by Stefan Wolpers | Mar 17, 2020 | Agile and Scrum, agile coach, Agile Transition, Product Owner, Remote Agile, Scrum Maste, Scrum Master
TL; DR: Remote Agile, Part 1: Practices & Tools for Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, and Product Owners Agile has always been about colocation, about direct communication, physical boards, and all the other haptic and analog moments to create value in the digital...
by Stefan Wolpers | Feb 17, 2020 | Agile and Scrum, Liberating Structures, Liberating Structures String, Scrum Master, Scrum Master career
TL; DR: The Successful Scrum Master Meetup During the 19th Hands-on Agile meetup, 30-plus people addressed the path to becoming a successful Scrum Master or agile coach, following up on the “Scrum Master Career 2020 — Using Ecocycle Planning to Identify Opportunities”...
by Stefan Wolpers | Jan 20, 2020 | Agile and Scrum, Agile Transition, mastery, Product backlog, scrum, Scrum Master, technical debt
TL; DR: Scrum Mastery How to make Scrum work? Read on to learn more about my top three objectives for Scrum Masters striving to achieve Scrum Mastery. Do you want to get this article in your inbox? You can sign up here and join 24k other subscribers. The Top Three...
by Stefan Wolpers | Jan 13, 2020 | Agile and Scrum, Mindset, Product design, Product discovery, Product Owner, Scrum Master, Workshops trainings
TL; DR: Product Mindset and OWnership in Scrum Teams There is one product, one Product Owner, one Product Backlog — a simple rule. How is that supposed to scale, you might ask, isn’t that approach turning the Product Owner into the Scrum team’s bottleneck, impeding...
by Stefan Wolpers | Dec 8, 2019 | Agile and Scrum, Agile career, Hiring Agile practitioners, Scrum Master, Scrum Master career, Scrum Master Salary Report, Scrum Master Trends Report
TL; DR: Scrum Master Career 2020 Last week, about 30 members of the Hands-on Agile community in Berlin came together to identify opportunities for personal and professional growth for the coming year, using Liberating Structures’ Ecocyle Planning in the process, to...
by Stefan Wolpers | Dec 1, 2019 | Agile and Scrum, scrum, Scrum anti-patterns, Scrum Master, Scrum Master anti-patterns
TL; DR: Scrum Master Anti-Patterns Scrum Master anti-patterns: The reasons why Scrum Masters violate the spirit of the Scrum Guide are multi-faceted. They run from ill-suited personal traits and the pursuit of individual agendas to frustration with the team itself....
