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 | Jan 17, 2021 | Agile and Scrum, Agile Transition, Hiring Agile practitioners, Scrum anti-patterns, Scrum Master
TL; DR: Scrum Master Anti-Patterns from Job Ads Job ads for Scrum Master positions reveal great insight into an organization’s progress on becoming agile. I analyzed more than 50 job ads for Scrum Master positions to gain these. Learn more about what makes job ads...
by Stefan Wolpers | Dec 7, 2020 | Agile and Scrum, Agile Transition, Product Owner
TL;DR: The Scrum Product Owner in 58 Theses The following 58 Product Owner theses describe the PO role from a holistic product creation perspective. They cover the concept of the Product Owner role, product discovery, how to deal with external and internal...
by Stefan Wolpers | Nov 22, 2020 | Agile and Scrum, Agile Metrics, Agile Transition, Product discovery, scrum, Scrum Master, Theses
TL;DR: The Scrum Master Theses The following 70 Scrum Master theses describe the role from a holistic product creation perspective. The theses cover the role of the Scrum Master from product discovery to product delivery in a hands-on practical manner. On the one...