Scrum.org

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Imagine a 30-person team divided into three specialized groups: data loaders, processors, and invoice creators. To keep each group busy, the Product Owner ensures their specialized workstreams are constantly filled. Scrum teams who use velocity for planning purposes usually select a point system of some kind. Here's why.

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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

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Our team leader was educated with Scrum and wanted to see if it would work. The role of the Scrum Master emerged as a critical one, transitioning from a team facilitator to an organizational change agent. Agile Coaching became a profession, with Scrum Masters who had real-world experience guiding large-scale Agile transformations.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Recently, I had an eye-opening experience outside of the professional world that showed me just how much individual negativity can damage a group. The idea is simple: one person exhibiting toxic behaviour- whether through laziness, constant complaining, or being disruptive -can drag down the performance of an entire group.

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Scrum.org

MAY 2, 2022

When many teams work on a product-part (that they call a 'product') that does not have the properties from the preceding list, then that group experiences unnecessarily reduced agility and long end-user feedback loops (We described this is described in the first and second blog). Identify typical external end-users of your group. .

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Have you ever tried to estimate as a team with some of you around a screen, others remote, or using tools where only the Scrum Master can see what’s happening and you’re voting from your mobile phone? If you aren’t familiar with this way of estimating, scrum poker is a way of creating team-approved estimates for items in the backlog.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Mastering Scrum is a journey towards collaboration, continuous improvement, and self-managing teams. This path enhances the efficacy of the Scrum framework and cultivates essential leadership qualities, making it a critical step for anyone aspiring to lead successfully in today's dynamic environments.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 10, 2023

Project meetings for teams bring together the group to solve a problem or improve progress to meet certain goals and expectations. Scrum is an agile way of working in which projects are broken into blocks, which are called sprints. The sprint planning meeting involves the scrum master, scrum product manager and the scrum team.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Carsten is an Agile Coach at the LEGO Group and the founder of Agile Ideas. Does the LEGO Group face Zombie Scrum issues as well? What does Agile at the LEGO Group look like? How is “value” defined at the LEGO Group? What are some of the painful impediments the LEGO Group had to overcome to increase its agility?

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 29, 2025

This is an Inspect-Adapt opportunity for the Scrum Team to figure out how they could become more effective in the upcoming sprint. Sprint Retrospective - The Dysfunctions Sprint Retrospective has a clear purpose - to find how the Scrum Team can become more effective in the upcoming sprints. Shall we skip the retrospective?

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 22, 2024

I may have dealt with skeptical groups. Even more interestingly, it has been primarily Agile Coaches, Scrum Masters, and other Agile practitioners who believe their organization doesnt gain from Agiles potential benefits. Yes, Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters play a critical role, but they cant do it alone. Whats in it for them?

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Scrum.org

JUNE 20, 2022

And what does this mean for remote Scrum Teams? For many Scrum Teams finishing tasks is less important than delivering value toward the Product Goal and Sprint Goals. For a Scrum Team, remote or in-person work requires special attention to ensure that it is both enjoyable and productive. Everyone, not just the Scrum Master.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Cross-functional team is the basic structural block in Scrum. When multiple cross-functional teams are working on the same product we call it a scaled Scrum and there are different implementations of it, for instance, Nexus and LeSS. Let’s have a look at how a Product Group is structured. Product Group example In Figure 1.2

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 14, 2025

Theyve been told, You cant scale whats broken, so they wait until they nail agile at the team and product group level. We started introducing more and more agility principles and practices (eventually, they did reorganize to stream-aligned cross-product groups focused on the REAL product and leveraged team-level agile ways of working).

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 22, 2024

TL; DR: The Rise of the Scrum GPT Fewer Jobs for Scrum Masters, and now we see the universal Scrum GPT entering the competition: Will Scrum Masters change from essential practitioners to a niche role? The job market is currently challenging for many agile practitioners, particularly Scrum Masters.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

TL; DR: Value Creation in Scrum. As a tactical framework, Scrum is good at delivering Increments into customers’ hands. Nevertheless, there is a potentially hazardous void in the framework that successful Scrum teams start plugging early: how to figure out what is worth building—product discovery—in the first place.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Scrum Scrum is a project management style or framework that is used in an agile environment. Like agile, scrum works in sprints, which are short periods of time, no more than two weeks, that are focused on a specific set of requirements or user stories.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 1, 2022

Do your Daily Scrums feel like a pointless ritual where everyone just lists what they’ve done yesterday, and what they do will do today? In our work with Scrum teams, we’ve been part of teams that had it. So Scrum was doomed from the start. We also explore how these insights create a strong foundation for the Scrum framework.

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Scrum.org

MAY 10, 2022

As Scrum.org professionals, we have coached, trained and mentored thousands of Scrum Masters and consulted the organizations they work with, and we’ve consistently encountered similar issues that not only limit Scrum Teams from thriving, but also restrict empiricism from working. That’s Mechanical Scrum.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 6, 2022

1) Stronghold over Scrum and other Agile Frameworks Knowledge. For example, scrum comes with guidelines and values that a true leader needs to comprehend to help people understand the importance of continuous inspection and adaptation. The scrum team requires organizational support to deliver value. 2) Organizational skills.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 16, 2023

As an Agile Coach, he’s responsible for about 50 Scrum Masters. For about one hour we talked about how to be a servant leader for such a group of Scrum Masters. Regardless if you’re an Agile Coach or Scrum Master, servant leadership is the desired mindset, behavior, and attitude. Eventually, it’s actually quite simple.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 18, 2022

. The portrayal of a Scrum Master on a Scrum Team is barely the same as the role of the traditional Project Manager. Scrum Masters have their own ways of not being an overlord in the traditional sense and are more focused on being the facilitator at the same level as others on their team. Scrum Master’s role is an Overhead.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 24, 2022

So you recently started using Scrum and are struggling to get the most out of the Scrum events? Or, maybe your journey with Scrum has been going on for some time and you still feel that something is missing in your meetings. In this blog post you will find some tips and tricks that will boost facilitation of your Daily Scrum.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In a 2-day Scrum Course using Minecraft for Education, all these feelings are amplified. In those instances, there is a lot of complaints on the use of the game for teaching Scrum, they would rather have the class taught in the form of a lecture. . Everyone copes with these situations in different ways.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 20, 2020

You can add attachments and send messages individually or in groups. Groups can be set up to include company-wide correspondences, which is great for general announcements. Daily Scrum. One thing is the daily scrum. Scrum is a framework for working in a more agile fashion, which means faster and more iterative.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Scrum Methodology. What It Is: Scrum is a short “sprint” approach to managing projects. The scrum methodology is It’s ideal for teams of no more than 10 people, and often is wedded to two-week cycles with short daily meetings, known as daily scrum meetings. It’s led by what is called a Scrum master.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 11, 2022

Why is the Product Goal important in Scrum? Vision: I wanted to be a recognized Agile Coach or Scrum Master. Read books with a group (aka book clubs). Product in Scrum. Scrum Guide) “A product is a vehicle to deliver value.” What could happen to a Scrum Team without a Product Goal? What is a Goal? .

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Scrum.org

MARCH 19, 2022

In 2010 I started my first assignment as a Scrum Master. Mostly intended to help myself reflect on my role, receive feedback from other Scrum practitioners, and make improvements accordingly. Over the years, the sum of these blog posts resulted in the paper “ The 8 Stances Of A Scrum Master ”. The 6 Scrum Master Stances.

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Scrum.org

JULY 6, 2021

TL; DR: 60 Questions for the New Scrum Master. Congratulations on your new Scrum Master position! The following 60 Questions for a New Scrum Master may support you in learning more about the Scrum team’s way of working and the organization’s culture. ?? 20 Questions for the Scrum Team. Or the lack thereof.

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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

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Changing the organizations and applying Scrum (or any other framework) is even harder. We started writing the book from a Scrum Master perspective. Even though we talk about Scrum in part, this framework can be changed to any other framework. We initially tried to apply Scrum to write. Product management is hard.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 25, 2024

Plus, we’ll get into scrumban, a combination of kanban with scrum. Scrum teams use pin boards with user story cards and during a sprint (short iteration working on tasks) each user story (tasks) is written on a card. These cards are the sprint backlog and are placed on a board for the scrum team to choose which user story to work on.

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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

As an agile coach I often have Scrum Masters come up to me because management is complaining there are too many meetings in Scrum and that their developers aren't 100% utilised on developing the products. Why is it that so many people walk away from a Scrum event saying it was a waste of time, boring or not relevant to them?

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Let’s face it, your stakeholders couldn’t care less about Scrum or whatever framework you’re using. Scrum is not one of their needs. In domains where Scrum thrives, people don’t know what they want. And that is why they should care about Scrum. Too often I come across disconnection between Scrum Teams and their users.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 17, 2023

In a recent Scrum.org webcast (1) I mentioned that Scrum by its nature, assumes psychological safety exists in order for Scrum as a practice to function. Furthermore I would assert that for Scrum to be truly successful Scrum absolutely requires psychological safety to be established both inside and outside of the Scrum Team. .

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Scrum.org

APRIL 13, 2025

The exchange began with a familiar scenario: a Scrum team stuck in a feature factory mindset with stakeholders not embracing agile practices. The text is unedited to preserve its authenticity: SW: My Scrum team has had a hard time; we are stuck in feature factory. Group Activity: Whats Working, Whats Not? (15 Scrum Master (you!)

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