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Introducing ScrumAdemia: An Agile Guide for Doctoral Research

By Timon Fiddike / 10. February 2023 / Uncategorized

I am happy to share that some wonderful people I had a chance to work with in 2021 just published ScrumAdemia as a research paper: Here’s an announcement about it on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7029825529163743232/ The authors are on LinkedIn as well, just follow the link above to their original announcement to comment, ask questions etc. The article …

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Assignment Clarification for Scrum Masters & Agile Coaches

By Anton Skornyakov / 28. November 2020 / Scrum / Agile Coach, Scrum Master

I’ve facilitated my first Berlin Scrum Meetup yesterday and really love the experience. Our first session is going to be about “Assignment Clarification” (German “Auftragsklärung”) of a Scrum Master. If you are just looking for the current Cheat Sheet click here. Why does a Scrum Master need a clear assignment? As a Scrum Master, you …

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Sketch Notes from Scrum Master Training

By Timon Fiddike / 2. October 2020 / Scrum

In our recent three day CSM Training September 21st to 23rd, I (Timon here) was surprised in a very positive way: One of our participants, Dr. Björn Kahlert, created a book of sketch notes about the content of the course. He decided provide the book as a full set of photos for anyone interested. If …

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Retromat: Behind the Scenes

By Timon Fiddike / 26. June 2020 / Agile, Retrospectives, Scrum

Retromat looks exactly liked it did last week and most of our 30.000 monthly unique visitors are not going to notice any changes. Behind the scenes, quite a bit changed. Or rather: Corinna and I (Timon here) changed them quite a bit. After 5 years of maintaining the world’s best Unix-nerd-friendly hosting product of the …

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Large Scale Scrum Announcements mid 2019

By Anton Skornyakov / 8. August 2019 / Uncategorized

Hi everyone, summer vacation slowly but surely go over and the conference season is about to start. We also have great speakers and ideas for our meetup coming. In this announcement we want to share 2 topics. Global LeSS conference right at our door and a new declaration for you to maybe sign. Global LeSS …

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Berlin Agile Community Camp

By Anton Skornyakov / 23. January 2019 / Uncategorized

Here is the link to the invitation website. What? A camp for everyone who contributes or wants to contribute to growth of people and organisations in and around Berlin with respect to Agile – making Berlin the Heart of Agile. We create a common vision, discuss what is contributing to it today and how we …

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Our Road Through the TAC Interview

By Anton Skornyakov / 16. June 2018 / Uncategorized

On 14th April 2018 we, Pascal, Jens and Anton got our “Welcome to the CST community!” from the Scrum Alliance Trainer Approval Community (TAC). For each of us this was our first time in front of the TAC and it is a huge milestone on a very long journey. There are about 20 CSTs in …

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Retromat is now available in Russian

By Timon Fiddike / 15. December 2017 / Uncategorized

Try it yourself: https://plans-for-retrospectives.com/ru/ Read / retweet: Announcement on Twitter Do you have any Russian colleagues who would be happy to know this? Seasons greetings from the Retromat Team 😀

First LeSS Coaching Camp on 25.-27th August 2017 in Wandlitz close to Berlin, Germany.

By Anton Skornyakov / 28. August 2017 / Uncategorized

This is my personal review of the LeSS Coaching Camp that ended yesterday. It was a great weekend. I’ve learned much and I’ve gotten so much more confident of my own knowledge and capabilities. I could already feel this today from interactions with two different clients. And, it was a great crowd. We were 15 …

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Knowledge Work – Definition and Properties

By Anton Skornyakov / 23. May 2017 / Uncategorized

This is an English version of this article about “Wissensarbeit” that appeared in German on our blog. When hearing about Agility, Scrum or Kanban people very often use the term knowledge work or learning. With many organisations this leads to confusion or misunderstanding. They don’t see themselves as schools or universities, where people go to …

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Slides for Large Scale Scrum Meetup on Transforming Large Organisations

By Anton Skornyakov / 10. March 2017 / Uncategorized

A couple of days ago, we had another successful Large Scale Scrum meetup. Our topic: Transforming Large Organisations. We had a wonderful time with Ari Tikka presenting on different patterns used by him in different large scale transformations to create a place of learning – Ba. Afterwards we discussed what a Ba could be in …

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