.

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The IIL Blog

APRIL 27, 2018

Tuckman model of forming-storming-norming-performing), they can benefit from a Simple Interactive Meaningful Practical Learning Exercise (SMILE). Sustaining motivation through the number of reported productive hours. Evolution of Learning Exercises for Collaboration. Types of Interactive Exercises. Video Simulations.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 23, 2023

The author has a holistic view of agile practices: agile equals product discovery (what to build) plus product delivery (how to build it) as a collaborative exercise of the whole Scrum team. Such guidance should not, however, become an exercise in protective parenting — a team must be allowed to learn from their failures.

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Scrum.org

MAY 8, 2023

These conversations guarantee the team can deliver customer value within the given constraints while contributing to the organization’s sustainability. While the Scrum Guide mentions several examples of this agile negotiation, many others derive from practicing agility in established organizations.

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LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 3, 2022

We asked Project Manager Coach Susanne Madsen how to create a powerful and sustainable mission and vision statement to take us into the New Year. Example: “My vision is a world where everyone is contributing with their full potential; where each person uses their intrinsic genius and leadership to deliver outstanding value-added projects.”.

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nTask

JUNE 25, 2019

Eventually, it comes down to the following approach: Strategic Leadership. Although leadership and management are arguably switchable roles, the usual chain of command goes from top to bottom. Leadership and Project Management Is a Two Faced Coin: When I say it is a two-faced coin, the emphasis is on the correlation factor.

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Alan Parker Blog

JULY 24, 2024

Highlight the importance of their involvement in the ISMS's successful implementation and long-term sustainability. Leadership: Ensuring leadership commitment and defining roles and responsibilities. Explain their roles and responsibilities in the project.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 4, 2021

It reflects a non-agile, opportunistic mindset that values instant gratification—more sales—over a sustainable product development strategy. They are also associated with their sustainability from a financial point of view. Usually, this kind of attitude is encouraged by the management in pursuit of meeting sales targets.

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MPUG

MAY 10, 2024

So, when we ask about project leadership, the answer is all about attitude. I believe that a mature approach to projects would see all project management replaced by project leadership. My answer is that Project Leadership requires us to be intentional about the following: Team – the people we lead, day-to-day. In fact, I did.

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Planio

JULY 22, 2020

The best books for crafting your leadership qualities. True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable. Why you should read this: Project management (and especially project leadership) is more about people than processes. Principles: Life and Work. Author: Dan Schawbel.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In a recent blog post, we discussed the various types of Agile Transformation Coaches needed to run a sustainable Transformation. Getting people to do new things and behave in new ways is seldom a purely intellectual exercise. Simply knowing the methodologies and teaching them to other people is insufficient. Pattern Recognition.

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nTask

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In this blog, we attempt to highlight the top six practices that you can implement and practice today to sustain and boost team motivation. Jennise Chaffold has more than two decades of leadership experience in developing strategies to help organizations by keeping processes and people in sync. Let’s begin.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 23, 2019

As an enterprise coach, I used Moving Motivators to help my enterprise head understand the intrinsic motivational factors of his leadership team, which is comprised of 12 managers. We ran the exercise in three parts, one with the team, one with the product owner, and the other with the engineering manager. Moving Motivators.

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The Strategic Project Manager

MARCH 11, 2024

Environmental Impact: XYZ Electronics prioritizes sustainability and uses eco-friendly materials in its smartphone production, appealing to environmentally conscious consumers. Part of the exercise – not shown – is to include a plot for industry competitors (aggregate) or multiple individual competitors. Value: Moderate.

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Planio

MAY 24, 2018

How are OKRs different from other goal-setting exercises? But to run a sustainable business, we need to keep costs under control. How are OKRs different from other goal-setting exercises? Like any goal-setting exercise , the more you know about the final destination, the better chance you’ll actually get there.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 31, 2019

On my last year life retrospectives, I wrote about servant leadership. My resolution for next year is to continue exercising being genuine to improve organisation agility without bringing my personal agenda and not taking any credit for the improvement that happen within the company. Like many of you, I do the same.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 14, 2021

Lean/Agile Leadership. Both SAFe and Scrum/Nexus emphasize the need for a different style of leadership - leaders who serve, have a growth mindset, lead by example, live and breath Lean/Agile principles and practices, and strive for relentless improvement. . This exercise could create an improvement backlog/roadmap. . .

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Epicflow Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Lectures and practical exercises will provide an opportunity to gain knowledge and skills in various areas of project management. . March 14-15, Gothenburg, Sweden — Passion for Projects is Scandinavia’s largest congress for project, portfolio and program leaders arranged by Project Management Institute in Sweden.

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Leading Answers

JUNE 14, 2018

The claimed benefits:   By eliminating the handoffs between development teams and sustainment teams, more knowledge about the system, and how to extend it, is retained. By creating stable teams that are aligned with developing and sustaining long-term products, organizations can wean themselves off unpredictable vendor models.

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Agilemania

OCTOBER 14, 2022

A Scrum Master encourages all team members, facilitates leadership engagement and communication to accomplish a successful output. This course combines classroom instruction with assisted exercises to examine the difficulties Scrum Masters encounter and how Scrum’s guiding principles and values aid in their resolution.

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