Scrum for Managers

Are you considered an authoritative "leader" in your organization? Do you spend your day at the top of the tower or in the trenches? Real Agile leaders abandon the top of the tower and thoughtfully empower an organization from the trenches, which fuels the connections that lead to high-performing Agility. Let's learn more about how you can make this happen in your organization.

The Lean-Agile Leadership competency describes how Lean-Agile Leaders drive and sustain organizational change and operational excellence by empowering individuals and teams to reach their highest potential. They do this through leading by example, learning and modeling SAFe’s Lean-Agile mindset, values, principles, and practices, and leading the change to a new way of working.

In today’s fast-paced and constantly changing business world, effective teamwork is essential for success. Teams are responsible for…

Nexus builds upon Scrum’s foundation and minimally extends the Scrum framework to enable multiple teams to work from a single Product Backlog to build an Integrated Increment that meets a goal.

Scrum of scrums is a scaled agile technique that offers a way to connect multiple teams who need to work together to deliver complex solutions.

Nurture your team to high performance with Tuckman’s Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, and Adjourning (Mourning) model.

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Building (and hiring) a great team takes time and effort. Patrick Lencioni’s “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team” became a staple reading in an Agile community these days.

The amount of time you lose to distractions at work is much longer than you think. Learn how to refocus, regain lost time, and increase your productivity!

How Scrum Teams Fail Stakeholders and What You Can Do About It: from overpromising results to neglecting feedback — Age-of-Product.com.

How do you get the best estimate of story size when estimating? I explore seven ways to make estimates easier and more accurate. Find out more inside.

Insights from Google's new study could forever change how teams are assembled.

Every Ukrainian has their own story of how they met the full-scale war and how it changed them. As for me, on February 23 at 4 pm I was at…

A simple model to better understand why and when something is valuable to your team and its stakeholders

Explore the essence of Lean manufacturing with a deep dive into the elimination of Muda, Mura, and Muri, enhancing efficiency and quality in your processes.

Few things in Scrum are as misunderstood and misinterpreted as much as a Scrum Team’s need for self-management. At the highest level, it’s not a very difficult concept, but the nuances tend to throw things into question.  Simply said: the team needs the autonomy to get its work done. However, the phrase “self-management” has led some to believe that Scrum is anti-management or anti-manager. This is simply not true. In fact, there are several myths that we’d like to debunk:

The most innovative companies tend to push decisions as far down in the organization as possible, giving people at all levels the opportunity to move fast, utilize their creativity, apply their intellect, and assume responsibility. —Collins, Jim. [1] Principle #9 – Decentralize Decision-Making Surviving and thriving in today’s business environment requires quick and efficient decision-making. Disruptive technology, high interconnectedness, and intense competition mean opportunities are fleeting, problems escalate rapidly, and information moves faster than traditional organizational structures can handle. CreatingRead more

Agile Usage Statistics: Explore the latest agile statistics of 2024 and gain insights into the success rates, benefits, and industry trends.

The scrum team self organizes but that does not mean there's no place for the project manager. Indeed, the project manager can play an important part in an agile project. Find out how to implement in this FREE Guide

Check out this blog to learn how to integrate ITIL and agile principles to improve your company's service delivery, efficiency, and collaboration.

Here are some common challenges Scrum Teams face when engaging with stakeholders and ways to overcome these challenges.

In this article, we elaborate on the 3H personality types, mention some recent examples, analyze an alternative theory, and in the end, describe how to build the dream team.

In any kind of relationship trust is a treasure that is hard to gain but easy to lose. I will share with you the 5 core elements needed to build trust in your relationships

In the Scrum framework, there are three "core roles," which are mandatory for producing the product, are committed, and ultimately responsible for each sprint & the initiative's success. These roles are Product Owner, the Agile Team, and Scrum Master.