Marek has been a Product Owner for a year and a half. His team is building a new billing feature. With sales, it is agreed that the thing will be ready by the end of October. Every two weeks he sits in a meeting with three stakeholders and hears the question: So, are we going […]
Why my burndown does not live in Jira Weiterlesen »
Anyone looking into Scrum certifications today quickly runs into the question: CSM (Scrum Alliance) or PSM (Scrum.org)? The usual comparisons then list prices, exam formats, and renewal fees. That information is correct, but it misses the most important question. The most important question is: what should be different at the end? A certificate on your
CSM or PSM? The real question is a different one Weiterlesen »
In some of my trainings, we play the Ball Point Game.Participants form teams and pass balls to each other – following a set of simple rules – to score as many points as possible. At first, they experiment, improve slightly – and are quickly quite satisfied.Then they hear that other groups have achieved ten times
A Ball Point Game Moment with AI? Weiterlesen »
I (Anton here) am excited and exhausted, after investing over 2 years of my main attention in writing this book, it was published on March 21st! A somewhat exhausted but also happy author The title: “The Art of Slicing Work”. Let me briefly explain why I wrote another book about agility. If you search for
Anton’s book has been published – “The Art of Slicing Work” Weiterlesen »
Play4Agile 2023 was great! Play4Agile 2024 and 2025 have just been announced: Find out more on https://play4agile.wordpress.com/
Save the date: Play4Agile 2024 and 2025 Weiterlesen »
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
Introducing ScrumAdemia: An Agile Guide for Doctoral Research Weiterlesen »
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
Assignment Clarification for Scrum Masters & Agile Coaches Weiterlesen »
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
Sketch Notes from Scrum Master Training Weiterlesen »
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
Retromat: Behind the Scenes Weiterlesen »
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
Large Scale Scrum Announcements mid 2019 Weiterlesen »
