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		<title>Tips on How to Find a Good Agile Coach</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:19:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The notion of coaching is specific to Agile approaches in the software development world. There has always been consultants, but they were seen as a different role. Here are some resources about Agile coaching, starting with some quotes from the Agile Coaching book written by Rachel Davies and Liz Sedley. &#8220;Agile is all about teams working together to produce great software. As an Agile coach, you can help your team go from first steps to running with Agile to unleashing their full Agile potential.&#8221; &#8220;The art of Agile coaching is understanding the situation, the values underlying Agile software development, and how the two can combine. As an Agile coach, you don’t need to have all the answers; it takes time and a few experiments to hit on the right approach. We’ve worked with teams who’ve come up with great solutions, and we learn from every team we work with.&#8221; &#8220;Don’t expect to get recognition for your work as an Agile coach. It’s a supporting role rather than one that delivers direct benefits. A good coach gives credit to the team. When you work on an idea with Frank, it’s Frank’s idea if it succeeds, and if it doesn’t, then commiserate together.&#8221; Source: “Agile Coaching”, Rachel Davies and Liz Sedley, Pragmatic Bookshelf, 250 pages Some good points to keep in mind the next time you will be looking for some coaching help to transition to Agile. Resources about Agile Coaching Agile Coaching Tips When you are engaged as an agile coach, <a class="mh-excerpt-more" href="https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/tips-on-how-to-find-a-good-agile-coach/" title="Tips on How to Find a Good Agile Coach">[...]</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Resources for Code and Database Refactoring</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Martin Fowler defined refactoring as a &#8221; disciplined technique for restructuring an existing body of code, altering its internal structure without changing its external behavior&#8221;. In the days of Agile development where code is delivered after one or two-week cycles, you start quickly to deal with &#8220;legacy&#8221; code, what was known as &#8220;maintenance&#8221; for projects that had longer delivery time frames. To limit your technical debt, code refactoring should be an ongoing activity in Agile teams. Even if refactoring is mostly linked to code, the term is also widely used for every restructuring effort: database definition code, testing scripts, software architecture or development process. In the core principles and best practices of refactoring, you will have to keep behavior unchanged as you verify with tests before and after refactoring. You work in small, incremental steps: make tiny, reversible changes and run tests frequently. It is important to automate tests and CI. A solid test suite and continuous integration are prerequisites to code refactoring. In addition, you need to improve readability of your code first with prefer clear names, single-responsibility functions, and consistent style. Finally, you need to refactor for intent: you have to change the structure so the code expresses why it exists, not just how. I am sure to forget some precious resources in this overview, so do not hesitate to add some pointer in the comments (no commercial tools, thank you). Some of these resources are language specific (Java, Ruby, .Net, Python, PHP and even Fortran) but you <a class="mh-excerpt-more" href="https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/code-and-database-refactoring/" title="Resources for Code and Database Refactoring">[...]</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>ScrumMaster Checklists</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 08:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Even if for some Agile and Scrum practitioners, checklists can have the bad reputations as being on the wrong side of the &#8220;Individuals and interactions over processes and tool &#8221; Agile Manifesto preferred values, it doesn&#8217;t always mean that it contains &#8220;items you should always check&#8221;. They can be also considered as a good practice that allows to capitalize and share experience when they are used as guidelines to assess the different aspects of a situation. This article presents various websites, articles and blog posts that suggest checklists for ScrumMasters. The main reference is scrummasterchecklist.org and many websites just reference this content. We tried to uncover different perspectives on this topic. I hope their content might help beginner or experienced ScrumMasters consider their work with a different perspective. Feel free to suggest any content that I missed and that should be featured in this article. Updates: * November 28 2025: Added: Agile to Agility, ProCognita Scrum Master Checklist, ScrumDesk Scrum Master Daily Checklist Removed: SolutionsIQ ScrumMaster Thoughtlist, Pascal Dufour Scrum Master Checklist (both are not available anymore) * June 16 2021: added StarAgile, Ansar Kanhiroli * Michael James&#8217; Example Scrum Master Checklist This site is dedicated to Michael James&#8217; Example Scrum Master Checklist, an example list of things a Scrum Master should pay attention to in a typical organization. This list is translated in multiple languages (Chinese, Japanese, German, French, Spanish, etc.) Some of the items mentioned in this list are &#8220;Is the backlog an information radiator immediately visible to <a class="mh-excerpt-more" href="https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/scrummaster-checklists/" title="ScrumMaster Checklists">[...]</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Agile &#038; Scrum Podcasts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2022 12:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Podcasts play an important role as one of the modern tools for personal Agile training and Scrum knowledge acquisition, as much as videos. Audio-only material is useful in a context where the eyes are already busy, when you commute in your car for instance. This article lists active Agile and Scrum podcasts. Most podcasts episodes are available as mp3 files that can be downloaded. Other are available only in certain audio or video distribution platforms like SoundCloud , iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher or YouTube. The active Agile and Scrum podcasts mentioned in this article are: #AgileWay Podcast, Agile.fm, Agile Answers, Agile Amped, Agile Chicago Style, Agile Chuck Wagon, Agile Coaches&#8217; Corner, Agile Coaching Network, Agile Coffee, Agile for Human, Agile Mentors Podcast, Agile in 3 Minutes, Agile Revolution, Agile Toolkit Podcast, Agile Uprising, Badass Agile Podcast, The Burn Up, Deliver It Cast, JoinAgile, LeadingAgile, Meta-Cast, Planet Product Owner, SAFe Business Agility Podcast, Scrum Master Toolbox, This Agile Life, Troubleshooting Agile, Two Scrums Up, Why Agile Transformations Fails, Women in Agile. Do not hesitate to suggest important Agile and Scrum podcasts that are missing from this list using the website contact form. Updates June 27 2022: added #AgileWay Podcast, Agile Mentors Podcast (Mountain Goat Software), SAFe Business Agility Podcast May 19 2021: added Agile Coaches&#8217; Corner, Planet Product Owner, Women in Agile July 21 2020: added Agile Coaching Network, The Burn Up, Two Scrums Up April 3 2019: added Agile.fm, Agile Chicago Style * #AgileWay Podcast The #AgileWay Podcast is presented by Zuzana <a class="mh-excerpt-more" href="https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/agile-podcasts/" title="Agile &#038; Scrum Podcasts">[...]</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Myths About Scrum &#038; DevOps</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2020 08:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Reducing the time to create usable software with short Scrum sprints is a nice thing, but then how do you deliver it to the users? How can Agile developers who embrace changes work with system people who like stability? To answers these questions, Scrum.org and the DevOps Institute have produced a white paper titled “The Convergence of Scrum and DevOps”. The white paper declares that Agile and DevOps share a lot of common aspects like faster delivery cycles, smaller increments of releases, quick feedback, removing waste and impediments. Their focus is slightly different and these apparent differences are amplified by misunderstandings. The white paper lists the following differences: * Some Agilists think ALL process is bad, while Ops is steeped in a history of stability through process. * DevOps looks to tools and automation to increase speed, while some Agilists view tools as a necessary evil at best and a distraction at worst. * DevOps looks to holistic systems thinking to solve problems, while Agile looks to people to drive change and discover it through work. Agile and DevOps have different culture and this can cause communication issues. As the authors wrote it “Language does matter, and teams need consistent language and concepts to work together.” People should work together and find a balance between automation, process, and empowering teams. This balance and the integration between Agile development teams and operation people are discussed in details in this document. In the conclusion, the authors wrote: “DevOps was born from the <a class="mh-excerpt-more" href="https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/the-myths-about-scrum-devops/" title="The Myths About Scrum &#038; DevOps">[...]</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Scrum Master Trends Report 2019</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2019 15:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Scrum.org and Age of Product have released recently the 2019 Scrum Master Trends Report. This report is a follow-up to the 2017 Scrum Master Salary Report. The 2019 Scrum Master Trends Report is based on a 2018 survey of more than 2100 participants, with a focus on trends useful to both new and experienced Scrum Masters. The survey results reveal salary trends and agile adoption patterns, while also exploring gender equality within the Scrum Master role. The participants represent 87 countries and come from all levels of experience. Being managed by Scrum.org, this survey could have some biases created by the participants&#8217; recruitment. For instance, 55% of the participants had a Professional Scrum Master certification (provided by Scrum.org) and only 33% were Certified Scrum Master (provided by the Scrum Alliance), normally the largest Scrum certification body in the world. It should be noticed also that 45% of participants have more than one certification. This report provides an overview of a lot of information about the Scrum master profession and also the use of Scrum in organizations. I was surprised by the relatively low level of experience of Scrum Master in their job. Almost 50% have less than two years of experience and 10% have no experience at all. This is correlated by the evaluation of the organization progress in Agile adoption as 42% of them are still in the early stage or even still applying a waterfall approach. Image source: Scrum Master Trends Report 201 A large part of this <a class="mh-excerpt-more" href="https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/scrum-master-trends-report-2019/" title="Scrum Master Trends Report 2019">[...]</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>State of Scrum 2018 Report Published</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2018 16:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Scrum Alliance has published its 2017-18 State of Scrum Report that provide data about Scrum adoption and trends based on a survey of more than 2,000 of its members. This report emphasizes Agile transformation and the need for scaling Scrum. It also shows that people using only Scrum has strongly decreased these past two years. The State of Scrum 2017-2018 is based on a survey of more than 2,000 members of the Scrum Alliance that have received a certification from this organization. With its easily accessible Scrum master certification, the Scrum Alliance can be considered as the main organization in the Scrum universe. Even if the data of this survey should be considered with circumspection (I would compare this to surveying only iPhone users to provide a view of the mobile market), this report provides nevertheless some interesting data about the Scrum usage. Another caution is that almost 50% of the respondents are located in the USA, but this might be by itself an interesting data on Scrum adoption if it can be related to the location for certified scrum masters. For instance, even if the USA have a population that is four times larger than Germany, it provides 12 times more answers in this survey. Here are some interesting data from the report * Average number of people in a Scrum team: 7.4 * Average length of a Scrum sprint: 2.4 weeks * Average number of Sprints per Scrum project: 5 * Average duration of a Scrum project: <a class="mh-excerpt-more" href="https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/state-of-scrum-2018-report-published/" title="State of Scrum 2018 Report Published">[...]</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Google Design Sprint Kit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2018 17:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Google design sprint framework is a five-phase framework developed by Google that helps answer critical business questions through rapid prototyping and user testing. The design sprints let teams reach clearly defined goals and deliverables and gain key learnings. According to Google, this process helps spark innovation, encourage user-centered thinking, align teams under a shared vision, and get faster to product launch. Created in 2010, the Google design sprint framework is the result of the study and test of 300 different business strategy, design thinking, and user research methods from places like IDEO and Stanford d.school. Google took the most effective ones and evolved them, arranging them into a framework that supports both divergent thinking (creative brainstorming that results in multiple possible solutions) and convergent thinking (using defined, logical steps to arrive at one solution). The methodology has evolved over time and continues to be refined and tested. The Google design sprint framework website provides different case studies, a step by step guide to planning the design sprint, tools and templates tools to help you run design sprints and a FAQ. In the context of Scrum, this approach could be interesting to explore before you actually launch you project in a process that is often labeled as &#8220;iteration zero&#8221;. Read all the documentation about the Google Design Sprint Kit on https://designsprintkit.withgoogle.com/]]></description>
		
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		<title>Agile Periodic Table</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2017 17:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is sometime difficult to have an overview of the different principles and practices that are grouped under the Agile banner. In his blog post, Jerome Kehrli has tried the challenging exercise of classifying Agile principles and practices using the periodic table of chemical elements as an inspiration. Jerome Kehrli has taken the principles and practices of XP, Scrum, Lean Startup, DevOps and others. He has then classified them using different perspective: their domain (architecture, software engineering, etc.), their level of maturity or complexity and if they are related more to the organization or the engineering. Around 60 principles and practices are placed according to these criteria. Each of these principles and practices is then explained in detail. View this periodic table of Agile principles and practices on https://www.niceideas.ch/roller2/badtrash/entry/periodic-table-of-agile-principles]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>TastyCupcakes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2017 18:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[TastyCupcakes is a community-run site that presents games, techniques and approaches that could be used by Agile coaches and ScrumMasters. On TastyCupcakes your will find games that could be use on many different activities or approaches of the software development world and for various role of Agile teams: communication, lean, requirements, team dynamics and even software testing. For each game, a card define its timing, material, setup and explanations on how to run the game. TastyCupcakes is a community-run website and you can contribute by giving feedback on existing games or adding new games. Even if the majority of the content is in English, the website offer a language option and you can view some of the games in French, Portuguese, Spanish or Russian. You can visit the TastyCupcakes website on http://tastycupcakes.org/]]></description>
		
		
		
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