CIO

APRIL 23, 2024

Some work best for engineers and architects, and others for coaches, trainers, or those in more senior roles. SAFe Agilist The SAFe Agilist certification works best for a program or project manager , Scrum master , team lead, release train engineer, change agent, or others who are part of a Lean transformation. Support PI execution.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

MARCH 13, 2020

The Scrum Guide offers very limited guidance, suggesting 3-9 people per team (exclusive of ScrumMaster and Product Owner), without giving reasons or context for those numbers. While this is primarily about Scrum, the lessons are applicable for any work that is collaborative and knowledge-based. Clear Roles and Responsibilities [ 8 ].

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Have you ever had friends or family ask, “I know you’re called a scrum master, but what does that mean? Tell them that the role of ScrumMaster is as a servant-leader, coach, and facilitator, navigating the dynamics of the team to ensure Scrum practices are followed and value is delivered effectively. What do you actually do ?”

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Luis Goncalves

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Better Performance. Coaching and feedback sessions or check-ins can also be more targeted since the manager knows exactly what the employee is working on. We provide Team Coaching , Agile Training and Agile Consulting , OKR Training and OKR Consulting , Innovation Training and Innovation Consulting.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

MARCH 12, 2020

The Scrum Guide offers very limited guidance, suggesting 3-9 people per team (exclusive of ScrumMaster and Product Owner), without giving reasons or context for those numbers. While this is primarily about Scrum, the lessons are applicable for any work that is collaborative and knowledge-based. Clearly, we need more useful sources.

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Evolution4all

MAY 12, 2018

Why learning roadmap for Scrum Masters is needed? Often, after completing the Scrum Master certification, Scrum Masters have not much idea where to start. This article presents several activities that Scrum Masters can perform when they join an organisation. Learning roadmap for Scrum Masters.

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scruminc

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Give Thanks for Scrum 2018 had a full house at Microsoft's training facility in Burlington, MA on 20 November. In my talk, I laid out the roadmap for deploying Scrum@Scale than enables a "scale-free" architecture that works in any size project. These are essential steps to attaining high organizational performance.

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scruminc

JUNE 26, 2020

ScrumCast Coach The Coach #1 - What Kind of Coach Are You? Each episode will explore organizational Agility and Scrum patterns, tactics, and techniques that drive real-world success. Every great team has a great coach. In short, the quality of Scrum and Agile coaches matter. . 16 Personalities.

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scruminc

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Why You Should Hire Your Own Scrum Masters. And How to Know a Good Scrum Master When You See One. Yet outsourcing Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches is still a tactic being used by companies large and small. Which is one reason we field questions like these a lot: Do we actually need to hire Scrum Masters?

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CIO

MARCH 7, 2023

Assemble a team of Scrum coaches, and they’re likely to debate how much empowerment self-organizing teams require, when to estimate user stories, and whether sprints remain relevant when devops teams are automating deployments with CI/CD. Today, many CIOs must determine which agile tools to use and where to create practice standards.

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CIO

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) certification , available through the Scrum Alliance , is an entry-level certification aimed at providing professionals with an awareness of the methodologies and values of Scrum, including team performance, accountability, and iterative progress.

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Luis Goncalves

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Implementing the Scrum methodology is easier than it seems. In my previous blog posts , I’ve shared with you the basics of this framework and its foundation, particularly the Scrum Pillars and Values that should be observed at all times. What makes up a Scrum team? Who Constitute the Scrum Team? The Scrum Master.

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James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

This is a transcript of my keynote presentation for the Regional Scrum Gathering Tokyo conference on January 8th, 2025. My favorite discussion of the topic is Robert Austins, who wrote Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations. Just like real Agile and real Scrum is too extreme for most companies. Not possible.

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Luis Goncalves

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

And more importantly, they help improve performance. In Google, managers conduct 1-on-1 coaching sessions or check-ins with their team members not only to monitor their progress but also to guide them. OKRs are not performance measures. Rather, they should be the results of these smaller tasks. How to Set OKR Like Google.

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scruminc

APRIL 24, 2020

What Happens to Managers in Scrum? . Each episode will explore organizational Agility and Scrum patterns, tactics, and techniques that drive real-world success. Each episode will explore organizational Agility and Scrum patterns, tactics, and techniques that drive real-world success. There’s a word missing in the Scrum Guide.

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CIO

APRIL 2, 2024

For example, KPMG reports that 51% of technology executives have not seen an increase in performance or profitability from digital transformation investments. Agile and scrum methodologies put most of the emphasis on delivery activities when teams focus on completing user stories every sprint.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) explained The Scaled Agile Framework encompasses a set of principles, processes, and best practices that helps larger organizations adopt agile methodologies , such as Lean, Kanban, and Scrum , to deliver high-quality products and services faster.

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scruminc

JULY 30, 2020

A good time was had by all at Scrum Day India 2020. A recent Forbes survey indicated to me that about 47% of Agile Transformations fail and 77% of Agile Transformations are Scrum transformations so most of the failures are due to bad Scrum. Why Scrum Works - Decision Latency. was well received.

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Gorilla Logic

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

“ My Scrum Master scheduled all these meetings, but they are taking time away from my actual work!”. Scrum ceremonies are where the magic happens! Scrum ceremonies are where the magic happens! If you ever feel that some of these meetings are ‘’just meetings’’ — your Scrum Master can help you understand their purpose.

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scruminc

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Scrum@Scale for Organizational Success: Insights from a Scrum of Scrums Master by Brian Hackerson | November 29 , 2023 | Blog In American football, being “ahead of the chains” means the offensive team has effectively advanced, making subsequent plays easier and achieving the goal more attainable.

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Luis Goncalves

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Moreover, it helps sustain the company culture and largely benefits the organisation, particularly employee productivity and performance. Studies have shown that employees who used OKR tend to be more effective at their jobs, which results to better performance and increased sales. Impact on Your Business.

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Evolution4all

MARCH 11, 2019

We provide Team Coaching , Agile Training , and Agile Consulting , OKR Training , OKR Consulting , Innovation Training and Innovation Consulting. With my team, I built 5 main products: High Performing Teams , Scrum Team Coach , Scrum Master Mentoring , Organisational Mastery and the External Business Accelerator.

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Evolution4all

MARCH 11, 2019

Key Results: Promote engagement among team members via incentives. Organise bi-weekly coaching sessions for low performers. Start a skill acquisition program for interested team members. . Look through the following objectives and key results examples as a guide to set yours: Example 1. Objective: Make our customers happy.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

You recently helped implement Scrum in your organization. Your Scrum teams are now self-organizing. Why Scrum Still Needs Managers. Self-Organizing Teams are often chaotic, especially in the first few months of implementing Scrum. Does their own hiring, firing, and performance reviews. You’re a manager.

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Evolution4all

MARCH 2, 2019

When applied consistently, OKRs can significantly improve the chances of achieving your goals and produce top-performing employees who are highly motivated and engaged. We provide Team Coaching , Agile Training and Agile Consulting , OKR Training , OKR Consulting , Innovation Training and Innovation Consulting.

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Luis Goncalves

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

We provide Team Coaching , Agile Training and Agile Consulting , OKR Training and OKR Consulting , Innovation Training and Innovation Consulting. With my team, I built 5 main products: High Performing Teams , Scrum Team Coach , Scrum Master Mentoring , Organisational Mastery and the External Business Accelerator.

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Luis Goncalves

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

With OKRs, employees set their goals with the guidance of their leads, often done through one-on-one coaching sessions. We provide Team Coaching , Agile Training and Agile Consulting , OKR Training and OKR Consulting , Innovation Training and Innovation Consulting. Grove also insisted that OKRs need to be aggressive.

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Evolution4all

MARCH 11, 2019

It can help foster collaboration and engagement among your employees as well as boost their performance. We provide Team Coaching , Agile Training , and Agile Consulting , OKR Training , OKR Consulting , Innovation Training and Innovation Consulting. It is flexible and can be tweaked to work with different dynamics.

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scruminc

JULY 17, 2018

Impediments of Performance Appraisals. The research on performance appraisal shows that they: Demotivate employees. 70% of content is about the manager, not the employee, and the remainder often does not accurately reflect employee performance because the manager does not really know day to day what happens (the team does).

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Agile42

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Observational Coaching Starting out as a new agile coach is difficult. Learn to leverage a structured approach to coaching that defines a way to prepare and execute coaching activities. As coaches, our opinions and unconscious biases can mislead or misdirect those we are coaching. Where do you go?

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Evolution4all

MARCH 2, 2019

With continuous feedback and coaching, they will be able to reach their goals. We provide Team Coaching , Agile Training and Agile Consulting , OKR Training , OKR Consulting , Innovation Training and Innovation Consulting. Do not worry about stretch goals. The best objectives are not easy to attain. Download The White-Paper.

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Evolution4all

AUGUST 5, 2018

There are clear roles for Product Owners , Scrum Masters , and Team Members, but nothing for Agile Managers. People that follow my work know how I hate personal goals, especially the ones attached to individual performance. How can we assemble cross-functional teams that have everything needed to allow high performance?

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Agile42

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

For our series of interviews, we sat down with Magnus Kollberg, a Mid Sweden University graduate who has recently joined the agile42 Sweden team as an Agile coach. I spent the last two years coaching a product development unit of 40 software, hardware and production engineers to shift from a waterfall approach to an agile one.

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Agile42

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

I sometimes get the impression that this is the way that Scrum Masters are seen. Often in classes and when coaching I conclude that Scrum Masters are expected to simply ‘fill the gap’. Call the Scrum Master. Call the Scrum Master! Call the Scrum Master! This is what makes being a Scrum Master so challenging.

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Evolution4all

MARCH 15, 2023

Solution When you perform Agile Transformation, make sure you implement what I mentioned before – OKRs or Agile Portfolio Management. But double-check that consultants are no longer Scrum Masters who are certified PMPs. It’s seen quite often that companies appoint the Team Lead the new Scrum Master.

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Xebia

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Key discoveries from the Digital & Generative AI track during AgileNCR 2023 include: Generative AI empowers Agile roles rather than replacing them, enhancing team performance through collaboration between AI and humans. GenAI adoption will impact Scrum adoption, with teams that fail fast ultimately winning fast.

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Evolution4all

MARCH 10, 2019

This may prove to be a challenge for some teams, especially those that perform highly technical jobs, such as software developers. Better Performance: With OKRs , employees will have clearer expectations of what they need to achieve. Challenge 2: How to Measure OKRs. Do not wait any longer and download your white paper now.

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