by Stefan Wolpers | Aug 23, 2022 | Agile and Scrum, Agile Transition
TL; DR: The Professional Scrum Facilitation Skills Training (PSFS) It does not happen often, but Scrum.org announced a class: Professional Scrum Facilitation Skills (PSFS)! The Professional Scrum Facilitation Skills (PSFS) training is a one-day Scrum.org class for...
by Stefan Wolpers | Aug 8, 2022 | Agile and Scrum, Agile anti-patterns, Agile Transition, Leadership, Making Your Scrum Work, Micromanagement, scrum, Scrum anti-patterns
TL; DR: Agile Micromanagement There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Indeed, given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. For example, the Scrum Guide clearly states the importance of...
by Stefan Wolpers | Aug 1, 2022 | Agile and Scrum, Agile Transition, Making Your Scrum Work, Scrum anti-patterns, Sprint Goal, Sprint planning, Video
TL; DR: No Sprint Goal There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. For example, what if there is no Sprint Goal — Sprint after Sprint? What if the...
by Stefan Wolpers | Jul 25, 2022 | Agile and Scrum, Agile Transition, Making Your Scrum Work, Sprint review, Stakeholders, Video
TL; DR: Unengaged Stakeholders There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. For example, what if your Scrum team repeatedly faces unengaged...
by Stefan Wolpers | Jul 18, 2022 | Agile and Scrum, Agile Transition, Scrum first principles, Stakeholders
TL; DR: Stakeholder Trust Trust is the beginning of everything. I am hesitant to recycle an old slogan of a banking institute. However, in the context of becoming a learning organization and embracing business agility, it condenses the main challenge perfectly: How...
by Stefan Wolpers | Jul 10, 2022 | Agile and Scrum, Agile Transition, Making Your Scrum Work, Retrospective, Scrum anti-patterns, sprint retrospective, Video
TL; DR: Prisoners of Retrospectives There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. What if, for example, not all of your Scrum team’s members feel...
