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Agile Transition

A Sprint Review without Stakeholders — Making Your Scrum Work #3

TL; DR: A Sprint Review without Stakeholders There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a…

The Hardening Sprint Fallacy — Making Your Scrum Work #2

TL; DR: The Hardening Sprint Fallacy There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework…

Product Backlog Defense – Common Patterns of Stakeholder Interference

TL; DR: Product Backlog Defense Make no mistake: Your Product Backlog is the last line of defense preventing your Scrum…

📅 🖥 Virtual Agile Camp Berlin 2021 — May 27-29, 2021

TL; DR: The vACB21’s Schedule, Session Proposals, Technology, and Workshops The Agile Camp Berlin 2021 will be a virtual event…

Peer Recruiting: How to Hire a Scrum Master in Agile Times

TL; DR: Peer Recruiting Peer Recruiting is the new hiring: Shortly, all creative, technology-based organizations will need to abandon the…

Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Leading to Failure

TL; DR: Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Scrum has proven to be an effective product delivery framework for all sorts of products.…

How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups

TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in…

22 Scrum Master Anti-Patterns from Job Ads: From Funny to What the Heck?

TL; DR: Scrum Master Anti-Patterns from Job Ads Job ads for Scrum Master positions reveal great insight into an organization’s…

58 Product Owner Theses

TL;DR: The Scrum Product Owner in 58 Theses The following 58 Product Owner theses describe the PO role from a…

Sprint Planning Checklist

TL; DR: Scrum Sprint Planning Checklist A Sprint Planning checklist? How dare you: Agile is a mindset, not a methodology.…