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Discover why senior leadership engagement is crucial for successful agile transformations. Join Martin Hinshelwood as he shares key insights!

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Discover why true agility is an evolution, not a transformation. Embrace continuous change to thrive in today’s fast-paced business landscape.

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Unlocking Agile Leadership: Transform Your Skills with Scrum.org's Essentials Workshop

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Agile Leadership: Empowering Managers with the Right Skills

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Unlocking Sustainable Growth: Why Leadership is the Key to Successful Scaling

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Become the leader that you were meant to to be

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The Strategic Imperative: Empowering Teams with Vision, Goals, and Direction

Unlock your team’s potential! Discover how a shared vision and clear goals drive organisational success and empower informed decision-making. Watch now!

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There Is No Such Thing as a "Junior" Scrum Master

The idea of a junior Scrum Master is a fallacy. The Scrum Master is not an entry-level position and should be born fully formed!

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Create your own path to Organisational Agility

Discover how to tailor your path to organisational agility with evidence-based strategies. Empower your team and drive meaningful change today!

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Training: A Bridge to Knowledge and Growth

Unlock your team’s potential! Discover 3 key strategies for agile leaders to uplift underperforming teams in this insightful video. 🌱🚀

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Focusing Beyond "Agile": Building True Capability in Organizations

Refocus your organisation! Discover how to build competence and value by improving hiring practices and fostering effective leadership. 🌱💼 #LifelongLearning

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Does Your Team Truly Understand Your Product Vision and Goals?

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Boosting Team Morale and Engagement Through Effective Mentorship Programs

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Navigating Agile Transformation: Empowering Teams for Success in a Rapidly Changing Landscape

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From Product Owner to Systemic Leader: Embracing the Evolution in Agile Leadership

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Transforming Management into Agile Leadership: The Power of Virtual Training

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Exclusive Webcast #2: "Agile Leadership & Agile Transformation" with Dr. Joanna Płaskonka & Martin Hinshelwood

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Luddites have no place in the modern organisation

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Professional Agile Leadership - Evidence-Based Management (PAL-EBM)

Scrum.org created the Evidence-Based Management™ (EBM) framework which is an Agile approach to help leaders guide their teams toward continuously improving customer outcomes, organizational capabilities, and business results. EBM focuses on customer value and intentional experimentation to systematically improve an organization’s performance and achieve its strategic goals.

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Empowering Leadership: Driving Cultural Change for Agile Success

Unlock the secrets to effective leadership in driving cultural change! Discover how to set a clear vision, invest in automation, and foster collaboration.

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Professional Agile Leadership Essentials (PAL-e) with Certification

Professional Agile Leadership (PAL) Essentials is a 14h workshop, delivered over four half-days that provides a foundation of the role that leaders play in creating the conditions for a successful agile transformation.

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Where Agile Went Wrong: Understanding the Competence Crisis

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Empowering Teams to Tailor Their Processes: A Path to True Agility

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The Power of Metrics: Why PAL-EBM is Essential for Your Organization

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Does your company culture resemble Survivor?

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Biggest contribution from a Product Owner that you know of

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Hiring a Professional Scrum Master

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7 harbingers of the Agile apocalypse - Judgement

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Transforming Leadership: Embrace the Immersive Journey to Agile Mastery

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Unlocking Agile’s Core: Questioning to Create Value

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Product Goal is an Intermediate Strategic Goal

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Unlocking Business Value: The Power of Evidence-Based Management for Effective Leadership

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Why the Scrum Master’s True Power Lies in Influence, Not Authority

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The Scrum Master is accountable for Delivery

The Scrum Master is accountable for delivery, ensuring every Scrum Team produces a usable increment every sprint while fostering effectiveness and value delivery.

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Free Workshop 04: Introduction to Sprint Reviews [Review & Retrospective]

Join Martin Hinshelwood for a free 90-minute workshop on running effective Sprint Reviews. Learn to gather feedback and plan your next steps!

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Transform Your Scrum Team in 90 Days: Strategies for Continuous Delivery and Empowerment

Transform your Scrum team’s delivery in just 90 days! Discover strategies for continuous delivery, value clarity, and empowering champions for lasting success.

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Agile is Not New: A Journey Back to the Basics

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Detecting Agile BS: Lessons from the US Department of Defense

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There is no "do agile" there is only "be agile"

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7 Deadly Sins of Agile: Greed

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Empowering Teams with Financial Insights: The Key to Maximising ROI and Fostering Ownership

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How to Achieve Predictability in Business through Agile Principles

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Discover the true essence of a Scrum Master as a servant leader. Uncover common misconceptions and learn how to empower your team for success!

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The Importance of Patience and Trust in Building Agile Organizations

Unlock Agile success with patience! Discover how this vital virtue builds trust, navigates setbacks, and fosters a non-blame culture. Watch now! 🌟

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7 Harbingers of the Agile apocalypse - Chaos

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Balance of Leadership and Control in Scrum

Why Is It So Important that Senior Leadership Teams are Engaged During an Agile Consulting Engagement?

Evolution not Transformation: This is the Inevitability of change

Why is Satya Nadella a better example of agile leadership than Steve Jobs?

Professional Organisational Change at the Ghana Police Service

Unlocking Agile Leadership: Transform Your Skills with Scrum.org's Essentials Workshop

Agile Leadership: Empowering Managers with the Right Skills

Unlocking Sustainable Growth: Why Leadership is the Key to Successful Scaling

Become the leader that you were meant to to be

What is the one thing that no Agile team can survive?

The Strategic Imperative: Empowering Teams with Vision, Goals, and Direction

There Is No Such Thing as a "Junior" Scrum Master

Create your own path to Organisational Agility

Training: A Bridge to Knowledge and Growth

Focusing Beyond "Agile": Building True Capability in Organizations

Does Your Team Truly Understand Your Product Vision and Goals?

Boosting Team Morale and Engagement Through Effective Mentorship Programs

Navigating Agile Transformation: Empowering Teams for Success in a Rapidly Changing Landscape

From Product Owner to Systemic Leader: Embracing the Evolution in Agile Leadership

Transforming Management into Agile Leadership: The Power of Virtual Training

Exclusive Webcast #2: "Agile Leadership & Agile Transformation" with Dr. Joanna Płaskonka & Martin Hinshelwood

Luddites have no place in the modern organisation

Professional Agile Leadership - Evidence-Based Management (PAL-EBM)

Empowering Leadership: Driving Cultural Change for Agile Success

Professional Agile Leadership Essentials (PAL-e) with Certification

Where Agile Went Wrong: Understanding the Competence Crisis

Empowering Teams to Tailor Their Processes: A Path to True Agility

The Power of Metrics: Why PAL-EBM is Essential for Your Organization

Does your company culture resemble Survivor?

Biggest contribution from a Product Owner that you know of

Hiring a Professional Scrum Master

What is the most interesting outcome you have achieved as an agile consultant?

How Immersive Learning Transforms Aspiring Agile Leaders

Why is the Professional Agile Leadership - Essentials course a natural evolution for an experienced Scrum Master?

In what circumstances is agile consulting appropriate?

Why is becoming a Scrum Master a great career option?

Scrum is made up of Influencers, Entrepreneurs, and Makers

7 harbingers of the Agile apocalypse - Judgement

Transforming Leadership: Embrace the Immersive Journey to Agile Mastery

Why do you prefer agile consulting over agile coaching?

How would you help organizations pitch the opportunity of agile internally?

Unlocking Organisational Agility: How to Empower Your Team for Rapid Market Response

Unlocking Agile’s Core: Questioning to Create Value

Why did so many of the early agile transformations fail?

Announcing Professional Agile Leadership with Evidence-Based Management Training (PAL-EBM) from Scrum.org

Product Goal is an Intermediate Strategic Goal

Unlocking Business Value: The Power of Evidence-Based Management for Effective Leadership

Why the Scrum Master’s True Power Lies in Influence, Not Authority

Unlocking Naked Agility: How Happy Teams Drive Exceptional Products

Unlocking Organisational Value: The Transformative Power of Engagement in Agile Teams

Why Cost-Cutting During Recessions Is Counterproductive

Empowering Teams for Success: The Key to Thriving Product Development

Where is consensus valuable and where does it kill great product development?

Transforming Chaos into Clarity: How Optimising Systems Fuels Engineering Excellence

Cultivating a Culture of Quality: Lessons from Boeing and Volkswagen for Engineering Excellence

The Scrum Master is accountable for Delivery

Free Workshop 04: Introduction to Sprint Reviews [Review & Retrospective]

Transform Your Scrum Team in 90 Days: Strategies for Continuous Delivery and Empowerment

Agile is Not New: A Journey Back to the Basics

Detecting Agile BS: Lessons from the US Department of Defense

There is no "do agile" there is only "be agile"

7 Deadly Sins of Agile: Greed

Empowering Teams with Financial Insights: The Key to Maximising ROI and Fostering Ownership

How to Achieve Predictability in Business through Agile Principles

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