Scrum First Principles

Stakeholder Trust

TL; DR: Stakeholder Trust Trust is the beginning of everything. I am hesitant to recycle an old slogan of a…

July 18, 2022

🖥 Hands-on-Agile #38: AMA with Roman Pichler: The Product Owner

TL; DR: HoA #38: Ask-Me-Anything w/ Roman Pichler: The Product Owner Join us for an exciting AMA session with Roman…

December 11, 2021

Estimates Are Useful, Just Ditch the Numbers

TL; DR: Estimates Are Useful, Just Ditch the Numbers Many people dislike estimating work items as estimates supposedly open the…

September 20, 2021

Abandoning Scrum: Can a Scrum Team Decide to Quit Scrum?

TL; DR: Abandoning Scrum Can a Scrum team simply decide to abandon Scrum? After all, the Scrum team is self-managing,…

July 27, 2021

Increasing the Velocity of Value — Agile Camp Berlin 2021

TL; DR: Increasing the Velocity of Value w/ Dave West — ACB21 In this highly engaging speaker session from the…

June 30, 2021

Scrum Master Skills: Visualizing the Cost of Team Building with the Tuckman Model

Scrum Master Skills: Visualizing the Tuckman Model "A picture is worth a thousand words." Probably, we have all heard that…

June 21, 2021

Why Scrum Requires a Failure Culture — Making Your Scrum Work #10

TL; DR: Scrum Failure Culture: A Requirement to Be Successful There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that…

May 24, 2021

Four Scrum Master Success Principles

TL; DR: Four Scrum Master Success Principles Contrary to popular belief, the Scrum Master success principles are tangible, when we…

May 13, 2021

Scrum’s Nature: It Is a Tool; It Is Not About Love or Hate

TL; DR: Scrum’s Nature: It Is a Tool; It Is Not About Love or Hate Regularly, we find articles from…

July 21, 2020

Scrum Mastery in 300 Words

TL; DR: Scrum Mastery How to make Scrum work? Read on to learn more about my top three objectives for…

January 21, 2020