By: Yuval Yeret, Professional Scrum Trainer, Scrum.org We’ve all seen it. The Scrum Team that goes through the motions, implements all the mechanics of Scrum, and still when we look at what’s going on it doesn’t feel right. Steve Porter fondly named it Believably Bad Scrum. I call it Scrum…

By: Professional Scrum Trainer Mehmet Yitmen, Scrum.org We have been experiencing a radical change in terms of market dynamics and economic models for the last few decades. In fact, we are shifting from a world where giant companies are kings to a world where clients are kings, in other words…

By: Professional Scrum Trainer Joshua Partogi, Scrum.org It was 8:59 am on Monday. It was another week which I thought was going to be amazing. Last week our company just closed another round of investment. The company is currently strategizing to scale agility throughout the company. As I was rushing…

By: Stephanie Ockerman, Professional Scrum Trainer, Scrum.org This is a common question in my Professional Scrum classes. It often comes up right after we discuss that there are three roles in Scrum, and project manager is not one of them. In this post, I share my story of discovering Scrum…

By Christiaan Verwijs, Professional Scrum Trainer, Scrum.org Scrum Masters are often understood mostly as “team coaches”. Yet, their role is vastly more important. …

By: Peter Götz, Professional Scrum Trainer, Scrum.org Scrum and Kanban are a great combination. With this insight more and more Scrum Teams become aware of terms and phrases used in Kanban. Like ‘WIP’. When I have used this acronym in the past I have read it as ‘work in progress’…

By Simon Reindl, Professional Scrum Trainer, Scrum.org The purpose of Scrum is to create a potentially releasable Done product Increment, in order to realize business value. Many teams struggle in improving their Definition of Done. …

Gary Pedretti, Professional Scrum Trainer, Scrum.org I often see User Experience (UX) Designers struggle to align focus, work, and approach with Scrum Teams building increments of product in iterations of 30 days or fewer. Common concerns and questions I hear include: “Developers aren’t really interested in the user, they just…

By Professional Scrum Trainer, ILLIA Pavlichenko, Scrum.org In this article, I will discuss the dangerous dynamic that can arise when a Product Owner, Scrum Master, or the management of an organization focuses a Development Team on velocity. What does velocity refer to? The concept of velocity signifies: The speed at…