Are you a Scrum Master or a Project Manager?
Do you hold the job title of Scrum Master in your organization? In most big companies today, this role is still misrepresented as a Project Manager, which is hindering the pursuit of organizational...
View ArticleAre you rocking the boat or flowing in between rocks?
One of the challenge working as a Professional Scrum Trainer is reading what is in people’s mind when they are silent. In a classroom setup, silence can mean many things and it depends on the local...
View ArticleDone is at the heart of Scrum
Scrum brings agility to and creates Agile organizations through the implementation of empirical process control, the process of frequent inspection and adaptation. The empiricism of Scrum serves...
View ArticleWho is the Professional Scrum Master
The Scrum Master role can easily be misunderstood as it is harder to grasp by reading the theory hence people often compare the Scrum Master role to Project Manager or Technical Leader. Scrum has been...
View ArticleIs Scrum Master a Coach?
The Scrum Master is an amazing and at the same time very challenging role. He needs to have different skills, and depending on the situation put on a teaching, training, facilitating or a coaching hat....
View ArticleScrum: Who are the Key Stakeholders that Should be Attending Every Sprint...
The Scrum Guide requires that the Product Owner ensure that “key stakeholders” attend the Scrum Sprint Review, but who are these “key stakeholders”? According to the Scrum Glossary, a stakeholder is “a...
View ArticleThe Scrum Master as a Servant-Leader
The role of a Scrum Master is one of many stances and diversity. A great Scrum Master is aware of them and knows when and how to apply them, depending on situation and context. Everything with the...
View ArticleTop Five Causes of Failed Agile Projects
VersionOne does an annual “State of Agile Development” survey and publishes the results for the cost of your email address. Thanks VersionOne! I recently read through the 9th annual survey results...
View ArticleThe Scrum Master as a Manager
The role of a Scrum Master is one of many stances and diversity. A great Scrum Master is aware of them and knows when and how to apply them, depending on situation and context. Everything with the...
View ArticleThe Scrum Master as a Facilitator
The role of a Scrum Master is one of many stances and diversity. A great Scrum Master is aware of them and knows when and how to apply them, depending on situation and context. Everything with the...
View ArticleThe Scrum Master as a Coach
The role of a Scrum Master is one of many stances and diversity. A great Scrum Master is aware of them and knows when and how to apply them, depending on situation and context. Everything with the...
View ArticleLarge Scale Agile and Scrum vs. Waterfall: Agile is 6X More Successful, 1/4...
A pair of recent findings from the Standish Group confirm the astonishing success and cost savings of Agile approaches over waterfall. In the “Chaos Report 2015“, Standish found that large Agile...
View ArticleIs Your Scrum Team a Set of Pawns or Players?
Previous week I used the Spotify Squad Health Check model to assess a teams situation and condition. One of the cards the game contained caused quite a lot of discussing during the retrospective and...
View ArticleThe Scrum Master as a Mentor
The role of a Scrum Master is one of many stances and diversity. A great Scrum Master is aware of them and knows when and how to apply them, depending on situation and context. Everything with the...
View ArticleA Common Pitfall With User Stories
The concept of user stories is a well-known tool for describing requirements. In a simple format it captures the ‘who’, ‘what’ and ‘why’ of a requirement. User stories have their roots in Extreme...
View ArticleMultifunctional Learning & the reusable Sprint Backlog
Have you ever seen a Sprint Backlog that can be reused across Sprints? I have! A reusable Sprint Backlog contains obvious tasks, like for example ’write code’, ‘make test scripts’ , ‘execute test...
View ArticleDaily Scrum – Tips & Tactics
Although the Daily Scrum seems to be a simple and straightforward event, I still encounter a lot of teams struggling with it. In this blog post I’ll share my tips & tactics. You can use it as a...
View ArticleThe Box of Transparency
This blog post is about a little box. A little transparent box. The box contained only one sticky note. A sticky note with a milestone. The milestone belonged to a a large project that concerned a...
View ArticleWho is the Professional Scrum Product Owner
Just like how the Development Team role and Scrum Master role that can be easily misunderstood, the Product Owner is also easily misunderstood by organisation who are using Scrum. Over and over again...
View ArticleV-P-C + V-W-R: Boosting Sustainable Profit with a Modern “Scrum”-Petitive...
WYGAT WEED WHACKER The story of the Wygat Weed Whacker goes back many years – to the time we bought our first home in the beautiful town of Allen, TX. One of the best parts of our home was a small...
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