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| Barry Overeem

The Strength of Scrum

July 9, 2016

On July 7th the Scrum community gathered in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) for the 5th edition of Scrum Day Europe. This years theme was 'the next iteration'.

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| Stephan van Rooden

Scrum Values added to Scrum Guide, so what?

July 9, 2016

This week, co-creators of Scrum, Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland, released a new version of the Scrum Guide

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| Duncan Evans

Three Simple Steps to Make Distributed Teams Work

July 8, 2016

As Agility in Mind launch our new training course designed to help distributed teams work effectively, we share our experiences on the re

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| Kate Terlecka

Are carrots and sticks allowed on Daily Scrum?

July 7, 2016

Recently I came across a post by Mike Cohn “Incentives and Deterrents for Starting Daily Scrum on Time”, on Linkedin (o

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| Dave West

Updates to the Scrum Guide The 5 Scrum values take center stage

July 6, 2016

Today Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland, the creators of Scrum delivered a webinar on their latest update to the Scrum Guide.&nbsp

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| Stephanie Ockerman

5 Challenges Creating a Done Increment

July 5, 2016

The purpose of Scrum is to create a potentially shippable Increment by the end of a Sprint.  This is so important that people now use many terms to describe this Scrum artifact.  Working.  Releasable.

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| Ron Eringa

Evolution of the Scrum Master

June 29, 2016

In my last post I explained the pattern of an evoluting Product Owner. This blog is about the evolution pattern of a Scrum Master.

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| Ron Eringa

Evolution of the Product Owner

June 17, 2016

What is a good Product Owner and am I the right person to fill in this role? If you have ever struggled with this question, you should propably keep reading.

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| Peter Gfader

What Students Say About The Professional Scrum Developer Class (PSD.NET)

June 8, 2016

Interview after the 3 day training with 3 students, asking them 3 questions: 1. "Why did you take this class?" 2. "What was your personal highlight of the class?" 3. "What will you do differently on Monday?"

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| Simon Reindl

Scrum is the transport not the destination

May 27, 2016

Overview

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| Robert Pieper

Use Waterfall to be agile

May 26, 2016

I'm sure you've heard of Waterfall, ever heard of Water-Sc

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| Mark Noneman

Use the Right Tool for the Job

May 17, 2016

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail! Huh? I don’t know; it’s something my father always said.

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| Dan Sloan

The Most Powerful Word in the Workplace

May 11, 2016

As we approach the mid-year point in our jobs, I often find that knowledge workplaces have a tendency to slow down a bit and lose some steam - even the ones that leverage Scrum.

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| Hiren Doshi

15 things a Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) actually does

May 5, 2016

The Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) is an Entrepreneur - a value Maximizer & Optimizer

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| Hiren Doshi

The various levels of Services in the 3 Scrum Roles

May 3, 2016

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| Simon Kneafsey

Good Product Owners Delete Product Backlog Items

April 22, 2016

At a recent course, one of my attendees talked about his use of a "to delete" status for items in his Product Backlog. Where items had been in his Product Backlog for more than 3 months he tagged them as "to delete".

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| Barry Overeem

The Scrum Master as a Change Agent

April 15, 2016

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.

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| Simon Kneafsey

5 Ways To Fail With Scrum

April 14, 2016

Over the past 10 years I have worked with many organisations and helped them to use Scrum to create innovative and sometimes market leading Products. I have seen a lot of Scrum during this time, much of it done well, but some of it done badly.

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| Erik Weber

What exactly are we Scaling?

April 13, 2016

Scaling Scrum. Agile at Scale. Enterprise Everything. Everyone is using the Scaled Agile Framework SAFe.  Scaling, Scaling, Scaling. If you’re working in product development, you’ve probably had a few conversations on this topic.

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| Simon Kneafsey

The 2 Best Scrum Masters I Ever Worked With - The Master Of Coaching And Facilitation

April 8, 2016

The most common question I am asked at my courses is - what makes a good Scrum Master? I always answer this question with a story from my own experience working with Scrum Masters (good and bad) over the years.

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| Barry Overeem

The Scrum Master as an Impediment Remover

April 7, 2016

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.

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| Erik Weber

Hardware in 30 Days or Less?

April 5, 2016

In the past few months I've been working with a company whose products are most hardware, circuit boards, and firmware.

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| Stephan van Rooden

Product Backlog Refinement explained (3/3)

March 29, 2016

How to facilitate a Product Backlog Refinement meeting? What do you do as a Scrum Master to keep the item under refinement on track? When do you estimate and what do you do when you need more time for discussion?

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| Simon Kneafsey

The 2 Best Scrum Masters I Ever Worked With - The Master Of Self Organisation

March 29, 2016

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| Barry Overeem

Project Mindset or Product Mindset?

March 23, 2016

Last week I participated in a Product Owner course facilitated by Gunther Verheyen. What triggered me was the part where we discussed the difference between having a pr

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| Stephan van Rooden

Product Backlog Refinement explained (2/3)

March 21, 2016

What do you do during Product Backlog refinement? How do you prevent discussions going off track or in too much detail? Who should be there? When do you estimate?

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| Simon Kneafsey

Is It Possible To Be Agile Without Using Scrum?

March 17, 2016

Yes, of course it is! Scrum is a framework to help teams and organisations on their path to agility, but it is by no means the only way to be agile.

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| Stephan van Rooden

Product Backlog Refinement explained (1/3)

March 14, 2016

One of the most challenging activities in Scrum is Product Backlog Refinement. During training courses I get many questions on this activity. What do you do during Product Backlog refinement?

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| Gunther Verheyen

Announcing Scrum Day Europe 2016

March 8, 2016

2012

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| Barry Overeem

The 11 Advantages of Using a Sprint Goal

March 6, 2016

When facilitating a Scrum Master training, the Sprint Goal is a topic that often causes a good discussion. Participants question the background, purpose and advantages of using a Sprint Goal.

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| Clementino Mendonca

About self-organizing teams

March 3, 2016

Question from a budding Scrum Master, who is transitioning from a background as a traditional project manager:

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| Ravi Verma

(WHY) WILL AGILE WORK THIS TIME?

March 1, 2016

BURNING QUESTION

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| Barry Overeem

The 5 Most Common Pitfalls of the Scrum Events

February 29, 2016

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| Hiren Doshi

Feedback on the Professional Scrum Foundations Workshop

February 28, 2016

This video captures the feedback from the students on the Professional Scrum Foundation workshop facilitated in India.

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| Barry Overeem

Characteristics of a Great Scrum Team

February 24, 2016

Scrum is a framework within which people can address complex problems, and productively and creatively develop products of the highest possible value. It's a tool organizations can use increase their agility.

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| Hiren Doshi

Scaled Professional Scrum using the Nexus Framework - Feedback

February 21, 2016

This blog is the feedback on Scaled Professional Scrum using Nexus Framework and over 50 practices from the participants who attended my SPS workshop in India. [embed]https://youtu.be/hC6H5MtsClY[/embed]

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| Dave West

Working with a web development company using Scrum

February 19, 2016

I am sure it would not come as a surprise, but our website (www.scrum.org) needs a major refresh.

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| Barry Overeem

The 28 Characteristics of a Great Scrum Master

February 17, 2016

The Scrum Master is responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and enacted. Scrum Masters do this by ensuring that the Scrum Team adheres to Scrum theory, practices, and rules.  The Scrum Master is a servant-leader for the Scrum Team.

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| Barry Overeem

The 25 Characteristics of a Great Development Team

February 15, 2016

Recently I wrote an article about the characteristics of a great Product Owner. It gave me the idea to do the same for the Development Team and Scrum Master.

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| Jerónimo Palacios

How to start a Nexus in practice?

February 10, 2016

Nexus and SPS have been online for a while. There are organisations around the world giving it a try and, of course, there are questions about how to set up and begin using Nexus in an organisation.

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| Jerónimo Palacios

9 keys to understand the Nexus Integration Team

January 25, 2016

After downloading and studying the Nexus guide, you have questions about how the Nexus Integration Team actually works, so here are some keys to understand the role and its fit within the Nexus.

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| Barry Overeem

The 18 Characteristics of a Great Product Owner

January 19, 2016

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| Barry Overeem

The #1 Characteristic of Agile DNA

January 10, 2016

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| Gunther Verheyen

What Product Ownership might entangle

January 5, 2016

What is a 'Product Owner'?

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| Barry Overeem

Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule

January 1, 2016

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| Gunther Verheyen

The Agile Paradigm (wishing you a great 2016)

December 29, 2015

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| Barry Overeem

How to Build a Scrum Team with Contractors?

December 26, 2015

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| François Desrosiers

Base donnes Agile - Dbuter le voyage !

December 18, 2015

Comme on l'a vu durant la présentation, l'Agilité a des impacts à tous les niveaux et touche même les bases de données. Pour être capable de travailler efficacement dans un contexte Agile, le DBA doit ajuster sa manière de travaill

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| Gunther Verheyen

Product Backlog, not a story card hell (the Scrum.org PSPO program)

December 14, 2015

At some occasions we stop to look back. We see the trail we left behind, the bigger picture, the impact we made. Small or big. We think of the impact we hoped to make, small or big.

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| Louis-Philippe Carignan

Fourth iteration of my upcoming book

December 14, 2015

After almost a year, I am now publishing the 4th iteration of my upcoming book So You Want To Be A Hero : Soft skills at the core of Agile software development.