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- [Open Source Jira Plugins, Add-Ons and Utilities](https://www.scrumexpert.com/tools/open-source-jira-plugins-add-ons-and-utilities/) - This article presents some of the open source Atlassian Jira plugins, add-ons and utilities that can be found on GitHub: command line, dashboards, search, etc.
- [10 Tips for Digestible Pair Programming](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/10-tips-for-digestible-pair-programming/) - Pair Programming is an Agile software development technique proposed by the eXtreme Programming (XP) approach. Software developers are aware of the fact that this technique can have some huge advantages. Pair programming is an efficient way to share knowledge, it gives you an almost instant feedback loop, and delivers higher quality, less error-prone code. Pair
- [Agile in Security and Security in Agile](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/agile-in-security-and-security-in-agile/) - This presentation explores how Agile and security works together in an Agile banking environment. Is security conflicting with Agile methodologies? Scrum or Kanban, which one is better with Agile and fast and secure delivery? The following topics are discussed in this presentation: Looking for ways to improve our delivery securely. Is security a bottleneck? Let's
- [Open Source Planning Poker Tools](https://www.scrumexpert.com/tools/open-source-planning-poker-tools/) - This article presents a list of free and open source Scrum planning poker tools and plugins (Slack, Jira, Discord, Azure Boards) also available as online tools.
- [Sacred Agile: Religious Approaches to Software Development](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/sacred-agile-religious-approaches-to-software-development/) - A reflection about the opposition between followers of Agile and traditional software development approaches and why you should not adopt dogmatic positions.
- [Nine Questions for a Good Scrum Team Structure](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/nine-questions-for-a-good-scrum-team-structure/) - In the book “Succeeding with Agile”, Mike Cohn present 9 questions that you should ask for a current or proposed Scrum team. Questions to ask iteratively.
- [The Cone of Uncertainty in Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/the-cone-of-uncertainty/) - The "Cone of Uncertainty" describes the reduction of the uncertainty on the scope after each sprint of a Scrum project. Each Agile sprint reduces uncertainty.
- [Commercial Scrum Online Retrospectives Tools](https://www.scrumexpert.com/tools/commercial-scrum-retrospectives-tools/) - A list of online Agile tools that can be used to facilitate remote retrospectives for distributedScrum teams and to provide items for continuous improvement,
- [AgileByExample, Warsaw, Poland, October 12-14 2026](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/agilebyexample/) - AgileByExample is a Lean, Agile and Scrum conference taking place in Warsaw, Poland that helps you learn Agile on live examples. The first day is dedicated to a Lean Agile Dojo with workshops. Keynotes, talks and discussions are all in English. In the agenda of the AgileByExample conference you can find topics like "From Agile
- [Agile Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, September 30 - October 1 2026](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/agile-cambridge/) - Agile Cambridge is a conference that is focused on Agile software development and Scrum project management. Since 2010, this conference mixes workshops, experience reports and case studies about Agile and Scrum. In the agenda of the Agile Cambridge conference you can find topics like "Agile architecture and innovation", "Agility for the masses", "Team toxins -
- [Lean Agile Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, October 29-30 2026](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/lean-agile-scotland/) - Lean Agile Scotland is a conference taking place in Edinburgh and focused on the Lean and Agile approaches to software development and project management like Scrum or Kanban. In the agenda of the Lean Agile Scotland conference you can find topics like "Navigate in shallow waters: a business agility story in corporate banking", "Creating the
- [How Software Testing Supports Better Performance](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/how-software-testing-supports-better-performance/) - Regular testing helps Scrum teams feel more organized. They can fine-tune areas that need cleaner flow, so that testing becomes part of software success.
- [How Software Quality Assurance Supports Long-Term Product Success](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/how-software-quality-assurance-supports-long-term-product-success/) - Software quality assurance helps products stay useful, stable and trusted for a long time. It supports Scrum teams in building software that people enjoy using.
- [How Continuous Validation in Scrum Improves Content Readiness for AI Search](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/how-continuous-validation-in-scrum-improves-content-readiness-for-ai-search/) - Synchronizing the Scrum approach with QA standards creates a reliable foundation for progress in the AI era, turning content into a valuable digital asset.
- [Scrum Values and Principles: Why They Matter for Team Success](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/scrum-values-and-principles-why-they-matter-for-team-success/) - Scrum is more than sprints and standups. Learn what the five Scrum values really mean, how core principles shape everyday teamwork, and what goes wrong when teams skip the culture behind the framework.
- [Free Retrospective Tools for Distributed Scrum Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/tools/free-retrospective-tools-for-distributed-scrum-teams/) - A list of some open source or free online retrospective tools that can be used to facilitate retrospectives for distributed and remote Scrum and Agile teams.
- [Learn the Culture First, Before Going Agile!](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/learn-the-culture-first-before-going-agile/) - Agile is everywhere. Everybody is talking about it. Everybody wants to start the Agile journey with the various Agile frameworks like Scrum. And then, many hit the ceiling and give up the Agile journey altogether. This interactive session shares the story of how an organization started with understanding its culture first and then brought agility
- [Scaling Agility in Customer Experience at Ford Motor Company](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/scaling-agility-in-customer-experience-at-ford-motor-company/) - Benjamin Igna worked with Ford Motor Company and lead the transformation within the launch of the new Ford Explorer (EV). In this presentation, he shares his learnings and approaches during the change towards agility of the CX organization across 5 different Markets and cultures affecting multiple hundred people in sales and marketing. Here are some
- [Unlock Your Team Potential: Discover Your Role for Success](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/unlock-your-team-potential-discover-your-role-for-success/) - As you advance in your career, your responsibilities evolve from being a junior to a senior, manager, architect, or scrum master. How does this transformation affect your daily duties, and what value do you bring to the team? Can your team function efficiently without you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHiya7Yi0I0 Video producer: https://voxxeddays.com/
- [AI as the Future of Agile & Coaching](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/ai-as-the-future-of-agile-coaching/) - This presentation allows you to understand how artificial intelligence (AI) can transform Agile and coaching practices, enabling more effective, personalized and scalable solutions. You will learn: * he potential of GenAI in addressing Agile challenges, such as maintaining engagement and providing consistent feedback * An introduction to Coachia, a cutting-edge AI system developed by Koučing
- [Play4Agile, Johannesberg, Germany, September 10-13 2026](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/play4agile/) - The Play4Agile conference is an event about Agile gamification taking place in Germany. This conference is for Agile, Scrum and Lean coaches, facilitators, game and innovation experts who want to exchange questions, ideas and experiences on using games in Agile project management teams and organizations. Play4Agile follows an unconference format where the participants can create
- [Lean, Agile & Scrum Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, August 27 2026](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/lean-agile-scrum-conference-zurich/) - The Zurich Lean, Agile & Scrum Conference (LAS) is a conference taking place in Zurich, Switzerland. It focuses on Lean and Agile approaches for software development like Scrum and Kanban. The conference provides both German and English content. In the agenda of the Zurich Lean, Agile & Scrum Conference you can find topics like "Can
- [Agile Coach Camp Canada, Toronto, Canada, October 17-19 2025](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/agile-coach-camp-canada-east/) - Agile Coach Camp Canada is a conference that creates opportunities for the Agile and Scrum coaches community to share successes, learning, questions and unresolved dilemmas. All this happens in an energizing and supportive environment. The Agile Coach Camp Canada follows the open space format for conferences. Each participant makes a contribution to the art and
- [Scrum Day Germany, Stuttgart, Germany, June 16 2026](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/scrum-day-germany/) - Scrum Day Germany is a conference about Scrum and Agile project management that propose an international line-up of Agile experts for German Scrum practitioners. It provides a multi-track sessions and full day workshops. The conference sessions are mainly in German. In the agenda of the Scrum Day Germany conference you can find topics like "Coaching
- [How Software Testers Help with Requirements in Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/being-a-software-tester-in-scrum/) - Learn what contributions software testers on Scrum teams can make in the phase of features and user stories creation of Agile software development projects.
- [Resources for Code and Database Refactoring](https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/code-and-database-refactoring/) - Martin Fowler defined refactoring as a " disciplined technique for restructuring an existing body of code, altering its internal structure without changing its external behavior". In the days of Agile development where code is delivered after one or two-week cycles, you start quickly to deal with "legacy" code, what was known as "maintenance" for projects
- [Agile Australia, Melbourne, Australia, May 19-20 2026](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/agile-australia/) - Agile Australia is a two-day conference built specifically for Agile and Scrum practitioners in Australia who are serious about expanding their thinking and ways of working: at an individual and organizational level. Hear valuable insights from highly regarded keynotes, learn how to create high-quality solutions faster and network with potential clients and collaborators. In the
- [SoCraTes UK, Abingdon, UK, June 18-21 2026](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/socrates-uk/) - SoCraTes UK is an International Software Craftsmanship retreat for open-minded craftspeople and agile software developers in Great Britain and abroad who want to improve their craft and the software industry as a whole. It’s a great opportunity to speak to and code with many like-minded and talented developers. The conference itself is free. SoCraTes UK,
- [Journée Agile Belge, Liège, Belgium, May 22 2026](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/journee-agile-belgium/) - The Journée Agile Belge is a one-day conference focused on Agile software development approaches like Scrum that takes place in Belgium, each year in a different city. Most of the presentations and workshops are in French, but there might be also some talks in English. In the agenda of the Journée Agile Belge conference, you
- [Atlassian Fires 1600 Employees](https://www.scrumexpert.com/news/atlassian-fires-1600-employees/) - Software giant Atlassian has announced it is laying off about 10% of its workforce, or roughly 1,600 positions, and replacing its chief technology officer as it restructures to invest further in artificial intelligence. More than 900 affected positions were involved in software research and development, a spokesperson said. Most of Atlassian’s employees work in software
- [5 Key Benefits of Integrating Digital Payments in Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/5-key-benefits-integrating-digital-payments-scrum/) - This article presents how integrating digital payments into Scrum is not revolutionary, but it solves annoying problems that slow Agile teams down.
- [Managing Technical Debt in Large Software Development Projects](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/managing-technical-debt-in-large-software-development-projects/) - This presentation explores different facets of technical debt and the various means that are available to assess, mitigate, evaluate or reduce technical debt.
- [How to Transition from Traditional Testing to Agile Testing](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/transitioning-from-traditional-to-agile-testing/) - For Scrum software development teams, moving from traditional testing to agile testing is often a balancing act to some degree with no clear direction.
- [Coaching an Agile Enterprise With the Integral Agile Transformation Framework](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/coaching-an-agile-enterprise/) - Enterprise agility is both a hugely popular aspiration and a widely misunderstood buzzword. Many of us as Agile coaches wonder how we can lead and catalyze agility at an organizational level. Our intentions are earnest, but our skills and understanding are partial. This talk explores what Agile coaching across an enterprise means, from an executive's
- [Putting the BA (Business Analysis) Into Your Scrum BAcklog](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/putting-the-ba-into-backlog/) - Business analysts ensure in Agile that the solutions are developed that meet user needs and Scrum teams work on the best product backlog.
- [ACE! Conference on Lean and Agile Software Development, Krakow, Poland, May 20-21 2027](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/ace-conference-on-lean-and-agile-software-development/) - The ACE! Conference on Lean and Agile Software Development is a conference that brings together in Krakow (Poland) some of the best-known Agile, Scrum, Lean and Kanban practitioners in Europe and abroad. It is the guaranty of a great networking experience for agile software development practitioners that will come away with new ideas and enthusiasm.
- [Agile Teams: Building a Collaborative Scrum Team](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/agile-teams-building-a-collaborative-scrum-team/) - How do you get people to work effectively as a team? Instead of reorganizing every two weeks, maybe we should focus on what makes teaming work. Books and blogs focus on psychological safety, communications, trust, personal growth, and a shared purpose. These are good things to be sure, but how do you get there? I've
- [ScrumMaster Checklists](https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/scrummaster-checklists/) - This article presents checklists for ScrumMasters that should help beginner or experienced Scrum Masters consider their work with a different perspective.
- [Team Size - Why Less Is More](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/team-size-why-less-is-more/) - This article discusses some of the factors (control, the nature of the work, optimal communications) that will influence the size of a Scrum or Agile team.
- [Open Source Kanban Tools](https://www.scrumexpert.com/tools/open-source-kanban-tools/) - This article lists Kanban open source tools and doesn’t include open source project management tools that mix Scrum and Kanban approahces or are task managers.
- [Open Source Kanban Tools](https://www.scrumexpert.com/tools/open-source-kanban-tools/) - This article lists Kanban open source tools and doesn’t include open source project management tools that mix Scrum and Kanban approahces or are task managers.
- [Free Online Scrum Tools](https://www.scrumexpert.com/tools/free-online-scrum-tools/) - Free online tools based on Scrum & Agile project management for distributed Scrum teams: board, backlog, burndown charts, retrospectives, planning poker.
- [Scrum & Kanban Open Source Tools for Bugzilla](https://www.scrumexpert.com/tools/scrum-kanban-open-source-tools-for-bugzilla/) - A list of open source Bugzilla plugins to integrate an Agile project management approach like Scrum or Kanban with the bug tracking features of Bugzilla.
- [Agile Tools to Measure and Manage Technical Debt](https://www.scrumexpert.com/tools/tools-to-assess-and-manage-technical-debt/) - A list of tools to assess, measure and manage technical debt of software applications for Scrum teams that follow an Agile approach to software development.
- [Free Online Kanban Tools](https://www.scrumexpert.com/tools/free-online-kanban-tools/) - This article presents a list of free online Kanban tools that can be used by Agile teams using a lean approach to software development and maintenance.
- [A Complete Guide to Scrum Retrospectives: Why They Matter and How to Run Them](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/a-complete-guide-to-scrum-retrospectives-why-they-matter-and-how-to-run-them/) - This guide explores what Scrum retrospectives are, how they differ from traditional postmortems, the benefits they offer, and best practices for running them.
- [Introduction to the Agile Retrospective: The Why, The What, and The How](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/introduction-to-the-agile-retrospective-the-why-the-what-and-the-how/) - Agile retrospectives are a cornerstone of continuous improvement, enabling teams to reflect, adapt, and enhance their processes. Whether you call it a Sprint Retrospective, Iteration Retrospective, or Team Retrospective, the goal remains the same-identify what's working, what's not, and how to improve. Author: Edo Williams, RetroTeam AI In this article, we explore the origins, benefits,
- [How to Run Better Retrospectives with RetroTeam AI](https://www.scrumexpert.com/tools/how-to-run-better-retros-with-the-retroteam-app/) - Learn how remote Agile teams can run and facilitate better Scrum retrospectives using RetroTeam tool where everyone decides on better ways of working.
- [Using Commercial Scrum Tools for Free](https://www.scrumexpert.com/tools/using-commercial-scrum-tools-for-free/) - Free version of Scrum commercial tools to implement agile project management in software development with backlog, user stories, epics, sprints, retrospectives.
- [Eight Steps For Implementing Successful Change in Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/eight-steps-for-implementing-successful-change-in-scrum/) - Implementing Agile and Scrum in means a big change. This article provides an eight steps journey for a successful transformation to the Scrum approach.
- [Agile Manchester, Manchester, UK, May 13-14 2026](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/agile-manchester/) - Agile Manchester is a conference focused on Agile software development and Scrum project management that takes place in Manchester. Participants can get knowledge and experience in a practical and peer-based learning context. In the agenda of the Agile Manchester conference you can find topics like "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Scrum
- [Elevate RTP, Raleigh, USA, April 13 2026](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/triagile/) - The Elevate RTP Conference (formerly TriAgile) is a conference for Agile and Scrum Agile project management practitioners in the Research Triangle Park of North Carolina. This conference features over 30 sessions on Agile topics like Leadership, Value, Culture, Technical Practices, Scaling Agile and more. In the agenda of Elevate RTP conference you can find topics
- [How Law Firms Can Go Lean with Their Everyday Processes](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/how-law-firms-can-go-lean-with-their-everyday-processes/) - Going lean with your processes for law firms is not a sprint. It's not one project with a start and stop date. It's a process that involves constant iteration.
- [Balancing Agility and Discipline](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/balancing-agility-and-discipline/) - Balancing Agility and Discipline is a book by Barry Boehm and Richard Turner that put in perspective agile and plan-driven software development approaches.
- [AI Assistance for Software Teams: an Overview](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/ai-assistance-for-software-teams-an-overview/) - After almost two years of high attention on coding assistants, many software engineering managers are disappointed by the measurable results. Software developers are suffering from hype fatigue, even the ones who have learned to love their new AI teammate. Meanwhile, the pace of change in the AI tooling space is still quite high, which contributes
- [How to Sell a Big Refactoring or Rewrite to the Business?](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/how-to-sell-a-big-refactoring-or-rewrite-to-the-business/) - In the world of software development, dealing with legacy code is often a necessary evil, especially for successful, fast-growing companies. But how do Agile teams tackle this challenge smartly and sell the idea of refactoring to the business? This presentation discusses the often-misunderstood realm of large-scale refactoring and rewrites, presenting a nuanced approach that contrasts
- [Scaling Improvement Instead of Scaling Agile](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/scaling-improvement-instead-of-scaling-agile/) - The problem with retrospectives is that the learnings identified often remain locally. And scaling agile seems to be the default answer. Let's focus more on scaling improvement. Our wins, failures and opportunities for improvement created by retrospectives don't get shared widely. That knowledge is one of the most powerful resources that we have available to
- [A Decade of DevOps: From Agile Roots to Scalable Engineering](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/a-decade-of-devops-from-agile-roots-to-scalable-engineering/) - This presentation reflects on over a decade of ING DevOps transformation journey. It started from our early Agile adoption to building scalable, secure, and resilient engineering practices. This session follows ING evolution from foundational DevOps, tooling, and automation to modern platform engineering, end-to-end journey automation, DevSecOps at scale, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). The presenter
- [Keep Austin Agile, Austin, USA,  April 10, 2026](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/keep-austin-agile/) - Keep Austin Agile is a conference about Agile and Scrum that takes place in Austin, Texas, organized by the Agile Austin group. This event offers various tracks for education and networking in a relaxed environment with topics ranging from Agile Games and Kanban to DevOps and Agile Testing. The target audience is project manager, Scrum
- [Agile Trends, Sao Paolo, Brazil,  August 31 - September 1 2026](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/agile-trends-brazil/) - Agile Trends is a conference focused on Agile software development and Scrum project management that takes place in Sao Paolo in Brazil. All the talks are in Portuguese. In the agenda of the Agile Trends conference, you can find topics like "Agile Team Maturity Metrics - Shaping Behaviors for Success", "Maximizing the product backlog using
- [Scandinavian Agile, Helsinki, Finland, March 17-18 20](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/scandinavian-agile/) - The Scandinavian Agile Conference is an event organized by Agile Finland and focused on Agile software development and Scrum project management. It takes place in Helsinki and discusses Agile organizations, state of the art in programming practices and Agile coaching. In the agenda of the Scandinavian Agile conference you could find topics like "Team Coaching
- [Agile Open Northwest, Online, Portland, USA, March 6-7 2026](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/agile-open-northwest/) - The Agile Open Northwest conference is an event about Agile practices and techniques and Scrum project management that takes place in Portland or Seattle. Agile participants from the Northwest will be able to start, discover, and share discussions about Agile and Scrum topics. The Agile Open Northwest conference follows the open space format for conferences.
- [SoCraTes Day Switzerland,  Ilanz, Switzerland, January 29 - February 1st 2026](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/socrates-day-switzerland/) - SoCraTes Day Switzerland is the Swiss stage of the International Software Craftsmanship Gathering, a series of events for open-minded software developers who want to improve their craft and the software industry as a whole. This conferences aims at providing an ideal setting for speaking to and coding with other talented and engaged Agile software developers
- [Scrum.org Launches New Professional Scrum Product Owner Fundamentals Training Course](https://www.scrumexpert.com/news/scrum-org-launches-new-professional-scrum-product-owner-fundamentals-training-course/) - Scrum.org has announced its new Professional Scrum Product Owner Fundamentals training course. In this online, self-paced course, students will learn about Product Owner fundamentals and how to balance vision, value and validation as well as leverage the Scrum framework to deliver valuable products. The course is for new and existing Product Owners, product managers, business
- [How Cloud Data Platforms Can Allow Software Developers To Be Even More Agile](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/how-cloud-data-platforms-can-allow-software-developers-to-be-even-more-agile/) - This article explains how Cloud data platforms provide Agile software developers the agility to be productive and help Scrum teams to meet their deadlines.
- [An Agile Focus on Workflows](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/an-agile-focus-on-workflows/) - Why are we only concerned with processes associated with the Scrum Sprint? This is only one of the many Agile workflows for provisioning work.
- [How Agile Methodologies Are Being Utilized By Sports Professionals to Gain Optimal Results](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/how-agile-methodologies-are-being-utilized-by-sports-professionals/) - Agile methodologies are not exclusive to software developers. They are proving invaluable in sports management, marketing, and even online gaming platforms.
- [5 Best Software Development Methodologies](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/5-best-software-development-methodologies/) - This article presents five software development methodologies and frameworks: Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Lean, Waterfall, DevOps.
- [Managed Evolutionary Change in Agile](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/managed-evolutionary-change-in-agile/) - This presentation explores managed evolutionary change by designing experiments to solve some of the problems that your Agile organizations or Scrum teams have. Using managed evolutionary change can help navigate the complexities of change and ensure long-term success in today's dynamic business environment. In today's dynamic business landscape, organizations face the constant need to adapt
- [MVP: Why We Confuse Building to Learn with Building to Earn](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/mvp-why-we-confuse-building-to-learn-with-building-to-earn/) - Minimum viable product (MVP) is one of the most misunderstood, misused, and abused terms in contemporary software development. In this presentation Jeff Patton explains the misunderstandings made by thought leaders that lead to confusion we all deal with today. You will learn the counter-intuitive concepts hidden in the MVP term and why really using them
- [Navigating the Rocky Path to Successful Feature Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/navigating-the-rocky-path-to-successful-feature-teams/) - This presentation explores the challenges and opportunities of transitioning from Component Teams to cross-functional Feature Teams, examining the dynamics of unchanged individual functional roles and considering both short and long-term development strategies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU4YK2z00_c Video producer: https://less.works/
- [From Plan-based to Discovery-based Agile Portfolio Management](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/from-plan-based-to-discovery-based-agile-portfolio-management/) - In order to manage the totality of portfolios, programmes and projects, portfolio management has been set up in many organizations. As agile working methods are increasingly used in practice, governance via programmes, projects, budgets and resources is shifting to governance via roadmaps, backlogs, sprints and teams. This calls for agile portfolio management. Agile portfolio management
- [Scrum Day Europe, Utrecht, Netherlands, December 5 2025](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/scrum-day-europe/) - Scrum Day Europe is a conference dedicated to Scrum that takes place in the Netherlands. This conference dedicated to Agile project management and Scrum takes place in the Netherlands and will feature local and international expert speakers. This is a main event for all European Scrum practitioners. In the agenda of Scrum Day Europe you
- [Agile Turkey Summit, Istanbul, Turkey, November 27 2025](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/agile-turkey-summit/) - The Agile Turkey Summit is a one-day conference dedicated to Agile software development and Scrum project management approaches, taking place in Istanbul, Turkey. International and local Agile and Scrum experts provide the content of this conference. In the agenda of the Agile Turkey Summit you can find topics like "From Hybrid to Human-Centered: Empowering Teams
- [Manage Agile, Berlin, Germany, November 11-13 2025](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/manage-agile/) - The Manage Agile conference is an event taking place in Berlin that focused on Agile project management approaches. It is divided into two workshop days and two conference days. This conference focuses on management topics and is a networking platform where specialists and managers compare notes yearly to establish Agile topics not only in software
- [SoCraTes Crete, Chania, Greece, October 24-25 2025](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/agilecrete/) - The SoCraTes Crete conference is an event focused on Agile software development and software craftsmanship that takes place on the island of Crete in Greece. It is the successor of the Agile Crete conference. The aim of this conference is to be a playground where Agile coaches and software development team members could gather to
- [Scrum Alliance Appoints Dean Hanson as Chief Growth Officer](https://www.scrumexpert.com/news/scrum-alliance-appoints-dean-hanson-as-chief-growth-officer/) - The Scrum Alliance has announced the appointment of Dean Hanson as Chief Growth Officer as the organization builds and scales its sales function, strengthens channel partnerships, and accelerates enterprise growth. Hanson joins the executive leadership team at a pivotal time as Scrum Alliance expands its reach and impact in the enterprise agility space. Hanson joins
- [Agile Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia, October 22 2025](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/agile-slovenia/) - Agile Slovenia is a conference focused on Agile and Scrum topics that take place in Ljubljana. Agile Slovenia is an event where you can turn theory in action, attend to workshops, meet agile people, listen to agile pioneers, expand your knowledge. It features both local and international Agile experts. In the agenda of Agile Slovenia
- [Scrum Alliance and Kanban University Offers Common Scrum Course](https://www.scrumexpert.com/news/scrum-alliance-and-kanban-university-offers-common-scrum-course/) - The Scrum Alliance is partnering with the Kanban University to deliver a first-of-its-kind learning experience: Scrum Better with Kanban. This course offers professionals a structured way to optimize their scrum practice by incorporating the clarity, focus, and flow of kanban while earning two respected credentials from two of the world's top iterative delivery and flow-based
- [What Makes RetroTeam Different: AI-Driven Retrospectives That Actually Work](https://www.scrumexpert.com/tools/what-makes-retroteam-different-ai-driven-retrospectives-that-actually-work/) - This article explains how AI-Driven Retrospectives are what makes the RetroTeam tool different for Scrum teams, driving Agile team improvement with analytics.
- [Book Review: Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/book-review-continuous-integration-improving-software-quality-and-reducing-risk/) - Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk is a book written by Paul Duvall, with Steve Matyas and Andrew Glover.
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- [How to Use Scrum for Studying](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/how-to-use-scrum-for-studying/) - Learn how to use Scrum for studying! Enhance collaboration, accountability, and time management in your study groups to boost academic success and efficiency.
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- [Growing Agile: A Coach’s Guide to Training Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/growing-agile-a-coachs-guide-to-training-scrum/) - The book "A Coach’s Guide to Training Scrum" provides some guidance about training people to Scrum with a complete step-by-step course to teach Scrum.
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- [Breaking Silos in Agile Software Development](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/quotes/breaking-silos-in-agile-software-development/) - Breaking silos between business analysts, software developers and software testers is key to achieve the benefits of Agile software development and Scrum.
- [Dragging Out and Failing Agile Transformation](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/dragging-out-and-failing-agile-transformation/) - There are several reasons why Agile Transformation might fail or just creep. Interestingly, all these situations have a common denominator. The list that the presenter undoubtedly only covers some cases. This talk shows the most common reasons that might impede Agility in organizations. Also, what would be a remedy for each of these factors? Regardless
- [Reawakening Agile with OKRs](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/reawakening-agile-with-okrs/) - Agile has lost its shine, "corporate agile" has stripped away all the fun, passion, excitement and learning. Adding Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) just makes it worse: a reinvention of top-down management by objective with added metrics to mislead and distort reality. Such OKRs are little more than a return of return to command and
- [Book Review: Lean Agile Software Development](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/lean-agile-software-development-by-alan-shalloway-guy-beaver-and-james-r-trott/) - The goal of the book “Lean-Agile Software Development - Achieving Enterprise Agility” by Alan Shalloway, Guy Beaver and James R. Trott, is to propose a vision of Agile software development that goes behind the current practices, more specifically Scrum, to integrate the principles of Lean development. To achieve this objective, the authors draw on their
- [Mastering Project Management: Top 5 Strategies Every Student in the Field Should Embrace](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/mastering-project-management-top-5-strategies-every-student-in-the-field-should-embrace/) - This article examines five effective strategies every forward-looking student should embrace to become an Agile project manager.
- [The Scrum Field Guide](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/the-scrum-field-guide/) - In his book "The Scrum Field Guide", Mitch Lacey provides Agile teams and practitioners with material that should help them improve their Scrum practices.
- [The Introverted ScrumMaster Guide to Making a Big Impact](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/the-introverted-scrummaster-guide-to-making-a-big-impact/) - As a ScrumMaster, being introverted actually comes with many advantages. This guide can help you become the Agile leader that your Scrum team wants to follow!
- [Tracking Organization Health with TeleRetro](https://www.scrumexpert.com/tools/tracking-organization-health-with-teleretro/) - TeleRetro retrospective tool enhances your Agile methodology, offering insight into the practical features required when choosing the right Scrum tool.
- [Mastering Scrum: Agile Education in Software Development](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/mastering-scrum-agile-education-in-software-development/) - This article shares information to motivate you to start learning Scrum, the most popular agile software development framework.
- [Revolutionizing Education: How Scrum is Transforming the Learning Landscape](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/revolutionizing-education-how-scrum-is-transforming-the-learning-landscape/) - This article discusses how Scrum is revolutionizing education by providing a new approach to learning that is collaborative, outcome-focused, and self-directed.
- [Running Scrum Sprints From Mid-week to Mid-week](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/scrum-sprints-mid-week-to-mid-week/) - Experience shows that it is better for Agile and Scrum teams to run sprint iterations mid-week to mid-week than running them Monday to Friday
- [inhibitors Sabotaging an Agile Transformation](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/inhibitors-sabotaging-an-agile-transformation/) - Agile transformations are difficult, and often simply fail. After all, change is usually disruptive. Even an organization that wants to embrace change can see mediocre results. The underlying causes vary from ignorance on how to transform, to full and hostile resistance. This presentation discusses the various causes and the strategies that have been used by
- [Alternatives to Accountability for Cross-functional Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/alternatives-to-accountability-for-cross-functional-teams/) - Received business wisdom holds that clear lines of responsibility, and single points of accountability, are crucial to give Scrum team members clarity over their expectations; but doesn’t that sound a little too close to a mechanism for blaming people? This presentation explores the tensions between accountability and psychological safety, looks at what high performing Agile
- [Five Mistakes to Avoid When You Select Product Metrics](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/five-mistakes-to-avoid-when-you-select-product-metrics/) - Product metrics and key performance indicator(KPIs) have been getting increasingly more important and useful for Agile organizations that develop digital products. When done right, they can become an engine for product growth and inform great strategic and tactical decisions. When done wrong, they can lead to a huge amount of sunk resources and wasted time.
- [Five Mistakes to Avoid When You Select Product Metrics](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/five-mistakes-to-avoid-when-you-select-product-metrics/) - Product metrics and key performance indicator(KPIs) have been getting increasingly more important and useful for Agile organizations that develop digital products. When done right, they can become an engine for product growth and inform great strategic and tactical decisions. When done wrong, they can lead to a huge amount of sunk resources and wasted time.
- [Technical User Stories Don't Work](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/technical-user-stories-dont-work/) - How do you organize the technical parts of your Agile software development work? Do you create Technical Stories or Technical User Stories alongside your User Stories? If so, we think that you are probably storing up some problems. This presentation talks about what are technical stories, and the use of technical stories vs user stories
- [Agile Portfolio Planning and Prioritization at Scale](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/agile-portfolio-planning-and-prioritization-at-scale/) - This presentation discusses how to do portfolio planning and prioritization at scale based on experiences within one of the largest banks in The Netherlands. It presents practices that have been developed, shows examples and explains how to plan for short term (< 3 months) and longer term. Prioritization and planning across over 25 autonomous Agile
- [Three Dimensions of Agile Leadership](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/three-dimensions-of-agile-leadership/) - This presentation invites you to discover what Agile Leadership can be, by giving you concrete keys to open a three dimension perspectives : inner leadership, co-leadership and leadership as a service. 1. Inner leader : Learn how to reveal and grow your own type of leadership and discover what are drivers to allows you to
- [The Definitive Talk on WIP: Stop Starting and Start Finishing](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/the-definitive-talk-on-wip-stop-starting-and-start-finishing/) - The definitive talk on Work in Progress (WIP) talks about getting things done. From team-level to whole-enterprise scale, the amount of work inside the system directly affects the amount of value being delivered. The presentation starts with some history of work study since the 1920’s, and introduces base concepts of lead time, processing time, percentage
- [Four Levels of Agile Requirements](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/four-levels-of-agile-requirements/) - Learn about the clarity of requirements for software development and how to use a four step process to gather the four levels of agile requirements in Scrum.
- [How to Run a Sprint Retrospective on EasyRetro](https://www.scrumexpert.com/tools/how-to-run-a-sprint-retrospective-on-easyretro/) - Are you ready to elevate your Scrum team's retrospective game? Running retrospectives can be a breeze with the right tools and a solid framework in place. Enter EasyRetro – the platform that streamlines your retrospective process and turns it into a fun and productive Agile team activity. In this article, we will guide you through
- [Coaching Agile Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/coaching-agile-teams/) - In Coaching Agile Teams, A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition, Lyssa Adkins discusses different aspects of coaching.
- [Disciplined Agile Delivery](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/disciplined-agile-delivery/) - Disciplined Agile Delivery is an approach which extends Scrum with strategies from Agile Modeling (AM), Extreme Programming (XP), and Unified Process (UP),
- [Management 3.0](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/management-3-0/) - The book "Management 3.0" by Jurgen Appelo offer an approach to lead Agile developers and develop Agile leaders. finding which ideas are useful in what context-
- [Tips for Effectively Applying the Product Owner Role](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/tips-for-effectively-applying-the-product-owner-role/) - This presentation offers tips to successfully apply the product owner role. It distinguishes different product owner flavors, explains hope the Scrum product owner role differs from the SAFe one, and how product ownership can be scaled. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VNDbjQ0m8I Video producer: https://agilebyexample.com/
- [Which is Better: Agile or Kanban?](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/which-is-better-agile-or-kanban/) - Which is better, Agile or Kanban? Actually, the answer is not quite that simple. Agile development and Lean, where Kanban comes from, are both related approaches to software development. Agile project management guides us to work in chunks, called Scrum Sprints or Iterations, Kanban also aims to work in smaller steps. So what is agile,
- [Driving Stakeholders Engagement with User Stories](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/driving-stakeholders-engagement-with-user-stories/) - The presenter designed this workshop during COVID times to engage stakeholders better by using User Stories more efficiently. The idea of the workshop is to help people move away from the notion that User Stories are merely a "As a .. I want .. so that" writing template. They can be a full-fledged way of
- [Driving Stakeholders Engagement with User Stories](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/driving-stakeholders-engagement-with-user-stories/) - The presenter designed this workshop during COVID times to engage stakeholders better by using User Stories more efficiently. The idea of the workshop is to help people move away from the notion that User Stories are merely a "As a .. I want .. so that" writing template. They can be a full-fledged way of
- [How Agile Charts Lie](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/how-agile-charts-lie/) - In recent years, measurement has increasingly gained more traction in the Agile world. Many folks want to "measure" or even "measure what matters" when adopting new ways of working like Scrum. Whilst this enthusiasm is great, it is often channelled in the wrong way. This presentation demonstrates just how prevalent lying with Agile charts is,
- [Five Things You Should Know Before Scaling Agile Teams & Culture](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/five-things-you-should-know-before-scaling-agile-teams-culture/) - Having scaled a number of Agile teams at different speeds, this presentation will walk you through some of the inflection points you will experience, how to navigate them, and reflect on all the things the presenter wishes she had known just a little bit earlier. In engineering, we (rightly) talk a lot about how to
- [Continuous Delivery Optimized](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/continuous-delivery-optimized/) - This workshop explores the growing pains in Continuous Delivery and describe some strategies to cope with them. How do we address these growing pains? What are the next steps, beyond the CD beginner’s basic automation? How do we optimize our pipelines to meet our needs as these needs grow? The deployment pipeline is a central
- [Continuous Delivery Optimized](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/continuous-delivery-optimized/) - This workshop explores the growing pains in Continuous Delivery and describe some strategies to cope with them. How do we address these growing pains? What are the next steps, beyond the CD beginner’s basic automation? How do we optimize our pipelines to meet our needs as these needs grow? The deployment pipeline is a central
- [The Human Factor in Agile: Understanding the Importance of Team Dynamics](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/the-human-factor-in-agile-understanding-the-importance-of-team-dynamics/) - Understanding the team dynamics is important in fostering an Agile environment that nurtures collaboration, innovation, and productivity for Scrum teams.
- [Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/practices-for-scaling-lean-agile-development/) - Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development provides you with advice and ideas to improve your daily software development practices when scaling Agile.
- [The Corporate Scrum Certification Complex](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/the-corporate-scrum-certification-complex/) - After a first article about the negative sides of Agile certifications from the Agile practitioners' perspective, Mark Haynes explores, again with a facetious bias, certifications in an organizational context. Author: Mark Haynes, https://dmarkhaynesconsulting.godaddysites.com/ Does it sometimes feel like those who are pushing Scrum certifications the hardest, benefit the most by supplying them? The principles of agility
- [I am Certifiable! - Honest Mom All The Agile Kids Are Doing It!](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/i-am-certifiable-honest-mom-all-the-agile-kids-are-doing-it/) - In this article, Mark Haynes describes, with a facetious bias, some of the negative sides of Agile and Scrum certifications like CSM, PMI-ACP or PSM.
- [Xanpan - Team Centric Agile Software Development](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/xanpan-team-centric-agile-software/) - Xanpan is a mix of XP (eXtreme programming) and Kanban, with ideas and techniques of other Agile and Lean approaches, used for software development teams.
- [Scrum.org and Comparative Agility Launched Scrum Master Improvement Self-Assessment](https://www.scrumexpert.com/news/scrum-org-and-comparative-agility-launched-scrum-master-improvement-self-assessment/) - Scrum.org has announced at the Agile 2023 Conference that together with Comparative Agility they will offer a Scrum Master Improvement self-assessment. This new, free self-assessment tool allows Scrum Masters to evaluate their skills and assess areas for improvement based on the Scrum.org Professional Scrum Competencies. “In Scrum, we are constantly inspecting and adapting and always
- [Every Product Owner is Different](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/every-product-owner-is-different/) - Every Product Owner is different. Every Product Owner needs to work out what is the right way to fill the Product Owner role as every organization is different.
- [Agile Coach Camp Italy, Milano, Italy, April 26-27 2023](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/agile-coach-camp-italy/) - Agile Coach Camp Italy is a highly collaborative, self-organized open space conference. It is for everyone involved in Agile coaching, training, mentoring and helping Agile organizations. Agile Coach Camp Italy follows the open space format for conferences. Open space is a simple methodology for self-organizing conference tracks. It relies on participation by people who have
- [Forming Agile Teams Workbook](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/forming-agile-teams-workbook/) - Forming Agile Teams Workbook offers tools to add more structure, transparency and visibility to formation of Agile Scrum software development teams.
- [Agile Project Management](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/agile-project-management/) - The book Agile Project Management by Jim Highsmith provides a framework to run Agile projects, managing projects portfolios, measuring the success of Agile.
- [A Framework for Managing Technical Debt](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/a-framework-for-managing-technical-debt/) - Technical debt is inevitable in Agile software development and rewriting your code every 6 months is not an option. Refactoring is a complex topic that doesn't have a one-size-fits-all solution. Frontend applications are particularly sensitive because of frequent requirements and user flows changes. New abstractions, updated patterns and cleaning up those old functions - it
- [How to Recognize a True Product Owner](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/how-to-recognize-a-true-product-owner/) - There are many examples of fake Product Owners (PO) in the companies (PO as Business Analyst, PO as Project Manager, Proxy PO). Companies cause this by using many organisational design antipatterns (assign one PO per team, "Product" being in fact a component, using committee for product decisions instead of one person). Sometimes these antipatterns are
- [How Team Culture Can Make or Break a Scrum Team](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/how-team-culture-can-make-or-break-a-scrum-team/) - Based on a true story of the lessons learned coaching two Scrum teams on one product. Why is it that the same coaching techniques, in the same environment, can lead to drastically different outcomes? Learn how to identify the culture cycle and break bad habits to unlock the power of Agile team self-management. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EHOR7lHdtU Video
- [Book Review: Discover to Deliver: Agile Product Planning and Analysis](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/discover-to-deliver-agile-product-planning-and-analysis/) - Discover to Deliver is a book written by Ellen Gottesdiener and Mary Gorman. It aims is to help you to deliver a product that will please your customer. To achieve this goal, the book proposes a toolbox of techniques that are taken from multiple disciplines, from business analysis to software testing or product delivery. These
- [Agile, Scrum & Kanban Redmine Plugins](https://www.scrumexpert.com/tools/scrum-and-kanban-plugins-for-redmine/) - A list of active (and inactive) free, open source and commercial Agile, Scrum, Lean and Kanban plugins for the Redmine open source project management tool.
- [6 Soft Skills To Focus On When Hiring QA Engineers for a Scrum Team](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/6-soft-skills-to-focus-on-when-hiring-qa-engineers-for-a-scrum-team/) - This article provides valuable insights about soft skills needed to make the hiring process of QA Engineers for Scrum Teams easier and more cost-effective.
- [Distributed Retrospectives: A Guide to Remote Team Reflection](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/distributed-retrospectives-a-guide-to-remote-team-reflection/) - This article explores the benefits and challenges of distributed retrospectives and provide tips for conducting effective remote Agile team reflection.
- [Book Review: Implementing Lean Software Development](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/implementing-lean-software-development/) - "Implementing Lean Software Development" is a book from Mary and Tom Poppendieck that helps to apply the lean manufacturing approach to the software development activities. After a presentation of the way Toyota designed its lean approach for manufacturing and product development, the book describes how these principles could be translated in the software development world.
- [Jooble’s Top Tips For Navigating The Job Market As A Junior Scrum Master](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/joobles-top-tips-for-navigating-the-job-market-as-a-junior-scrum-master/) - The demand for scrum masters is at a constant high around the globe. Continue reading to learn how to become a successful junior scrum master.
- [Digité Changes Company Name to NimbleWork](https://www.scrumexpert.com/news/digite-changes-company-name-to-nimblework/) - Digité, Inc., a vendor Enterprise Lean/ Agile Planning and Project Management tools company, announced the change of its corporate brand from Digité, Inc. to NimbleWork, Inc. On the occasion, it also launched range of its latest AI powered Collaborative Work and Project Management tools, under the brand name Nimble. Making the announcement, Digité (now NimbleWork)
- [Agile Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA, December 16 2022](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/agile-cincinnati/) - Agile Cincinnati or Agile Cindy is a conference focused on Agile software development and Scrum project management. It has a wide range of Agile topic coverage to suit the needs of early adopters and certified Agile professionals. It is also a unique opportunity in Cincinnati to learn and experience Agile and Scrum while networking with
- [How to Get Out of Technical Debt](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/how-to-get-out-of-technical-debt/) - This presentation discusses what technical debt looks like, and how easy it is to get into debt in the first place. Then the presenter proposes to put a plan into action to get out of it, understanding that you should consider technical debt as a business problem, not as a tech problem. This plan to
- [50 Shades Of Retrospective: A Guide To Continuous Improvement](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/50-shades-of-retrospective-a-guide-to-continuous-improvement/) - This video is an interactive exploration of retrospectives top tips, strategies and agile hacks for enabling continuous improvement of Scrum teams. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZjo4AtiMTo Video producer: https://agileindia.org
- [How to Sabotage an Agile Transformation](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/how-to-sabotage-an-agile-transformation/) - Ignoring impediments is one of the fastest ways to sabotage your Agile transformation. Agile is not a cure, it will on the contrary uncover issues. So Agile transformation efforts must overcome a myriad of challenges to achieve success. Some of the inhibitors of Agile transformation that will be discussed in this presentation include: * Executives
- [Being a Full Stack Agile Coach](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/being-a-full-stack-agile-coach/) - So how to become a self-aware jack-of-all-trades in agility? Is there such a thing as Full Stack Agile Coach? If yes, how to become one? We love methods, frameworks and tools. All these fancy abbreviations, titles, or at least certificates make our inner impostors go to sleep for a while. We master at X, we
- [Boost Velocity and Quality with Flow Engineering](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/boost-velocity-and-quality-with-flow-engineering/) - This video is an introduction to four valuable mapping techniques and models that build clarity, alignment, and confidence in teams using a combination of collaboration, visibility and measurement. How can you make time for real innovation and improvement? How do you know what to automate? How do you escape process prison? How can you get
- [Championing Security in Agile Development](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/championing-security-in-agile-development/) - The world is shifting from waterfall to Agile software development and technology is changing fast. Amidst all this, security teams are not able to keep up with this pace. This has led to increase in the number, size and frequency of breaches & supply chain attacks. This talk discusses how to hack the developer mindset
- [An Agile Data Warehouse](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/an-agile-data-warehouse/) - Agile, step-by-step development of a data warehouse gives early feedback, frequent incremental benefits and better long term results. Meanwhile, our users and data warehouse developers become respected friends. Data Warehouses are normally seen as big, expensive, lengthy, waterfall projects, using complex and costly tools. They don't need to be. As someone who has helped several
- [The Death Of The Spotify Model](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/the-death-of-the-spotify-model/) - The Spotify model is a people-driven, autonomous approach for scaling agile that emphasizes the importance of culture and network. The Spotify model champions team autonomy, so that each team (or Squad) selects their framework (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, etc.). Squads are organized into Tribes and Guilds to help keep people aligned and cross-pollinate knowledge. Many
- [Is Quiet Firing the Latest Organizational Impediment Hitting the ScrumMaster Radar?](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/quiet-firing/) - Quiet firing may represent a big organizational impediments. ScrumMasters should be aware of it to create an Agile environment where Scrum team members thrive.
- [On Story Points](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/on-story-points/) - This article explains why it is not a good practice for Agile and Scrum teams to use story points and planning poker as an estimation tool.
- [Agile Anti-patterns or How to Mess up as a Scrum Master](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/agile-anti-patterns-or-how-to-mess-up-as-a-scrum-master/) - A list of the most common anti-patterns of Scrum Masters that damage Agile software development teams: when the Scrummaster is not a servant-leader
- [How to Approach Risk Management in Scrum Framework](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/how-to-approach-risk-management-in-scrum-framework/) - The Scrum framework enables Agile teams to minimize and manage risks confidently, but it takes more than risk awareness to head off risks from your project.
- [Truly Connect with Your Team - Retros & Radars with Trune](https://www.scrumexpert.com/tools/truly-connect-with-your-team-retros-radars-with-trune/) - The Trune retrospective tool provides a secure place for Scrum teams to engage in effective ways to get feedback via retrospectives, radars or statistics.
- [An Agile Focus on Process](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/an-agile-focus-on-process/) - A foundational principle of Scrum is that teams control their underlying Agile processes following the philosophy of flexibility, and adaptability.
- [Sprint Poker by Parabol – Agile Estimation for the Remote Age](https://www.scrumexpert.com/tools/sprint-poker-by-parabol-agile-estimation-for-the-remote-age/) - Parabol is an Agile Scrum tool helping remote teams run guided retrospective, check-in and Sprint Poker meetings. Free for up to 2 teams with unlimited users.
- [5 Minute Quick Scrum Guide - Should I Use Story Points Or Hours?](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/5-minute-quick-scrum-guide-should-i-use-story-points-or-hours/) - Should Agile project management teams using Scrum favor story points or hours to estimate the tasks they are going to develop in the future sprints?
- [TeleRetro: Better Retrospectives for Remote Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/tools/teleretro-better-retrospectives-for-remote-teams/) - Learn the advantages an online retrospective offers over traditional retrospectives for distributed Agile teams, and how to choose a remote retrospective tool.
- [8 Benefits Of Agile Nearshore Development For Your Company](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/8-benefits-of-agile-nearshore-development-for-your-company/) - Agile nearshoring means delegating programming tasks to dedicate teams in a nearby country to increase business success and get a Scrum project released faster.
- [Reetro - Free Tool for Easier Distributed Retrospectives](https://www.scrumexpert.com/tools/reetro-free-tool-for-easier-distributed-retrospectives/) - Reetro is an online agile retrospective tool that simplifies the process of planning, managing and executing Scrum retrospectives for distributed teams.
- [Agile Coaching](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/agile-coaching/) - This book discusses how Agile coaches can help software development teams using an Agile approach like Scrum to improve their performance with coaching.
- [Top 5 Redmine Benefits for Agile Software Development Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/tools/top-5-redmine-benefits-for-agile-software-development-teams/) - This article explains how Scrum software development teams can benefit from the usage of the Redmine open source project management tool and its Agile plugins.
- [Agile Arizona, Phoenix, USA, November 11-12 2021](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/agile-arizona/) - Agile Arizona is a conference for Scrum, Agile, Kanban and Lean practitioners and coaches organized by the Phoenix Scrum User Group in Arizona that consists of workshops and presentations. One of the primary goals of the conference is to help foster Agile education, personal growth, and a sense of community within Phoenix and Arizona. In
- [Lean Kanban Central Europe, Hamburg, Germany, November 5-6 2019](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/lean-kanban-central-europe/) - Lean Kanban Central Europe is a conference focused on using Lean and Kaban in software development taking place in Germany. More than 30 international Lean and Kanban experts will share their experience reports, case studies and advanced ideas on managing knowledge work in an Agile way. In the agenda of the Lean Kanban Central Europe
- [Agile Open Florida, Lakeland, USA, October 25 2019](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/agile-open-florida/) - Agile Open Florida is a one-day conference dedicated to all Agile software developers and of the Scrum project management in Florida. It is a not-for-profit event driven by Agile volunteers for all members of the Agile community of Florida. Agile Open Florida follows the open space format for conferences. Open space is a simple methodology
- [Agile Open California North, Berkeley, USA, October 8 2022](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/agile-open-california-north/) - Agile Open California North is two-day conference that provides Agile and Scrum practitioners in California an opportunity for learning and networking. Practitioners and newcomers come together for two days to discuss, examine and otherwise brainstorm the most timely and relevant topics in Agile development today. Agile Open California North follows the open space format for
- [The Best Agile and Scrum Videos on YouTube – Part 1 Conferences](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/the-best-agile-and-scrum-videos-on-youtube-part-1-conferences/) - A list of the best Agile and Scrum video channels available on YouTube from Agile, Scrum, Lean and Kanban conferences
- [How to Mitigate Black Friday Pressure Using Agile and DevOps](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/how-to-mitigate-black-friday-pressure-using-agile-and-devops/) - Every year brings new challenges and seasonal peaks such as Cyber Monday and Black Friday. During these events, businesses experience an unusual amount of pressure followed by a faster pace of work, a higher volume of transactions, etc. Companies are most vulnerable during seasonal peaks because of the many challenges they must conquer. Author: Derrick
- [Why Estimating is Not Part of Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/why-estimating-is-not-part-of-scrum/) - Learn why estimating is not used by advanced Agile and Scrum teams that focus on being more reactive to changes and doing planning as a continuous activity.
- [Example Mapping: Collaborative Requirements Discovery](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/example-mapping-collaborative-requirements-discovery/) - Is your team struggling with unproductive requirements gathering meetings and workshops? Example Mapping helps Scrum teams come together to refine requirements.
- [A Simple Agile Approach to Managing Complexity](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/a-simple-agile-approach-to-managing-complexity/) - We often find ourselves in complex situations without recognizing what makes them complex. Fortunately, understanding the context can help us to benefit from the situation by reducing or even increasing the complexity. This presentation introduces a simple tool for understanding the context of complexity (the difference matrix of Human Systems Dynamics, HSD in short). HSD
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- [Hypnosis, Agility and Creativity](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/hypnosis-agility-and-creativity/) - Agile is founded on people and interactions. This presentation will explain a model to align teams for high performance and give you practical techniques, adapted from clinical hypnosis, that have proven successful with project visioning, goal setting, improved team communication and business collaboration. This session is presented and facilitated by Irwin Fletcher and Stephen McAinsh
- [People: Your Most Agile Ingredient](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/people-your-most-agile-ingredient/) - In Agile and Scrum, we spend a lot of time talking about how to better manage software development teams using processes, methods, prescriptions and other rules of thumb. We spend very little time talking about the largest and most important ingredient of any agile team: the team and people themselves Drawing from ten years of
- [The Mikado Method](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/the-mikado-method/) - The Mikado Method is a simple straight forward methodology for large scale refactoring. We’ve all been there; tasked with a change, which as optimistic developers we say won’t take us long, weeks later we’re still fighting the system. Enter the Mikado Method, a way to peel the layers of complexity away from any system. Systematically
- [Agile Project Management for Government](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/agile-project-management-for-government/) - The book Agile Project Management for Government identifies six barriers to Agile success in government and suggests how you can overcome these barriers
- [Building an Agile Assessment Tool](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/building-an-agile-assessment-tool/) - This article suggests how to build an Agile assessment tool for long-term improvement of your Scrum tool based on the six dimensions of Agility.
- [Agile & Scrum Podcasts](https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/agile-podcasts/) - A list of Agile and Scrum podcasts for Agile training and Scrum knowledge: Agile Life, Agile for Humans, Scrum Master Toolbox, Agile Revolution, Agile Uprising.
- [How to Manage a Distributed Scrum Team](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/how-to-manage-a-distributed-scrum-team/) - This article presents the challenges of managing a distributed scrum team in Agile software development projects and provides actionable tips for success.
- [3 Team Effectiveness Models You Can Use to Create Highly Productive Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/3-team-effectiveness-models-you-can-use-to-create-highly-productive-teams/) - This article explores three models that you could help in the Scrum team creation: the Lencioni Model, the 7T Model and the Tuckman’s Team Development Model.
- [Putting XP in Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/putting-xp-in-scrum/) - XP (eXtreme Programming) Engineering Practices such as Continuous Integration, User Stories, Pair Programming and Test Driven Development can mean the difference for a Scrum team between saying that you're agile and actually being able to be competitive in the market and maintain high quality and confidence in your code. This presentation proposes an open and
- [Mission Impossible: The Scrum Product Owner](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/mission-impossible-the-scrum-product-owner/) - Does Scrum ask too much of product owners? Is the role set up to fail? In this presentation, Allan Kelly looks at some of the problems Product Owners face... and tries to make some useful suggestions. Have you ever worked with an excellent product owner? One who had enough time to be with the team,
- [Measuring Agile: Data to Grow your Scrum Team Agility](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/measuring-agility-grow-your-team/) - This talk looks at the psychology of human behavior and data analytics to provide a playbook for measuring and improve an agile mindset in Scrum teams.
- [Practical Guidance for a Project to Product Transformation](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/practical-guidance-for-a-project-to-product-transformation/) - Ross Clanton and Amy Walters walk through an enterprise playbook, tactics, and case studies for how to successfully transform from a project to product based operating model. The target audience for this paper is leaders at any level of the enterprise who are driving a transition to a product-centric model. Transformations that shift from project
- [Helping Scrum Teams Get Back To Normal](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/helping-scrum-teams-get-back-to-normal/) - The world has changed and coaches have a significant role in helping clients and their Agile organizations adjust to the post-lockdown world. This presentation explains how to help overcome the twin problems of survivor syndrome and resulting imposter syndrome. It discusses the new requirements of leadership (the old ways won’t work anymore) and how to
- [LeSS - an Agile Descaling Framework](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/less-an-agile-descaling-framework/) - Although LeSS is an Agile scaling framework, in reality it requires organizational de-scaling. It is also an organizational design framework that helps to address core elements of organizational design: HR policies, finance/budgeting, vendor management, site strategies - areas that are not too comfortable for many companies to address. System and Lean thinking drives understanding of
- [An Introduction to Evolutionary Design](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/an-introduction-to-evolutionary-design/) - Modern software development inspired by Agile approaches welcomes changing requirements, even late in the process, but how can we write our software so that those changes don’t create a mess? Evolutionary design is the key. It is a technique that emerges from Extreme Programming (XP), the method that brought us test-driven development (TDD), merciless refactoring,
- [Pair Programming for Remote Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/pair-programming-for-remote-teams/) - Pair programming is one of the original practice of eXtreme programming, but it is also one of the least used by Agile software development teams. In his blog post, Alisdair McDiarmid explains how Customer.io uses pair programming with remote teams. Customer.io has been growing rapidly and its teams work in different location. Pairing has been
- [5 Steps to Build High Performance Agile Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/5-steps-to-build-high-performance-agile-teams/) - This article suggests five steps to bring your software development teams beyond the principles of Agile and Scrum: safety, mindset, colocation, collaboration.
- [Book Review: Essential Skills for the Agile Developer by Alan Shalloway](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/essential-skills-for-the-agile-developer-by-alan-shalloway/) - If Scrum provides the project management framework used in a majority of Agile projects, eXtreme Programming (XP) is the main source of technical practices for Agile software development. This book written by Alan Shalloway, Scott Bain, Ken Pugh and Amir Kolsky is focused on these technical aspects. The first part deal with the coding and
- [Managing Technical Stories and Bugs](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/managing-technical-stories-and-bugs/) - How you should deal with bugs and the technical aspects of your software project in Scrum and Agile project Management? Can you use user stories?
- [Technical Agile Coaching with the Samman Method](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/technical-agile-coaching-with-the-samman-method/) - This book by Emily Bache presents the Samman Technical Coaching approach, a method to help software development teams to become more agile and improve quality.
- [You Must Be Crazy To Do Pair Programming](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/you-must-be-crazy-to-do-pair-programming/) - Pair Programming is probably considered to be the most extreme 'Extreme Programming' practice, and a powerful technique for unlocking learning in a software development team. This video looks at this cultural practice that supports our ability to create better software faster in continuous delivery and DevOps teams. The presentation from Dave Farley provides pair programming
- [The Importance Of Psychological Safety In Agile Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/the-importance-of-psychological-safety-in-agile-teams/) - Psychological safety is becoming a priority in Agile organizations and leaders are looking to make Scrum team members feel more comfortable in a team setting.
- [5 Things to Avoid in your Retros](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/5-things-to-avoid-in-your-retros/) - This article shares five situations that Scrum teams should avoid in their retrospectives as continuous improvement is one of the main concept of Agile.
- [Security Best Practices in Agile Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/security-best-practices-in-agile-teams/) - This article outlines some of the major Agile security best practices that Scrum teams should include in their discussions about the Definition of Done (DoD).
- [Lessons Learned from Building a Design System](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/lessons-learned-from-building-a-design-system/) - This article shares lessons learned from building a Design System in an Agile team, a process that involves more than just creating a library of UI elements.
- [Kanban for Skeptics](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/kanban-for-skeptics/) - At the beginning of his book "Kanban for Skeptics", Nick Oostvogels writes "By listing the 5 most common arguments against Kanban and my response to them, I hope to help people in their Kanban journey and build great organizations that create amazing products." I will say that this goal is fairly well achieved... and there
- [Executable Specifications with Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/executable-specifications-with-scrum/) - The book Executable Specifications with Scrum by Mario Cardinal starts with a strong statement: “This book aims to solve the recurring challenge encountered by many software development teams: They do not build the right software.” This is an ambitious goal, especially when you want to achieve it in a little bit more than 100 pages.
- [The ScrumMaster Job Description](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/scrummaster-job-description/) - Learn the errors to avoid when you create a Scrum Master job description. As a bonus, you will get the example of a good ScrumMaster role job description.
- [What is SAFe: The Leading Framework For Business Agility](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/what-is-safe-the-leading-framework-for-business-agility/) - This article provides an overview of SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) one of the main framework to scale Agile- and Scrum-based organizations with LeSS or Nexus.
- [5 Tips to Improve Product Backlog Refinement](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/5-tips-to-improve-product-backlog-refinement/) - This article provides some tips on how to improve backlog refinement, also called backlog grooming, during the Scrum approach to Agile software development.
- [Scrum Planning Poker Estimation Scales](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/scrum-planning-poker-estimation-scales/) - Planning poker is a collaborative estimation technique used by Scrum teams during the sprint planning to estimate the complexity of the backlog items.
- [Barriers of Agility](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/barriers-of-agility/) - Agile Organization needs different leaders, cultures, and structures. In this article, Zuzana “Zuzi” Šochová explains that the fewer barriers you give agility on the way, the more likely the frameworks, methods, and practices can make a difference. You don’t have to start with changing everything immediately, but sooner or later such change is inevitable. Author:
- [Seven Reasons To Build MVP For Your Business](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/seven-reasons-to-build-mvp-for-your-business/) - The Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is an approach that aims to avoid building products that customers don't need or want by maximizing your learning about what is valuable for them. In this article, Sergej Hermoni shares seven reasons why you should include building an MVP in your Agile approach. Author: Sergej Hermoni, Impltech What is
- [The Dark Side of Agile](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/the-dark-side-of-agile/) - Learn the main mistakes that usually come up when implementing this Scrum and examine some reasons why Agile fails within the software development projects.
- [Technical Debt: Fixing Highest ROI Issues](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/technical-debt-fixing-highest-roi-issues/) - Does your technical debt backlog look endless? Are you thinking about pausing feature development to resolve technical debt? Stop. What if you were told that a good chunk of your backlog can simply wait? Technical debt can seem overwhelming when we look at it as a loosely organized list. This can lead to several anti-patterns
- [Technical Practices in Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/technical-practices-in-scrum/) - In this video, Bas Vodde, co-author of "Scaling Lean & Agile Development", explores whether so-called Scrum "technical practices" are really technical practices and whether LeSS is really Scrum. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KjXkQWVSho Video producer: https://less.works/
- [Transforming Agile Teams Through Feminist Leadership](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/transforming-agile-teams-through-feminist-leadership/) - Feminist Leadership is about capitalizing on the ideas and skills of as many individuals as possible by establishing team cooperation and group leadership instead of competition and personal leadership; it seeks to develop power "with others" instead of power "over others." Feminist leadership developed as a way of addressing deep social inequities, but it can
- [Why Software Developers Don't Need Agile](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/why-software-developers-dont-need-agile/) - Agile is everywhere. There are tons of materials about Agile. There are tons of talks about Agile. There are even whole conferences focused on Agile. Agile is simply everywhere. That is a well-known fact. But did you know that software developers do not need it? Did you ever ask yourself how many developers attend those
- [Advanced User Story Mapping](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/advanced-user-story-mapping/) - User Story Mapping is one of the most powerful collaboration tools for planning complex development activities. However, what are the differences between a good story map and a great one? How does one design and lead a great mapping session? In this presentation, Kevin Callahan shares three proven ways to make Story Mapping efforts great!
- [Does Pair Programming Have to Suck?](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/does-pair-programming-have-to-suck/) - Pair programming is sometimes the norm, and some developers really enjoy the collaboration, experiencing enhanced productivity. In other teams, pairing is shunned, avoided, or... faked. Angela Harms did a short survey about pairing attitudes and compared successful and unsuccessful pairing experiences. The survey produced some really clear results. Some factors most of us think are
- [Thinking Tools for Large-Scale Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/thinking-tools-for-large-scale-scrum/) - The Agile and Scrum book "Thinking Tools for Large-Scale Scrum" of Craig Larman & Bas Vodde reminds that it is more important to "be agile" than "do agile".
- [RetroCadence: The Best Retrospective Tool For Agile Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/tools/retrocadence-the-best-retrospective-tool-for-agile-teams/) - This article explains why RetroCadence is the best free retrospective tool available for Agile teams using a Scrum approach to product and project management.
- [Thermodynamics of Lean Leadership and Transformation](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/thermodynamics-of-lean-leadership-and-transformation/) - Boiling frogs and Lean transformation often have at least one thing in common: Do it quickly, but not quickly enough, and the subject might jump overboard. Changing behaviours, influencing culture and moving forwards on the path towards Lean or Agile is hard work. More often than not, the advice dispensed is “it depends”. Figuring out
- [Measuring Outcomes: How to Get Meaningful Agile Metrics](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/measuring-outcomes-how-to-get-meaningful-agile-metrics/) - "How well is your delivery team doing?" That seems like a straightforward question for an Agile team, but it is more complicated that it might sound at first. Do we know what it means to "do well" or is it one of those things that is different to everyone? This presentation discusses how you can
- [Build the Right Thing with a Discovery Process](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/build-the-right-thing-with-a-discovery-process/) - Do you have a nagging feeling that your Scrum team may not be investing in building the right thing? Do your products have features that are rarely or never used? Does it take your organization the full investment of building and launching a product to validate an idea? Is your Agile organization challenged with striking
- [The Product Owner Demystified](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/the-product-owner-demystified/) - There is often a vacuum between the company vision and the final outcome of software development projects, causing late validation and low value. This vacuum is present in pretty much all companies, caused by a wrong and ill-conceived product delivery approach. This vacuum is filled with meaningless busy work and extensive task management, resulting in
- [Continuous Delivery and the Theory of Constraints](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/continuous-delivery-and-the-theory-of-constraints/) - How should you actually implement Continuous Delivery in Scrum projects? This video explains how easy it is for a Continuous Delivery implementation to be unsuccessful, how the Theory Of Constraints works, how to apply the Five Focussing Steps to Continuous Delivery, and how to home in on the constrained activities that are your keys to
- [Agility is Inefficient](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/agility-is-inefficient/) - This presentation explain the difference between the two terms effectiveness and efficiency and show how focusing on the latter in Agile can lead to multiple bad consequences that you will probably recognize from organizations in your field. Agility is mainly about effectiveness. Yet, most corporations that are striving to become agile these days, do it
- [Prioritizing Technical Debt](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/prioritizing-technical-debt/) - This presentation explains how easily obtained version-control data lets you uncover the behavior and patterns of the development organization and manage technical debt. This language-neutral approach lets you prioritize the parts of your system that benefit the most from improvements so that you can balance short- and long-term goals guided by data. The specific examples
- [Is Mindset Yet Another Agile Buzzword?](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/is-mindset-yet-another-agile-buzzword/) - While it is true to say that people's attitudes and beliefs are key to implementing an agile project, or Agile in itself, much of the use of the term 'mindset' implies a mental model that can be defined and engineered. In this presentation, we will look at how we can measure attitudes within an organization
- [Scaling Agile with the Spotify Model](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/scaling-agile-with-the-spotify-model/) - For a long time Spotify people have tried to convince the world that there is no “Spotify Model” and if there ever was one, Spotify isn’t using it anyway and you shouldn’t either. And yet, countless organizations are using the Spotify model to drive their Agile transformations and scale Agile, some of them claiming huge
- [Expert Advice on Agile Scaling](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/expert-advice-on-agile-scaling/) - Getting Agile working at a team level is relatively straightforward. Overcoming challenges at scale is more difficult. In this video, two experts discuss using SAFe, Scrum@Scale, and LeSS to improve your organizational agility. These popular scaling frameworks offer techniques and patterns to help overcome the challenges of scaling Agile beyond a team level, but determining
- [How to Value User Stories?](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/how-to-value-user-stories/) - Business value, business value, business value. This presentation from Allan Kelly explores how to put a value on stories in a backlog while uncovering new requirements, elaborating specifications and valuable opportunities. We have it drummed into us: order work by business value, “do the most valuable stuff first.” But how many of us put a
- [Agile Software Development Metrics & KPIs for Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/agile-software-development-metrics-kpis-for-teams/) - This article shares some metrics and KPIs for Agile software development and Scrum teams like the sprint burndown chart, velocity and lead & cycle time.
- [Managing Iterative Software Development Projects](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/managing-iterative-software-development-projects/) - Managing Iterative Software Development Projects by Ian Spence & Kurt Bittner gives an overview of iterative project management and provides tips to assess your readiness for it.
- [Adding Some Kanban to Your Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/adding-some-kanban-to-your-scrum/) - Scrum and Kanban can be considered as the two main Agile approaches. In a simplistic view, Scrum is often categorized as a product development framework and Kanban is preferred when you want to manage flow or maintenance activity. However, it is not mandatory to choose between the these two options and Kert Peterson argues that
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- [Succeeding with OKRs in Agile](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/succeeding-with-okrs-in-agile/) - “OKRs” is the acronym of “Objectives and Key Results.” This is a collaborative goal-setting tool used by teams and individuals to set goals with measurable results.
- [Delivering Agile Value](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/delivering-agile-value/) - Learn the important questions that should be answered about delivering value when you are contracting Agile projects to a Scrum consulting company.
- [Hold my Beer: We Are Going Scrumban!](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/hold-my-beer-we-are-going-scrumban/) - At the beginning of Agile, there was a tendency to aim at “pure” Agile, following the Scrum rules by the book. Even if there might be still Scrum cargo cult implementations, many Agilists have realized that Agile is more about continuous improvement and value delivery in a specific context than staying stand-up in daily status
- [Agile in Security & Security in Agile](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/agile-in-security-security-in-agile/) - This presentation explains how Agile and Security works together in an Agile banking environment. Is Security conflicting with Agile methodologies? Scrum or Kanban, which one is better with Agile and fast and secure delivery? You are looking for ways to improve your delivery in a secure way, but is security a bottleneck? You have to
- [Agility at Scale: a Meeting of Mindsets](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/agility-at-scale-a-meeting-of-mindsets/) - Agile-in-the-small - a single team with a single product - is all about digital product thinking. Agile-in-the-large is a very different thing. This talk shows how combining industrial and digital thinking is the key to achieving autonomy with alignment, and they offer pragmatic advice and useful tools for achieving agility at scale. The shift from
- [Why Product Thinking is so Hard](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/why-product-thinking-is-so-hard/) - Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is one of the most misunderstood, misused, and abused terms in contemporary software development. In this talk, Jeff Patton explains the misunderstandings made by thought leaders that lead to the confusion we all deal with today. You will learn the counter-intuitive concepts hidden in the term and why really using them
- [What is an Agile Coach?](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/what-is-an-agile-coach/) - In this presentation, Lyssa Adkins and Simon Powers explore the role and offer a definition of what agile coaching really means, what competencies you should expect from an Agile coach and a framework for learning. They will also share some cool things being done in this space to maximize the chance of transformation success by
- [We Are SAFe, But Are We Agile?](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/we-are-safe-but-are-we-agile/) - This presentation shares in details how Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken implemented the SAFe agile framework, creating tribes, agile teams, iterations, PI Planning, Review, Backlogs or Kanban portfolio. The presenter adds a "but" to this, as the organization still does not know the priorities, requirements and their roles. His conclusion is that you need to find your
- [Agile Business Conference, London, UK,  October 11-14 2021](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/agile-business-conference/) - The Agile Business Conference is a two-day conference that takes place in London where meet and engage with the experts and thought leaders who have implemented focused, efficient Agile change programmes in a wide variety of industries. In the agenda of the Agile Business Conference you can find topics like "Agile Leadership - Enabling Business
- [Agile Bodensee, Constance, Germany, September 29-30 2021](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/agile-bodensee/) - The Agile Bodensee conference is an event focused on Agile and Scrum project management and software development. It takes places on the shore of the Lake Constance (the Bodensee in German) in the southern part of Germany, at the border with Switzerland. The first day is dedicated to workshops and open space discussion, the second
- [Will You Make the Date?](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/will-you-make-the-date/) - Agile estimating and planning in a Scrum software development project will not prevent your boss from asking: "Will you make the date?" This video explains how to use Scrum and the "Cone of Uncertainty" to provide an answer like: "60% probability." The Cone of Uncertainty is a project management term that was developed by Barry
- [Better Predictability with Smaller User Stories](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/better-predictability-with-smaller-user-stories/) - User stories and their size are often the basis for planning a Sprint in Scrum. You can use a relative estimation and planning poker or a more classical approach to define the effort for each user stories. As such, they are also the basis for the metrics of progress and the velocity of the Scrum
- [Hierarchy and Agile](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/hierarchy-and-agile/) - I recently posted a quote from a conference saying that “Removing hierarchy and cross-team dependencies made space for strong collaborative teams.” Interestingly, I got many comments and questions about it. So let’s talk about hierarchy and why we don’t need it in Agile space. Author: Zuzana “Zuzi” Šochová, http://sochova.cz/ But before we dive deeper… What is
- [Agile in the Non-profit Sector](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/agile-in-the-non-profit-sector/) - This talk will not only show you how Agile methods are great for starting an innovative initiative in a low-to zero-budget sector, it will also show you how you can use Agile to make a difference in this world. Between 2015 and 2016, over 130,000 asylum seekers requested asylum in Austria - taking the country
- [Pragmatic Agile Scaling with Safety-Critical Products](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/pragmatic-agile-scaling-with-safety-critical-products/) - Are Agile methods appropriate for safety-critical products? This presentation describes how an Agile project in the nuclear industry, has managed to be Agile while maintaining nuclear safety. A related issue is the complex nature of the work, spread over multiple teams in multiple companies, with work projected to continue for over 5 years. Learn how
- [Don't Walk Away from Complexity... Run](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/dont-walk-away-from-complexity-run/) - We constantly hear that change should be affordable and cost-effective with Agile. True, but, in reality, that is easily said than done. Complexity makes change hard. We cannot shy away from the hard problems posed by domains and business needs. So, how can we solve complicated problems without getting dragged into the quagmire of what
- [Mindful Agile Leadership](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/mindful-agile-leadership/) - What is Mindful Agile Leadership? It is the perfect balance of 3 essential elements: The agile mindset : the heart of agile - our attitude and approach to work that is collaborative, adaptable, open to change, value focused with continuous learning and growth. Mindfulness : the quality of awareness - non-judgmental, objective, deliberate observation and
- [Agile Transformation in Times of COVID-19](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/agile-transformation-in-times-of-covid-19/) - Learn the experience of large Agile Transformation during turbulent times created by Covid-19. This describes how Scrum Masters changed the way of serving the organization, how you need to modify the approach and strategy of Agile Transformation and how this change impacts Scrum Teams. Covid-19 is a true test for an organization's Agility. After all,
- [Scrum Roles Dysfunctions and Anti-Patterns](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/scrum-roles-dysfunctions-and-anti-patterns/) - The two presenters explore the misunderstandings and usages of Scrum roles using examples of what they have seen in organizations. They witnessed these dysfunctions not only in companies who are new to these roles, but also in organizations that were already applying Scrum for a while. In order to get some clarity on the roles,
- [Biases, Group Think & Other Nuisances](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/biases-group-think-other-nuisances/) - Agile methods encourage creativity through collaboration, but those ideas, and our responses to others, are filtered through our own perceptions. Most worrisome are the kind of perceptions that we have unknowingly built up and curated over many years, until we are barely aware of them. Working in groups can improve things, and we have learned
- [Build a Powerful Roadmap](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/build-a-powerful-roadmap/) - This video will provide you with practical techniques on how to build a powerful roadmap for your product or service, one that allows any Agile organization to get valuable feedback from their customers and deliver business value. Any organization's ability to focus on what matters most to their customers is directly related to their ability
- [New Skill Strengthening Certified Scrum Developer and Advanced Certified Scrum Developer](https://www.scrumexpert.com/news/new-skill-strengthening-certified-scrum-developer-and-advanced-certified-scrum-developer/) - Scrum Alliance has announced big changes to the Developer Certification track. Both the revamped Certified Scrum Developer (CSD) and the Advanced Certified Scrum Developer (A-CSD) courses are now available on ScrumAlliance.org. The updated CSD course is designed to teach product developers the essential concepts and skills they need to work successfully in a Scrum environment.
- [Evaluating the ROI of Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/evaluating-the-roi-of-scrum/) - How to evaluate the return on investment (ROI) of using Scrum for Agile project management. Get some hints on how to get meaningful results from this activity.
- [COVID Changed Agile, and Agile Changed Us](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/covid-changed-agile-and-agile-changed-us/) - Hannah Price shares her view on how many employees embraced the concept of agile without even realising it with the changes required to work in a COVID-19 era.
- [Improving Scrum Sprints with Kanban](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/improving-scrum-sprints-with-kanban/) - Scrum and Kanban are not rivals. If your Scrum Sprints are getting bogged down or missing the mark, combining Scrum with Kanban might be the Agile answer. This article from Kert Peterson provides a comprehensive explanation of how Kanban can improve your Scrum process with Kanban Task Boards, Team Boards, and a better focus on
- [Agile Software Requirements](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/agile-software-requirements/) - The book Agile Requirements by Dean Leffingwell this book provides practical tips on how to manage Agile requirements and helps you write better user stories.
- [Reasons Why Scrum Can Fail](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/reasons-why-scrum-can-fail/) - Learn why Agile Scrum might fail due to the confusion between roles (ScrumMaster, Product Owner, Developer) and wrong mindsets in Agile software development teams.
- [Lean Startup: the Next Step to Foster Innovation](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/lean-startup-the-next-step-to-foster-innovation/) - You must have come across the term Lean Startup several times. But, what exactly does it mean, and why is it vital for your business? This article explains what Lean Startup and the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) are and how they can help you to develop new products faster in an Agile way. Author: Pablo
- [Sustaining Remote-First Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/sustaining-remote-first-teams/) - Curious about how to build and sustain a remote-first culture? In this presentation, Rachel Davis explains how her team at Tes adapted their engineering practices to support small teams working in close collaboration over distance. With more engineers working from home or travelling than sitting at a desk in the London office, this talk covers
- [Why Startups Are More Efficient Organizations](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/why-startups-are-more-efficient-organizations/) - Startups are blowing established organizations out of the water on a regular basis. How on earth can small agile companies of 1-30 people beat multi-million companies with a lot of money, existing customers and experience? In this presentation, Karianne Berg, who has experience from several startups, shares some simple (but not easy!) tricks of the
- [Agile Coaching Toolkit for Remote Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/agile-coaching-toolkit-for-remote-teams/) - As most organizations have moved from in-person to remote team Scrum coaching, the Agile coaching tool-set has had to adapt. This talk presents experience that has been gained so far and what are the tools that are most often used. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPvNQ-Ihx4o Video producer: https://agilebyexample.com/
- [Scrum Guide Updated on the 25th Anniversary of the Scrum Framework](https://www.scrumexpert.com/news/scrum-guide-updated-on-the-25th-anniversary-of-the-scrum-framework/) - Scrum.org and Scrum Inc. have announced that the co-creators of Scrum, Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland, have released the latest iteration of the Scrum Guide, the definitive guide to the Scrum Framework, as we celebrate Scrum’s 25th anniversary. These changes were made with input from the community of Scrum users around the globe. Scrum is
- [Lean Mindset, Mary and Tom Poppendieck](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/lean-mindset/) - Mary and Tom Poppendieck summarize the objective of the "Lean Mindset" book in the introduction: "we present a mental model of how to design and deliver amazing products that delight customers". Following the same idea that you should "be Agile" and not only "do Agile", the book explains how to build the mental model to
- [Scrum of Scrums: How to Succeed in 4 Simple Steps](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/scrum-of-scrums-how-to-succeed-in-4-simple-steps/) - Scrum of Scrums is a technique used to scale Agile dividing the groups into smaller Agile teams. This article provides some tips to succeed with Scrum of Scrums.
- [Scrum of Scrums: How to Succeed in 4 Simple Steps](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/scrum-of-scrums-how-to-succeed-in-4-simple-steps/) - Scrum of Scrums is a technique used to scale Agile dividing the groups into smaller Agile teams. This article provides some tips to succeed with Scrum of Scrums.
- [Is it SAFe to Scale?](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/is-it-safe-to-scale/) - By now most large enterprises are past the experimenting stage with Agile. Many are beginning to realize that simply training teams in Agile techniques like Scrum and Kanban, while useful, is not enough to achieve real business transformation. And they are struggling with coordinating teams involved in work on large solutions and the tensions between
- [Distributed Scrum Teams in Uncertain Times](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/distributed-scrum-teams-in-uncertain-times/) - As countries navigate the impact of widespread Coronavirus, balancing the health and well-being of employees and Scrum teams with the very real need to keep business functions operating is particularly top of mind for companies large and small. This presentation helps you develop the mindset needed to align remote employees and coordinate multiple Agile teams.
- [Agile Game Development with Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/agile-game-development-with-scrum/) - Drawing from his own experience as developer and CTO in the game development industry, Keith Clinton has written a book that provides both an overall vision of the Agile and Scrum approaches combined with a detailed practice of these principles in the specific context of game software development. It gives therefore also a good introduction
- [Limiting Work in Progress (WIP) in Kanban](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/limiting-work-in-progress-wip-in-kanban/) - In Kanban, the concept of work in progress (WIP) limit defines the maximum amount of work that can be performed by a team or that can exist in each active status of a workflow. In this article, Gerard Chiva explains why limiting WIP is an important decision for Agile teams. Author: Gerard Chiva, AKTIA Solutions,
- [Product Owner Certifications](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/product-owner-certifications/) - Discover Scrum the product owner certifications in Agile project management available from the Scrum Alliance, Scrum.org, IEEE Computer Society and SAFe.
- [Applying Exception Management to Agile Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/applying-exception-management-to-agile-teams/) - The values contained in the Manifesto for Agile Software Development might be good for the Agile teams, but most of the senior management in organizations prefer having a defined solution, a detailed planning and a budget that should be respected. This article discusses how to make these two different approaches work together. Author: John Carter,
- [How Much Can You Trust Your Scrum Team](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/how-much-can-you-trust-your-scrum-team/) - This presentation looks at Agile teams and how we can build better, trusting relationships with them and our external stakeholders. Why? Because you work with Scrum teamsday in, day out, spending the majority of your waking life with them. But how much do you trust them? And how much do they trust you? Andy Eley
- [Collaborating Across Organizational Silos](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/collaborating-across-organizational-silos/) - As an Agile product development team in a large organization you may need to collaborate with other parts of the organization to deliver value to the end users. Your colleagues in your Scrum team may have different professions and work culture than your own. Starting off without a shared language, understanding of the goals, process
- [Challenges of Changing Traditional Mindsets](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/challenges-of-changing-traditional-mindsets/) - Many organizations are beginning to feel the need to be leaner, agile and more nimble in order to better adapt to an ever-changing and uncertain world. This is especially true for the digital space, a sector where technology is creating new behaviors and competitors at an unprecedented rate. What many companies are discovering is that
- [Does Agile Make You Less Secure?](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/does-agile-make-you-less-secure/) - Does Agile make us far less secure? This presentation discusses the tension between agile and security and offers ways that you can resolve this tension. Software developers feel less secure When organizations adopt Agile practices tend to throw out the old practices of requirements gathering, up front system design and careful analysis. Instead, they write
- [Agile Open California South, Irvine, USA, September 17-18 2020  Online/Virtual](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/agile-open-california-south/) - Agile Open California South is two-day conference that provides Agile and Scrum practitioners in Southern California an opportunity for learning and networking. Agile Practitioners and newcomers come together for two days to discuss, examine and otherwise brainstorm the most timely and relevant topics in Agile development today. The Agile Open California South conference follows the
- [Scaled Agile and Digital.ai Expand Partnership](https://www.scrumexpert.com/news/scaled-agile-and-digital-ai-expand-partnership/) - Digital.ai, the vendor of the Intelligent Value Stream Platform, has announced an expanded strategic partnership with Scaled Agile, creators of the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®). The newly expanded partnership builds on more than a decade of support for enterprise agile methodologies, including SAFe 5.0. With the addition of Platform Plus to its existing Gold Transformation
- [Help Work to Flow](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/help-work-to-flow/) - In their book "Help Work to Flow", Samantha Laing and Karen Greaves have explored their Agile working and coaching experience to collect 40 tips, techniques and games that should allow you to work in the state of flow, this situation where you are more productive. Each tip is clearly presented on one page, which makes
- [Planview Acquires Aptage](https://www.scrumexpert.com/news/planview-acquires-aptage/) - Planview has announced the acquisition of Aptage, a technology leader and pioneer in the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to portfolio management and work management. Aptage’s expertise in data science is combined with unique domain knowledge in the economics of development spanning Agile and project methodologies. The company’s technology and IP
- [Building a Product Based on Values](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/building-a-product-based-on-values/) - The life of an agile digital creator is riddled with decisions. How do you decide which new features to implement, and which ones to ignore? How do you select the customers or clients you would enjoy working with? How do you choose an employee who is the best fit for your team? We are encouraged
- [Agile Retrospective Antipatterns](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/agile-retrospective-antipatterns/) - Anti-Patterns are like patterns, only more informative. With anti-patterns you will first see what patterns reoccur in "bad"Agile retrospectives and then you will see how to avoid, or remedy, the situation. Based on her experience with facilitating retrospectives, Aino Corry proposes an entertaining and informative presentation on the anti-patterns she has seen and how to
- [Clarizen Launched Agile Clarizen Go](https://www.scrumexpert.com/news/clarizen-launched-agile-clarizen-go/) - Clarizen has added several new features to its Clarizen Go task management solution to enable enterprise teams to meet their goals while adopting simple agile workflows. Clarizen Go is a task management solution that enables companies to adopt more agile ways of working. With visual boards and tasks, Clarizen Go helps teams manage their daily
- [Leading Multiple Agile Teams Without Sacrificing Sanity](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/leading-multiple-agile-teams-without-sacrificing-sanity/) - In an ideal Agile world, the Scrum Master takes care of only one Scrum team. This is however not always possible and then he has to split his time between many teams. In this article, Alexander Chaves shares some tips on how to lead multiple Agile teams without becoming insane. Author: Alexander Chaves, Gorilla Logic,
- [The Story of LESS](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/the-story-of-less/) - In this presentation, Bas Vodde shares the creation of LeSS and within that side-track on explaining better how LeSS works. LeSS is a lightweight (agile) framework for scaling Scrum to more than one team. It was extracted out of the experiences of Bas Vodde and Craig Larman while Scaling Agile development in multiple different types
- [Liberating Structures](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/liberating-structures/) - What would be made possible if you could unleash the intelligence and creativity of everyone in the Scrum team? Liberating Structures are a collection of easy-to-learn facilitation patterns that make this possible. They are field tested, rooted in complexity science and freely shared under a creative commons license. In this presentation, participants will gain a
- [Nureva Span Workspace Better Supports Scaling Agile Frameworks](https://www.scrumexpert.com/news/nureva-span-workspace-better-supports-scaling-agile-frameworks/) - Nureva announced the addition of connectors in Span Workspace to allow users to show dependencies between notes with red lines, as would be done during analog brainstorming sessions and structured activities like PI Planning. Companies that have implemented frameworks such as Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and Scrum@Scale need digital alternatives as the changed work environment
- [Creating an Awesome Product Owner Team](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/creating-an-awesome-product-owner-team/) - Scrum Product Owners do everything to drive the direction of the products and inspire the Agile team to work on a transcendental goal. They achieve this that by acting as an incredibly awesome team that works across functions, listening to customers and each other. Do you want to be a really awesome Product Owner team?
- [CollabNet VersionOne, XebiaLabs & Arxan Technologies Merge](https://www.scrumexpert.com/news/collabnet-versionone-xebialabs-arxan-technologies-merge/) - CollabNet VersionOne, XebiaLabs, and Arxan Technologies have announced their combination and strategic transformation to Digital.ai, a new software company that brings together leaders in business agility, software delivery, and application security into one integrated, intelligent value stream platform. After the first merge between CollabNet VersionOne and XebiaLabs in January, the new organization has added Arxan
- [ONEPOINT Projects Offers Agile Project Management for Hybrid PPM](https://www.scrumexpert.com/news/onepoint-projects-offers-agile-project-management-for-hybrid-ppm/) - ONEPOINT Projects has launched version 19 of their hybrid project and portfolio management (PPM) solution. It features a new, completely integrated agile planning and controlling component. The new version also features a "Timeline" view for live management-level reporting as well as a number of practical resource management improvements. Key features of the new agile component
- [Physical Agile2020 Conference Cancelled](https://www.scrumexpert.com/news/physical-agile2020-conference-cancelled/) - The Agile Alliance Board of Directors has unanimously decided that the physical Agile2020 conference cannot take place. They are however exploring avenues for the Agile community to share the program that has been recently announced. The annual conference of the Agile Alliance, which has brought together nearly 2500 people each year for approximately twenty years,
- [Customer KPIs in Agile Software Development](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/customer-kpis-in-agile-software-development/) - Metrics are an important part of the Agile software development approaches like Scrum. They are however, like velocity, more often focus on the performance of the delivery team. What about the customers? In this article, Fabio Gasparri discusses Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that will matter for the clients. Author: Fabio Gasparri, Senior Partner at Hexacta,
- [Remote Scrum Teams: 5 Things I am Doing Wrong](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/remote-scrum-teams-5-things-i-am-doing-wrong/) - Its increasingly common that Agile software development teams are distributed across multiple offices, in different countries, all working remotely on the same product or project. But how do you make this work well? There seem to be a number of readily accepted tenants of conventional wisdom to help deal with leading distributed teams, from seeming
- [The 5 Pillars of Collaborative Product Ownership](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/the-5-pillars-of-collaborative-product-ownership/) - This presentation explores some uncomfortable realities about many present approaches and attitudes to product ownership in Agile and Scrum teams. Then, it journeys into the past to discover the top secret superpower that all teams working towards agility have, but often forget. While business knowledge and domain expertise is useful and essential for product owner,
- [Agile Earned Value Management (EVM)](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/agile-earned-value-management/) - Earned Value Management (EVM) is a project management technique that measures the technical performance, cost and schedule of a project against planned objectives. Agile Earned Value Management can also be applied usefully to Agile and Scrum approaches to software development, especially in the case of large systems.
- [Agile France, Paris, France, June 11-12 2020](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/agile-france/) - Agile France is a two-day conference focused on Agile and Scrum that takes place in Paris. It presents Agile practices, discusses their limitations and explore new approaches. All the presentations are in French. In the agenda of the Agile France conference you can find topics like "Refactoring Specifications", "How to start an Agile Project", "Kanban
- [Meeting Resistance and Moving Forward](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/meeting-resistance-and-moving-forward/) - It is "those skeptical people" who are most annoying. They don't seem to listen to our ideas. They usually start raising objections before we have even finished describing what we are thinking. They have a counterargument for every argument. What's to be done with "those people"? In this presentation, Linda Rising pulls patterns from the
- [10 Common Mistakes of Product Owners](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/10-common-mistakes-of-product-owners/) - A Scrum team cannot deliver value without a good Product Owner. This article shares a list of the most common mistakes made by Product Owners in Agile software development.
- [The Myths About Scrum & DevOps](https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/the-myths-about-scrum-devops/) - 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
- [The Art of Agile Product Ownership](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/the-art-of-agile-product-ownership/) - The Art of Agile Product Ownership book focuses on the Product Owner role and explains the differences with business analyst, product manager, project manager or subject matter expert roles.
- [Connect Design Sprints and Agile Sprints](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/connect-design-sprints-and-agile-sprints/) - Design Sprints have changed the way businesses create new products and services. But how do they relate to Agile development sprints? And how can the two be connected so that Scrum teams deliver higher quality products in less time? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtkUU28RehM Video producer: https://www.agileonthebeach.co.uk/
- [Evidence Based Management](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/evidence-based-management/) - Organizations invest in agile processes, tools, training, and coaching, but how much are they getting back? Has product delivery improved? How much happier are users and the business customers? Are employees empowered and enabled? Traditional metrics might give you insight into improvements of operational efficiency, but the real conversation is about the value created for
- [KeyedIn Projects 7.0 for Agile Portfolio Management Released](https://www.scrumexpert.com/news/keyedin-projects-7-0-for-agile-portfolio-management-released/) - KeyedIn has announced version 7.0 of its top-rated cloud-based project portfolio management (PPM) solution, KeyedIn Projects, that features integrated resourcing for Agile teams and upgraded reporting and analysis capabilities. Delivering key Agile Portfolio Management functionality, KeyedIn Projects 7.0 should enable PMOs to make better and quicker decisions. In addition, KeyedIn 7.0 includes integration with CAST
- [Managing Agile Delivery](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/managing-agile-delivery/) - Agile development starts with small Scrum teams tackling small problems. After some initial successes the organization gets more ambitious, and tries to get more teams tackling bigger problems. At some point these endeavors run headlong into organizational finance and governance structures from a different era, designed with huge projects in mind, and it usually doesn’t
- [Organisation Refactoring & Culture Hacking](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/organisation-refactoring-and-culture-hacking/) - Marc Andreessen famously said "software is eating the world". Yet most of our software development project teams and organizations simply are not set up for us to take part in this revolution. Why? Our organizational surroundings are directly responsible for inefficient design and delivery – locally-optimized silos, opaque and ossified power structures, multi-layered middle management,
- [Practical Tips for Coaching Tired Scrum Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/practical-tips-for-coaching-tired-scrum-teams/) - In this webinar, Anna Obukhova shares 4 practical tips that you can put into practice when working with tired or burnt out Agile and Scrum teams. A must watch for any coach working in a high-pressured team environment. Burnout and tiredness is an all too common reality for many people in today’s fast paced and
- [Fix Your Business, Culture Will Follow](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/fix-your-business-culture-will-follow/) - The market keeps talking about cultural change, that will help us be better at what we do. We have Agile, Scrum, teal organizations, holacracy, sociocracy, NVC and all other similar concepts. But is there anything all of those organizations have in common? It is good business. In our own experience and companies around the world
- [Socrates Canaries, Gran Canaria, Spain,  February 6-9 2020](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/socrates-canaries/) - Socrates Canaries is the Spanish stage of the International Software Craftsmanship Gathering, a series of events for open-minded software developers who want to improve their craft and the software industry as a whole. The local Software Craftsmanship community in the Canary Islands organizes it. The agenda of the Socrates Canaries International Software Craftsmanship Gathering follows
- [1st Conference, Adelaide & Melbourne, Australia, February 24 & 28 2020](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/1st-conference-melbourne/) - The 1st Conference is an event aimed at people starting out with Agile and Scrum run by practitioners of the Agile Melbourne community. The format of the 1st Conference is a one day of presentation and one day of workshops presented by Australian and overseas Agile experts. In the agenda of the 1st Conference you
- [Building Agility with Design Sprints](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/building-agility-with-design-sprints/) - Preaching the benefits of agility when pressed for a twelve-month release schedule makes for an awkward conversation. Business commitment and organizational change are needed to successfully adopt agility-building practices like agile, lean product management and continuous delivery. When their adoption is only tolerated by the wider organization on the condition that legacy ways-of-working are respected,
- [Asking Over Telling: Build Great Agile Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/asking-over-telling-build-great-agile-teams/) - More asking, less telling. As an agile leader, you can adopt the approach of humble enquiry to build relationships, increase trust and collaboration, and deal with the challenges of organizational transformations for your Scrum team. "Humble enquiry is the fine art of drawing someone out, of asking questions to which you do not already know
- [Becoming Customer Focused: Learning to Listen](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/becoming-customer-focused-learning-to-listen/) - This customer focus listening workshop covers the basics of customer development: interview, building questions and adopting your customers’ language. You will learn: * How to get insight out of 90 seconds, stakeholder, customer or annoying boss * Basics of interview technique (open versus closed questions etc) * Cognitive Biases * Aspirational versus Experience driven Stories
- [How NOT to Implement Agile](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/how-not-to-implement-agile/) - Whether you are implementing Agile in a small company or a large company, one team or numerous teams, there are several best practices that boost not only the speed of the implementation and not only its quality but also the most important key factor, the ability to stick for a long time and basically to
- [How To Work Past People Resistance to Becoming T-Shaped](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/how-to-work-past-people-resistance-to-becoming-t-shaped/) - T-shaped skills are the base for cross-functional Scrum teams, but people can resist this. Learn why and what you can do to change this for better Agile teams.
- [Most Common Mistakes of ScrumMasters](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/most-common-mistakes-of-scrummasters/) - The ScrumMaster role is certainly the most original addition of Scrum to the concept of software development teams. How and how much the ScrumMaster should be involved with the teams is a topic for debates in the Agile community. Isn't the Scrum team supposed to be self-organized in the first place? In this article, Zuzi
- [Value-Oriented Incremental Delivery](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/value-oriented-incremental-delivery/) - Sometimes, organizations adopting an Agile approach are mostly following Scrum practices like rituals. They might do daily stand-up meetings but do not perceive that the real goal is to deliver quickly value to the customer. In an article, Vinod Santhanam explains how the Value-Oriented Incremental Delivery (Void) approach can help Agile teams to achieve this
- [Value-Oriented Incremental Delivery](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/value-oriented-incremental-delivery/) - Sometimes, organizations adopting an Agile approach are mostly following Scrum practices like rituals. They might do daily stand-up meetings but do not perceive that the real goal is to deliver quickly value to the customer. In an article, Vinod Santhanam explains how the Value-Oriented Incremental Delivery (Void) approach can help Agile teams to achieve this
- [Should Scrum Team Members Participate in Every Meeting?](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/should-scrum-team-members-participate-to-every-meetings/) - This article discusses if it is mandatory for all Scrum team members to be participants in Scrum meetings like the daily stand-up, sprint review or retrospectives.
- [Aginext.io London 2020 Call for Papers](https://www.scrumexpert.com/news/aginext-london-call-for-papers/) - Aginext.io London 2020 is a conference for Agile Practitioners interested in the most advanced Agile practices and the emerging ones. The call for papers is open until the 30th November 2019. The Aginext London conference has about 50 spots for engaging talks and workshops plus opportunities for lightning talks and to facilitate networking sessions. A
- [Essential Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/essential-scrum/) - The Kenneth Rubin's "Essential Scrum" book starts with a foreword by Mike Cohn who writes "there must be billions of possible ways to implement Scrum. And while there is no single right way, there are better and worse ways to implement Scrum." Mike Cohn writes also "what works in one company or project will fail
- [XP Days Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine, November 22-23 2019](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/xp-days-ukraine/) - XP Days Ukraine is a conference dedicated to Agile engineering practices. Its aim is to provide practical skills and new ideas toScrum and Agile practitioners with the help of local and international Agile and Scrum experts. The presentations of XP Days Ukraine cover the main Agile engineering practices like TDD, Continuous Integration or BDD. Topics
- [Project Management Institute (PMI) Acquired FLEX from Net Objectives](https://www.scrumexpert.com/news/project-management-institute-pmi-acquired-flex-from-net-objectives/) - The Project Management Institute (PMI), the largest not-for-profit membership association for the project managers, has announced the acquisition of FLEX from Net Objectives. The FLEX approach helps organizations understand “what’s not working” at a system level and identify bottlenecks and eliminate them to improve workflows. In Agust, the PMI announced already the acquisition of Disciplined
- [T-shaped Skills and Swarming Make for Flexible Scrum and Agile Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/t-shaped-skills-and-swarming-make-for-flexible-scrum-and-agile-teams/) - Flexible and high-performing agile and scrum software development teams are composed of members with T-shaped skills to swarm to project management success.
- [Real-Time Retrospectives & Agile Improvement](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/real-time-retrospectives-and-agile-improvement/) - Create a better Scrum Agile retrospectives process with the starfish approach where feedback is create in real-time and not only at the end of a Scrum sprint.
- [A Team of Product Owners](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/a-team-of-product-owners/) - The Product Owner is a very important role in Scrum to manage the product backlog. Can you have a team of product owners or should you have only one person filling this role?
- [Has Your Agile Transformation Hit a Wall?](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/has-your-agile-transformation-hit-a-wall/) - Many organizations find they have hit a wall in their Agile transformation. Something is still missing: the culture has not changed, leaders do not yet fully understand their full Agile role, the structure is not aligned around value streams, teams find major obstacles to doing, and being, Agile. The causes of these dilemmas are not
- [Introduction to Large Scale Facilitation and Systemic Coaching](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/introduction-to-large-scale-facilitation-and-systemic-coaching/) - Learn how to promote self-organization in Scrum through systemic coaching and large-scale facilitation. Systemic coaching is a methodically guided self-reflection to consider systemic contexts of a concern from different perspectives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OId49r9XC9Y Video producer: http://www.adventureswithagile.com
- [Scaling Agile Delivery](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/scaling-agile-delivery/) - Agile development starts with small Scrum teams tackling small problems. After some initial successes the organization gets more ambitious, and tries to scale Agile, getting more teams tackling bigger problems. At some point these endeavors run headlong into finance and governance structures from a different era, designed with huge projects in mind, and it usually
- [Toronto Agile Conference, Toronto, Canada,  November 5 2019](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/toronto-agile/) - Toronto Agile Conference is a conference focused on Agile software development and Scrum project management. This popular conference that takes place in Toronto Canada has sold out each year and provides participants with numerous benefits with seven concurrent interactive sessions and plenty of opportunities to network. In the agenda of Toronto Agile Conference you can
- [Escape Velocity](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/escape-velocity/) - Following the famous mantra of “you can't manage what you can't measure”, Scrum teams have often a set of metrics to monitor their activity. Velocity, the amount of work performed by a team during a single sprint, might be one of the most famous Agile metric. Doc Norton has written an interesting book about the
- [Transforming Good Teams Into Awesome Ones](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/transforming-good-teams-into-awesome-ones/) - This is not a talk about Scrum teams. This is a talk about you and your role in developing a great team. No matter whether you are a Scrum Master, Project Manager or CTO, at least part of your job is to help your team or teams grow. In order to make this happen you
- [Project Management Institute Swallows Disciplined Agile](https://www.scrumexpert.com/news/project-management-institute-swallows-disciplined-agile/) - The Project Management Institute (PMI), announced last week the acquisition of Disciplined Agile (DA), the company created by Mark Lines and Scott Amble that is backing the Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) framework. DAD defines itself as "a people-first, learning-oriented hybrid agile approach to IT solution delivery". Disciplined Agile claims that over 12,000 practitioners in 30
- [Two Ways Agile and UX Can Work Together](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/two-ways-agile-and-ux-can-work-together/) - Learn the value of just-enough user-centered design (user experience or UX) in an Agile development process like the Scrum approach of Agile project management
- [Impact Mapping](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/impact-mapping/) - Gojko Adzic is known in the Agile software development world for his work on requirements presented in his book "Specification by Example – How successful teams deliver the right software". In this small and easy to read book, he focuses on a single tool that could be very useful for Scrum teams: impact mapping. This
- [Changing Focus: From Speed & Efficiency to High Customer Value](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/changing-focus-from-speed-efficiency-to-high-customer-value/) - For decades, product development has been focused mostly on the speed and efficiency of delivery. So now we are stuck in the quagmire of talking about the methods and activities of delivery rather than focusing on the actual goal - delivering high value to the customer. In this presentation, Ray Arell shares an evolutionary process
- [Learn to Say No to End Multitasking](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/learn-to-say-no-to-end-multitasking/) - Many people, even the people supposedly using Agile, have too much work to do. You have project work. You have support work, formal for customer support or sales, and informal for your colleagues. You have reports to write or file, time cards to fill out, or other periodic events. You know your multitasking is slowing
- [Congressive Management Techniques: Gardening Your Team](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/congressive-management-techniques-gardening-your-team/) - Agile and Scrum were supposed to free us from management: self-organized, cross-functional teams who get stuff done without that old-guard hierarchy. In this fauxtopia, some software developers were more equal than others. Can we get the healthy parts back without the Lumberghs? To bring back healthy engineering management, we must first de-mystify and de-stigmatize the
- [4 Reasons Why Scrum Needs Testers From Day 1](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/4-reasons-why-scrum-needs-testers-from-day-1/) - Learn why software testing specialists are useful in Scrum teams and four reasons why they should be included as soon as the first Sprint Planning.
- [Agile Greece Summit, Athens, Greece, September 19-20 2019](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/agile-greece-summit/) - The Agile Greece Summit is a two-day conference that brings together top class Agile software development and Scrum project management local and international expert speakers for talks and workshops in Athens, Greece. In the agenda of Agile Greece Summit you can find topics like "A Day in the Life of a Jon Kern Agile Project",
- [What’s REALLY Going On?](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/whats-really-going-on/) - Imagine you are asked to sit in on a team’s sprint review and retrospective. The team has been having difficulty forming and the Scrum Master has asked you to observe the team dynamics during these two sessions. Are you simply going to watch what’s going on or is there more you can do? Perhaps you
- [Continuous Digital](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/continuous-digital/) - Continuous Digital is the companion book of the Project Myopia book also written by Allan Kelly. Both books are related to its viewpoint that software development activity needs a better framework that the project approach to be successful. If Project Myopia is the book describing the concepts behind his proposal, Continuous Digital provides the "how
- [SwanseaCon, Swansea, Wales, September 9 2019](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/swanseaco/) - SwanseaCon is an Agile and Scrum conference that takes place in Swansea, Wales. It discusses Agile development, Scrum project management, Software Craftsmanship, DevOps and Agile Testing. The conference includes keynotes and presentations, a discussion panel and time between sessions to network and connect with fellow Agile software developers from around the world. In the agenda
- [Agile Week Riga, Riga, Latvia, July 17-21 2019](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/agile-day-riga/) - Agile Week Riga is ay non-profit conference focused on Agile project management and Scrum. Presentations and workshops will be in Latvian, English and Russian. Goal of this conference is to provide a clear explanation why Agile and Lean software development approaches became so important today and to show how these approaches help to solve problems.
- [Unconf, Kracow, Poland, June 8-9 2018](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/unconf-kracow/) - Unconf — the unexpected conference is a two-day event dedicated to the Agile and Scrum that takes place in Kracow, Poland. It is provided in a nontypical way that provides both open space discussions and workshops. Talks will be in Polish or English, depending on sessions and guests. Unconf — the unexpected conference first day
- [Scrum Adherence Index](https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/scrum-adherence-index/) - "You cannot manage what you cannot measure" is an old adage in the project management world. Is this still valid in the Agile and Scrum world where people are preferred over processes and tools? In fact Scrum is disciplined and uses a lot of metrics, so you might like this newly proposed Scrum Adherence Index.
- [Scrum Pattern Community](https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/scrum-pattern-community/) - Alistair Cockburn describes software development as a cooperative game. Scrum provides one set of rules for one such way of playing the game. The Scrum Guide is the official rule book. However, the Scrum Guide doesn't tell you the rationale behind Scrum as a whole, or behind many of its successful practices. Those rationales come
- [Cynical Agile and Scrum Definitions](https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/cynical-agile-and-scrum-definitions/) - Running Agile software development projects using Scrum is not always an easy task. Sometimes you need to take a step back and look at the Agile best practices with a dose of humour. This is the purpose of the "Cynical Agile and Scrum Dictionary" which try to implement the following user story: "As a reader
- [Succeeding with Large Scale Agile](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/succeeding-with-large-scale-agile/) - Learn how to succeed with large scale Agile. Implementing Agile in small, short lived projects is easy. The real challenge comes when the project becomes long-running, and it gets even harder when spanning into multiple large projects. Add the challenge of distribution of resources and different cultures and it becomes almost impossible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqF1HZPwwZY Video producer:
- [Scrummish to Scrumban](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/scrummish-to-scrumban/) - Shoddy software quality, disgruntled customers, missed deadlines... Such is daily life in many software companies. But there exists a better way. This presentation tells a story of turning around a demoralized and disengaged group of developers into a high performing team, while improving software quality, customer satisfaction and reducing technical debt. Every Agile journey is
- [Seven Unmentioned Challenges of Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/seven-unmentioned-challenges-of-scrum/) - Organizations often start with Scrum after having heard about it, read about it, or after having read the Scrum Guides. While that is great, there are several unforeseen challenges they often face that prevent them from really benefiting from the advantages of Scrum. This presentation discusses seven unmentioned challenges of Scrum and uncovers possible solutions.
- [User Stories & Other Agile Failures](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/user-stories-other-agile-failures/) - Should agile practitioners avoid large corporate clients? Are they just too hard to take on a progressive agile journey? Helping companies that think they are already agile to actually adopt agile is an interesting challenge, for a start, nobody likes to be told that they are doing it wrong. In this video, David Espley shares
- [We Are Agile. Now What?](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/we-are-agile-now-what/) - This talks discusses 7 deadly sins of software development, specifically relevant for Agile teams. It's pretty clear when you fail as a start-up, where you and your friend invested last savings. The product is not ready or just doesn't get sold, the money's gone, you open LinkedIn to search for a job suitable for an
- [Vertical Story Slicing on Microservices](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/vertical-story-slicing-on-microservices/) - Many Agile coaches are former software developers, some are not. But when technology moves on, well known Agile approaches can be challenged. Applying the Agile approach of vertical story slicing on microservices is one such example. This talk explains on how as Agile coaches we can coach in technical areas where technology may have moved
- [Technical Debt is not Technical](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/technical-debt-is-not-technical/) - Technical debt is not primarily caused by incompetent developers, architecture astronauts, unrealistic UX people or even stupid project managers. Rather, it is a third-order effect of poor communication. It is a symptom of an underlying lack of appropriate abstractions, which in turn stems from insufficient modeling of the problem domain. In order to avoid technical
- [T-Shaped Agile Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/t-shaped-agile-teams/) - In small Scrum teams, it’s common for people to share roles such as Scrum Master / Tester / Dev but in a lot of cases there are conflicting interests. How can a Tester adequately test when as a Scrum Master the highest priority is assisting the team to deliver? This is an experience report from
- [Servant Leadership](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/servant-leadership/) - The Scrum Guide says that “The Scrum Master is a servant-leader for the Scrum Team.”, but what is servant leadership? We will talk about where servant leadership came from and what servant leadership is. We will talk about examples of servant leaders in our world and where to find more information about servant leadership. Finally,
- [Skepticism is the Future of Agile](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/skepticism-is-the-future-of-agile/) - There’s some weird stuff going on in the name of “agile” nowadays.Too many pretty promises, eager exaggerations, and misguided misapplications of misunderstood premises make for troubling times. So what is the future of agile? We want to share with you how agile fails and how agile succeeds. The key to the future of agile is
- [Testing a Scrum Team with the Chaos Lottery](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/testing-a-scrum-team-with-the-chaos-lottery/) - Inspired by NASA astronaut training for solving complex, evolving problems on the fly, the Chaos Lottery is one approach to testing the resilience of a Scrum team. This is a story about knowing what you should do, and finding you are still not quite doing it. A system's resilience is tested by stressing it under
- [Deliver Customer Value Instead of Story Points](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/deliver-customer-value-instead-of-story-points/) - Are you sick of seeing your Scrum team treated as a sausage machine for turning user stories into code? Can your software developers only talk about how long something will take, or how exactly it will be built? This talk explores how to get your team focused on delivering customer value instead by * Asking
- [Measuring Joy for Software Developers](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/measuring-joy-for-software-developers/) - Learn how to asses the happiness of your software developers using the quality of your code. You can lower Scrum team turnover and discover refactoring needs.
- [Giving Feedback is Hard. Really Hard.](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/giving-feedback-is-hard-really-hard/) - Agile approaches are used to generate quicker feedback that supports continuous improvement and giving proper feedback is important between Scrum team members.
- [13th Annual State of Agile Report Released](https://www.scrumexpert.com/news/13th-annual-state-of-agile-report-released/) - CollabNet VersionOne has announced the 13th annual State of Agile report. This year's survey findings feature increased global diversity with more results from respondents in Europe, Asia, South America and Africa than the year before. The most important findings of the 13th Annual State of Agile Report are: Agile is being adopted more frequently to
- [Better SAFe Than Sorry](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/better-safe-than-sorry/) - The presentation demonstrates why SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) is the most widely adopted agile scaling framework. SAFe’s practices have evolved from Agile practices and methods, Lean product development, systems thinking, and observation of successful enterprises. This presentation introduces the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe version 4.5), including its core values, principles, and practices, along with a
- [Agile Tour London Call For Papers](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/agile-tour-london-call-for-papers/) - The Agile Tour London 2019 Call for Papers is open until June 21. Agile Tour London is a conference that is part of the Global Agile Tour. Since its conception in 2008, it has become a hugely successful worldwide event spanning 30 different countries. The idea is simple yet powerful: create a world-wide network of
- [Walk the Talk for a Better Teamwork](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/walk-the-talk-for-a-better-teamwork/) - Merete Munch Lange believes that all collaboration between people boils down to one word: trust. So how do you infuse trust in an Agile team to achieve a better teamwork? It can't be bought, it has to be build. There are some universal ways to build trust in a Scrum team and to help improve
- [Scrum Master Trends Report 2019](https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/scrum-master-trends-report-2019/) - The Scrum Master Trends Report provides a Scrum Master salary survey, a lot of data about the Scrum master profession and the use of Scrum in organizations.
- [ProjectManager.com Launches Agile Features](https://www.scrumexpert.com/news/projectmanager-com-launches-agile-features/) - ProjectManager.com has unveiled a completely redesigned version of their project management software, marking the biggest software release in the growing SaaS company’s 11-year history. This release features a modern new user interface, upgrades to speed and performance, and most notably, a brand new Kanban board feature for Agile projects. ProjectManager.com aims to provie hybrid project
- [Why On-time, On-budget Doesn't Work](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/why-on-time-on-budget-doesnt-work/) - To achieve true business agility, leaders must not only grow and support self-reliant, cross-functional, self-organizing Scrum teams, they must also change the way their organizations fund and oversee their agile initiatives. They must believe in feedback and allow that feedback to work. However, old measures like “on time” and “within budget” are not useful when
- [AgileCraft Acquired by Atlassian](https://www.scrumexpert.com/news/agilecraft-acquired-by-atlassian/) - Atlassian, the vendor of the JIRA tool, has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire AgileCraft, a provider of enterprise agile planning software. AgileCraft helps enterprise organizations build and manage a ‘master plan’ of their most strategic projects and workstreams. AgileCraft helps enterprise organizations build and manage a ‘master plan’ of
- [ZenHub Adds Agile Reporting](https://www.scrumexpert.com/news/zenhub-adds-agile-reporting/) - ZenHub project management tool for software development teams using GitHub has released a new Agile reporting suite aimed at enterprise software teams looking to optimize their development lifecycle. ZenHub has created a reporting suite that includes Release Reports, Velocity Charts, Burndown Charts, Cumulative Flow Diagrams, and now Control Point Charting. With ZenHub's reporting suite, software
- [Polyglot Agile](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/polyglot-agile/) - In this era of Agile development, we hear a lot about different styles, flavors and even frameworks. When you have the experience of facilitating the Agile journey in big as well as small companies, one thing that you will learn is that one size does not fit all. The only thing that seems to be
- [Estimates or NoEstimates Workshop](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/estimates-or-noestimates-workshop/) - The default use of an “estimate-driven” approach is pervasive in software development efforts. While estimates can be useful, it is worthwhile to scrutinize our use of estimates, and to seek better ways to manage the development of software when estimates are not appropriate. Let’s explore the purpose and use of estimates and consider possible alternatives.
- [Agile Hiring or Hiring for Agile](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/agile-hiring-or-hiring-for-agile/) - Is hiring for an Agile team (team member, scrummaster or product owner) different? Scrum.org and McKinsey & Company explored what makes agile teams successful.
- [New Release for VersionOne](https://www.scrumexpert.com/news/new-release-for-versionone/) - CollabNet VersionOne has announced the latest release of its product suite that includes VersionOne. This release provides new capabilities to VersionOne for Agile Management, Continuum for DevOps and TeamForge for secure development and CI that support Value Stream Management to better align business objectives with software innovation. New enhancements in this release include: Template creation
- [Scrum.org Creates Professional Scrum with UX (PSU) Course](https://www.scrumexpert.com/news/scrum-org-creates-professional-scrum-with-ux-psu-course/) - Scrum.org has announced its new Professional Scrum with User Experience™ (PSU) training course. PSU is a 2-day hands-on course where students with some Scrum experience learn how to integrate modern User Experience (UX) and design practices into their way of working in Scrum. The PSU training course teaches students how to successfully use UX techniques
- [Hiring Product Owners for Scrum Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/hiring-product-owners/) - In Scrum project management, the product owner is key. Learn product owner hiring anti-patterns with tips and questions to improve the product owner hiring.
- [Spreading Tribal Knowledge in Scrum Teams with History Lines](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/spreading-tribal-knowledge-in-scrum-teams-with-history-lines/) - Agile and documentation are not two words that are often associated in articles or blog posts. Scrum teams have however to find alternate ways to spread the knowledge among their member. In this article, Viktor Cessan explains how he uses an exercise named History Lines to share knowledge in Agile teams. Author: Viktor Cessan, https://www.viktorcessan.com/
- [Organization 3.0 – Achieving a Modern Agile Organization](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/organization-3-0-achieving-a-modern-agile-organization/) - Learn how to transition to a new Agile modern work organization that relies on team and communication more than on individuals.
- [7 Things To Avoid When You Move To Agile](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/7-things-to-avoid-when-you-move-to-agile/) - Large-scale Agile and Scrum transformations are in fashion and senior leadership want their enterprises across the land to "be Agile" or at least be seen to "be Agile". But what does that mean? What are the risks? What does that cost? Agile transformation is an organizational change that is often assumed to be something much
- [Agile Team Building Mechanics](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/agile-team-building-mechanics/) - At some point in your work as Agile coaches, you have to organize some kind of team building event. The brief you get is usually a combination of “fun” stuff with some “work” stuff mixed in. This talk share some alternative ideas for kicking things off with a Scrum team and creating a psychologically safe
- [Agile Performance Reviews that Don't Suck](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/agile-performance-reviews-that-dont-suck/) - The end of the year if often the time for performance reviews. Should you still do this practice when you have Scrum Agile teams where the global results should be more valued than the individual peformance? Many in the Agile community suggest abandoning performance reviews, but few offer suggestions for alternatives. A large percentage of
- [Agile Alliance Hosts Agile India 2019](https://www.scrumexpert.com/news/agile-alliance-hosts-agile-india-2019/) - Agile Alliance has announced that it will be the host sponsor of Agile India 2019, the largest international premier conference on Agile and Lean Software Development methods in Asia. The annual event, scheduled for March 17 - 24 in Bengaluru, India, brings together Executives, Managers, Developers, Consultants, Product Owners, Business Analysts, Testers, Usability and Product
- [Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve your User Stories](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/fifty-quick-ideas-to-improve-your-user-stories/) - Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve your User Stories is another book from Gojko Adzic, a consultant and author that already produced some very good books on Agile requirements like Impact Mapping and Specification by Example. It goal is to help people involved with Agile requirements to improve their discussion with the stakeholders and the planning
- [Product Roadmap Inspired by Users](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/product-roadmap-inspired-by-users/) - Your product roadmap can basically set your life course as a designer/researcher so why is it so often that user feedback can get lost in the discussion over “Feasibility” of implementation. Without a clear roadmap, research and design can often not have the lead time needed for activities. This leads to a state of forever
- [14 Things Every Agilist Should Know About Kanban](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/14-things-every-agilist-should-know-about-kanban/) - The common wisdom is that Agile need Kanban teams to do the work that the Scrum Teams can’t do yet as well as the stuff that you don’t want your Scrum Teams to be distracted by. There is however much more to Kanban than meets the common agilist’s eye. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUZ1hEpKjDc Video producer: http://agileprague.com/
- [Enabling Teams to Embrace Change](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/enabling-teams-to-embrace-change/) - The change required by Agile and Scrum isn't simple. This talk presents the tools provided for six teams and they were enabled to build the foundations for safe continuous learning themselves. Most people in agile and lean are involved in change somehow. Whether it is a big transition or an evolvement of an exiting organization,
- [Modern Agile](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/modern-agile/) - Genuine agility is enormously effective in helping us achieve our dreams. The trouble is, Agile has grown into a complex tangle of roles and rituals, frameworks and tools, processes and certifications. We need a return to simplicity. Modern Agile is here to help. Designed for people in many domains (not just IT), Modern Agile is
- [Death by User Stories](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/death-by-user-stories/) - Do you find that user stories grow and multiply until you can’t fit them in your Scrum sprints? Are you struggling to see the big picture? Are you lost in user story hell? This presentation examines the OOPSI (Outcome, Output, Process, Scenarios, Inputs) technique and demonstrates how it accelerates delivery by ensuring that you are
- [Project Myopia](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/project-myopia/) - Projects have been the main working mode of software development activities since the beginning of computers. According to Allan Kelly, it is however not the best mode to develop software. He fosters the #noproject movement to fight project myopia that he defines as the "belief that the project model is the only way of managing
- [Scrum Teams: Easier Said And Done](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/scrum-teams-easier-said-and-done/) - Agile and Scrum team formation is a natural human response to certain conditions. Once they exist, the formation process begins. This session looks at those conditions, and then looks at what other conditions need to be reached to progress through the different stages defined by Bruce Tuckman: Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing. We don't need
- [How to Detect Agile Bullshit](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/how-to-detect-agile-bullshit/) - How to detect software projects that are really using agile development versus those that are simply waterfall development in agile clothing (Agile Bullshit BS).
- [Why a Product Owner Proxy is Key in Software Development Projects](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/why-a-product-owner-proxy-is-key-in-software-development-projects/) - The Product Owner is a key component of Scrum teams as the role a major influence on software development projects. It is however not always possible for the Agile team to get access to a full-time qualified Product Owner. This is why Marcelo Leonetti discusses in this article some situations where a Product Owner proxy
- [The Goals of Agile Documentation](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/goals-agile-documentation/) - As the Agile Manifesto stated that it prefers "working software over comprehensive documentation", some early Agile adopters jumped to the conclusion that documentation was useless. Thus Scrum software developers should only concentrate in creating working software with code that was the most easier to understand. The Agile Manifesto however also said that there is some
- [Environment for Agile Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/environment-for-agile-teams/) - "Environment for Agile Teams" is a book that discusses the practical details of the everyday life of Agile and Scrum software development teams.
- [AgileEE Agile Eastern Europe, Kiev, Ukraine, April 27-28 2018](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/agileee-agile-eastern-europe/) - The AgileEE Agile Eastern Europe conference is a two-days event dedicated to promote Agile software development and Scrum project management in Ukraine and the Eastern European countries. It features Agile experts from all over the world, with well-known industry professionals from the US, Canada and Western Europe. In the agenda of the AgileEE Agile Eastern
- [Confessions of a Serial Product Owner](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/confessions-of-a-serial-product-owner/) - Confessions of a serial product owner is a short guide to a business person aiming for becoming an excellent product owner in Agile and Scrum projects. It was written in 2009 and is based on the personal experience of Anna Forss. When starting up the software project, where one of the architects sent the CEO
- [Make Product Decisions With A Practical Value Model](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/make-product-decisions-with-a-practical-value-model/) - "Value" is the beacon, watchword, end game, justification, and mantra for Agile practitioners. You make product decisions in Scrum at every turn throughout discovery and delivery, balancing multiple perspectives. And yet, many Agile teams struggle to clearly, concisely, and continually use value as the basis for making product decisions. Ellen Gottesdiener explores a lightweight framework
- [Managing Product Teams by Outcomes](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/managing-product-teams-by-outcomes/) - Shifting responsibilities from a "command and control" organization towards self-organized teams is not easy. In her article "Managing Product Teams for Success", Teresa Torres discusses the challenges that you face when you try manage product teams by outcomes. Managing teams by outcomes (find a solution to achieve some goals) is different than managing them by
- [Lean Inception](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/lean-inception/) - One of the trends associated with the Agile approach is the shift from "building the software right" to "building the right software". This translates in putting more emphasis on collaborative product definition activities and quicker feedback. The Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is an approach that tries to elicit quick customer feedback while providing him with
- [Scrum Alliance Board of Directors 2019](https://www.scrumexpert.com/news/scrum-alliance-board-of-directors-2019/) - The Scrum Alliance has announced its 2019 Board of Directors members. The members of the 2019 Scrum Alliance Board of Directors are Eric Engelmann, Deborah Nugent, John Doyle, Zuzana Sochova, Sohrab Salimi, Michael Meissner, Marjan Pouran, and Andy Deitsch. As the Chief Product Owner, Howard Sublett will remain on the board. The membership of Scrum
- [XP Conference India, Bangalore, India, November 17-18 2017 (postponed)](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/xp-conference-india/) - XP Conference India is a conference taking place in India that focuses on all the technical practices of Agile software development like clean code, refactoring, code smells, continuous delivery, Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD). In the agenda of the XP Conference India you can find topics like "Refactoring for Software Design Smells", "Building
- [Brewing Agile, Gothenburg, Sweden, October 12-13 2018](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/brewing-agile/) - Brewing Agile is a conference focused on Agile software development and Scrum project management that takes place in Gothenburg, Sweden. Besides the usual presentations, the conference offers also interactive workshops. In the agenda of the Brewing Agile conference you can find topics like "Enabling Teams to Embrace Change", "Evolution from #NoProjects to Continuous Digital", "Why
- [Are You Really Delivering Value?](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/are-you-really-delivering-value/) - So now that everyone and their dog is Agile, what has really changed? Are we really „delivering more value in less time“ as many agile approaches promise. What do we even mean by value? How do we know when we have delivered value? When we are "done" according to our "Definition of Done", or when
- [Assessing Your Agile Coaching Skills](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/assessing-your-agile-coaching-skills/) - This simple tool assess the Agile coaching activity using 5 areas and 15 different items, a perspective that could be adapted to your own context. It allows Agile coaches to reflect about their work like a retrospective and plan improvements.
- [The Need for Agile Leadership](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/the-need-for-agile-leadership/) - As organizations transition to an Agile approach, the management and leadership styles must also change to adapt themselves to the new values and behaviors. In this article, Zuzana “Zuzi” Šochová explains how an Agile Leadership concept can help leaders to be effective in an Agile organization.
- [A Coach’s Guide to Release Planning](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/a-coachs-guide-to-release-planning/) - A Coach’s Guide to Release Planning provides a complete plan to run a workshop where people can learn how to plan their release in an Agile way as a whole Scrum team. It discusses product planning, roadmap management or portfolio prioritization with techniques like story mapping and release burnup.
- [Agile London Tour, October 19 2018, London, UK](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/agile-london-tour/) - Agile Tour London is an annual conference which explores all aspects of Agile project management (Scrum) and software development. Packed with inspirational talks and hands-on workshops from Agile experts, the Agile Tour London conference offers unmatched opportunities to learn. Whether you are an agile newbie or been in the industry for years, Agile London Tour
- [Agilia, Budapest, Hungary, October 15-17 2018](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/agilia-budapest/) - Agilia Budapest is a three-day conference focused on Agile software development. The theme of this edition is the role of product owner and product management in Agile: creating vision, designing product, managing teams, role of Product Owner, engagement of customers and users, creativity and management of innovations. Use cases. In the agenda of the Agilia
- [Spike Day San Diego, San Diego, USA, October 13 2017](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/scrum-day-san-diego/) - The Spike Day San Diego (formerly Scrum Day San Diego) is a one-day conference that discusses Scrum, Lean and all things Agile in San Diego County. This single-track conference will be your opportunity to hear how other people from San Diego County navigated Agile software development steps as they share their stories. Learn from people
- [Nexus: Doing Scrum with 150+ People](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/nexus-doing-scrum-with-150-people/) - Nexus is a framework for scaled Scrum developed by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber and Scrum.org community. It addresses the most painful problems of scaled development – dealing with dependencies and building ‘Done’ integrated software every iteration. This presentation explains the key concepts of Nexus and illustrate them with our own case study where 150+ people
- [Fragile Agile: Coaching Tired Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/fragile-agile-coaching-tired-teams/) - As an Agile Coach or Scrum Master do you want to add energy to your team that looks not enthusiastic or resists change? Is it possible to cause harm to your team even with proper Agile coaching? Yes, if you are working with tired, exhausted or even burned-out teams, they do need special treatment, usually
- [Making Value Visible](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/making-value-visible/) - The first principle of the Agile Manifesto tells us that we have to deliver value: “Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software. However, when faced with seemingly endless choices and a world moving at an increasing speed, how do you evaluate strategic options with speed and
- [How to Facilitate a Scrum Sprint Goal Session](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/how-to-facilitate-a-scrum-sprint-goal-session/) - The Scrum Glossary defines the Sprint Goal as "a short expression of the purpose of a Sprint, often a business problem that is addressed". This article provides a facilitation meeting structure and some tips on how to facilitate a session about a controversial topic like the Sprint Goal.
- [Agile Performance Management](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/agile-performance-management/) - Traditional performance reviews don’t improve performance and are an impediment to collaboration and Agile team self-organisation. What if Performance Management was the responsibility of the whole team? How would that look, would it work and could it be more effective?Agile makes this possible. This talk presents an alternative, team oriented approach, that is aligned with
- [Developing Good Scrum Team Habits](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/developing-good-scrum-team-habits/) - Hard time to stick with decisions made on Retrospective? Not sure if your dedication to the Scrum team’s working agreements is bringing fruits you expected? Suspect that your team is barking up the wrong tree? A life of an Agile software development team in not easy. Regardless of method of choice a team needs to
- [Beyond Scrum Events](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/beyond-scrum-events/) - Even though Scrum is still the most adopted agile framework in the market, its rules, roles, events and artifacts are frequently misunderstood. We commonly apply this framework without understanding the purpose that stands behind each element, losing its main benefits. This presentation focuses on the Scrum Events, their real purpose, common pitfalls as well as
- [When is a Scrum Team Too Big?](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/when-is-a-scrum-team-too-big/) - This article provides some tips on how to assess and manage the growth of Scrum teams . When is an Agile software development team too big? How to split an existing Scrum team? What do you do with the backlog?
- [Agile Prague, Prague, Czech Republic, September 10-11 2018](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/agile-prague/) - Agile Prague is a two-day conference focused on Agile and Scrum and that takes place in the capital of the Czech Republic. The Agile Prague conference is running in two parallel tracks in two days, where you can choose from the variety of talks for managers, Scrum Masters, product owners and try agile practices in
- [Agile Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa, October 1-2 2018](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/agile-africa/) - Agile Africa is a two-day conference for Agile and Scrum practitioners that takes place in Johannesburg, South Africa. Agile Africa is an annual conference where African software professionals meet to listen to leading international and local speaker discussing better ways of developing software. In the agenda of Agile Africa you can find topics like "Platform45’s
- [AgileChina, Beijing, China, July 15-18 2018](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/agilechina/) - AgileChina is a four-day conference about Agile and Scrum that will take place in Beijing. It is part of the TiD Conference that integrates resources and forces of SPIChina, ChinaTest and AgileChina. Agile China will start with a day of tutorials followed by three days of sessions both in Chinese and English. In the agenda
- [Agile2018 Agile Alliance Conference, San Diego, USA, August 6-10 2018](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/agile-alliance-conference/) - Organized by the Agile Alliance, this annual Agile North American conference and the biggest event in the world on Agile software development and Scrum project management. It offers an unprecedented opportunity to learn from world-class experts and thought leaders while networking and collaborating with up to 2,500 Agile professionals from over 40 countries. In the
- [Agile on the Beach, Falmouth, UK, July 12-13 2018](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/agile-on-the-beach/) - The Agile on the Beach conference is a two-day conference focused mainly on Scrum project management and Agile software development that takes place in Falmouth, on the beaches of Cornwall in UK. In the agenda of Agile on the Beach you can find topics like "Testing in a Continuous Delivery World", "Build In Quality", "The
- [Agile Cymru, Cardiff Bay, UK, July 3-4 2018](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/agilecymru/) - Agile Cymru is a two-days Agile conference organized by Agile Wales. Agile Cymru offers practical advice, techniques and lessons from practitioners, experts and beginners in the field of Agile software development and project management with Scrum. In the agenda of the Agile Cymru conference you can find topics like "How Deep are your Tests", "How
- [12th Annual State of Agile Report Published](https://www.scrumexpert.com/news/12th-annual-state-of-agile-report-published/) - CollabNet VersionOne has announced the 12th annual State of Agile report. The report compiles the results of the 12th annual State of Agile survey. This State of Agile report captures responses from more than 1,400 software professionals in a number of industries and roles from organizations of all sizes, providing insight into the realities of
- [Tips for Testing Software Quality in Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/tips-for-testing-software-quality-in-scrum/) - How do you manage software quality in Scrum? In traditional waterfall projects, teams will try to detect bugs in the final software testing activities like integration and acceptance tests. With the short timeframe of Scrum sprints, this approach does not work for Agile projects
- [State of Scrum 2018 Report Published](https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/state-of-scrum-2018-report-published/) - 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
- [Example Mapping Introduction](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/introducing-example-mapping/) - Before including a user story in a Scrum sprint, it is important to clarify and confirm its acceptance criteria.In recent years, lots of Agile software development teams have been using a simple collaborative technique called Example Mapping to break down user stories. It was conceived co-founder of Cucumber, Matt Wynne, who wrote the seminal post
- [Cost of Delay & Better Prioritization](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/cost-of-delay-better-prioritization/) - The Cost of Delay is a concept that combines an understanding of value with how that value leaks away over time. it allows to answer the question: "What would it cost us if this was delayed by 1 month?". This presentation explores the Cost of Delay, what it is and how it helps in improving
- [Learning Tips for Certified Scrum Trainers (CST)](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/learning-tips-for-certified-scrum-trainers-cst/) - Training and certifications are an important part of the Scrum and Agile movements. Zuzana “Zuzi” Šochová shares some tips to improve training session. While they are more focused on the Certified Scrum Trainers (CST) needs because of her experience, they are useful for to any type of (Agile) training.
- [Agile Coaching Nightmares](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/agile-coaching-nightmares/) - When you look for inspiration in the Agile Coaching community, the name Gordon Ramsay is probably not the first name to come to mind. He has been known to be belligerent, condescending and downright rude, but underneath this brute facade is a treasure trove of skills and talents that influence change. This presentation draws insights
- [Fostering a Culture of Documentation in Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/fostering-a-culture-of-documentation-in-scrum/) - Documentation and Agile are two words that are rarely seen together, but documentation is still the most important thing developers continually respond as most affecting their decision making. Frankly caring about documentation shows you care about the developer, whether external or internal. Yet, documentation is constantly pushed to the wayside, aligning that idea with Waterfall
- [Coaching Agile Technical Practices](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/coaching-agile-technical-practices/) - Agile technical practices like refactoring and TDD (Test-Driven Development) have become mostly mainstream in software development. However, software developers in many companies are either oblivious or have a different interpretation of these practices. As a software development coach, the interest of the presenter is to help developers adopt technical practices and being a mentor has
- [Agile In The Public Sector](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/agile-in-the-public-sector/) - This video provides an unbiased insider’s perspective of Agile and Scrum in the UK public sector. We have all heard the horror stories of software development in the public sector, but in recent years we have started to see hope, in the form of Government Digital Service (GDS), that taxpayer money isn’t being completely squandered
- [Boosting a SAFe Portfolio with Lean UX](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/boosting-a-safe-portfolio-with-lean-ux/) - This presentation explains to leveraged UX practices, innovation games and design sprints in a the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) context to improve the maturation of the business needs and their prioritization to best fit what users want and deliver value in a continuous flow. Being part of a government agency does not necessarily make people
- [XP Conference, Porto, Portugal, May 21-25 2018](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/xpconference/) - XP is an European conference on the extreme programming approach and Agile software development that takes each year in a different country. The Agile Alliance organizes event where Agile and Lean practitioners and researchers should meet. In the agenda of the XP conferences you can find topics like "Blitz Planning Re-Imagined", "Collaborating Mobs", "Escape a
- [Four Years of Scrum: The Good, The Bad & The Ho Hum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/four-years-of-scrum-the-good-the-bad-the-ho-hum/) - Three years ago, a presentation of the 2014 PNSQC conference was titled, “How to Fail at Agile Without Really Trying”. It was based on achieving a successful implementation of Agile Scrum by leveraging “lessons learned” from failure. The company in question is now over four years into using the Scrum Methodology. Some things have changed
- [Google Design Sprint Kit](https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/google-design-sprint-kit/) - 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
- [A Little Book about Requirements and User Stories](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/a-little-book-about-requirements-and-user-stories/) - User stories is an Agile concepts that look simple but generates questions in practice. Find answers in the Little Book about Requirements and User Stories.
- [Earned Value versus Earned Schedule](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/earned-value-versus-earned-schedule/) - In his blog post "Earned Value versus Earned Schedule", Glen Alleman discuss the concepts of Earned Value and Earned Schedule.
- [Earned Value Management for Mere Mortals](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/earned-value-management-for-mere-mortals/) - There is a strong human predisposition to assume, with the consumption of budget and the passing of time, that actual project progress is proceeding at the same pace. Sadly, facts recorded at project completion have repeatedly failed to demonstrate this correlation. Earned Value Management (EVM) is a tool that should help to solve this problem.
- [Earned Value Management in Scrum Projects](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/earned-value-management-in-scrum-projects/) - Scrum focuses on maximizing Return on Investment (ROI), but it does not define how to manage and track costs to evaluate actual ROI against the vision. A cost measurement that integrates with Scrum would be an additional feedback tool. This article presents the adaptation of the Earned Value Management (EVM) approach to the Scrum framework.
- [Story Point Estimation](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/story-point-estimation/) - In this blog post, Mike Treadway explains the technique of using story points for story estimation during agile planning sessions.
- [First Scrum Sprint Without Story Point Completed](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/first-scrum-sprint-without-story-point-completed/) - In this blog post, Mike Caspar gives a detailed answer to the question: What if your first scrum sprint ends up with zero story points completed?
- [Using Large Number in Planning Poker](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/using-large-number-in-planning-poker/) - Mike Cohn wrote an interesting post where he discusses he allows or even encourages to estimate with story points as large as 20, 40, and 100. He explains that they are useful when you need first and not necessarily precise estimate of the general size of a new project being considered. His post generates an
- [Why You Should Not Estimate in Hours or Days](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/why-you-should-not-estimate-in-hours-or-days/) - How the Scrum Agile Project Management framework provides a solution to project management estimation conflict between developers and managers.
- [Estimation with Story Points in Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/estimation-with-story-points-in-scrum/) - Klaus Bucka-Lassen discusses the estimation with story points in Scrum. Story points are a different way to estimate features in Scrum. Story points are a measurement of a feature’s size relative to other features and not a measure of the time needed to complete a feature. [youtube igwvE6NaWak] Video Producer: http://gotocon.com/ Further reading on Agile
- [Retrospectives for Story Points](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/retrospectives-for-story-points/) - At the end of each sprint, the Scrum team take some time to think about what could be improved in its Agile process. In this blog post, Natalie Warnert discusses how you could also use the retrospective meeting to look at story sizes after the sprint and determine if they were correctly sized as far
- [Story Points Explained](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/story-points-explained/) - Metrics are an important part of Agile project management approaches like Scrum. One of the most used measures to estimate the amount of work are the story points. In this small article, Pedro Gustavo Torres explains what they are, why you need them and how to use them. Pedro Gustavo Torres provides many definitions of
- [Improve Together](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/improve-together/) - How does your team improve? What are the limits to what you can do? Have you set your sights high enough? We are in this together in everything. We need to improve as a team, as well as deliver work products together. Furthermore, best practices lead to dead ends and bad practices. Don’t seek a
- [Five Ideas for Improving your Scrum Retrospectives](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/five-ideas-for-improving-your-scrum-retrospectives/) - Five ideas of techniques to help a ScrumMaster improving Scrum retrospectives like rotating the facilitator or making a retrospective of retrospectives.
- [Implementing Holacracy in Agile Organizations](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/implementing-holacracy-in-agile-organizations/) - Holacracy defines itself as "a customizable self-management practice for organizations". This idea is not very far from the self-organization approach of Scrum, but it proposes a different framework to deal with issues. In her article "Decentralising Leadership: Holacracy in Practice", Sandy Mamoli shared the story of implementing Holacracy in an Agile organization. The article starts
- [Four Steps for a Successful Scrum Product Demo](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/four-steps-for-a-successful-scrum-product-demo/) - Sometimes as software developers we think that if we build a good product, the users will like it. It is not however not always so easy and you have to communicate well about it, especially if you follow an Agile approach and are looking for instant and valuable feedback from your demo. In this article,
- [7 Steps to Boost your Agile Team](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/7-steps-to-boost-your-agile-team/) - This video shares some insights on how to create an effective agile team for a new project. We managed to maintain a very vibrant team spirit in addition to following well-known agile methods. Most of the techniques we used have equally proven valuable in my other teams within a corporate environment. To increase the team
- [Improving Communication through Transactional Analysis](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/improving-communication-through-transactional-analysis/) - An important part of agile leadership is improving communication between people. M. Spayd and M. Hamman are talking about shifting from directive – "managing for results" leadership style to catalysing – "designing environments that create results" style. Lyssa Adkins recommends avoiding asking ”Why don’t you…?” questions when coaching, as being too offensive. Clean language methodology
- [It Doesn't Always Have to be Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/it-doesnt-always-have-to-be-scrum/) - Scrum is becoming very popular and this iss good. Consciously or not, most people adopt Scrum by blindly following a so-called Scrum expert; that’s not so good. As more organisations look to an Agile transition to become more efficient, I am keen to make sure that they realise that there is more to Agile than
- [Balancing the Agile Equation: People x Process](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/balancing-the-agile-equation-people-x-process/) - Individuals and interactions over processes and tools” how often have you heard this phrase from the Agile Manifesto? I strongly believe in it however we see that a good balance between the two parts is the key to succeed. As the Agile Manifesto says "That is, while there is value in the items on the
- [Your Retrospectives Need Better Data](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/your-retrospectives-need-better-data/) - An approach that focuses instead on the type of data collected to improve the outcome of retrospectives for Scrum and Agile software development teams.
- [The Journey to Enterprise Agility](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/the-journey-to-enterprise-agility/) - The book The Journey to Enterprise Agility - Systems Thinking and Organizational Legacy by Daryl Kulak & Hong Li offers an original view on software development.
- [Six Ways Agile Can Mean Static](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/six-ways-agile-can-mean-static/) - One of the key benefit for organizations that adopt an Agile project management framework like Scrum should be the shortened value delivery cycle. Providing a quicker feedback, this should lead to continuous improvement the development process. This is however not always the case. In this article, Ronit Eliav discusses six issues that can cause static
- [5 Aspects of Scrum You Cannot Skip](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/5-aspects-of-scrum-you-cannot-skip/) - This article suggests five aspects of Scrum, like the planning poker, that you cannot skip if you want to get the benefits of Agile software development.
- [Self-assessing Your Agility](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/self-assessing-your-agility/) - Learn what Agile self-assessments are and how they can support the continuous improvement process to an Agile mindset for Scrum teams.
- [Scrum is a Journey](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/scrum-is-a-journey/) - Many software development organizations fail in adopting the Scrum project management approach because you cannot just "do" Agile, you have to "be" Agile.
- [Listen with Your Eyes](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/listening-with-your-eyes/) - As Agile practitioners, whether you are a developer, tester, scrum master or product owner, we know that it is ALL about communication, right? But how much of what we say and what we hear are words? If, as much as 93% of our communication is non-verbal how can be sure we are ‘saying’ or ‘hearing’
- [Product Owner Assessment](https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/product-owner-assessment/) - The product owner role is responsible that the production of the Scrum team meets the requirements of the customers and deliver value for the organization. This is an important role that requires specific skills. But how do you know that your are doing well? The Growing Agile team as created a self-assessment for product owners.
- [Product versus Craft](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/product-versus-craft/) - This is a talk about how shifting the focus from craft to product has affected my company. Our delivery teams are required everyday to make trade offs between what would the best technical solution and the one that is right for the product they are delivering. Ultimately, we get paid to solve business problems, not
- [Keeping User Stories on a Card](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/keeping-user-stories-on-a-card/) - You should minimize the size of Scrum user stories text to keep it on a card and define conditions of satisfaction instead of writing acceptance criteria.
- [Scrum Guide Updated by Ken Schwaber & Jeff Sutherland](https://www.scrumexpert.com/news/scrum-guide-updated-by-ken-schwaber-jeff-sutherland/) - Scrum.org and Scrum Inc have announced that Scrum co-creators Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland have made updates to the Scrum Guide, the body of knowledge of Scrum. These are the first updates to the Scrum Guide since July 2016. The changes, which were determined through community feedback and voting via the Scrum Guide User Voice
- [Agile Periodic Table](https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/agile-periodic-table/) - 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
- [Agile Practitioners Israel, Tel Aviv, Israel, January 24-25 2017](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/agile-pracitioners-israel/) - The Agile Practitioners conference is the first community-led Agile and Scrum conference organized in Israel. The first day is dedicated to workshops and the second day will be full of interesting presentations from local and international Agile software development and Scrum project management experts. In the agenda of the Agile Practitioners you can find topics
- [Lean Kanban France, Paris, France, November 28-29 2017](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/lean-kanban-france/) - Lean Kanban France is a two-day conference focused on the Lean and Kanban Agile approaches to project management that takes place in Paris, France. Presentations are in French and English. In the agenda of the Lean Kanban France conference, you can find topics like "Kanban Policy Game", "You Can’t Do That! It’s Not In the
- [TastyCupcakes](https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/tastycupcakes/) - 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
- [Continuous Improvement in Agile](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/continuous-improvement-in-agile/) - This talk explains the need for continuous improvement when adopting agile ways of working. It explores how continuous improvement is fundamental in agile, and what you can do to increase the agility of your teams and the organization as a whole. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiiXoKYfTcY Video producer: http://www.agile.lt/
- [Distributed Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/distributed-scrum/) - This podcast interviews Rini van Solingen about scrum and agile software development in distributed settings where the team is spread across different locations, different buildings or even different countries and continents. The discussion covers the basic concepts and assumptions of agile software development and what makes it difficult to do real agile software development when
- [Integrating User Experience into Agile](https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/integrating-user-experience-into-agile/) - The Lean UX that eliminate the contractual obligations inherent with specification documents and other deliverables is presented by Jeff Gothelf in this podcast. He defines Lean UX as "a rethinking of the software design philosophies and methodologies, moving away from the contractual obligations of spec documents and focusing really more on validating your designs through
- [Perforce Buys Agile Tool Vendor Hansoft](https://www.scrumexpert.com/news/perforce-buys-agile-tool-vendor-hansoft/) - Perforce Software has announced the acquisition of Sweden-based Hansoft Technologies, a provider of enterprise Agile planning tools. The acquisition deepens the Perforce portfolio of solutions by adding a robust Agile planning and project management toolset. Used mostly by AAA game studios, the Hansoft software empowers entire teams — from developers to managers to executives —
- [Agile DC, Washington, USA, October 16 2017](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/agile-dc-washington/) - Agile DC is a one-day conference organized by the Washington Agile community. It brings together Agile and Scrum thought-leaders and practitioners from government, not for profits and private industry to share knowledge and network. In the agenda of the Agile DC conference, you can find topics like "What’s Measured Improves: Metrics that Matter", "Fostering Self-organizing
- [Tampere Goes Agile, Tampere, Finland, October 28 2017](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/tampere-goes-agile/) - Tampere Goes Agile is a one-day conference that features Agile software development and Scrum project management expert speakers from Finland and abroad. In the agenda of Tampere Goes Agile you can find topics like "Experimenting Your Way Through Transformation", "After Agile", "Is Agile everything or is it the only thing?", "Doctor, please fix my Agile!",
- [Predictability and Team Goals](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/predictability-and-team-goals/) - Agile software development teams often use the notion of "velocity" to measure their ability at delivering value to the customer. In his blog post, Norberto Herz discusses the concept of "predictability" as a measure of the team's health. His blog post starts with a series of interesting questions: can the company sell “predictability” to its
- [VersionOne Merged into CollabNet](https://www.scrumexpert.com/news/versionone-merged-into-collabnet/) - CollabNet and VersionOne have announced the two companies have merged. The combined company, which will maintain the CollabNet name, will be headquartered in Atlanta. CollabNet CEO Flint Brenton will serve as CEO of the combined company, and VersionOne CEO Robert Holler will serve as chief strategy officer. Terms of the transaction are not being disclosed.
- [Why Splitting Unfinished Product Backlog Items is a Bad Idea](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/why-splitting-unfinished-product-backlog-items-is-a-bad-idea/) - In an ideal Agile world, the Scrum team is always completing all the selected user stories at the end of the sprint. In the real world however, there might be some product backlog items that don't have a "done" status, but are only partially finished. Should you split them for the next sprint? In this
- [The Agnostic Agile Oath](https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/the-agnostic-agile-oath/) - The Agnostic Agile Oath is a movement that aims at recognizing the importance of being agnostic with agility at any level. As it is stated on the web site: "one size does not fit all, one framework is not the answer, and the what's and the how's of what needs to be done, should be
- [Dynamic Reteaming](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/dynamic-reteaming/) - Who says you need "stable" Scrum teams in order to build a successful software company? While the addition or removal of one person from a team means you have a "new team", there is a myth out there about "stable" teams. When your Agile team compositions change it doesn't mean you're doing it wrong -
- [Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) 4.5 Released](https://www.scrumexpert.com/news/scaled-agile-framework-safe-4-5-released/) - The version 4.5 of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) has been released. The Framework is now known as SAFe for Lean Enterprises. The release 4.5 of SAFe should delivers advancements in configurability, implementation guidance, and enhanced capabilities for improving the user experience and accelerating time-to-market. The main improvements in version 4.5 of the Scaled Agile
- [Using Personas to Support User-centered Design](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/using-personas-to-support-user-centered-design/) - If some consider Scrum as an Agile project management framework, many people consider that is is more a product management approach. Anyway, Scrum is about understanding the need of the customers to deliver value. In this context, the concept of "personas" can be used to support user-centered design throughout a product development cycle by focusing
- [Effective Teams Patterns](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/effective-teams-patterns/) - Some software development teams are orders of magnitude more effective than others, turning around business solutions in days or even hours. Their secret is a combination of smart technology choices, great development habits and a powerful team dynamic. This talk describes a number of patterns of behavior that have been identified working with some great
- [The Great ScrumMaster](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/the-great-scrummaster/) - The Great ScrumMaster is a book about the ScrumMaster role which is certainly the Scrum role that differs the most from what organizations might have known.
- [Agile Open Spain, Segovia, Spain, June 23-24 2017](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/agile-open-spain/) - Agile Open Spain is a two-day event focused on Agile software development approaches like Scrum and XP. The Agile Spain community organizes this conference and all discussions will be in Spanish. The Agile Open Spain conference follows the open space format for conferences. Open space is a simple methodology for self-organizing conference tracks. It relies
- [LAST Conference, Melbourne, Australia, June 29-30 2017](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/last-conference/) - The LAST conference is a one-day conference about Lean, Agile, Systems Thinking that takes place in Melbourne, Australia. It is a event for practitioners that encourages participation and interaction via talks, workshops and activities. In the agenda pof the LAST Conference in Merlbourne you can find topics like "Red Hot Visual Mojo", "Should you do
- [Examining the Product Owner Role](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/examining-the-product-owner-role/) - As with everything else related to agile, the nature of the Product Owner role, and whether it is needed or all, depends a great deal on context. As teams discover this, it leads to some common questions: What do Product Owners really do? Do we even need Product Owners? This presentation examines the Product Owner
- [Introduction to DevOps with Chocolate, LEGO and Scrum Game](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/introduction-to-devops-with-chocolate-lego-and-scrum-game/) - "Introduction to DevOps with Chocolate, LEGO and Scrum Game" proposes a game that helps development and operation people work together on iterative planning.
- [End to End Kanban for the Whole Organization](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/end-to-end-kanban-for-the-whole-organization/) - Learn how to leverage the successes achieved implementing the Kanban method at the team level and expanded to the whole organization level.
- [Kanban Workbook](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/kanban-workbook/) - Kanban Workbook - A Practical Guide to using Kanban by Sam Laing and Kareen Greaves provides a definition of the concepts and an implementation path for Kanban.
- [The Costs of Non-Delivery and Non-Conformance](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/the-costs-of-non-delivery-and-non-conformance/) - This article discusses the role of management debt in perpetuating wasteful practices and the costs of non-delivery and non-conformance in Agile and Kanban.
- [Retromat - Random Scrum Retrospectives Plan Generator](https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/retromat-random-scrum-retrospectives-plan-generator/) - Retromat is a free online website that allows to generate random plans for Agile and Scrum retrospectives. Out of a pool of more than 100 activities, it selects one for each of the five phases (stage setting, data gathering, insight generating, decision, conclusion) to create a retrospective plan. Retromat is the creation of Corinna Baldauf
- [Storytelling: the Big Picture for Agile Efforts](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/storytelling-the-big-picture-for-agile-efforts/) - Agile reminds us that the focus of any set of requirements needs to be on an outcome rather than a collection of whats and whos. Storytelling is a powerful tool to elevate even the most diehard requirements analyst from a discussion of individual requirements to a discussion of outcomes. Outcomes are the big picture that
- [Building an Experimentation Culture at Spotify](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/building-a-culture-of-experimentation-at-spotify/) - Running an experiment is trivial: Make a change and see what happens. Running experiments at scale, however, is a different story. It is not trivial to simultaneously run hundreds of experiments across 100 million users. It's not trivial to cover dozens of platforms and markets while staying on top of the technical and methodological complexities.
- [Giving Better Feedback](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/giving-better-feedback/) - The first value of the Agile Manifesto is about "individuals and interactions over processes and tools". Communication is fundamental inside and outside the Scrum team. In his article "Watch Your Words: Feedback Analysis", Tom Bartel give some hints on how to improve the feedback process especially in a negative context. Tom Bartel presents the concept
- [Focus and Feedback Importance](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/focus-and-feedback-importance/) - Martin von Weissenberg explains in his blog post that focus and rapid feedback not only improve software development projects but shorten them dramatically as well. He use an experimental setting to compute the ROI for four different approaches: traditional plan-driven project delivering near the end, an unfocused project with continuous delivery, a focused project with
- [Giving Feedback in Scrum with FEELING](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/giving-feedback-in-scrum-with-feeling/) - The role of the coaches and ScrumMaster is to give feedback to the members of the Scrum teams. In this article, Francesco Attanasio proposes a model based around the FEELING acronym: Facts; Emotions; Encouragement; Learning; Implications; New Goals. The article describes each of these elements. The first stage is to gather the facts. Doing this,
- [7 Sins of Scrum and other Agile Antipatterns](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/7-sins-of-scrum-and-other-agile-antipatterns/) - This is about agile “anti-patterns”: “something that looks like a good idea, but which backfires badly when applied” (Coplien). The presenter has been around Agile development from before it was called Agile. In that time, he has seen teams fall into the trap of many of these anti-patterns, becoming stuck without ever realizing it. Frequently,
- [Scrum Days Poland, Warsaw, Poland, June 5-6 2017](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/scrum-days-poland/) - Scrum Days Poland is a two-day conference focused on Scrum and Agile project management approaches. It aims to create an environment where people can meet, build social networks, do business and have fun with a new conference experience. The conference also provides an executive track with talks about leadership, organizational change and managing companies. In
- [Agile Coach Camp, New York, USA, April  28-30 2017](https://www.scrumexpert.com/conferences/agile-coach-camp/) - The Agile Coach Camp is a three-day conference about Agile Coaching run by agile coaches for agile coaches based on peer-to-peer learning and exploration in an OpenSpace setting. In a Agile Coach Camp conference, people come together around a high-level topic or need and create their own agenda; then people gather into groups to brainstorm,
- [Agile Architecture Roadmapping](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/agile-architecture-roadmapping/) - In the Agile world, software architecture is about making design decisions with just enough anticipation. Too much anticipation leads to overly heavy architectural constructs that may never be used (YAGNI); too little anticipation leads to expensive refactoring and potentially fatal build-up of technical debt. This session presents an approach for Agile architecture roadmapping with just
- [Agile Coaching Exit Strategy](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/agile-coaching-exit-strategy/) - When do you need to stop coaching an Agile team? In his blog post "An Exit Strategy for the Agile Coach", Len Lagestee discusses this question and explains how he will gradually work to be ready to leave and let the Scrum team be ready to carry the Agile values on its own. Len Lagestee
- [Make Them Grow](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/make-them-grow/) - The “Make Them Grow by Giving Feedback People Apply” book deals in a pragmatic way about the topic of feedback, both about positive and negative behaviors.
- [Continuous Improvement: Clarity Before Speed](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/clarity-before-speed/) - Learn which building blocks help you to create the culture of systematic improvement in a software development organization and a Scrum team. This talk discusses how the Deming cycle – Plan-Do-Check-Act has been applied concretely in an R&D organization to ensure that the operational development is done systematically. The practices have been evolving during couple
- [How the Product Manager and the Product Owner Role Are Different](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/how-the-product-manager-and-the-product-owner-role-are-different/) - The notion of product is important in Scrum. Many qualify it as a product development approach rather than a project management framework. The product owner role is responsible that the production of the Scrum team meets the requirements of the customers and deliver value for the organization. This role is often compared to the role
- [Switching From Scrum to Kanban](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/switching-from-scrum-to-kanban/) - Scrum and Kaban are two Agile approaches that could be used in software development, depending also on the context of the software development tools. In his blog post "Ditching Scrum for Kanban — The best decision we’ve made as a team", Grant Ammons shares some thought on why he successfully changed it process from a Scrum to
- [Scaling Agile with the Theory of Constraints](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/scaling-agile-with-the-theory-of-constraints/) - Lear how to use the Theory of Constraints to scale Agile and Scrum development teams. The Theory of Constraints is a methodology for identifying the most important limiting factor (i.e. constraint) that stands in the way of achieving a goal and then systematically improving that constraint until it is no longer the limiting factor. While
- [Becoming a Product Samurai](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/becoming-a-product-samurai/) - With Agile practices becoming more and more common, the call for Product Leadership has never been louder. Product owners are drowning in feature alignment and internal stakeholder discussions, slowed by technical and organizational complexity, crippled by a risk-averse company culture and focused on internal risks rather than market outcome. Long ago the Samurai learned that
- [Back to the Heart of Agile](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/returning-to-the-heart-of-agile/) - "Agile has become overly decorated. Let’s scrape away those decorations for a minute, and get back to the center of Agile.” The Heart of Agile is a fresh look at Agile that strips away a lot of the cruft that has built up over recent years. Collaborate, Deliver, Reflect, Improve. Alistair Cockburn goes over the
- [Agile Open Florida 2016 Report](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/agile-open-florida-2016-report/) - Adam Sandman, whose company was also sponsoring Agile Open Florida 2016, has written his personal report about some of the sessions.
- [Scaling Agile Approaches](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/scaling-agile-approaches/) - Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD), Enterprise Scrum, Fast Agile, Large Scale Scrum (LeSS), Nexus, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe, ScALeD Agile Lean Development.
- [Is Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) evil?](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/is-scaled-agile-framework-safe-evil/) - The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is controversial. At first glance SAFe looks a bit like a big scary heavy-weight top-down RUP-zombie. But what about in real life? This talk is based on Henrik Kniberg experience doing this at Lego with about 15-20 teams for 9 months and counting. He presents his story so far and
- [Modifying the Definition of Done](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/creating-a-new-definition-of-done/) - Having a good Definition of Done (DoD) might be one of the most important technical asset of a Scrum team. This makes the difference between delivering at the end of the sprint fully completed business features or half-baked software. In his blog post "Changing the Definition of Done", Ken Rubin discusses the situation where a
- [A Step By Step Guide to Agile By Stealth](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/a-step-by-step-guide-to-agile-by-stealth/) - Resistance to change is part of the human condition and overcoming this resistance is part of adopting Agile & Scrum and changing the way delivery teams work together. A large part of the prevailing certified methods are about tackling this problem in a variety of ways. How successful these methods are depends on many things
- [Atlassian Spends $425 million for Trello](https://www.scrumexpert.com/news/atlassian-spends-425-million-for-trello/) - Atlassian has just announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Trello, the online project management service that gained more than 19 million registered users in just five years. The acquisition is valued at approximately $425 million, which is comprised of approximately $360 million in cash and the remainder in Atlassian restricted shares,
- [Measuring Agile Team Performance at Spotify](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/measuring-agile-team-performance-at-spotify/) - How do we actually know if our Agile teams are doing well? Is gut instinct enough? Furthermore, in a rapidly growing organization such as Spotify, how can we ensure some sort of consistency in our baseline level of Agile knowledge across the technology, product, and design organization? This talk discusses techniques we have developed and
- [Evaluating the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/evaluating-safe/) - The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is one of the best know approach for scaling Agile practices. In a recent article, Al Shalloway proposes his own assessment of this framework, explaining which parts are good and which parts could be counter-productive or difficult to implement. The article starts by listing the good parts of the Scaled
- [Women In Agile](https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/women-in-agile/) - Women In Agile is a movement partly supported by the Agile Alliance that aims to get more women involved in the Agile community through blogging, speaking at events and networking. On the web site of Women in Agile you will find links to various resources about women in Agile, like a list of blogs of
- [Agile Requirements: a Definition of Ready Checklist](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/agile-requirements-a-definition-of-ready-checklist/) - In Scrum, a Definition of Ready applies to product backlog items that should be ready to be developed before the start of the sprint.
- [Retrospective Anti-Patterns](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/retrospective-anti-patterns/) - Anti-Patterns are like patterns, only more informative. With anti-patterns you will first see what patterns reoccur in "bad" retrospectives and then you will see how to avoid, or remedy, the situation. Based on her experience with facilitating retrospectives, Aino Vonge Corry proposes an entertaining and informative presentation on the anti-patterns she has seen and how
- [Can a ScrumMaster Work with More than One Team?](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/can-a-scrummaster-work-with-more-than-one-team/) - This article discusses the question of how many teams a ScrumMaster can be member and how to coach multiple Scrum team for Agile project management.
- [Technical Dependency Communication in Scaling Agile](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/technical-dependency-communication-in-scaling-agile/) - Developing large software systems automatically generate some technical dependency issues. If this is often managed by software architects in traditional projects, how do you communicate this technical dependencies when you are organized using an Agile approach? This is the topic discussed in the paper written by a Swedish research group. As Agile approaches are increasingly
- [Why Promising Nothing Delivers More](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/why-promising-nothing-delivers-more/) - Why do so many IT projects fail? And what can we do about it? Most companies and organizations know (or at least have heard) that they should work in a more Agile manner. But it's generally a hard sell to the people in charge. This talk dissects the Agile practices from an economic standpoint, showing
- [What to Do When Scrum Doesn't Work](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/what-to-do-when-scrum-doesnt-work/) - Henrik Kniberg goes through a handful of concrete steps for diagnosing and debugging Scrum problems. He talks about using the process wrong, blaming the messenger, being impatient, not adapting the process or using the wrong process. Henrik Kniberg also introduces some new Scrum terminology such as Scrumdamentalism, Sadoscrumism, and Scrumbutophobia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65t9L_ta1qw Video producer: http://agileindia.org
- [Scrum Product Ownership](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/scrum-product-ownership/) - The Product Ownership book written by Robert Galen presents approaches, behaviors and attitudes of great product owners in Scrum Agile project management.
- [Techniques for Improving Sprint Retrospectives – Part 2](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/techniques-for-improving-sprint-retrospectives-part-2/) - This article discusse some techniques that focuses on the facilitating part of the Scrum sprint retrospectives in Agile project management.
- [Technical Debt Management Future](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/technical-debt-management-future/) - Technical Debt is defined as the eventual consequences of poor or evolving software architecture and software development within a codebase. In a blog post published for the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), Robert Nord has provided the keys points discussed in a seminar Managing Technical Debt in Software Engineering, an event that discussed both the past
- [The Geek Guide to Leading Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/the-geek-guide-to-leading-teams/) - This presentation uncovers a number of key principles and useful tools to help you better skills as a geek who leads Agile and Scrum teams. The most challenging aspects to software development are always the people issues. Picking the right data structures, finding the right testing approaches are simple compared to building an effective software
- [Product Backlog Refinement Checklist](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/product-backlog-refinement-checklist/) - Learn how to verify that that the Scrum product backlog grooming has been successful and that the right requirements are available for the next sprint.
- [Building a High-Performance Team](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/building-a-high-performance-team/) - Building great teams isn't just something that managers do alone, with spreadsheets and workflows and process documents. Great teams come from the participation of the group to push the team there. This presentation discusses how you can think about your role in creating a high-performance team, whatever your job title is. From choosing your team
- [REPL, Scrum & the Wright Brothers](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/repl-scrum-the-wright-brothers/) - Jeff Sutherland makes a convincing argument of using Scrum outside of software development in his recent book Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time. A full 111 years before Sutherland published this book, the Wright Brothers practiced scrum to outmaneuver better funded and more entrenched competitors. REPL driven development is
- [Using Sprint Data to Modify Behavior](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/using-sprint-data-to-modify-behavior/) - In an ideal Agile world, the Scrum team can complete all user stories tasks that it planned for the current sprint. The real world is however different. In this article, Scott Lively explains how to use the sprint data to modify the team behavior. In his introduction, Scott Lively explains the feeling of having some
- [Fighting for Value](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/fighting-for-value/) - Business that want to earn money and people who want to make a difference! In the morning everything looked so promising. When they met it was a disaster. Will the goals be achieved? Can the dream survive? You will dive into the story and live it through. You will see emotional snapshots from people's lives
- [Hiring for Scrum: Agile vs Agility](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/hiring-for-scrum-agile-vs-agility/) - Learn how to look for more for Agility than Agile when hiring for Scrum and Agile software development projects.
- [Managing Client Expectations about Agile](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/managing-client-expectations-about-agile/) - ‘Agile’ is an incredibly powerful software development methodology, however the word ‘agile’ has become one of those IT buzzwords that people use but do not fully understand. How do you manage expectations for clients who are new to agile or do not fully understand the agile methodology? And, does agile work for every project? This
- [Facilitating Product Backlog Refinement](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/facilitating-product-backlog-refinement/) - It can be complicated to involve the whole team to facilitate product backlog refinement and take part in requirements discussions. I would like to suggest a structure of the PBR (product backlog refinement) meeting that will encourage everybody to speak up and share their ideas on functionality. This presentation explores what facilitation techniques to use
- [Delivering Agile in Hostile Environments](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/delivering-agile-in-hostile-environments/) - Agile versus Waterfall is often presented as a difference in development methodology, but it is much more a clash of cultures. Large bureaucracies, government regulation and many other factors can create an environment that is hostile to many forms of innovation and in which Waterfall is actually the most cost-effective approach. Innovating in such environments
- [Using Customer Journey Maps](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/using-customer-journey-maps/) - This article presents for Scrum teams the concept of customer journey map, the visualization of the process that a person goes through to accomplish a goal.
- [Techniques to Improve Sprint Retrospectives – Part 1](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/techniques-to-improve-sprint-retrospectives-part-1/) - Learn some techniques to improve the outcome of your Sprint retrospectives for Agile and Scrum software development teams.
- [Why Scaling Agile Does Not Work](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/why-scaling-agile-does-not-work/) - There are now several frameworks designed for scaling agile. This talk explains the flaws in such frameworks, why they so often fail to produce the desired effects, and what we should do instead. It also addresses some common organizational obstacles to moving fast at scale: governance, budgeting, and the project paradigm - and discusses how
- [3 Simple Tools for Successful Scrum Meetings](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/3-simple-tools-for-successful-scrum-meetings/) - The Agile Manifesto says that "The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation", but many meetings are a dull waste of time, even for Scrum teams. This talk presents 3 simple and efficient methods you can use to turn boring meetings into fruitful tool for
- [#No Projects - Teams not Projects](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/no-projects-teams-not-projects/) - Allan Kelly outlines the #NoProjects agenda and discusses the role of teams as the unit of production and the team life cycle. Good projects make for bad software. Software which is useful is used and demands change, stop changing it and you kill it. In a world without projects how do you manage work? The
- [User-Centered Agility Assessment and Benchmark](https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/user-centered-agility-assessment-and-benchmark/) - DUCAT is a free assessment and benchmarking online tool that aims at creating awareness for user-centered agility and enable companies to easily assess the status of their projects. The tool provides a 360 degrees assessment to investigate the team's perspective and process. These results are completed with the users' evaluation of of the product. When
- [Are You Really Delivering Customer Value?](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/are-you-really-delivering-customer-value/) - Customer value. Everyone wants to deliver it. Everyone "believes" that they are delivering it. But are you? How do you know? This provocative talk challenges the audience to see their work in a different way and consider adopting value stream management as a means to become a more nimble organization that delivers even greater customer
- [User Stories Are Not Requirements](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/user-stories-are-not-requirements/) - Learn how user stories used in Scrum as Agile requirements are different from use cases and software specifications.
- [Agile Metrics: Velocity is not the Goal](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/agile-metrics-velocity-is-not-the-goal/) - Velocity is one of the most common metrics used - and one of the most commonly misused - on Scrum and Agile projects. Velocity is simply a measurement of speed in a given direction, the rate at which a team is delivering toward a product release. As with a vehicle en route to a particular
- [Five Rules for a Minimum Viable Product Strategy](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/five-rules-for-a-minimum-viable-product-strategy/) - Learn fives rules to apply successfully a Minimum Viable Product strategy for product management and innovation in startup or Scrum agile project management.
- [Being Agile in Business](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/being-agile-in-business/) - Being Agile in Business is a book that explains the agile and lean approaches from a business perspective.
- [Scrum Sprint Retrospective Problems](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/scrum-sprint-retrospective-problems/) - Some of the common issues and problems with Scrum sprint retrospectives with Agile project management and software development approaches.
- [Can You Replace User Stories with Use Cases?](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/can-you-replace-user-stories-with-use-cases/) - How classical use cases can be use to expand user stories during requirements elicitation in Scrum Agile project management projects.
- [The Systemic ScrumMaster](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/the-systemic-scrummaster/) - Most ScrumMasters are quite fluent in "Scrum", but they lack experience in System and Complexity Thinking. Most projects don't fail because of the wrong tools, but because of people and a missing understanding about the system that we are all part of. This presentation shares stories about real world teams and their struggles with the
- [Scaling with an Agile Leader](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/agile-leadership/) - Using an Agile approach for software development does not necessarily guarantee success. As Henrik Kniberg wrote at the beginning of his blog post " Even if the entire organization is neatly organized into scrum teams, you can still end up with an unaligned mess!". Having an Agile leader can help preventing the unaligned mess. At
- [The Product Owner’s Guide to Saying No](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/the-product-owner’s-guide-to-saying-no/) - This video gives to scrum product owners several ideas on how to adapt their product management process to increase quality.
- [Agile Metrics Beyond the Burndown Chart](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/agile-metrics-beyond-the-burndown-chart/) - How can metrics be used safely in coaching Agile teams? The classic Goldratt quote "Tell me how you will measure me and I will tell you how I'll behave" signals the danger of using metrics to manage or motivate employees. This presentation shows and suggests approaches to Agile metrics that avoid the common pitfalls and
- [Strategies and Tactics for Productive Distributed and Asynchronous, Agile Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/strategies-and-tactics-for-productive-distributed-and-asynchronous-agile-teams/) - As Agile practitioners, we’ve learned to love highly cohesive, cross-functional on-site teams. These teams, much like monolithic applications; succeed due to the proximity of useful knowledge. Distributed Scrum teams must rely on different strategies and tactics in order to be effective while still adhering to the principles laid out in the Agile Manifesto. This presentation
- [Mastering Scrum Retrospectives](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/mastering-scrum-retrospectives/) - When I started with Agile and Scrum back at 2005, I was not much different from any other agile newbie, and I was complaining for having regular retrospective. "What for? We are already sitting together, we are a good team, we tell each other what should be said. It’s waste of time. Formal meeting..." Later
- [Become Customer Centric](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/become-customer-centric/) - The first principle of Agile manifesto says "Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.” But, Is our highest priority to delight our customer, or to delight our sponsor. Do we understand who the real customer is and behave accordingly? I’ve often seen Agile teams producing software
- [Beautiful Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/beautiful-teams/) - Let's challenge some of the commonly accepted patterns for software development teams. High degree of autonomy doesn't turn into anarchy but rather help to keep intrinsic motivation high. Participatory leadership means that every team member is a leader yet it doesn't mean competition. Decisions making process has nothing to do with power structures. Culture is
- [UX in Agile Product Management](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/ux-in-agile-product-management/) - Agile has become the de-facto standard for innovating new products in software development. But an Agile project needs good product management and good UX design to succeed. Fitting UX in with product management and Agile can be uncomfortable for UX designers. Once you get it, though, you’ll never want to work any other way. This
- [Continuous Improvement Without Blame](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/continuous-improvement-without-blame/) - The frontier is somewhat thin between analyzing things for continous improvement in Agile and blaming people for failure. In this blog post, John Allspaw discusses how Etsy wants to consider mistakes, errors, slips or lapses with a perspective of learning. he explains how having blameless post-mortems on outages and accidents are part of this approach.
- [Clash of Agile Project in Waterfall Organisation](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/clash-of-agile-project-in-waterfall-organisation/) - This presentation shares a set of stories, representing lessons learned from running an agile project in a waterfall-based telecom culture. What was done differently from the enterprise waterfall-based project management standard? What agile principles and specific practices were applied? What were tangible benefits to the business from the situation where one project team became "outlaws"
- [Agile Retrospective Kickstarter](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/agile-retrospective-kickstarter/) - The Agile Retrospective Kickstarter book provides some exercises that should help Agile Scrum teams to get the most out of their retrospective meetings.
- [Metrics to Drive High Performance Scrum Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/metrics-to-drive-a-high-performance-scrum-team/) - This presentation by Grindr VP of Engineering, Lukas Sliwka, focuses on implementing Scrum metrics to drive high performance teams while building strong and innovative software engineering organization. You will learn in this presentation: 1) What Scrum is and what is not: Lukas will share his experience in using agile and Scrum practices to build high
- [The Business Analyst in Agile](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/the-business-analyst-in-agile/) - As Agile matures and learns from experience, it is clear that the Agile business analyst has a significant role to play. This interactive and musical session will explore the relationship between Product Owner and Business Analyst, their responsibilities and the skills needed. I’m an Alien … I’m a Business Analyst in an Agile world!” “As
- [Estimates or #NoEstimates?](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/estimates-or-noestimates/) - There's a debate raging in the Agile world around the #NoEstimate concept: should we estimate, or not? Lost in the noise are more important questions: When should we estimate, and why? When should we not estimate, and why not? As with so many Agile questions, the answer to "should we estimate?" isn't a clear-cut "yes"
- [20 Techniques for Product Prioritization](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/20-techniques-for-product-prioritization/) - One of the most important, and often overlook, sentence in the principles of the Agile Manifesto is "continuous delivery of valuable software". Delivering value is an important principle for Agile and prioritization is the tool that allows to deliver value quickly. This is the topic discussed by Daniel Zacarias in his article "20 Product Prioritization
- [Build your Product Backlog with Story Mapping](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/build-your-product-backlog-with-story-mapping/) - How you can apply story maps to build your product backlog in a visual way in a Agile Scrum software development project.
- [Agile Revisited](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/agile-revisited/) - In 2001 a group of programmers proposed the word "agile" to describe a set of values they shared. Several of these programmers had already developed methods based on these values. The values are universal, that’s how they were chosen. The methodologies, however, were designed for the technology landscape of the 1990s. Think of all the
- [Creating Great Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/creating-great-teams/) - The Creating Great Teams book is a complete guide on why and how you could implement a self-selection process for your Scrum and Agile project management teams.
- [Agile Economics: Contracts, Budgets, Capitalization](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/agile-economics-contracts-budgets-capitalization/) - How much does one story point cost? Is Sprint 0 an expense or an asset? Can you run Scrum with a fixed-cost contract? Agile challenges the existing approach to financial aspects of running projects, that is budgeting, forecasting, financial planning and vendor contracts. Applying new financial models becomes increasingly important for larger organisations adopting Agile.
- [Scrum & Agile Project Management Antipatterns](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/agile-project-management-antipatterns/) - Agile is a now mainstream method used in IT project management. Yes, Agile and Scrum are now considered as a method and no longer as a philosophy. Everyone wants to "do" Agile and thus want to "be" Agile as well, but what are the common mistakes in applying Agile? This video covers the following topics:
- [Group Problem-Solving Techniques](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/groups-problem-solving-techniques/) - Making decisions in groups like Scrum teams is our daily bread. Together we ponder over the right architecture, we select tools and set rules that we should follow as a software development team. In case of errors we discuss and decide how to get rid of them once and for all. We discuss, exchange point
- [Using Agile and Lean at Portfolio Level](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/using-agile-and-lean-at-portfolio-level/) - In this Agile Practitioners meeting, Emily Webber will talk about scaling up using agile and lean techniques, using UK Government Digital Service (GDS) as an example. This presentation looks at how GDS took learnings from managing projects and programmes using agile and lean techniques and translated them to the portfolio framework across an organisation of
- [Organizational Debt](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/organizational-debt/) - Technical debt is a well-known concept in Agile software development. Technical Debt is defined as the eventual consequences of poor or evolving software architecture and software development within a codebase. In this blog post, Steve Blank discusses the concept of organizational debt. He defines organizational debt as "all the people/culture compromises made to "just get
- [Failing Scrum Metrics Programs](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/failing-scrum-metrics-programs/) - What could make a metrics program fail in Agile and Scrum project management.
- [Actionable Agile Tools](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/actionable-agile-tools/) - "Actionable Agile Tools" propose some simple practices that can help Scrum team to implement successfully an Agile approach.
- [Product Owner: Does Size Matter?](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/product-owner-does-size-matter/) - The product owner is a very important component in a Scrum team, as it is the force driving the team towards the satisfaction of the end-user needs. This is a different situation if you are in a small startup or responsible for a large, established product line. In this blog post, Roman Pichler discusses the
- [Principles Are More Important Than Practices](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/principles-are-more-important-than-practices/) - One might wonder why it's not so easy to adopt agile engineering practices and to achieve technical excellence. When we think of practices, we tend to think of simple things: sticking a shopping list on the fridge with a magnet, having a clear and prioritized list of things to do, and doing them in that
- [Measuring the Cost of Story Points](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/measuring-the-cost-of-story-points/) - Story point is a arbitrary relative measure used by Scrum teams to define the effort required to implement one story. In this article, Mahfoud Amiour proposes an approach to measure the cost of story points implementation. Mahfoud Amiour has defined from his experience as an Agile consultant a metric to measure the cost related to
- [Using Budget Instead of Estimates in Agile](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/using-budget-instead-of-estimates-in-agile/) - Can you base the planning of an Agile software development project on the budget instead of the estimates?
- [Scrum & Kanban with MantisBT](https://www.scrumexpert.com/tools/scrum-kanban-with-mantisbt/) - Open source MantisBT plugins that allows to integrate an Agile project management approach like Scrum or Kanban around the bug tracking features of MantisBT.
- [Scrum… Really](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/scrum-really/) - Scrum has long been the most popular of the Agile approaches for software development. But what is Scrum really about? What does a great Scrum team look like? Is Scrum really the flexible, free-spirited collection of ‘frameworks’ that are so often believed to be able to be tailored to suit what works for us? In
- [Remote Retrospective Exercise](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/remote-retrospective-exercise/) - The retrospective is one of 12 principles outlined in the Agile Manifesto. If this is easy to do this for collocated Scrum teams, how can you achieve good results if you have remote members. In this blog post, Robert Matheson provides a valuable collaborative retrospective technique that can be used for distributed Scrum teams. This
- [Agile Metrics That Matter](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/agile-metrics-that-matter/) - This session is born of the hard lessons learned from years of working with diverse companies using metrics to improve their software development processes. Come learn from our successes and be warned by our failures. This session covers what makes an effective Agile metric, the pitfalls in designing metrics, and the basic principles for using
- [Overcome Self-Organization Blocks](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/overcome-self-organization-blocks/) - We know that self-organization is a critical aspect of every successful Agile project and we know that it takes trust, respect, openness and responsibility. So why many teams have a hard time to achieve it? Self-organization changes the leader/team dynamics and the teammate/teammate ones. Resistance may arise and the source is frequently rooted in mental
- [The Essential Skill of a Good Product Owner](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/the-essential-skill-of-a-good-product-owner/) - There are many books and trainings that describe what good Product Owner should be in Scrum team. I have been a Product Owner for more than 5 years now. During this time I learned that there is only one skill that is essential to good Product Owner. I am ready to share it with you
- [Product Owner Manual](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/product-owner-manual/) - The Product Owner Manual discusses the roles and techniques used by a product owner in Scrum Agile project management teams for software development.
- [A Project Management Office (PMO) View of Agile](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/a-project-management-office-pmo-view-of-agile/) - This article explores how the PMO staff views the challenges of implementing Agile project management frameworks like Scrum or Kanban in their organizations.
- [Doing the Little Things Well](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/doing-the-little-things-well/) - What we do in software development is hard. Lots of companies, teams, and people pick up Agile approaches to make it easier, and then realize it’s still really hard. They learn that Agile didn’t fix things. And, then they get to work trying to fix Agile. What they often forget is that it’s doing the
- [The Scrum Training Series](https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/the-scrum-training-series/) - The Scrum Training Series is a series of screencasts available for free on the web. Its goal is to provide ae fun way to learn about Agile and Scrum, to prepare for Scrum or Agile certification (CSM, CSPO, PSM, or PMI-ACP) and to debunk popular misconceptions. The Scrum Training Series consist currently of six relatively
- [A Coach’s Guide to Agile Requirements](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/a-coachs-guide-to-agile-requirements/) - Written by Agile coaches Samantha Laing and Karen Greaves, "Coach’s Guide to Agile Requirements" is a book on how to teach the concepts of Agile requirements.
- [A Business Perspective to Manage Technical Debt](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/a-business-perspective-to-manage-technical-debt/) - Technical Debt is defined as the consequences of poor software architecture and software development within a codebase. Carrying too much technical debt reduce the ability of software to change and evolve. In this article, Jurgen De Smet explains how to manage technical debt from a business perspective. In this article, Jurgen De Smet discusses technical
- [User Story Normalization](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/user-story-normalization/) - Learn why user story normalization is needed in contexts where multiple Scrum teams cooperate on the same user stories.
- [What Happened to the Idea of Inspect and Adapt?](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/what-happened-to-the-idea-of-inspect-and-adapt/) - It’s all too common these days to see arguments on Twitter or mailing lists with these rules-bound zealots arguing that ”you’re not agile” because you aren’t following the rules to their satisfaction. What happened to the idea of inspect and adapt? What happened to the idea of introducing new practices, of evolving our practices to
- [Impact-Driven Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/impact-driven-scrum/) - One of the important concept around Agile and Scrum is that it is more important to build the right product than to build the product right. Impact Management is a framework that helps managers to focus on impact of an idea and a product. In her article "Impact-Driven Scrum Delivery", Ingrid Domingues explains how to
- [Agile Reflections](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/agile-reflections/) - A review of the book Agile Reflections - Musings toward becoming "Seriously Agile" in Software Development written by Robert Galen
- [From Software Development to Problem Solving](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/from-software-development-to-problem-solving/) - Stop thinking about software development as a delivery process and start thinking of it as a creative problem-solving process.
- [Crossing the Agile-UX Divide](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/crossing-the-agile-ux-divide/) - Integrating UX into an Agile process is not always an easy challenge. In this article, Mike Bulajewski reminds the why the differences between the two vision exist in the first place and proposes some solutions on how they could be solved. This article provides a very interesting point of view of the Agile-UX relationship from
- [Putting Some Numbers on Technical Debt](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/putting-some-numbers-on-technical-debt/) - Technical debt is one of this great new metaphor that is applied to software development and more specially to agile project management approaches like Scrum. As its financial counterpart, technical debt is not necessary a bad thing as long as you are able to manage it wisely. In this article, Don Reinertsen will help you
- [Observation on Large Agile Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/large-agile-teams/) - Scaling and implementing an Agile approach in large projects is one of the hot topic in the Agile community, a natural consequences of the adoption of Agile by larger corporation. In this blog post, Ritika Nanwani shares some of her observations as a member of a large Scrum project. The blog post discusses the following
- [Is Constant Process Improvement Imperative?](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/is-constant-process-improvement-imperative/) - This article examines the Agile myth that constant process improvement is imperative. Constant change is a myth, constant scrutiny is not.
- [Applying the Agile Manifesto to Mobile Testing](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/applying-the-agile-manifesto-to-mobile-testing/) - Learn how to use the principles of the Agile Manifesto in mobile software development and more specifically in the testing of mobile apps.
- [A Product Backlog Prioritization Technique](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/a-product-backlog-prioritization-technique/) - A technique that helps the product owner to improve the results of the product backlog prioritization activity in the Scrum Agile project management approach.
- [Release Retrospectives](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/release-retrospectives/) - Sprint retrospectives are the most discussed form of retrospectives in Scrum. You can however the same self-analysis and continuous improvement technique to other items of Agile project management. In this article, Madhavi Ledalla discusses release retrospectives. A release is a group of many Scrums sprints that provides a set of features that can be deployed
- [Checking Your Scrum Team Health](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/checking-your-team-health/) - The first value of the Agile Manifesto is to prefer "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools". But how can you know if your individuals and your teams like your current Agile approach. In his article, Henrik Kniberg present a simple tool to assess the health of your Scrum teams. The tool presented is a
- [Running a Distributed Feature Team](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/blogs/running-a-distributed-feature-team/) - In large Agile projects where a Scrum team cannot deliver the full system, you have different options to organize your team. You can use feature teams that work on a set of user stories or component teams that work on a subsystem or component. In his blog post, Michael Valenta reports his experience as a
- [Why Are Whole Scrum Teams Hard to Create?](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/why-are-whole-scrum-teams-hard-to-create/) - This article discusses the difficulties of creating a whole team in Scrum with cross-functional teams members.
- [Are Prejudices Stopping your Agile Efforts?](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/are-prejudices-stopping-your-agile-efforts/) - This article discusses misconceptions about Agile and provides tips on how to overcome these prejudices to get Agile adoption on track in your organization.
- [Scaling Agile Metrics ](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/scaling-agile-metrics/) - When you start scaling Agile, you might need more metrics to assess you software development process. In this article, Janani Rasanjali Liyanage proposes some metrics that adhere to Lean and Agile principles to measure business agility in terms of predictability, reliability and adaptability. Predictability can be considered with two aspects: uniformity that is delivering the
- [Backlog Selection By Cost of Delay ](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/backlog-selection-by-cost-of-delay/) - Managing the product backlog and prioritizing the user stories if one of the main responsibilities of the product owners in Scrum. In this blog post, Andy Carmichael explains how to assess the priority of product backlog items using the cost of delay. The cost of Delay is the cost to bear as a result of
- [How Agile Leads to Functional Design and TDD](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/how-agile-leads-to-functional-design-and-tdd/) - In this blog post, Ralf Westphal explains how functional design and test-driven development (TDD) are the techniques that allows to bridge the gap between requirement and code in Agile. He defines a three phase process: 1. Analyzing the requirements but not only to understand what the customer wants, but also to slice the user's needs
- [Agile Culture](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/agile-culture/) - If you asked software developers about Agile, there are chances that a majority will discuss it with words like "Scrum", "sprints" or "retrospectives". However Agile is not just a collection of techniques and practices, but it is more a state of mind or a culture. This is the topic of this book written by Pollyanna
- [Dealing With Middle Management in Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/dealing-with-middle-management-in-scrum/) - When companies transition to Agile, it is not too difficult to find new roles for member of the current software development teams. Finding a place for middle management in the new organization is not so easy and some people even advocates to get rid of them. In this blog post, Em Campbell-Pretty brings her own
- [Agile Metrics](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/agile-metrics/) - Get some advice about implementing software development project management metrics for Scrum, the Agile way.
- [Fun Retrospectives](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/fun-retrospectives/) - A selection of activities to animate retrospective meetings in a Scrum Agile project management approach, but also any project management meeting.
- [Being Agile](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/being-agile/) - Being Agile: Eleven Breakthrough Techniques to Keep You from "Waterfalling Backward" is a book that aims to provides some techniques that will help teams starting to adopt an Agile approach to software development to solve some of the issues they will face. If your team is tempted to get back to the traditional project management
- [Things Product Managers Should Know About Being a Product Owner](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/things-product-managers-should-know-about-being-a-product-owner/) - The product owner is one of the three roles of the Scrum framework for Agile project management. The product owner is responsible for defining and prioritizing the backlog and to convey the product vision to the Scrum team. Some people have compared this role to the traditional product manager position, but the context is different.In
- [7 Best Practices for Facilitating Scrum Retrospectives](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/7-best-practices-for-facilitating-scrum-retrospectives/) - Improvement is one of the core principle of the Agile Manifesto that states "At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly". Retrospectives are a powerful technique to achieve this goal in Scrum and in this blog post, Jonathan Berger proposes seven practices to facilitate
- [Agile Product Management](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/agile-product-management/) - Learn how Product Management can exist within an Agile-oriented organization. Without the Product Manager, the Product Owner cannot do his job.
- [Looking for Stability in Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/looking-for-stability-in-scrum/) - To manage this uncertainty in your Scrum agile software development project, you have to build it on a stable platform with common goals and agreed features.
- [Cooperation & Collaboration in Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/cooperation-collaboration-in-scrum/) - This article discusses the concepts of cooperation and collaboration in Agile project management approaches like Scrum.
- [Finding Time for Software Design in Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/finding-time-for-software-design-in-scrum/) - In his book "Implementing Domain-Driven Design" Vaughn Vernon complains that adopting Scrum has lead to spend less or no time on good software design practices
- [Manager Facilitation in Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/manager-facilitation-in-scrum/) - This article gives some advice in their book on how to facilitate when you are the manager of a self-organized Scrum team.
- [How Gilt Scales Agile](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/how-gilt-scales-agile/) - As Agile project management is being widely adopted, the questions of if and how it could scale is a main topic of discussion. In this blog post, Gilt explain how it scales Agile with teams, ingredients, initiatives and KPIs. The basis of the Gilt process is the initiative, which is a project that should be
- [The Product Owner Role in Sprint Retrospective ](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/the-product-owner-role-in-sprint-retrospective/) - The sprint retrospective in an important moment in the Scrum approach where the team think about its software development process and tries to improve it. As on of the three Scrum roles, the product owner has to play its part in this activity. In this blog post, Roman Pichler explains how product owner can play
- [Adapting Scrum to UX](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/adapting-scrum-to-ux/) - User eXperience (UX) includes the practical, affective and valuable aspects of human-computer interaction and product ownership. This article from Anindya Sengupta tries to answer common questions about UX and Scrum. It explores the challenges faced by a team working with a separate UX team in Scrum. It also gives recommendations for UX teams that are
- [Using Scrum Sprints for Pre-Project Planning](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/using-scrum-sprints-for-pre-project-planning/) - If the Agile Manifesto prefers responding to change over following a plan, it is not against planning. In this article, Raju Kidambi explains why it is important to use Scrum during the pre-project planning phase. The core of the article is the presentation of the concept of sprints PQRS to do the pre-project planning. This
- [Scrum is Not Dead](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/scrum-is-not-dead/) - After having heard a lot of time that Scrum is dead, Andrew Kallman and Ted Kallman explain why this is not the case. They start by writing that there is "nothing magical about Lean, or for that matter, Agile or any project methodology". Based on job posting statistics, there is still a strong demand and
- [Hints for Calculating Velocity in Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/hints-for-calculating-velocity-in-scrum/) - In Scrum, the velocity is defined as amount of work that the team can handle in one sprint. This is an important measure as it is used to plan the future iterations and to verify that the team is progressing at a constant and comfortable pace. In this blog post, Agile coach Rachel Davies presents
- [Agile Planning with User Stories](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/agile-planning-with-user-stories/) - If Agile approaches are tools that allows to deal with uncertainty and change, they have often little impact on the management mindset that still requires to have deadlines proposed with software development projects. In this blog post George Dinwiddie discusses the usage of user stories for planning in Scrum projects. Behind the concept of using
- [Use Technical Debt to Your Advantage](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/use-technical-debt-to-your-advantage/) - What do home ownership and leveraged buyouts can teach us about how to use technical debt to our advantage in Scrum? How can we sleep soundly at night when we have accumulated mountains and mountains of technical debt? When is good enough good enough and when are we just deceiving ourselves? [youtube XakfJ2spb3w] Video producer:
- [Testing in Agile Projects: Familiarity Breeds Consent](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/testing-in-agile-projects-familiarity-breeds-consent/) - How quality assurance and software testing are different and why you should have a separate software testing function, even in Scrum Agile software development.
- [Roles In Scrum Are Not Only For Team Members](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/roles-in-scrum-are-not-only-for-team-members/) - Role can also be used by Agile Scrum teams to better understand stakeholders that have a different perspective, a concept that is also named "personas".
- [Feature Board and Cards](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/feature-board-and-cards/) - Most of the Scrum teams use a task board to visualize their activity and progress with task cards. In these two blog posts, Keith Clinton, the author of Agile Game Development with Scrum, discusses the concept of feature boards and feature cards. Task cards contain information about individual tasks that will be needed to complete
- [Are Your User Stories Ready to Be Done?](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/are-your-user-stories-ready-to-be-done/) - The definition of "Done" (DoD), which means that a feature is ready for delivery, is a concept often discussed in Scrum. In this blog post, George Dinwiddie discusses the concept of "Ready" that apply to user stories that are ready to be developed. To provide a better understanding of user stories before you start their
- [Scrum Daily Stand-up Meeting Troublemakers](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/scrum-daily-stand-up-meeting-troublemakers/) - The daily stand-up meeting is an important moment in Scrum project. Team members meet to know about potential challenges as well as to coordinate efforts to resolve issues. They usullay discuss the three following questions: What did I accomplish yesterday? What will I do today? What obstacles are impeding my progress? In this blog post,
- [Using Job Stories Instead of User Stories](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/using-job-stories-instead-of-user-stories/) - User stories and their format defined by Mike Cohn "As a , I want so that ." are a classical way to record requirements in Scrum project. In his blog post, Alan Klement discusses a new format that he called "Job Stories" with the format "When ... , I want to ... , so I
- [Why We Need Architects (and Architecture) on Agile Projects](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/why-we-need-architects-and-architecture-on-agile-projects/) - The rhythm of Agile software development is to always be working on the next known, small batch of work. Is there a place for software architecture in this style of development? Some people think that software architecture should simply emerge and doesn't require ongoing attention. But it isn't always prudent to let the software architecture
- [Evolution of Retrospectives ](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/evolution-of-retrospectives/) - There are a lot of teams out there who started their transition to agile/lean quite a while ago. Most of them did some great steps in the right direction. But after the first view month, after all of the low hanging fruits were harvested, most of the teams struggle with establishing a valuable and sustaining
- [Know Yourself and Adapt with Retrospectives](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/know-yourself-and-adapt-with-retrospectives/) - One of the principle of the Agile Manifesto is that "At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly." In this article, Glen Wang explains that " the Scrum retrospective is a great platform for inspection and adaption, or knowing and doing. Know yourself and
- [Know the Way, Show the Way, Go the Way: Scaling Agile Development](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/know-the-way-show-the-way-go-the-way-scaling-agile-development/) - Tired of the claims that Scrum, XP, and kanban don't scale beyond a few teams? Overwhelmed by management's resistance to the organizational changes needed to really follow agile principles? Concerned with the lack of proven practices required to scale agile methods to the next level? Exploring the Scaled Agile Framework™, Dean Leffingwell dispels these claims
- [Enterprise Scrum Transformation](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/enterprise-scrum-transformation/) - Adopting an Agile approach in a software development organization requires more than just sending some people to a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) course. In this article, John Hill provides six recommendations for an enterprise Scrum transformation. The article is based on the experience of the common issues that John Hill has encountered over the years with
- [Measuring High Performance Agile Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/measuring-high-performance-agile-teams/) - Keith Cerny presents in this blog post, metrics that could be used to measure agile teams performance.
- [Agile Coaching? Everybody Needs to be a Coach in Agile](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/agile-coaching-everybody-needs-to-be-a-coach-in-agile/) - Sharing knowledge of your software project teammates should an important part of your career. In Agile software development, everybody should be a coach!
- [Your Scrum Team Needs to Document More](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/your-scrum-team-needs-to-document-more/) - One of the major selling points of Scrum to developers is how much less documentation is involved. Developers worked hard to get where they are: a college degree, nights and weekends at home working through books and exercises trying to learn the latest language, and struggling through their first few projects to get something that
- [Dropping Scrum for Kanban](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/dropping-scrum-for-kanban/) - Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban: there are many approaches to manage product development and project in the Agile software development world. It is a good thing to have multiple Agile tools, but you should also know when to use them. In this article Brendan Marsh of Spotify explains why his team dropped Scrum for Kanban just before
- [What Scrum Can and Cannot Fix](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/what-scrum-can-and-cannot-fix/) - When introducing the concept of Scrum to an organization for the first time, I try to give a reasonably unbiased view of what to expect. I warn the new Product Owner that at first he may feel overwhelmed and struggle to articulate requirements in a clear and actionable fashion. I tell the new ScrumMaster that
- [The Core Protocols, an Experience Report - Part 2](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/the-core-protocols-an-experience-report-part-2/) - The Core Protocols are our 'best practices' for people, teams of people and organizations that want to get great results - all the time. They are 'Core' because they are foundational - they can be used by all teams, anywhere, even if you already have organizational patterns and best practices of your own. They are
- [Transforming to Collaborative Agile Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/transforming-to-collaborative-agile-teams/) - This article presents the changes needed to create collaborative agile teams. It explains that you need to modify in your traditional project management team both the process, the way people get work done, and how people work together. Author: Sally Elatta, http://agiletraining.com/ Originally published in AMarch 5 on http://agiletraining.com/2011/03/05/transforming-to-collaborative-agile-teams/ Gartner has predicted that by the
- [Distributed Agile Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/distributed-agile-teams/) - The article "Distributed Teams and Agile" by Craig Knighton shares experiences and a model to organize and operate distributed Agile teams. It conveys a simple main message: Agile is the best way to manage distributed software development teams.
- [Working as a UX Professional in a Scrum Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/working-as-a-ux-professional-in-a-scrum-teams/) - The Scrum approach recommends to deliver software incrementally in small iterations. This seems to be always an issue with activities that require a global view on the developed application like the software architecture or the user interface. In this blog post, Aviva Rosenstein, who manages user research for Salesforce, shares here experience about integrating user
- [Agile Adoption Test](https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/agile-adoption-test/) - The Agile Karlskrona test tries to answer the "How agile are you?" question. With 11 questions, you can find where "on the road" from waterfall to agile
- [Managing Schedule Flaws Using Agile Methods](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/managing-schedule-flaws-using-agile-methods/) - This article discusses several symptoms and causes of schedule flaws, presents metrics and diagrams that can be used to track your team’s progress against its schedule and describes how Agile can address project management risks.
- [Are You a Whole Team?](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/are-you-a-whole-team/) - This article proposes four “smells” that might indicate that you’re not optimally practicing whole-team approach in your Scrum software development project
- [The ScrumMaster Is Not a Project Manager](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/the-scrummaster-is-not-a-project-manager/) - In this article, Steve Hunton explains that, even if people expect that the shift to Agile practices includes a wholesale shift of roles,, the ScrumMaster does not play the part of the traditional project manager. He thinks that the project manager role is more filled by the product owner. The project manager is a decision
- [An Agile Approach to Reduce Technical Debt](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/an-agile-approach-to-reduce-technical-debt/) - Technical debt is the consequence of poor or evolving software architecture and software development within a codebase. The debt can be thought of as work that needs to be done before a particular job can be considered complete. In this blog post, Bastian Buch proposes an agile approach to reduce technical debt. He first declares
- [Symptoms of Mechanical Agile](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/symptoms-of-mechanical-agile/) - The five stories presented in this article based on real life might help you see how Agile can become mechanical.
- [Doing Nothing with Technical Debt](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/doing-nothing-with-technical-debt/) - Technical Debt definition is the consequences of poor software architecture and software development. You have to pay it but sometimes doing nothing is better
- [RUP Practices That Could Help Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/rup-practices-that-could-help-a-scrum-project/) - Learn the most important features from Rational Unified Process (RUP) that can help to improve the Scrum framework for agile project management.
- [Collaboration Games for Agile Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/collaboration-games-for-agile-teams/) - Collaboration Games from the Growing Agile Toolbox is a free e-book written by Karen Greaves and Samantha Laing that proposes ten games to build collaboration in Agile teams. The 10 games are Broken Skype, Crazy Chat, Collaborative Origami, Listening Game, Movers & Shapers, Human Knot, 123 go, Columbian Hypnotist, Non Musical Chairs, Yes and, Magic
- [Take Time to Plan the Scrum Sprint Review](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/take-time-to-plan-the-scrum-sprint-review/) - Positive sprint reviews increase customer confidence in the team and the team’s confidence in itself. If the review goes badly, the trust will degrade, just as we saw in the story. At the same time, don’t forget that the main purpose of the sprint review is not a round of applause for a job well
- [Usability Investigations and Agile User-Centered Design](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/usability-investigations-and-agile-user-centered-design/) - User interface (UI) design is often a neglected aspect of Agile software development and there are not a lot of article talking about the integration of UI experts in Scrum team. In this article, Desirée Sy provides the real life lessons on how user-centered design (UCD) practices were adapted to an Agile development process. Their
- [Scaling Agile with Tribes, Squads, Chapters & Guilds](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/scaling-agile-with-tribes-squads-chapters-guilds/) - In this article, Henrik Kniberg and Anders Ivarsson present the story of scaling Agile at Spotify with over 30 teams across 3 cities. They describe the current organization at Spotify. The Squads are similar to Scrum teams. They are self-organizing teams and some use Scrum but other use Kanban or mixed approaches. A Tribe is
- [How Organizations Transition to Agile and Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/how-organizations-transition-to-agile-and-scrum/) - As Agile and Scrum are used to manage software development projects in companies, Nancy Nee provides her viewpoint on how the transition to Agile is going on.
- [Scrum Is Built on Values](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/scrum-is-built-on-values/) - Each original agile practices - XP, Scrum, DSDM, Crystal, and FDD - as well as Kanban and Lean, has a set of core values that guide you and provide clarity.
- [Getting Value Out of Agile Retrospectives](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/getting-value-out-of-agile-retrospectives/) - Retrospectives are certainly one of the most important techniques used in Scrum as they form the foundation of the continuous improvement and adjustment to the context for the Scrum team. It is however not always easy to facilitate this activity with a bunch of software developers that are often mostly introverted. "Getting Value out of
- [User Stories Considered Harmful](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/user-stories-considered-harmful/) - Agile approaches have few proposed specific rules or techniques that have become de facto standards. One of these technique is to use the "as a , I want to , so that " format to define requirements as user stories. In this blog post, Jim Bird discusses the idea that this user
- [Scrum Teams: Courage, Openness, Pigs and Chickens](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/scrum-teams-courage-openness-pigs-and-chickens/) - The board game Othello has the slogan: "A minute to learn, a lifetime to master." This applies really well to a team that’s learning Scrum. The basic practices and mechanics of Scrum are straightforward, and not difficult to adopt. The basic pattern for a Scrum project is simple, which makes it very attractive for teams
- [Your First 10 Steps in Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/your-first-10-steps-in-scrum/) - Implementing Scrum is difficult and it is always difficult to answer the question of where to start this Agile Travel. In this article, Ilan Goldstein shares 10 tried-and-tested steps to help new practitioners get their Scrum show on the road. Based on his experience, he thinks that these steps are by no means the only
- [Agile Antipatterns: a ScrumMaster Guide to Traps, Tripwire, and Treachery ](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/agile-antipatterns-a-scrummaster-guide-to-traps-tripwire-and-treachery/) - Knowing the basics of Scrum is essential for any team member, but out in the trenches, a good ScrumMaster must be ready to identify and deal with Agile Antipatterns quickly to help his team and organization move forward. What's an Agile Antipattern? Something that at first blush may seem useful, but in practice is usually
- [Dungeon Master Guide to Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/dungeon-master-guide-to-scrum/) - This article by Tim Dahmen introduces a notation is based on a metaphor for software development, which is fantasy role-playing games. It explains a graphical and symbolic notation that allows to communicate about several Scrum phenomena. The article starts by making an analogy between teams used to play role games together for a long time
- [Self-Organization of Scrum Adoption](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/self-organization-of-scrum-adoption/) - How will an organization that is already truly self-organized before Agile changes its process to adopt a framework like Scum? In this blog post, the Lomio team, a worker-owned cooperative company with no bosses, discusses how they embrace Scrum. They start by writing that adopting Scrum is painful. The exact quote is "Because we’re stubborn,
- [Implementing Scrum: Evolution or Revolution?](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/implementing-scrum-evolution-or-revolution/) - As Rex Lester explains in this article: "Implementing Scrum involves adoption of a new paradigm across the organization. In most instances, the severe level of culture shift and change aren't really appreciated". The article discusses the difficulties of moving an organization from a Waterfall process to an Agile approach. It starts with a list of
- [Best Practices to Integrate Software Architecture Needs in A Scrum Project](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/best-practices-to-integrate-software-architecture-needs-in-a-scrum-project/) - How can you include an activity with a long-term perspective like enterprise software architecture in the Agile iterative process of Scrum?
- [The Implications of Having a Definition of Done on Fixed-priced Contracts](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/the-implications-of-having-a-definition-of-done-on-fixed-priced-contracts/) - This article is about the impact of a definition of done on the types of contract, like fixed-priced contracts, that Scrum and Agile teams work with.
- [Scrum Sprints Duration](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/scrum-sprints-duration/) - Learn good advice about the project and sprint duration in Scrum. Some people think that the duration of sprints in Scrum and Agile should always be two weeks.
- [How Scrum Fits into Prince2](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/how-scrum-fits-into-prince2/) - Scrum is a lightweight framework for building complex software in complex environments and Prince2 is a framework for managing projects. Contrary to popular belief, the two work well together with the degree of governance large organisations require. Learn how Scrum fits into Prince2, learn about practices that are mutually beneficial and get insight into how
- [Large Scale Technical Agile ](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/large-scale-technical-agile/) - This article discusses the challenges faced by technical projects like real-time networking applications that involve multiple Scrum teams. The practices recommended to develop technical products successfully in large Agile projects are: * Test-first methods * Emergent design * Break work down into small stories * Continuous integration * Shared backlogs * Proper release planning Each
- [Practical Backlog Prioritization in Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/practical-prioritization/) - The prioritized product backlog is core to being Agile. A well prioritized backlog allows us to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software at then end of each sprint in Scrum. Lean and Kanban may call it something else, but there too, prioritized work is key. At the same time, prioritizing
- [Self-Designing Scrum Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/self-designing-scrum-teams/) - In this article, Craig Larman and Ahmad Fahmy discuss how long does it take an organization to reorganize in order to adopt Scrum. This article is based on the transition done at Bank of America's Merrill Lynch Global Securities Operations Technology where the software development teams went from a traditional activity based organisation (business analysts,
- [Soft Factors: Decisive Prerequisites for Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/soft-factors-decisive-prerequisites-for-scrum/) - Soft factors include beliefs, character and attitude of people as well as the way we communicate. This presentation addresses for example: Why are we acting in a certain way? Who must change: Me or the other person? I “want” is better than I “must”. How to find out the true reason behind somebody’s behaviour? How
- [Agile and Distributed Projects](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/agile-and-distributed-projects/) - There are as many assumptions and misconceptions about global development as there are about agile development. In this article, Jutta Eckstein tries to remove these misconceptions and explain how Agile can be implemented and provide benefits in distributed software development projects. The article starts by explaining the difference between distributed and dispersed software development teams.
- [Optimizing Your Scrum Team with The Happiness Metric](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/optimizing-your-scrum-team-with-the-happiness-metric/) - What is the key to high productivity via Scrum? According to Alex Brown, Chief Operating Officer at Scrum Inc., it all comes down to the retrospective and the "happiness metric." "We find that Scrum teams that aren't making dramatic velocity increases each sprint are usually not devoting enough time to the retrospective at the end
- [A Solution for Technical Debt](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/a-solution-for-technical-debt/) - Technical debt due to bad code quality is one the problem that every Scrum development team might face in their application. In this blog post, Henrik Kniberg discusses the causes of technical debt and provides some hints on how to manage it. He starts with the recommendation to ask your team a simple question ""How
- [How to Use Velocity](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/how-to-use-velocity/) - Velocity can be defined as a measurement of how much the Scrum team can get done in a Sprint, based on past results. In this article, Beth Macy discusses how reliable is velocity and how you can use it. He starts by defining that "If a team is kept intact for approximately three months and
- [Does Scrum Eliminate Project Risk?](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/does-scrum-eliminate-project-risk/) - Agile and Scrum think that “a great deal of explicit risk management becomes unnecessary when a software development project uses an agile approach.”
- [Pairing Programmers and Testers](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/pairing-programmers-and-testers/) - Scrum requires that members of the team collaborate. One of the agile software development practice used to collaborate is pair programming. In his blog post, Erik Brickarp reports his experience when pairing a programmer and a software tester. He explains how he, as a software tester, paired with a programmer and also a domain expert
- [Assess your Scrum Project Status with the Cumulative Flow Diagram](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/assess-your-scrum-project-status-with-the-cumulative-flow-diagram/) - The Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD) provides typical information about status of your Scrum project: how much work is done, ongoing and in backlog, what is the pace of progress, etc. In this blog post, Pawel Brodzinski explains that you can also use the Cumulative Flow Diagram to detect the issues that a Scrum team might
- [Can Pair Programming Work?](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/can-pair-programming-work/) - Pair Programming is one of the eXtreme programming (XP) original practices. Continuously in surveys about Agile, it is one of the least used Agile practices. In this blog post, Dave Nicolette do an extensive survey of pair programming trying the question: "does pair programming work?". He starts by exploring the meaning of "working" and if
- [Questions About Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/questions-about-scrum/) - When your organization is thinking to adopt Scrum or is just beginning to use it, there are always questions that people will ask about how Scrum really works. As an independent Agile Coach, Roger Brown has collected 85 of them that he has arranged under major topics like people or technology. It is a very
- [Improving the Sprint Retrospective in Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/improving-the-sprint-retrospective-in-scrum/) - This short (and humorous) video presents the 3 most common mistakes and 5 best-practices to improve your Scrum Sprint Retrospective meeting. [youtube GjzdG0G5SI8] Video Producer: http://www.rinivansolingen.com/
- [Metrics for Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/metrics-for-scrum/) - Metrics are an important tool when you want to manage something. It is very important to define what you want to measure as this will also impact your project team activity. In this blog post, Bob Boyd proposes 9 metrics for Scrum. The 9 suggested metrics that a Scrum team can consider are: 1. Actual
- [Replace Retrospectives with Toyota Kata](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/replace-retrospectives-with-toyota-kata/) - The Toyota Kata is a management book by Mike Rother. it can be defined as a systematic, scientific set of routines that activate and mobilize people's creative capabilities to meet challenging goals. In this blog post, Håkan Forss, a Lean/Agile Coach in Sweden, introduces the Toyota Kata as an alternative or as a complement to
- [Building A Great Agile Software Team](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/building-a-great-agile-software-team/) - Agile software development challenges traditional project management approaches with self-organizing teams where individual members have more influences on the project success. How do you hire Scrum team member in this type of context. Mitch Lacey proposes to adopt the immersive interviewing technique to hire for agile software development teams. And like all good agile practices,
- [What is a User Story?](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/what-is-a-user-story/) - In Scrum, the standard format of a user story is easy to understand: "As a [role] I want [something] so that I can [benefit]." However, there is more difficulties inside the project team to agree on what constitute the content of a user story. In this blog post, Steve Johnson explores this issue. You have
- [Influencing Strategies for Agile Developers](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/influencing-strategies-for-agile-developers/) - Linda Rising shares influence strategies that you can use to more effectively convince others to see things your way. You’ve tried and tried to convince people of your position. You’ve laid out your logical arguments on impressive PowerPoint slides—but you are still not able to sway them. Cognitive scientists understand that the approach you are
- [Scrum Team Metrics](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/scrum-team-metrics/) - An old project management quote says "You can't control what you can't measure". This is not different when you use Scrum. In this blog post, David Koontz proposes a list of metrics that can be used to assess the activity of Scrum teams. His advice is that these metrics should be used at the team
- [The Agile Dictionary](https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/the-agile-dictionary/) - The Agile Dictionary is a web site that proposes a definition of words used in Agile software development. For each word, you will find some synonyms and the origin of the word. The web site is organized alphabetically, starting from "A" with "Acceptance Test" and ending with "X" for "XP". Each word can naturally contains
- [Managing Spikes in Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/managing-spikes-in-scrum/) - In a Scrum context, the definition of a "spike" is "a story or task aimed at answering a question or gathering information, rather than at producing shippable product." In this article, Bill Ambrosini discusses how to manage them and when to use this activity. Spikes might be used for reducing technical debt or creating a
- [Using Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) for Backlog Refinement in Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/using-behavior-driven-development-bdd-for-backlog-refinement-in-scrum/) - Backlog refinement is an important part of the Scrum team activity as it allows to gain a shared understanding of the work flow. Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) is a technique that use a business language to define acceptance testing (test cases) of requirements. In this article, Zia Malik explains how teams can use BDD to support
- [Turning the Tables in a Scrum Retrospective](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/turning-the-tables-in-a-scrum-retrospective/) - Running continuously sprint retrospectives while keeping the Scrum team awareness during this activity is one of the biggest challenge for ScrumMasters. In this article, Marc Nazarian present an game called "Turn the tables" that should help the ScrumMaster to achieve this objective. This game is a simple exercise where team members write on red and
- [Exploring Technical Debt](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/exploring-technical-debt/) - The metaphor of technical debt is widely used in software project management in general and especially Scrum. This article written by Philippe Kruchten, Robert L. Nord and Ipek Ozkaya try to put this concept in perspective, discussing how it has become somewhat diluted lately with its extension to other areas than code or its associations
- [The Agile Atlas](https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/the-agile-atlas/) - The Agile Atlas is a web site supported by the Scrum Alliance which is an information resource for Scrum and Agile practitioners. The purpose of this site is to provide an “encyclopedia” of information about Agile and related methods. Although the site is presently supported only by the Scrum Alliance, it is not intended to
- [When a Scrum Project Has Gone Wrong](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/when-a-scrum-project-has-gone-wrong/) - Absent ScrumMaster, poorly defined requirements, inexperienced team, absent product owner, impossible goals. Sometimes things can go wrong even in projects that use an Agile approach like Scrum. The main issues are absent product owner or ScrumMaster, an inexperienced team, poorly defined requirements or impossible goals. In this article, Avelino Ferreira Gomes Filho shares some of
- [Agile Failure: Don't Look for Silver Bullets!](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/agile-failure-dont-look-for-silver-bullets/) - In 10 years since the signing of the Agile Manifesto we've seen some notable successes, half-way efforts, fragile, scrum-but and just plain #FAIL. We tried to adopt agile methods to solve all types of problems, and many of those problems persist. What are the most common failure modes? How can organizations avoid falling into those
- [Simple Scrum Sprint Estimation Tool](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/simple-scrum-sprint-estimation-tool/) - Whether you follow a Agile framework like Scrum with its planning poker or a traditional project management approach, the estimation activity is always difficult to perform productively and consistently on the long term. In this article, Kirill Klimov shares a simple and lightweight estimation technique that should make the sizing process easier for a Scrum
- [Agile Practices Proven in Highly Regulated Environments](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/agile-practices-proven-in-highly-regulated-environments/) - Many organisations operate in highly regulated environments, such as healthcare, have concluded that in order to achieve the next level of product quality and safety improvements, not to mention enhanced competitiveness, adoption of a more Agile approach is required. In this presentation, you will learn how the Agile software development approach for high assurance systems
- [Agile Teams Structures](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/agile-teams-structures/) - Agile and Scrum project teams can adopt many different structures. In her blog post, Elizabeth Harrin gives a good summary of five structures that could be used by Agile teams based on a presentation made by Catherine Powell at the Oredev conference. The five Agile team structures presented are: 1. Team generalist: members can perform
- [Reducing Technical Debt ](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/reducing-technical-debt/) - Technical debt a metaphor that refers to the eventual consequences of poor or evolving software architecture and software development within a codebase. The technical debt can be defined of as work that needs to be done to adapt a software to the best practices. In this blog post, Bastian Buch explains the step used in
- [Scaling the Sprint Review With a Fair](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/scaling-the-sprint-review-with-a-fair/) - The main goal of a sprint review in Scrum is to receive feedback on the product that the team has built in the last sprint. How do you do when the product is created by many different teams and there multiple stakeholders who are involved in the Scrum project? In this article, Stephan Kraus explains
- [Self-Organization and Estimation in Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/self-organization-and-estimation-in-scrum/) - In Scrum the estimation effort and accuracy depend on the team. In this article, Jingjie Wang discusses the situation where the Scrum team tends to underestimate its capacity to deliver so to be sure that the product owner and the scrummaster are always happy at the end of each sprint because everything promised is deliver.
- [Games for Project Risk Management](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/games-for-project-risk-management/) - Collaborative risk management brings many benefits to Scrum teams, notably by generating wiser decisions and creating a collective ownership of issues. In his blog, Mike Griffiths describes some collaborative games that can be use project risk management. The approach is based on the PMI risk management lifecycle: 1. Plan Risk Management 2. Identify Risks 3.
- [Retrospectives and Trust ](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/retrospectives-and-trust/) - Martin Alaimo thinks that personal issues are rarely discussed in Scrum retrospectives. In this article, he discusses how he includes in retrospectives a special section to address personal issues. He explains how he uses retrospectives to build Scrum between the Scrum team members. Martin starts personal retrospectives with ans exercise that will prove to the
- [Effective Sprint Goals](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/effective-sprint-goals/) - A sprint goal is defined as the desired outcome of an iteration. The sprint goal provides a shared objective and represents the reason for undertaking the sprint. In this blog post, Roman Pichler explains what sprint goals are, why they matter, how to write and to track them. Roman Pichler thinks that every sprint should
- [Being a New ScrumMaster](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/being-a-new-scrummaster/) - What do you do when as a new ScrumMaster you meet resistance, opposition and modified Scrum practices when you start your first Agile project? In this article, Natalie Warnert provides ten survival tips for the new ScrumMaster. The ten recommendations explained in details in the article are: 1. Start slowly. 2. Be patient. 3. Stick
- [Test Driven Retrospectives](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/test-driven-retrospectives/) - Most of you should be familiar with Test-Driven Development (TDD), an Agile approach where you write a unit test before actually writing the code that should be verified. In this blog post, Jeffrey Davidson use the same concept and proposes a Test-Driven Retrospectives approach to ensure that this Scrum activity provides real improvements. Jeffrey Davidson thinks
- [Improve Your Scrum Meetings](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/improve-your-scrum-meetings/) - Marc Löffler shares in this blog post 11 hints to improve all the Scrum meetings. He discusses daily stand-up meeting where he suggests to show colleagues what your currently working on instead of just talking about it. He also make proposals to improve the sprint planning, sprint reviews and retrospectives.
- [Giving Scrum Retrospectives Their Due Diligence](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/giving-scrum-retrospectives-their-due-diligence/) - Scrum Retrospectives are not easy and this meeting is often the first one that will be canceled when there is some pressure to deliver a product. In this blog post, Mitch Lacey explains why retrospectives are so important in Scrum. He presents also some key components of an effective retrospective in a Scrum / Agile
- [Scrum Big Picture](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/scrum-big-picture/) - How can you share information about a Scrum project between the team members or assess its status? This article by Kulawat Wongsaroj proposes eight visualizations techniques to share information on a Scrum project. All these techniques try to summarize the large and complex set of data of a Agile project in different dimensions. They exist
- [Challenges Using Scrum as a Sub-contractor](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/challenges-using-scrum-as-a-sub-contractor/) - Just imagine that you come to a different country and get a team of consultants with whom you need to do their first Scrum implementation project. On top of that, you are not managing the communication with the client, as you are only a sub-contractor. Not enough? You don't speak official project language, which makes
- [Why the Customer Shouldn't Be the Product Owner](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/why-the-customer-shouldnt-be-the-product-owner/) - When organizations start to adopt Scrum as their Agile project management framework, they have a tendency to put the customer in the role of the product owner. In this article, Patrick McConnell explains why this is a bad idea and that your client is not your product owner. This type of situation results often in
- [Giving Life to a Product Backlog](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/giving-life-to-a-product-backlog/) - In this article, Christophe Le Coent discusses how you can express a Scrum product backlog to provide enough planning information to management but still following the Agile principle that "welcome changes over following a plan". The article presents different way to visualize the product backlog with their benefits and disadvantages. Usually, you represent your product backlog
- [Scrum and Agile Trac Plugins](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/scrum-and-agile-trac-plugins/) - A list of Scrum and Agile oriented plugins available in the Trac ecosystem. Trac is an open source issue tracking system for software development projects.
- [Adaptive Project Framework by Robert K. Wysocki](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/adaptive-project-framework-by-robert-k-wysocki/) - Adaptive Project Framework presents a model for agile project management
- [Essential Scrum Glossary](https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/essential-scrum-glossary/) - The Essential Scrum Glossary is a list of definitions of terms used in Scrum in particular and in Agile in general. An entry in the glossary might be a single word, such as "epic", a phrase, such as "all-at-once product development", or an acronym like "TDD". The definitions are numbered if a term has more
- [Better Agile through Tribes](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/better-agile-through-tribes/) - Runners find that they can go faster with a lower perceived effort when they exercise in a pack. The same thing happens when our software teams gel, and when our management teams decide to work together for mutual benefit. We are, by nature, social beings—but culture teaches us to hold back and avoid deep connection.
- [Leading High-Performance Distributed Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/leading-high-performance-distributed-teams/) - In this blog post, J.D. Meier shares his experience of leading high-performance distributed teams for more than ten years at Microsoft. He describes a weekly schedule that begins with identifying 3 wins for the week on Monday to discussing 3 things going well and 3 things to improve on Friday. His secret for success is
- [Scrum Distant Collaboration](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/scrum-distant-collaboration/) - "Swarming" is a technique whereby many members of a Scrum team work together to deliver a User Story, taking advantage of the skills of many team members together. In this article, Johanna Rothman asks the question: How do you do swarming in a distributed team? When the Scrum team is located in different countries and
- [Engaging the Product Owner in Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/engaging-the-product-owner-in-scrum/) - In this article, Brian Vanderjack shares 21 ways to engage and retain the product owner in a Scrum project. The Product Owner role is very important in Scrum, because he guide the team on how to add business value through creating, prioritizing and managing user stories. Thus it is a big problem when the Product
- [Scaling Agile at UK's Government Digital Service](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/scaling-agile-at-uks-government-digital-service/) - In this blog post, Jamie Arnold shares some of the lessons learned and benefits of scaling Agile at the Government Digital Service. It is a presentation about how to scale agile from one team of 12 people to 140 people and 14 teams. The most important lesson learned in this project is that the foundation
- [A Scrum Team Scorecard](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/a-scrum-team-scorecard/) - Paul Pazderski proposes in this article a scorecard to assess the level of transformation of a project team into a Scrum team. This card could be filled by an independent observer like an Agile coach to check how the team is adopting Scrum practices like Product Backlog management or Sprint Reviews.
- [Recreating Scrum with Kanban](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/recreating-scrum-with-kanban/) - In this blog post, Cory Foy explains how he recreated Scrum using Kanban coupled with a set of Explicit Policies. Kanban has less initial rules than Scrum, but the team decides with explicit policies how he wants to manage things like the frequency of the meetings with the backlog owner. The blog post describes the
- [Agile Project Wall Estimation](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/agile-project-wall-estimation/) - In this article, Mitch Lacey discusses the difficulty faced when trying to provide estimates for software development project. The beginning of a software project is the time when you are the least certain about the final scope project, but it is also when you are asked to deliver precise estimates. Agile tries to move from
- [7 Reasons Why You Don't Get to Done](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/7-reasons-why-you-dont-get-to-done/) - In this article, Faisal Mahmood discusses seven reasons why a Scrum team cannot get to done at the end of a sprint. In Scrum, "done" is often defined as producing a potentially shippable product. According to Faisal, the seven reasons that lead Scrum teams not getting to done 1.Team is not cross functional 2.Unclear or
- [Making the Sprint Backlog Ready for Testing](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/making-the-sprint-backlog-ready-for-testing/) - In his article "Creating an ATDD Ready Sprint Backlog in Scrum", Ralph Jocham discusses the requirements definition in Scrum and how examples allows the team to better understand them. As the backlog is now also expressed in terms of business requirements, each team member can easily focus on the bigger picture during the Scrum stand-up
- [Agile Budgeting and Contracting](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/agile-budgeting-and-contracting/) - How do agile projects accurately forecast their budget when they are typically just a bunch of hippies coding without requirements or documentation? Waterfall projects are obviously much better at budgeting with all of the traditional up front design and planning, right? Anyone who has been on a waterfall project can see that this is a
- [Pair Programming as a Good Practice](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/pair-programming-as-a-good-practice/) - In this article, Gunther Verheyen explains that pair programming is a good software development practice. Even if Scrum doesn’t prescribe specific engineering practices, Scrum fully supports the agile principle that says “Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility”. Pair programming is a good practices promotes by the eXtreme Programming approach. According to
- [Enacting Scrum in Visual Studio](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/enacting-scrum-in-visual-studio/) - In this excerpt of their book, Sam Guckenheimer and Neno Loje describes the mechanisms that Visual Studio (primarily Team Foundation Server [TFS]) provides to support the team enacting an Agile process. This article provides an inside-out overview of what makes the enactment of Agle possible in Visual Studio. Microsoft provides two process templates as standard:
- [Getting Over Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/getting-over-scrum/) - In a slightly provocatively titled "Why I’m done with Scrum" blog post, Jimmy Bogard provides four reasons reasons why he decided to abandon using Scrum to adopt a lean approach to software development.In his first two reasons, he discusses the inefficiencies of the iteration system. He thinks that timeboxing limits what can be delivered during
- [Increasing Project Team Productivity](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/increasing-project-team-productivity/) - This article from Rob Maher focuses on how to increase productivity. It discusses how changing a project staffing model could increase the productivity of project teams (PDF document). There is published evidence that short-lived groups of people brought together for a project are correlated with lower productivity. His view is that in an agile world,
- [Managing the Complexity of Component Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/managing-the-complexity-of-component-teams/) - Scrum teams usually develop iteratively new product features. In larger project, teams can also be organized around layers or components of the product. In this article, Mukesh Chaudhary discusses how to manage the complexity with Scrum component teams and integration of their deliverables to make up a feature. He starts by describing the reasons to
- [Servant Leadership for the ScrumMaster](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/servant-leadership-for-the-scrummaster/) - This article by Badri Srinivasan discusses the important notion of team leadership in Scrum and how the ScrumMaster should be a Servant Leader for the Scrum team. The article presents the principles of Servant Leadership. This is a philosophy and practice of leadership that is defined as "a management philosophy which implies a holistic view
- [Release Planning Value ](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/release-planning-value/) - In this article, Vaidhyanathan Radhakrishnan discusses about the value of release planning in Scrum. This is the tool to schedule timelines for a project or a product in a complex environment where the outcome of one team is required for the other teams. The article proposes an approach to produce a release plan. This approach
- [Doing  "Scrum, And"](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/doing-scrum-and/) - In this blog post, Gunther Verheyen discusses how he quit the “ScrumBut” expressions to move to a “ScrumAnd” status. He shares with us a nine questions test to determine if you are doing Scrum, but beyond the mere crossing the line of ‘yes/no’ doing Scrum there is a myriad of possibilities to play Scrum, but
- [Pair Programming Report](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/pair-programming-report/) - Pair Programming is an Extreme Programming (XP) practice where two developers collaborate on the same code on one workstation. In this blog post, Yan Pritzker provides an experience report after his first nine months of pair programming. On the positive side of pair programming, he lists quick knowledge transfer, improved productivity and higher quality code.
- [Using Lean to Create Context for Self Organization](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/using-lean-to-create-context-for-self-organization/) - Learn how to achieve multiple team collaboration in large scale software development projects. Self-organization is a key concept for all Lean-Agile methods. However, as projects expand across the enterprise and, more specifically, cut across multiple teams, teams clearly can’t just organize in any way they want to. A blend of top-down direction with bottom-up self
- [Helping ScrumMaster with a Struggling Team](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/helping-scrummaster-with-a-struggling-team/) - This short blog post by Len Lagestee provides some advice on how to coach a ScrumMaster with a struggling team. You first observe and ask questions to the ScrumMaster to understand the situation. Based on his answers, you can assess your options and determine if you need to teach, mentor or encourage him.
- [Scrum Best Practices for Team Foundation Server (TFS)](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/scrum-best-practices-for-team-foundation-server-tfs/) - Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) is the collaboration platform at the core of Microsoft's application lifecycle management solution. Scrum can be implemented in TFS using the Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 process template from Microsoft. This article provides 25 best practices to start using Scrum in a TFS context. This practices deal with all
- [Scrum Sprint Reviews Checklist](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/scrum-sprint-reviews-checklist/) - In this blog post, Ilan Goldstein shares a list of things to do for successful Scrum sprint reviews, both before and during the meeting. Amongst the important points mentioned, there is the management of expectations, the brief mention of the impediments and improvements of the team. He also discusses the pressure to show "almost finished"
- [Software Testing in Scrum with a Waterfall at End](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/software-testing-in-scrum-with-a-waterfall-at-end/) - In this article, Davide Noaro discusses the software testing phase of Scrum projects with a final Waterfall interaction. As Scrum's adoption is often incremental inside an organization, both approaches can coexist for a while. Compared to a full Scrum approach is that, in this situation you are obliged to rerun the tests for the whole
- [Scrum Metrics for Hyperproductive Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/scrum-metrics-for-hyperproductive-teams/) - The average Scrum team delivered a 35% improvement in velocity at Yahoo [1] where teams properly coached delivered 300-400% improvements. The best Scrum Master at MySpace peaked at 267% of initial velocity after 12 weeks and averaged 168% increase in velocity over 12 Sprints. Most teams were less successful. Scrum teams use lightweight metrics like
- [7 Things to Known When You Start as a ScrumMaster](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/7-things-to-known-when-you-start-as-a-scrummaster/) - Utpal Vaishnav shares with us his experience as a new ScrumMaster in this article titled "Seven Things I Wish I'd Known When I Started out as a ScrumMaster". These 7 things are: 1. Work on one (and only one) project. 2. Focus on improving team effectiveness. 3. Don't manage, facilitate. 4. Establish a "work-life balance"
- [Agile Project Team Charter](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/agile-project-team-charter/) - Project charter discussions and documentation focuses traditionally on project scope and the goals and objectives for the project. To address specificity of Agile project, the author of this article has recently created and successfully utilized an Agile Development Team Charter. It differs from usual project charter as it focuses more on the ‘how’ of the
- [Sustainable Pace in Agile Teams ](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/sustainable-pace-in-agile-teams/) - We would like solutions delivered fast without compromising quality, user experience, implicit requirements and non-functional aspects such as scalability and performance. This would have been easier, if we had all the time in the universe. Doing this in a sustainable manner becomes a huge challenge for teams as there are multiple competing forces at play
- [Self-Appraising Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/self-appraising-teams/) - This article discusses the challenges that Agile brings to the appraisal process. Agile methodology focuses on team performance more than on the individual. The objectives of the team aren't easily broken down by individual; one cannot appraise the individual on the basis of team performance. This article presents a workable solution for appraising Scrum team
- [Ward Cunningham Discusses Technical Debt](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/ward-cunningham-discusses-technical-debt/) - This is an interesting interview of Ward Cunningham that talks about technical debt. Ward Cunningham was the first to drew a comparison between technical complexity and debt in 1992. In this interview, he talks, amongst other topics, about the relationship between technical debt and developer experience or when accumulation of debt is a good thing.
- [Empowering Scrum Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/empowering-scrum-teams/) - As Scrum teams should be self-managed and self-organized, they need empowerment, because without it, it is difficult for self-management and self-organization to happen. In this article, Jerry Rajamoney shares that the high-priority impediment item he has repeatedly faced as a ScrumMaster and struggled to solve is empowering the team. He gives four situations that could
- [Getting Value from Your Scrum Daily Stand-up](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/getting-value-from-your-scrum-daily-stand-up/) - Even if the Scrum daily stand-up meeting isn't a status report, it is often easy for team members to slip into a pattern of providing status-related information. In this article, Eric King proposes different techniques that you can integrate in your daily stand-up meting to get more value out of it, setting a positive tone
- [Agile Outsourcing Experience Report](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/agile-outsourcing-experience-report/) - In addition to the challenge of adopting Agile practices inside a company, many organizations adds another level of difficulty by outsourcing some of their development activities. In this blog post, Juan Banda provides an extensive experience report on outsourcing Agile with practical advice from somebody who’s been on the other side of the phone in
- [Clarify Business Value in Sprint Zero](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/clarify-business-value-in-sprint-zero/) - When you explain the iterative/incremental nature of Agile, most people coming from a waterfall lifecycle say "What? No up-front planning at all?" Some Agile coaches would glibly say yes, but the truth is more complex. Sprint Zero is an Agile term for a time-boxed amount of up-front planning. During Sprint Zero, you identify value stories,
- [User Stories Traps and Tips](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/user-stories-traps-and-tips/) - User stories are the foundations of the Scrum sprints as they would allow you to work on the right things. Charles Bradley provides a lot of interesting material about crafting good user stories in his Scrum Crazy blog. In a blog post he starts by discussing what a user story is and go right to
- [Four Antipatterns of Pair Programming ](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/four-antipatterns-of-pair-programming/) - Scrum likes to rely the technical practices recommended by eEXtreme Programming to improve the software quality. Pair programming is one of these practices, even if surveys tell us that it is not used as much as other practices like test-driven development (TDD). In this article, Zee Spencer shares four common pitfalls of pair programming and
- [The Silence as a ScrumMaster Tool](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/the-silence-as-a-scrummaster-tool/) - There are several techniques that can be used to promote communication in a Scrum team, like for instance the Dialogue Sheets that are proposed by Allan Kelly for retrospectives. In this blog post, Alan Dayley discusses how silence is a powerful tool for management and the need for constructive conflict. Being silent, the ScrumMaster give
- [DSDM Agile Project Framework for Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/dsdm-agile-project-framework-for-scrum/) - The DSDM consortium has published a new paper "DSDM Agile Project Framework". Dynamic systems development method (DSDM) was created in 1994. It an agile project delivery framework, primarily used as a software development method. This version of the Agile Project Framework has been tailored specifically to complement Scrum. The DSDM Agile Project framework brings together
- [Moving a Backlog Item to Done](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/moving-a-backlog-item-to-done/) - This article discusses the the role of the Product Owner in moving a backlog item to done. It explores how to achieve the productivity benefits of an up-front enabling specification, given the reality that Scrum is an empirical framework in which emergent understanding of the story under development is inherent. "Done" is not some arbitrary
- [Running the Scrum-of-Scrums](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/running-the-scrum-of-scrums/) - The Scrum of Scrums is the key for scaling large, multidimensional projects that cross departments, teams, and traditional boundary lines so that can be managed using the same protocols and logic of a fundamental, small-team project. Bryan Zarnett explains that where most ScrumMasters fail in this large-scale environment is in the nuances of communicating and
- [Performance Appraisals in Agile](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/performance-appraisals-in-agile/) - Most of us do the exercise of rating team members every year even if we know that software is built by teams, not individuals. Moreoever, each individual needs to actively collaborate to produce quality software. This means that everyone on the team needs to take collective ownership and help each other, because the motive is
- [Scrum for Systems Engineering](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/scrum-for-systems-engineering/) - This article focuses on the application of Scrum to enable stability for the execution of systems engineering (SE) activities at Boeing
- [Getting Software Testing Done in the Sprint](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/getting-software-testing-done-in-the-sprint/) - This is an on-going series of blog posts that want to answer the classical question: How is software testing done during Scrum sprints? In the first installments, Clemens Reijnen discusses the importance of having testing knowledge in the team and implementing a collaborative culture. He then presents regression testing, test automation, end-to-end testing, avoiding overlapping
- [Choosing the Right Scrum Sprint Length ](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/choosing-the-right-scrum-sprint-length/) - What should be the lenght of a Scrum sprint? There is no unique answer to this question. In this blog post, Mitch Lacey provides some key factor to consider when you try to choose the right sprint length for your Scrum project. These should be considered looking at the expected duration of the project, the
- [Sprint Are not Just for User Stories](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/sprint-not-just-for-user-stories/) - How do you manage activities that don't seem directly related to features in your Scrum sprints? This blog post discusses why it is a problem when Scrum teams start to wonder about having time to manage infrastructure, technical debt or test framework. For Johanna Rothman this is the sign that the culture is not Agile
- [Agile Support and Maintenance](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/agile-support-and-maintenance/) - As Agile approaches are gaining acceptance in software development organization, this article discusses how Agile could impact the support and maintenance processes of existing mature products. It explores some specific support or maintenance issues like the volatility of support. Support and maintenance teams could have a "burning" issues backlog which makes it challenging for sprint
- [Agile Project Management Office](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/agile-project-management-office/) - The adoption of Agile approaches has introduced new ways of thinking about Project Management, which impact Project Management Organizations in various ways. This paper divides the range of practices commonly found in Project Management Office (PMO) into Project Management, Program Management and Portfolio Management. It identifies how the introduction of Agile processes such as Scrum
- [Scrum Burnup and Burndown Charts](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/scrum-burnup-and-burndown-charts/) - Burn charts are a simple method to monitor work progress in Scrum. This article discusses the details of burn down and burn up charts: which units to measure, how to adapt to scope variations. He gives some guidelines on how to interpret burndown charts. He reminds that the chart should be objective and visible.
- [An Agile Team "Reset"](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/an-agile-team-reset/) - An Agile team reset occurs when an Agile team take a step back to review and relearn the foundation principles and practices of Scrum. Justin Hennessy presents in this article how he did it when a team he was coaching had successfully implemented the practices for Scrum but didn't really understand the values or principles
- [Core Practices for Continuous Delivery](https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/core-practices-for-continuous-delivery/) - Continuous delivery allows teams to reduce dramatically the transaction cost of releasing high-quality software, so you can do it much more frequently, providing a much richer and faster feedback cycle from users back to product teams. But, in turn, you need to change the way you think about managing the flow of work through the
- [Scrum Team Skills Matrix](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/scrum-team-skills-matrix/) - Analyzing the bottleneck faced by a Scrum team, Mark Levison introduces in this blog post the concept of Skills Matrix. The Skill Matrix is a visual management tool that shows at a glance how much cross-training you have in your organization between different people and different tasks. You will be able to spot the areas
- [Are you a Good or an Effective ScrumMaster?](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/are-you-a-good-or-an-effective-scrummaster/) - In this article, Elton Gao starts by giving us the definition of a good ScrumMaster: someone who knows Scrum well. He or she understands the do's and don'ts and is familiar with related artifacts and tools. He or she knows how to run a daily Scrum, a planning/review/retrospective meeting and how to take advantages of
- [Scrum Checklist](https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/scrum-checklist/) - The Scrum checklist is a simple tool that provides guidelines to assess your current implementation of Scrum or help you adopting it. Created by Henrik Kniberg, the author of "Scrum from the Trenches", they incorporate his experience gained during years helping companies getting started with Scrum and many meetings with other practitioners, trainers and Scrum
- [Slicing User Stories for the Sprint Hamburger](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/slicing-user-stories-for-the-sprint-hamburger/) - The "rightsizing" of user stories occurring during the planning of the next sprint in Scrum is not always an easy task to perform. Inexperienced teams have difficulties to split user stories into smaller chunks that still deliver business value and would rather use technical criteria. In this blog post, "Specifications by Example" author Gojko Adzic
- [No Documentation in Scrum?](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/no-documentation-in-scrum/) - During Scrum adoption, people tend to get away from tasks and activities that they don't like in traditional projects like documentation or writing proper code comments. In this article, a ScrumMaster shares his experience with a "no documentation" approach. He learned the hard way that minimal documentation is better than no documentation in Scrum projects.
- [Individual Performance in Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/individual-performance-in-scrum/) - Should you track individual performances in Scrum and how do you do it? Nanda Vivek says that there is only one answer and this is "No". Measuring individual productivity is against the spirit of Scrum and the article discusses the importance of being helpful and collaborative in teams. The author however does not give guideline
- [Pair Programming Benefits ](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/pair-programming-benefits/) - Pair programming is an extreme programming technique that should help Scrum teams to build better software: two heads are better than one, they say, and thus two heads will usually produce a higher-quality system. This article presents the benefits of this technique for the team, the developers and the managers that will appreciate the value
- [Top 5 Scaling Agile Lessons Learned](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/top-5-scaling-agile-lessons-learned/) - This article presents the IBM perspective on top five lessons learned about scaling Agile in a leading insurance provider. These lessons were that a team-by-team, incremental approach is best. Measurement and management tools can help you get and sustain executive buy-in and improve the development process. Mentoring and coaching should be provided for the process
- [Why Scrum Sprints Are Not Mini Waterfalls](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/why-scrum-sprints-are-not-mini-waterfall/) - Companies that transition to Agile often adopt the analogy that sprints are just mini waterfall. This article provides five reasons why Scrum sprints are not mini-Waterfall. Each argument is illustrated by a diagram that provides a clear visual evidence of the difference between the Agile approach and a traditional process. These reasons are: Continuous
- [Understanding the Scrum Burndown Chart](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/understanding-the-scrum-burndown-chart/) - The Scrum Burndown chart is very simple tool to monitor the project status. It is easy to explain, easy to understand. But this metric also put in evidence some pitfalls observed in many agile workshops and adoptions. This article discusses how to build a Scrum burndown chart and what should be included in it. It
- [Agile in a Distributed Team Environment](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/agile-in-a-distributed-team-environment/) - This article focuses on the obstacles to using Agile in a distributed team environment and recommends how to counter them with what is called “de-Agile.” De-Agile is tailoring Agile to fit your team by taking out processes that don’t make sense and tweaking those that need to be modified to suit your needs. In a
- [What Is Agile Documentation?](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/what-is-agile-documentation/) - Does the term "documentation" have any place in an agile environment? The goal on agile projects is to keep documentation as simple as possible, relying on roadmaps, overviews and concepts rather than enterprise-focused details. But what happens when using an agile approach on more complex projects? For example, what if the team that writes the
- [ Scrum Estimation Techniques For New Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/scrum-estimation-techniques-for-new-teams/) - This article discusses estimation techniques for teams that are adopting Scrum. The authors recommend to use story points during the release planning phase, but initially to switch to hours to estimate tasks during the sprint planning. Then the team will gradually move to using story points to estimate complete stories that members will commit for
- [From Hybrid to Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/from-hybrid-to-scrum/) - Introducing Scrum in organizations is not always easy as there is always resistance to change. This article presents the implementation of an hybrid approach to make the transition to Scrum easier in a German context. After having identified the lack of requirements documentation as an obstacle to Scrum adoption, the author proposes different workarounds that
- [Shock Therapy for Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/shock-therapy-for-scrum/) - When properly implemented, the Scrum framework enforces simple constraints that lead a team to self-organize into a state that achieves 5 to 10 times performance improvement versus traditional approaches. However, the majority of Scrum teams is unable achieve this objective. Teams do not know how to sequence work to deliver working software at the end
- [Daily Scrum Improvement](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/daily-scrum-improvement/) - The Scrum Daily Stand-up meeting is certainly the most regular team activity in agile software development projects and there are therefore many material available on how to manage it and prevent it to become boring, useless or both. In this blog post, Anders Laestadius provides four ideas to improving the daily Scrum meeting. * Make
- [ScrumMaster as a Servant Leader](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/scrummaster-as-a-servant-leader/) - The ScrumMaster is dealing daily to remove the issues that the team face. If he keeps in mind the role of the ScrumMaster as a servant leader, he will be better able to keep the team members motivated toward the goal, which will lead to better customer satisfaction in the end. On the other hand,
- [Hiring Agile People](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/hiring-agile-people/) - You company is transitioning to Agile and you need to hire people that will bring this type of expertise to you teams. This article propose 10 questions that you could ask to assess the vision of Agile by the prospective employees. The questions are only the first step and the article also provides guidelines on
- [How Scrum Blends Lean and Agile](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/how-scrum-blends-lean-and-agile/) - Gunther Verheyen presents the the majors aspects of the distinct views of Lean and Agile, indicating the similarities. He elaborates on his statement that the houses of Lean and Scrum are similar houses, just built with different materials. His conclusion is that the open framework of Scrum aligns and blends the underlying thinking of Agile
- [Product Owner or Ownership](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/product-owner-or-ownership/) - In this blog post, Pawel Brodzinski discusses the problem of the Product Role in Scrum teams. It is not always possible of having a client representative working closely with a project team. So the team should sometimes find other ways to get answer questions about the product and fill the product ownership activity. His conclusion
- [Agile Test Lead for Scrum Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/agile-test-lead-for-scrum-teams/) - In this blog post, Matt Archer shares his definition of the Agile Test Lead role and what he thinks they should contribute to Scrum teams. He says that behind the practical aspects of the Agile Test Lead role, there are also subtle connotations of coaching in this position. In his opinion, it is this coaching
- [Metrics for Iteration Summary Reports](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/metrics-for-iteration-summary-reports/) - Thom Roach shares with us in this blog post the metrics that he includes in iteration summary reports. The three main statistics he uses are Iteration Statistics summary, Iteration Cumulative Flow and Team Velocity Chart. The Iteration Statistics Summary displays three sections of data (user stories, user stories points and velocity) at three different stage
- [Using Sagas as a Strategic View of Epics](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/using-sagas-as-a-strategic-view-of-epics/) - Epics are used to get a bigger picture of user stories, but we need another level of abstraction. We need to bring together the various Epics that describe how our solution will evolve to its final endpoint, and how different functional teams and specialists will interact. This article by Ross Hall introduces the Saga, which
- [Using Agile Tools](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/using-agile-tools/) - Even if the the Agile Manifesto declares that you should value "individuals and interactions over processes and tools", this doesn't mean that you shouldn't use any tool. The authors of this article shares their experience using agile tools and explains why they prefer non-software tools and why you should be carefully pick the tools that
- [Managing Risk in Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/managing-risk-in-scrum/) - The topic of Managing Risk in Scrum projects is addressed by Valerie Morris in these two blog posts. The first part discusses the five risk areas found on most software projects: intrinsic schedule flaw, specification breakdown, scope creep, personnel loss and productivity variance. The second part compares risk management practices between traditional project management and
- [Can Distributed Teams Be Effective ](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/can-distributed-teams-be-effective/) - Have you worked on a distributed team where management apparently thought it should hobble local members to make everybody equally frustrated and ineffective? The Agile Manifesto principles say that: 1) Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project. 2) The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a
- [The Danger of Velocity](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/the-danger-of-velocity/) - Velocity is killing agility is the observation discussed by Jim Highsmith in this blog post. He explains that this metric is increasingly used for the wrong reasons: measuring productivity and focusing on volume delivery instead than on quality. He concludes saying that the importance given to velocity should be balanced with other metrics like feature
- [Scrum Expectation Line](https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/scrum-expectation-line/) - The Scrum Expectation Line is defined by Zsolt Fabók as the line that follows the expectations of the Product Owner during each sprint. In this blog post, he discusses the difference between the team capacity to deliver and what the Product Owner wants in each Sprint and explains how his team deals with it.
- [Thinking About Agile Adoption](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/thinking-about-agile-adoption/) - Is the transition to Agile more difficult for late adopters? In this blog post that provides feedback about his attendance to the Conference on Lean Enterprise Software and Systems, Alan Shalloway explains that those taking on Agile are of a different mindset than those who made it initially successful. He also discusses Scrum-of-Scrums and preventing
- [Lean and Scalable Requirements Information Model](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/lean-and-scalable-requirements-information-model/) - This article describes a Lean and Scalable Requirements Information Model that extends the basic team‐based agile requirements practices to the needs of the largest, lean‐thinking software enterprise. While fully scalable to all levels of the project, program and portfolio levels, the foundation of the model is a quintessentially lean and agile subset in support of
- [Agile Architecture](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/agile-architecture-2/) - Upfront Modeling is fine, documents describing the intended architecture are fine, and so forth. But the architecture, and our learning about it, can improve. Speculative software architecture should be made concrete and not of concrete. Agile architecture comes from the behavior of agile architecting - hands-on master-programmer architects, a culture of excellence in code, an
- [An Example of Distributed Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/an-example-of-distributed-scrum/) - In this blog post, Joseph Little proposes a set of suggestions and questions that should help you to think on how you should make decisions about distributed scrum. Some examples of questions: * Is your 'home' team diverse enough in a useful, knowledge creation way? Will the near-shore people make the 'home' guys think more
- [Agile Practices with Visual Studio](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/agile-practices-with-visual-studio/) - This article presents the mechanisms that Visual Studio provides to support the team enacting an Agile process, primarily with Team Foundation Server (TFS). TFS captures backlogs, workflow, status and metrics of Scrum projects. This guides the users to the next appropriate actions. TFS also helps ensure the "done-ness" of work so that the team cannot
- [Pitfalls of Scrum Stand-up Meetings](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/pitfalls-of-scrum-stand-up-meetings/) - In this blog post, Gary Reynolds shares ten issues that prevent Scrum stand-up meetings to reach their goal. He also offers advice on what ScrumMasters can do to ensure they either don't occur at all or are eradicated over as short a time as possible.
- [A New Tool for Retrospectives](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/a-new-tool-for-retrospectives/) - The Dialogue Sheet is a new technique for team retrospectives in Scrum Projects. This technique involves a large sheet of paper that help to create good discussion and teamwork in Agile and Scrum projects. A dialogue sheet itself is a large sheet of paper, A1 or similar size, which is decorated with questions, quotes, illustrations
- [Learning to Fail in Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/learning-to-fail-in-scrum/) - This article explains that it is important to end doomed projects before they become “too big to fail”. This article isn't about the personal benefits of failure, but is rather about Agile software development. It's about how failure, recognizing it and doing something about it, is a critical element of any Agile initiative.
- [Scrum Impediment Resolution](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/scrum-impediment-resolution/) - In this article, Stefan Roock shares five tips for impediment resolution with Scrum: 1. Make the impediments visible 2. Search for impediments 3. Limit the number of impediments 4. Differentiate between local and global impediments 5. Help the team to resolve impediments
- [Opening Communication within a Scrum Team](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/opening-communication-within-a-scrum-team/) - This article examines something called "The Daily Scrum Meeting" used by Scrum Teams on Agile Software Development Projects around the world. Using some real-life stories and cartoons, you should walk away from this with a better understanding of what not to do, what to do, and then how you can make changes if the first
- [Technical Writers in Scrum Projects](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/technical-writers-in-scrum-projects/) - Scrum is often mentioned as an approach that minimize project documentation to only what is really useful. However, other persons can need written content to work with the developed software. This blog post discusses the role of technical writers in Scrum projects and how agile principles should apply to their activity.
- [Transitioning to Relative Estimation](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/transitioning-to-relative-estimation/) - Your team has adopted the relative story point estimation and you are now ready to jump into your first planning poker session. Where do you start? What is a 1-point story? What is a 3-point story? What is a 13-point story? Your team is looking to you and this process is almost as new to
- [NonViolent Communication ](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/nonviolent-communication/) - In this blog post, Michael Sahota explains the basic principles of NonViolent Communication (NVC) and how they can help your to improve communication in your Scrum team. Nonviolent communication (also called compassionate communication) is a communication process that often functions as a conflict resolution process. It focuses on two aspects of communication: honest self-expression and empathy.
- [Lifecycle of User Stories](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/lifecycle-of-user-stories/) - Henrik Larsson presents in this post the user stories lifecycle from their origin in a Minimum usable feature (MUF/MMF) to their validation by the product owner at the end of a Scrum sprint.
- [A Checklist for a Distributed Retrospective](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/a-checklist-for-a-distributed-retrospective/) - In this blog post, Marc Löffler shares a checklist of items and best practices that should facilitate the a successful retrospective for a distributed team. Even if virtual retrospectives are fine, he suggests that distributed team should meet personally on a regular basis, if possible every two retrospectives.
- [Effective Specifications and Tests for Agile Projects](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/effective-specifications-and-tests-for-agile-projects/) - Fast turnaround in agile projects requires the specifications and testing processes to fit into to short iterations, which is a challenge for many teams when they start out with agile development. As a result, analysts and testers are often confused about how to engage in a weekly delivery process and developers don't have enough information
- [The Big Picture of Enterprise Agility](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/the-big-picture-of-enterprise-agility/) - This article describes an emerging enterprise pattern for the successful implementation of software agility at the project team, program and portfolio level. It describes the new software development and delivery process mechanics, the new teams and organizational units, and some of the roles key individuals play in the new agile paradigm. In addition, the Big
- [Uncompleted User Stories](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/uncompleted-user-stories/) - In this blog post, Sten Johnsen discusses the impact of moving uncompleted user stories from one Scrum sprint to another. He focuses on the unfinished user stories, its impact on the team velocity and its influence on the ability of the team to change.
- [A Great ScrumMaster Can Handle One Team at a Time](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/a-great-scrummaster-can-handle-one-team-at-a-time/) - "An adequate ScrumMaster can handle two or three teams at a time. If you're content to limit your role to organizing meetings, enforcing timeboxes, and responding to the impediments people explicitly report, you can get by with part time attention to this role. The team will probably still exceed the baseline, pre-Scrum expectation at your
- [Full-time Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/full-time-scrum/) - in this blog post, John Piekos explains how the ScrumMaster and Product Owner roles in Scrum are much more demanding than the Project and Product Manager roles of traditional project approaches. With frequent “potentially shippable product increments”, he believes that full-time effort is required from all members in order to be successful.
- [Order your Product Backlog](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/order-your-product-backlog/) - In the past, the Scrum Guide consistently used the word "priority" for the Product Backlog or noted that the Product Backlog was “prioritized.” While the Product Backlog must be ordered, prioritization is only one technique and rarely a good one to achieve this objective. The new Scrum Guide instead uses the term ordered for the
- [Moving Gradually to Scrum ](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/moving-gradually-to-scrum/) - Implementing Scrum on a custom (or bespoke) software development project can be difficult and many organizations new to the agile methodology struggle to adopt it. Typical issues/obstacles that arise include lack of business ownership and the inability to make decisions, limited business buy-in into the concept of Agile or team communication and individual skills. When introducing
- [Application of User Stories](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/application-of-user-stories/) - This article provides an overview on the derivation and application of user stories, which are the primary concept that represent the user requirements in agile software development approaches like Scrum. Its goal is to describe the user story in detail, because it contains the key agile practices that help align solutions directly to the user’s
- [Comparing Scrum and Kanban Tracking Boards](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/comparing-scrum-and-kanban-tracking-boards/) - In this blog post, Ken Pugh compares the usage of Kanban board and Scrum tracking boards to track progress of agile projects. He concludes that Scrum-style boards and Kanban-style boards can provide the same information, but in different ways.
- [Assessing Readiness for Agile ](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/assessing-readiness-for-agile/) - This article suggests that it would be wise to think, very candidly, whether Agile is really something that your company can achieve. The less transparency is tolerated in a company, the less traction Agile will get. Another key prerequisite for being Agile is having the ability to have adult conversations.
- [The Elusive “Quick Iteration”](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/the-elusive-“quick-iteration”/) - In this blog post, Kristen Bornemann shares her thought about getting quick results from iteration in the context of the independent game developers. There is a fine line between making quick iteration a focus and getting bogged down in process.
- [Managing People who are Always Late to the Daily Meeting ](https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/managing-people-who-are-always-late-to-the-daily-meeting/) - Roy Osherove shares in this video how you can you manage a person who is always late to a stand-up meeting. [youtube oDluD9Ls19U] Video source: http://5whys.com/blog/video-how-to-manage-a-person-who-is-always-late-to-a-standup.html
- [A Scrum Comparison of the MSF/Agile and Visual Studio Scrum Templates](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/a-scrum-comparison-of-the-msfagile-and-visual-studio-scrum-templates/) - This blog post provides an objective side-by-side comparison of the MSF for Agile Software Development v5.0 and the Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 process templates.
- [Mistakes We Make Writing User Stories](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/mistakes-we-make-writing-user-stories/) - The art of writing good User Stories is the most difficult for new teams. The mistakes made at that point lead to wrong Test Cases, wrong understanding of requirements and the worst of all wrong implementation which can be direct cause of rejecting the deliverables at the end of the iteration. This article presents the
- [Agile Adoption Adaptation](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/agile-adoption-adaptation/) - In this blog post, Ian Alderson presents the various changes they made during the Agile adoption journey at his company to tailor the software development process to their needs. He reached the conclusion that "one size doesn’t fit all" and that the drive for the improvements to the process should come from the retrospectives.
- [Prioritizing User Stories](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/prioritizing-user-stories/) - A survey says that 64% of the functionalities included in software products are never or almost never used! In this blog post, Emiliano Soldi shares some ideas on how to avoid this and prioritize user stories.
- [Agile Team Performance ](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/agile-team-performance/) - This video explores the creation of a performance system in an Agile Scrum project management context.
- [Scrum Community](https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/scrum-community/) - The Scrum Community was formed after the Scrum Gathering Nov 2006 in Minneapolis and aim at improving the Scrum practices. The Scrum Community provides a lot of different resources in its wiki, like this interesting catalog of Scrum smells.
- [Dancing with Pigs](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/dancing-with-pigs/) - This article explores some of the principles of agile interactions of Scrum teams. More specifically, it focuses on those interactions necessary to discovering and elaborating requirements within the context of the Scrum framework.
- [Compasses, Trees and Pains](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/compasses-trees-and-pains/) - This article uses a tree metaphor to explains that Scrum is a very tiny yet powerful machine that will not achieve its goal if you customize it.
- [Why Scrum Will Never Work](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/why-scrum-will-never-work/) - Why Scrum Will Never Work
- [Dashboards for Scrum Projects](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/dashboards-for-scrum-projects/) - This article aims to bring to the table a consolidated Scrum Project Dashboard layout that could be easily maintained and updated by the Product Owner with day-to-day and well-known information provided by the team. He will be able to get stakeholder and management attention and support while providing an updated clear picture on the Project’s
- [The ScrumMaster as a Referee](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/the-scrummaster-as-a-referee/) - In this blog post, Dewayne Washington make an interesting between the ScrumMaster role and the referee of a football game.
- [Barriers to Scrum Adoption](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/barriers-to-scrum-adoption/) - This is an article about opposition to Scrum. Most of the challenges in Scrum adoption aren't technical, but social. Because Scrum makes ineffectiveness obvious and control organic, some people will fight tooth and nail to stop the effort.
- [Reducing Sprint Length](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/reducing-sprint-length/) - “If the team is uncertain about how to achieve the sprint goal or if experimentation or prototypes need to be done, then the sprint should be shorter. Uncertainty implies that the work eventually required for the sprint might be significantly different from what was anticipated at the start. If this is the case, it’s better
- [Transition from Scrum to Kanban](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/transition-from-scrum-to-kanban/) - In this blog post, Samuli Heljo shares his experience about a Scrum team that transitioned to Kanban. It offers a lot of data about this experience and try to analyze the failures made and to come up with some solutions.
- [Make Agile Work for You in Team Foundation Server 2010](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/make-agile-work-for-you-in-team-foundation-server-2010/) - This article documents a team’s move to Agile using Team Foundation Server 2010, starting out with the Microsoft Solutions Framework Agile v5.0 process template and eventually switching to the Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 template.
- [Collaboration Is Risky](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/collaboration-is-risky/) - In this blog post, Whitney Johnson shares four simple steps to build trust with your collaborator.
- [The Short Short Story](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/the-short-short-story/) - Scrum teams often use user stories for backlog items. Unfortunately, one of the most important aspects of a story - its extremely short length - has been subtly transformed over time and user stories have lost their original essence and potency.
- [Beyond Mechanics for the Daily Stand-up Meeting](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/beyond-mechanics-for-the-daily-stand-up-meeting/) - In this article, Bachan Anand explains that beyond the mechanics, the daily Scrum stand-up meeting checks how is the team progressing toward fulfillment of the sprint commitment, identifies concerns immediately and provides an opportunity to discuss corrective action.
- [6 Things Product Owners Need to Know](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/6-things-product-owners-need-to-know/) - In this blog post, Sean McHugh shares six practices to be a better product owner.
- [Avoiding Iteration Zero](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/avoiding-iteration-zero/) - How to use the first iteration in a Scrum project to deliver working software
- [Measuring Scrum Sprints Progress](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/measuring-scrum-sprints-progress/) - Measuring Scrum Sprints Progress
- [How to do a Scrum Retrospective](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/how-to-do-a-scrum-retrospective/) - Each Scrum Sprint should produce two results: 1) A product or service which is an increment of functionality closer to delivery and 2) a better, happier, more productive team. Peter Stevens explains that the retrospective is the primary opportunity for achieving the second result.
- [The Product Backlog Board](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/the-product-backlog-board/) - This post presents a structured and hierarchical product backlog board that considers non-functional requirements and display high priority items that are ready to code.
- [Create a Burndown Chart in Google Docs](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/create-a-burndown-chart-in-google-docs/) - A simple tutorial on how to create a Scrum Burndown Chart with Google Docs for free.
- [Using Lean-Thinking to Help Scrum Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/using-lean-thinking-to-help-scrum-teams/) - Thinking about Lean as a combination of science, management and learning provides Scrum practitioners to start with including Lean and Kanban practices into their Scrum practices. Explicit policies, managing work-in-progress, and creating visibility have a direct, measurable impact on a team’s velocity.
- [Using "No" in Agile](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/using-no-in-agile/) - In his blog post "New to agile? Remember how to say 'No'", Bob Hartmann reminds us that the "no" word should be used much more often at every level of the organization where agile is being embraced.
- [A CEO Path to Agile](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/a-ceo-path-to-agile/) - A CEO discusses three barriers that prevent Agile adoption: the management team, the technical team and the CEO himself. Video Producer: Agile Roots Conference
- [The Whole Team Approach in Practice](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/the-whole-team-approach-in-practice/) - In this blog post, Lisa Crispin describes how a team at Energized Work put in practice the Agile principle of collaboration.
- [Large Agile Software Development with Bas Vodde](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/large-agile-software-development-with-bas-vodde/) - In the episode 170 of the Software Engineering Radio, Bas Vodde explains how to apply agile principles to large and distributed development organizations. Bas shares his experiences on working in, consulting and coaching companies to adopt Scrum for large scale software development.
- [Scrum in Medical Device Manufacturing](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/scrum-in-medical-device-manufacturing/) - This interview discusses how Scrum could be applied to improve efficiency and effectiveness in medical device manufacturing.
- [The Role of the Manager in Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/the-role-of-the-manager-in-scrum/) - In this article, Pete Deemer discusses what role should be given to the managers in an organization that is transitioning to Scrum.
- [The Four Essential Product Owner Qualities](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/the-four-essential-product-owner-qualities/) - In this blog post, John Pruit shares the four most important qualities for a product owner: informed, empowered, available and prepared.
- [Retrospectives Practice Kit](https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/retrospectives-practice-kit/) - This series of articles was cre­at­ed to help you get the prac­tice of ret­ro­spec­tives built into your com­pany. It walks through the approach, nec­es­sary roles, in addi­tion to guides for each role to help your com­pany get started quickly.
- [Scrum Sprint Success Factors](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/scrum-sprint-success-factors/) - In this blog post, Peter Stevens explores how Team Size, Story Size and Sprint Duration relates to successfully completing a Scrum Sprint.
- [Agile Retrospectives Agenda](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/agile-retrospectives-agenda/) - Erin Beierwaltes gives some interesting tips to improve retrospectives and propose an agenda for them.
- [Beware of Walking Dead Scrummers!](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/beware-of-walking-dead-scrummers/) - In this blog post, José González Gómez discusses the fact that some people are blindly following agile "practices" without understanding their values, principles or purpose.
- [Iteration, Increments and Timeboxes](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/iteration-increments-and-timeboxes/) - In this blog post, George Dinwiddie explains how we should define iteration, increments and timeboxes.
- [What to do When Scrum Doesn’t Work](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/what-to-do-when-scrum-doesn’t-work/) - Henrik Kniberg proposes some hints on what do you do when Scrum doesn’t appear to work.
- [How to Convince Your CFO to Use Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/how-to-convince-your-cfo-to-use-scrum/) - Jan Van den Nieuwenhof gives you a strategy to help executive stakeholders understand why Scrum is an important and useful process for software development.
- [Why Scrum Works](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/why-scrum-works/) - Om Band explains why many teams are able to produce significantly better and faster software with Scrum than with other development models.
- [The Sonny Corleone School of Argument](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/the-sonny-corleone-school-of-argument/) - In this interesting post, Scott Bain explains why ignorance and silence will help you to win arguments.
- [A peek inside Retrospective](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/a-peek-inside-retrospective/) - This blog post provides an inside view on how a Scrum team runs retrospectives.
- [The Elephants in the Agile Room](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/the-elephants-in-the-agile-room/) - In this very interesting post after the 10 years agile celebration meeting, Philippe Kruchten presents some major issues that are in the air of the Agile community, but are difficult to discuss.
- [Implementing Scrum (Agile) and CMMI® Together](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/implementing-scrum-agile-and-cmmi®-together/) - This article we compare CMMI and Scrum and find that Scrum is a good implementation for some of the practices in Level 2. Therefore, a group can use Scrum and CMMI together.
- [Scrum and the V-Model](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/scrum-and-the-v-model/) - In this blog post, Peter Stevens looks at what are the differences between Scrum and the V-Model to see where the two come into conflict and where they could complement each other.
- [The Changing Role of Middle Managers](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/the-changing-role-of-middle-managers/) - This blog post discusses the issue of helping middle managers finding a new role in an organization that adopt agile approaches.
- [Tired of Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/tired-of-scrum/) - An thought-provoking blog post where Emil Gustafsson declares that "Teams can be very agile without scrum. A very good team can probably be agile with a waterfall type of process too."
- [Scrum at bbv Software Services AG](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/scrum-at-bbv-software-services-ag/) - A inside story on how a Scrum team performs agile software development shared by Urs Enzler and that includes all activities from planning to retrospectives.
- [The Scrum Team With Two Daily Meetings](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/the-scrum-team-with-two-daily-meetings/) - This is an interesting story about a Scrum team that held fake daily Scrum meetings so that the product owner will not be worried about their progress.
- [Estimating in Scrum : Breaking Away From Time Based Estimates.](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/estimating-in-scrum-breaking-away-from-time-based-estimates/) - This blog post explains why for Scrum it is better to drop the time based approach to estimating and specifically the focus on an individual.
- [Navigating Conflict on Agile Teams: Why "Resolving" Conflict Won't Work](https://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/navigating-conflict-on-agile-teams-why-resolving-conflict-wont-work/) - On agile teams, conflict is constant and welcomed as a catapult to higher performance. It is about people working together in a context of constant collaboration and change. This video discuss how can teams chart a course through conflict and turn it into a force for greatness. Producer: StickyMinds
- [Striking a Balance: Let Scrum Die](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/striking-a-balance-let-scrum-die/) - The war around software craftmanship and the evangelism around Scrum are all signs of an unhealthy, unbalanced state for most development teams. In this article, the effect of this unbalanced state is highlighted and how to address this by introducing a balancing force - an economically viable code base. This article also predicts what will
- [Scrum is more than Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/scrum-is-more-than-scrum/) - Alan Cyment explains that Scrum is more than roles, meetings and artifacts.
- [Scrum Master and Product Owner Cheatsheet](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/scrum-master-and-product-owner-cheatsheet/) - This is a simple one page article that can be used to help explain the responsibilities of the role of Product Owner and Scrum Master.
- [Key Barriers to Agile Transformation](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/key-barriers-to-agile-transformation/) - In this blog post, Mike Cottmeyer list of his top 12 things you might need to consider before you start a journey towards an Agile organization.
- [A Thinking Grid for a Definition of Done](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/a-thinking-grid-for-a-definition-of-done/) - This blog post contains an interesting grid that help you analyze every aspect of your scrum project if you want to declare a sprint "done".
- [Top Ten Tips for Distributed Scrum Team Teleconferences ](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/top-ten-tips-for-distributed-scrum-team-teleconferences/) - After acting as scrum master for several months on a distributed team with people in six different locations, three different time zones and two different countries, Jon Archer offers ten tips to help get past those inevitable awkward silences in Scrum teleconferences.
- [Agile Reality over Rhetoric ](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/agile-reality-over-rhetoric/) - In this blog post, Scott Ambler discusses the rhetoric that he has found to be the most misleading for people trying to be effective at adopting agile techniques.
- [How Product Designer Works in Agile Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/how-product-designer-works-in-agile-teams/) - The product designer (PD) is very a important role in software development. They will provide detail requirements specification and business workflow, UI workflow. In traditional software development process, PD will prepare the detail requirement design document before develop team start to make software design. How does the product designer work in Agile Teams?
- [Openness Given and Received](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/openness-given-and-received/) - It’s important for people to believe that openness given can lead to openness received. This openness must extend to admitting mistakes when necessary. [...] When people admit to mistakes, others in a group are more apt to do so as well. It’s always better to know about mistakes earlier than later. Being open about them
- [Large, Multisite and Offshore Agile Projects](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/large-multisite-and-offshore-agile-projects/) - "After working for some years in the domains of large, multisite, and offshore development, we have distilled our experience and advice down to the following: Don't' do it." "Scaling Lean & Agile Development - Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum", Craig Larman & Bas Vodde, Addison -Wesley
- [Scrum-tastic Tuesday - Break it down](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/scrum-tastic-tuesday-break-it-down/) - This blog post is about how to improve software project estimations by breaking tasks into sizes no larger than one productive day.
- [Location, Location, Location! ](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/location-location-location/) - They say there are three important characteristics of real estate: location, location and location. The same is true for scrum teams. Where scrum team's members are located has a profound effect upon success and productivity. Agile advocates recommend collocation of a software development team and proximity to the customer.
- [Aspects of Kanban](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/aspects-of-kanban/) - "Aspects of Kanban" is an introduction to the Kanban workflow Lean project management system.
- [Jeff Sutherland](https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/jeff-sutherland/) - Jeff Sutherland is a co-creator of Scrum with Ken Schwaber. He is now Chairman of the Scrum Training Institute and CEO of Scrum, Inc. His Scrum blog is a resource that you must read and follow if you are interested in Scrum.
- [Scrum.org](https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/scrum-org/) - Scrum.org was founded by Ken Schwaber, one of the creators of Scrum,. Schwaber initially attempted to develop Scrum.org’s programs while part of the Scrum Alliance. Ultimately, he found that to accomplish his goal of improving Scrum knowledge, training, and implementations, he would need to break away from the Scrum Alliance. Scrum.org offers scrum resources, assessments,
- [Mountain Goat Software](https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/mountain-goat-software/) - The company of Mike Cohn, one of the most important Scrum expert. Besides his blog, you will find on his web site interesting material regarding his presentations and some tools that you can use for Scrum. http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/
- [Scrum Articles](https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/scrum-articles/) - A directory of articles on the scrum agile project management approach: sprints, velocity, backlog, user stories management. http://www.scrumarticles.com/
- [Agile Project Leadership Network](https://www.scrumexpert.com/resources/agile-project-leadership-network/) - The Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN) is a 501(c)6 non profit organization that is focused on making people great project leaders by focusing on the following: * Value * Customer * Context * Teams * Individuals * Uncertainty These ideas are described further in the Declaration of Interdependence, which was written by the founding members
- [My Product Owner Will Kick Ass ](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/my-product-owner-will-kick-ass/) - This blog post is about what a great Product Owner should be like.
- [Why a Good Agile Team is so Hard to Find](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/why-a-good-agile-team-is-so-hard-to-find/) - Everyone has heard about the benefits of a strong Agile team. They are focussed, extremely productive and self-managing. Why is it so hard to make your agile team gain these same benefits? There are a few key challenges that your organisation must overome to do this and below are some tips to ensure that you
- [Agile Documentation](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/agile-documentation/) - Agile values working software over comprehensive documentation - It is 1/4th of the original manifesto. That doesn’t mean don’t document! It means don’t document more than you need to document. Documentation does have value, but the practice of documenting got excessive – that’s why a reaction to the bad stuff earned a spot as one
- [Effective Retrospectives and Reviews](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/effective-retrospectives-and-reviews/) - In his article "Effective Retrospectives & Reviews" Marco Mulder illustrates how Scrum teams can continuously improve by using a combination of their definition of done, working agreements and the product backlog.
- [Ten Questions You’d Be Crazy not to Ask at the Start of Your Project](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/ten-questions-you’d-be-crazy-not-to-ask-at-the-start-of-your-project/) - This happens all the time on projects: assuming there is consensus when none exists. While good teams can roll with these punches and adapt as they go, it’s a form of waste that can hurt or kill the unwary before they even get out of the gate. To nip this problem in the bud, ThoughtWorks
- [Leadership is a State of Mind](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/leadership-is-a-state-of-mind/) - So much of what is written about leadership is hogwash. There's no recipe to follow. It starts with you and a belief in yourself. A belief in new possibilities. A belief in your abilities to make changes in the world, and an appreciation that you can't do it all on your own: Leadership is a
- [Excuses Might Be the Response, Not Necessarily Resistance](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/excuses-might-be-the-response-not-necessarily-resistance/) - "Excuses Might Be the Response, Not Necessarily Resistance" is an interesting blog post on how people are unable to change the way they work.
- [Successful Sprint Reviews: The Greatest Story Never Told](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/successful-sprint-reviews-the-greatest-story-never-told/) - I have observed and participated in a great number of sprint reviews. I’ve seen some quirky things from the Scrum teams as they attempt to demonstrate the working software and artifacts they have produced in the sprint. Most of them squirm and struggle in the art of telling a story. It’s hard to break the
- [When stand-up meetings are going wrong](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/when-stand-up-meetings-are-going-wrong/) - Sometimes Daily Scrum Meeting are not working. The meetings don’t release the power of the team get together in a “Scrum”. This blog post contains a list of smells to detect bad daily stand-up meetings.
- [Building Trust on Agile Teams](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/building-trust-on-agile-teams/) - As an agile coach, you want to build trust with the people on the team you are coaching. You also want to improve trust between individuals on the team (which is hard to do if the team doesn't trust you yet). This post shares Rachel Davies thinking on how you can help encourage trust to
- [Large Multisite Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/large-multisite-scrum/) - “After working for some years in the domains of large, multisite, and offshore development, we have distilled our experience and advice down to the following: Don’t’ do it.” “Scaling Lean & Agile Development – Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum”, Craig Larman & Bas Vodde, Addison -Wesley
- [The Art of Agile Coaching](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/the-art-of-agile-coaching/) - “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
- [Self-Organization and Anarchy](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/self-organization-and-anarchy/) - “Self-organizing teams are at the core of the agile management, but the concepts have become corrupted – and counterproductive – in parts of the agile community. Although self-organizing is a good term, it has, unfortunately, contingent within the agile community who encourage an anarchistic management style and have latched onto the term self-organizing because it
- [Leading or Managing](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/leading-or-managing/) - “Agile leaders lead teams, non-agile ones manage tasks. How many project managers spend hours detailing tasks into Microsoft Project and then spend more hours ticking off task completions? Unfortunately, many project managers like this task oriented-approach because it is concrete, definable, and completion seems finite. Leading teams, on the other hand, seems fuzzy, messy, undefinable,
- [Taylor Your Process](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/taylor-your-process/) - “Perhaps you’ve read a book, on Extreme Programming and have decided that is the right approach for your company. Or maybe you attended a Certified ScrumMaster training course and think Scrum sounds good. Or maybe you read a book on a different agile process, and it sounds perfect for your organization. In all likelihood, you’re
- [Change Happens Slowly](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/change-happens-slowly/) - “Behavior change happens, but it happens slowly. It may take several tries from different angles before a team changes their stand-up behavior. Be patient. Keep trying. They will change when they need to, but only if you don’t shield them from natural consequences that follow from poor stand-ups.” Reference: “Coaching Agile Teams”, Lyssa Adkins, Addison
- [User Stories are Temporary](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/user-stories-are-temporary/) - It's obvious, but warrants mention: What we do in the future is likely to be different from what we're doing today. The implications for user stories should be obvious: User stories are temporary. Saving them for posterity doesn't serve the primary purpose of user stories, and doing anything that makes them less temporary can turn
- [Managing Risk on Agile Projects with the Risk Burndown Chart](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/managing-risk-on-agile-projects-with-the-risk-burndown-chart/) - Risk management is a central part of traditional project management and is included as one of the knowledge areas in the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) body of knowledge. In many of my classes, participants ask how Scrum and agile address risk management. Some are concerned that agile or Scrum ignore risk management completely. This post
- [Project Management with Scrum](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/project-management-with-scrum/) - This post presents what is successful project management and reasons for the popularity of Scrum.
- [The Core Protocols, an Experience Report - Part 1](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/the-core-protocols-an-experience-report-part-1/) - The Core Protocols are our 'best practices' for people, teams of people and organizations that want to get great results - all the time. They are 'Core' because they are foundational - they can be used by all teams, anywhere, even if you already have organizational patterns and best practices of your own. They are
- [How to Sustain Adaptive Planning](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/how-to-sustain-adaptive-planning/) - Scrum and other agile methods recognize that responsiveness to change is an important aspect of delivering projects. They also recognize that software development is evolutionary and creative. By managing changes through Adaptive planning, Scrum provides a simple yet effective method of planning and tracking project progress. "How to Sustain Adaptive Planning" examines what is needed
- [Writing the Product Backlog Just in Time and Just Enough    ](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/writing-the-product-backlog-just-in-time-and-just-enough/) - Some people want to take the stance that no work should be done in advance of the sprint. That is clearly untenable. To see why, let’s take that view to its extreme: If we did nothing in advance to understand what we're building, we’d show up at the planning meeting and say, “Hey, what should
- [Using Both Incremental and Iterative Development](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/using-both-incremental-and-iterative-development/) - Incremental development is distinctly different from iterative development in its purpose and also from its management implications. Teams get into trouble by doing one and not the other, or by trying to manage them the same way. "Using Both Incremental and Iterative Development" illustrates their differences and how to use them together.
- [Fingers in the air: a Gentle Introduction to Software Estimation](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/fingers-in-the-air-a-gentle-introduction-to-software-estimation/) - An introduction to the software estimation process aimed at project managers, developers and customers who want to get a better understanding of the basics this subject, and avoid to make their projects a death march one.
- [Estimating With Use Case Points](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/estimating-with-use-case-points/) - "Estimating With Use Case Points" describes the process to measure the size of an application modeled with UML, using use case points.
- [Finding the Forrest in the Trees](https://www.scrumexpert.com/knowledge/finding-the-forrest-in-the-trees/) - While the iterative development approaches found in Agile Software Development fulfill the promise of working software each iteration, that task of choosing which software to build first can be daunting.

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