Scrum: Empowering Teams to Deliver Value Through Empirical Adaptation

Learn how to define, craft, and achieve effective Sprint Goals in Scrum, using frameworks like SMART and OKR to align teams, deliver value, and …

Sprint planning is a collaborative session where teams define and align on goals, tasks, and priorities for the next sprint, ensuring clarity and …

Explains the Nexus framework for scaling Scrum with multiple teams, detailing roles, events, and artefacts to coordinate product delivery and manage …

Step-by-step guide for running a Sprint Review, including presenting the increment, gathering feedback, updating the backlog, forecasting, and …

Explains why product ownership and product management are deeply connected in Scrum, clarifying their roles, focus on value delivery, and the need for …

Step-by-step guide to effective Sprint Planning in Scrum, covering goal setting, backlog selection, team capacity, actionable plans, and clear …

Explains how the Sprint Goal guides Scrum teams by providing a clear, shared objective for each Sprint, ensuring focus, transparency, and alignment …

Summarises key changes in the 2020 Scrum Guide, including simplified language, self-managing teams, and new commitments for goals, backlog, and …

Explains the sprint goal in Scrum as a clear, tactical objective for each sprint, guiding team focus, enabling actionable feedback, and linking daily …

Explains the Sprint Backlog as a transparent, flexible plan in Scrum, combining goals, tasks, and strategy to help teams stay focused, adaptable, and …

Scrum Teams uphold, not lower, quality by strictly following and evolving the Definition of Done, ensuring predictable releases and reducing technical …

Scrum Teams must consistently meet a clear, non-negotiable Definition of Done to ensure quality, manage risk, and prevent technical debt in every …

Delivering working, valuable software at the end of each iteration, ensuring value is incrementally added to the product.

Explains how scaling Scrum requires UX coherence through Communities of Practice, shared frameworks, and collaboration—not central control—to ensure …

Scrum Masters need authority to remove obstacles and drive project success. Without empowerment, they can't fulfil their role or be held accountable …

Change succeeds when everyone understands and engages with it. Broad Scrum training empowers all roles to identify blockers and drive real, lasting …

Explores the gap between accountability and authority for Scrum Masters and Product Owners, highlighting the need to empower roles responsible for …

Explains the Scrum Master's role in ensuring team delivery by fostering agility, removing blockers, and being accountable for improving team …

Explores how teams misuse self-management to dodge alignment, clarifying that true autonomy requires accountability, shared goals, and adherence to …

Clarifies Scrum guidelines on unfinished work, explaining that items can span multiple Sprints if the Sprint Goal and Done Increment remain intact, …

Discover why experienced Scrum practitioners often misunderstand core principles, and how revisiting Scrum fundamentals restores clarity, agility, and …

Effective Scrum Masters and Product Owners empower teams with clear goals and autonomy, balancing structure and flexibility to promote accountability …

Understand the risks of hiring inexperienced junior Scrum Masters, including higher costs, team issues, and project delays, versus investing in …

Agile and Scrum expose underlying team and workflow issues, helping organisations address real problems rather than masking dysfunction with process …

Explains why staggered iterations harm software delivery, increasing technical debt, and recommends cross-functional teams, test-first, and working …

Value in software is only realised through delivery. Frequent releases validate assumptions, reduce risk, and enable rapid feedback, adaptation, and …

Many Scrum Masters lack core Scrum knowledge and technical skills, leading to poor team support. Learn key competencies needed for effective, …

Explores how agile teams can achieve predictable software delivery through quality focus, effective release planning, and continuous improvement, …

Stop confusing acceptance criteria with definition of done—learn the crucial difference to boost quality, speed, and trust in your agile delivery.

Scrum Masters with deep knowledge and competence enable teams to deliver better products, drive business outcomes, and foster real improvement in …

Explains why Scrum Masters should not direct teams, emphasising self-organisation, shared responsibility, and the importance of team autonomy in Scrum …

Explains Scrum’s four key value areas—current value, unrealised value, ability to innovate, and time to market—for data-driven product and …

Learn three key Agile strategies: define clear completion criteria, avoid overcommitting in Sprints, and prioritise backlog refinement for better team …

Common Goals are a first principle of effective delivery. They align strategy with execution, enabling every decision, every Sprint, and every line of …

Transform your leadership with the Professional Scrum Master course. Master Scrum principles, enhance team collaboration, and drive organisational …

Explains why relying on story points and velocity signals team immaturity in Scrum, and highlights better ways to build confidence and predictability …

Explains how self-managing teams thrive with autonomy balanced by structure, highlighting the need for clear goals, accountability, and alignment …

Reflects on experiences with Professional Scrum, highlighting its impact on software development, team culture, training, and the challenges of …

Explores how lack of authority hinders teams from removing project blockers and overcoming organisational inertia, stressing the need for real …

Scrum Masters require proven expertise, not entry-level skills. Hiring juniors in this role risks team performance and agile success; experience is …

Explains how involving everyone in Professional Scrum training fosters organisational agility, breaks down silos, and empowers teams to drive …

Explains why consistent delivery is essential for Scrum Master effectiveness, highlighting its role in enabling feedback, improvement, and team value …

Learn how Professional Scrum training empowers teams to identify organisational blockers, create actionable change backlogs, and drive real …

Professional Scrum training introduced Ghana Police officers to Agile methods, using hands-on sprints to support organisational change and …

Unlock the power of flow metrics in Scrum! This immersive course enhances your Agile practices, boosting team efficiency and project outcomes.

Master scaling Scrum with the Scaled Professional Scrum™ course. Gain hands-on skills, tackle cross-team challenges, and earn your SPS certification!

Software development thrives on continuous discovery and adaptation; upfront planning can’t predict everything. Embrace uncertainty, deliver …

Explains recent changes to Scrum aimed at reducing rigidity, clarifying core practices, and providing a checklist to help teams assess if they are …

Explains how to integrate Design Sprint activities within Scrum by embedding design and UX work into regular sprints and backlog refinement, avoiding …

Summary of a multi-team Professional Scrum training at DFDS Seaways in Immingham, UK, highlighting co-located learning, cross-team collaboration, and …

Covers a two-day, hands-on Scrum.org course in Alameda, teaching Scrum principles, teamwork, and practical software delivery for all roles in the …

Explains burndown charts in Scrum, their purpose, common issues, and compares tracking by hours, story points, and acceptance tests to improve team …

Explains why Scrum is a social framework, not just engineering, emphasizing inclusive training, alignment, collaboration, and breaking …

Explains how Scrum exposes hidden organisational problems through transparency and feedback, enabling teams to identify issues, improve processes, and …

Running an Applying Professional Scrum workshop helps organisations build agile skills, improve teamwork, and adopt Scrum practices through hands-on, …

Covers key responsibilities, skills, and requirements for hiring a Scrum Master, including leadership, coaching, facilitation, and fostering effective …

Guidance on selecting the best process template for team projects in TFS or VSTS, highlighting why the Scrum template reduces friction for agile teams …

Explains why the Scrum Master role requires experience and competence, debunking the myth of a "junior" Scrum Master and highlighting the need for …

Explains the true responsibilities of a Scrum Master, how to maximise team effectiveness, teach Scrum principles, and address organisational …

Explains why a Scrum Master leads through influence, not authority, focusing on building trust, fostering team effectiveness, and supporting agile …