Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Scrum is an idea. The word ‘Scrum’ comes from the game of Rugby: a whole team working together; their singular mission is to move the ball down the field. A Scrum team’s calendar includes repeated cycles of planning, release, retrospective. Scrum isn’t easy. Actually, it’s rarely achieved.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

This free agile sprint plan template incorporates the entire scrum team to motivate and challenge them to drive success. It also includes resource allocations, budgeting, risk management and more. This allows risks to be prioritized. Risk is an inevitable part of any project management. The issue must be resolved.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 15, 2024

A succeeding Scrum Master helps the team move towards reliable delivery of quality, valuable increments while improving the overall environment’s health and fostering collaboration and self-management. Your ability to understand your effectiveness as a Scrum Master can help you move yourself and your team forward.

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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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Scrum.org

JANUARY 9, 2025

The Scrum framework offers clear rules, guidelines, and constraints. Teams can use them as boundaries to self-manage & self-organize their work, minimize risk, and deliver value to their stakeholders. When teams are relatively new to Scrum, strictly using the rules & constraints makes sense. What is *actually* going on?

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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. The Scrum Framework.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 10, 2025

The role of the Scrum Master is often misunderstood. What was their interest in Scrum? What did they bring to the role of Scrum Master? Its helpful to consider WHO were the early adopters? Try to imagine 1995 through ~2005. It was common they had a well-established career. They had been a manager of teams for many years.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 19, 2024

With its flexible and iterative nature, Scrum helps identify risks in product development. Events are feedback loops and opportunities to mitigate risks through transparency, inspection and adaptation. Scrum’s iterative approach allows for quicker feedback from users and stakeholders.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Agile frameworks like Scrum are used in complex environments where more is unknown than known. In complex environments, the time it takes to deliver value is affected by uncertainty, effort, risk, and other factors. Scrum embraces empiricism to help teams navigate these complexities. Are you enthusiastic about Scrum?

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Agile Project Management: Above are more traditional project management methodologies, but OpenProject is also designed to work in an agile environment , with scrum boards for managing sprints and backlogs, kanban boards and flexible and efficient workflow management. Those are just some of the features.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 26, 2024

Optimizing Risk Responses in professional project management resonates profoundly with the empirical foundation of Scrum. Scrum's framework inherently addresses risk by embracing uncertainty and change, making it an ideal approach for managing both opportunities and threats in complex environments.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

“Scrum helps people, teams, and organizations generate value.” From the Scrum Guide) But what does value actually mean? Why would you participate in a Professional Scrum Training? Have the “The Scrum Guide Explored” series weekly in your mailbox. Scrum on! So, the big question: How do you define value?

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Scrum.org

MAY 20, 2024

According to the 2020 Scrum Guide , “Scrum employs an iterative, incremental approach to optimize predictability and to control risk.” This means that Scrum teams deliver a done, usable increment of working product frequently. The Scrum guide calls out predictability and controlling risk as the two main benefits.

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Scrum.org

JULY 22, 2024

And - like the Scrum framework itself - it is easy to understand but can be hard to master. This approach increases predictability and enables Agile teams to deliver value sooner and reduce risk. Use this information to influence what the Scrum team works on next. Because improvement itself is incremental.

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Scrum.org

JULY 9, 2024

One of the accountabilities that a Scrum Master has to fulfill is to make the Scrum Team effective. This includes the Scrum Master, as well. However, in my experience I have come across only a handful of Scrum Masters who understand the concept and who focus on improving and making themselves effective.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 10, 2023

You’ll also want to review the budget, assess risk and schedule upcoming meetings to make sure everything discussed has been resolved. The meeting starts by repeating the project objectives and opening up the discussion to the team, who should be allowed to honestly critique the work, roadblocks and risks. Daily Scrum Meeting.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The Scrum Guide states: "The Scrum Team and its stakeholders inspect the results and adjust for the next Sprint." If a team makes radical changes Sprint after Sprint, they risk losing sight of what actually works. Where do adjustments happen in Scrum? No Sprint Backlog changes during Daily Scrums? Scrum on!

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Risk Identification and Decision-Making: The Product Owner needs to perceive and identify the risks associated with the product development process and the risk of releasing product increments.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 7, 2023

In this vlog , Professional Scrum Trainers, Andreanna Marshall and Scott Adams discuss the Risk Management strategy found in the Scrum framework. Risk management is a key element of any project, and understanding how Scrum applies risk management will help you successfully delivery value.

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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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Scrum.org

JANUARY 2, 2025

Agile is the ability to respond to change while controlling risk. Agile frameworks like Scrum help organisations deliver products earlier and at lower costs, giving them a competitive advantage in a fast-paced market. Agility means embracing change and identifying and accepting certain risks. So what is Agile & Agility?

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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

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Scrum - The Leader’s Perspective. If you’re leading Scrum Teams or generally are a leader in an organization that’s leveraging Scrum? Are you feeling a bit left out after reading the Scrum Guide ? The Scrum Guide describes the leadership required by the Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Developers.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 9, 2025

Success depends on trust, collaboration, risk navigation, and focusing on outcomes over outputs. For Scrum Teams as a Whole Regular Alignment Check-ins: Schedule dedicated sessions to revisit and update alignment tools, ensuring they reflect current understanding. Risk Navigation: Using alignment and validation to reduce uncertainty.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Scrum is an excellent approach for doing work, but you only get the significant benefits of agility by removing the obstacles of project thinking. I was always shocked when I asked, “Why are you using Scrum?” Scrum and all agile processes must be owned by the teams using them. It seems obvious when looking at APOM now.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In this article, we will debunk 10 common myths about Scrum. Now, I'm not saying that chaos dragons are real, but I am saying that Scrum is not chaos. Scrum can help. Scrum teams can adapt based on feedback received and can shift their focus away from unnecessary features towards features that deliver the most value.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

It’s a myth that Scrum Teams don’t plan. Scrum Teams plan at the Sprint Planning event and when refining work items. Scrum Teams plan frequently to navigate complicated environments where new information emerges constantly. We should never make changes to the Product Backlog that will put the Sprint Goal at risk.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 31, 2023

Lean Startup and Scrum Reis and Blank talk about using these ideas to build and scale a business, but the ideas hold true at the product or even feature level. Earlier Sprints validate the ultimate assumptions of the feature around value, usage, and risk. Ultimately, Scrum can be the overall execution engine driving toward a goal.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 29, 2023

TL; DR: Scrum Team Failure This post on Scrum team failure addresses three categories from the Scrum anti-patterns taxonomy that are closely aligned: Planning and process breakdown, conflict avoidance and miscommunication, and inattention to quality and commitment, often resulting in a Scrum team performing significantly below its potential.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Do they have task, resource, risk and portfolio management all in one tool with a mobile device that works on iOS and Android? Caterra: 4.5 Capterra: 4.2 Are they SOC 2 compliant to ensure project data is safe? We’re as collaborative as they are, with email and in-app notifications.

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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. As we work in iterations, we probably do that several times per month, mitigating risk by closing feedback loops. As a result, value creation in Scrum is not as straightforward as you might have thought. ??

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Scrum.org

MAY 14, 2024

When companies dip their toe in Agile waters, they often start by simply trying out an Agile framework such as Scrum to deliver something relatively small, such as a project. However, with this comes the question: Can a Project Manager be a Scrum Master? And that's a great way to start. The answer is yes - but with caution. But beware!

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Its a simple question that can lead to a wide variety of answers: Navigate complexity and quickly validate assumptions Increase predictability and minimize risk Deliver value to our stakeholders, customers, and users sooner Increased team morale and stakeholder satisfaction - Etc. Fifth, dont focus too much on Agile, Scrum, Kanban, etc.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 6, 2022

These organizations offer a variety of certifications that focus on different project management methodologies such as agile or scrum, or specific project management knowledge areas such as project scheduling, resource management or risk management. Scrum is part of Agile, which has become a standard in IT projects. Price: $300.

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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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