by Stefan Wolpers | Mar 7, 2021 | Agile and Scrum, Agile Transition, Hiring Agile practitioners, Scrum Master, Scrum Master Salary Report
TL; DR: Peer Recruiting Peer Recruiting is the new hiring: Shortly, all creative, technology-based organizations will need to abandon the command & control structures that served the industrial world of the 20th century so well. Instead, they will reorganize...
by Stefan Wolpers | Feb 21, 2021 | Agile and Scrum, Agile anti-patterns, Agile Transition, Product discovery, Product roadmap, scrum, Scrum anti-patterns
TL; DR: Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Scrum has proven to be an effective product delivery framework for all sorts of products. However, Scrum is equally well suited to build the wrong product efficiently as its Achilles heel has always been the product discovery...
by Stefan Wolpers | Feb 14, 2021 | Agile and Scrum, Agile anti-patterns, Agile culture, Agile Transition, Scaling agile, Scrum anti-patterns, Startups, Workshops trainings
TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. These are my lessons learned on making ‘agile’ — including Scrum as a framework —...
by Stefan Wolpers | Feb 8, 2021 | Agile and Scrum, Product backlog, Product backlog refinement, scrum, Scrum anti-patterns
TL; DR: Product Owner Anti-Patterns from Job Ads Garbage in, garbage out: No matter whether your team chose Scrum for the right purpose—solving complex, adaptive problems. No matter whether your Scrum Team’s product quality is top-notch or whether your teammates...
by Stefan Wolpers | Feb 1, 2021 | Agile and Scrum, Product Owner, Scrum anti-patterns
TL; DR: Product Owner Anti-Patterns from Job Ads Like a job ad for a Scrum Master position, the equivalent for the Product Owner position also reveals excellent insight into an organization’s progress on becoming agile. Yesterday, I analyzed 60-plus randomly selected...
by Stefan Wolpers | Jan 25, 2021 | Agile and Scrum, Employer or client, Hiring Agile practitioners, Scrum Master
TL; DR: Scrum Master Job — 4 Steps to Identify Suitable Employers or Clients Are you considering a new Scrum Master job? However, you are not sure that it is the right organization? Don’t worry; there are four steps of proactive research to identify suitable employers...
