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New: The ‘Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide’ Free Email Course

by Stefan Wolpers | 2024-01-10 Featured Agile and ScrumBooks

Embark on Your Journey to Excellence with the Free Scrum Anti-Patterns Email Course

Are you ready to transform your Scrum practices and elevate your agile journey? Dive into my exclusive, free email course based on the acclaimed “Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide” book. This course is a treasure trove of insights, offering a sneak peek into the crucial anti-patterns that could hinder your team’s success.

This course illuminates the common pitfalls in Scrum roles — from the Scrum Master to the Product Owner and stakeholders — and Scrum events. You’ll gain an understanding of the subtle missteps, team dynamics, and resulting patterns.

Learn About the ‘Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide’ w/ a Free Email Course by the author Stefan Wolpers — Age-of-Product.com

Minimum Viable Library (3) — Agile Leadership Edition

by Stefan Wolpers | 2023-10-02 Agile and ScrumBooks

TL; DR: The Minimum Viable Library for Agile Leaders

A new edition of the Minimum Viable Library on Agile Leadership is available! Explore a series of carefully curated collections of essential books, newsletters, podcasts, and tools to elevate your agile expertise.

Read on and learn how the recommendations for agile leaders cover a wide range of topics, from the importance of self-managing teams and trust-based environments to the crucial roles of accountability and resilience. While “servant leadership” as a term may be fading, its principles of empowerment and collaboration endure. Stories of transformation in traditional settings underscore the value of decentralized leadership and quick communication.

Minimum Viable Library (3) — Agile Leadership Edition — Age-of-Product.com

Help Select the Book Cover of the new ‘Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide’ by Pearson

by Stefan Wolpers | 2022-12-17 Agile and ScrumBooks

TL; DR: Red or Blue?

I need your support, dear community. For months, I have been working on turning the popular Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide PDF into a new book from Scrum-org’s Professional Scrum Series, published by Pearson. We will soon start the editing process, and I am hopeful we may see a release date in Q2/2023.

Creating the graphics has been challenging at times; there will be more than 50 cartoons and sketches in the book. However, it has also been gratifying to rethink some of the old cartoons and, generally, improve their quality.

There is one challenge, though, I like to ask for your support: which cover shall it be — red or blue?

Help Select the Book Cover of the new ‘Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide’ by Pearson — Age-of-Product.com

Accelerate: Building and Scaling High-Performing Technology Organizations [Review]

by Stefan Wolpers | 2018-07-31 Agile TransitionBooks

TL;DR: Accelerate

Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim latest book Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations [advertising] describes the factors that drive high-performing tech organizations, derived from the data that has been aggregated with the State of DevOps Report since 2014.

“Accelerate” [advertising] is a must-read book for anyone involved in building agile organizations and teams. It lays out a path to success based on a statistical analysis of data. It also puts an end to the popular narrative that ’becoming agile’ is somehow a fuzzy process. The data shows that there are patterns at all levels that successful agile organizations share.

In other words: becoming agile can be data-driven. (A hypothesis that I shared in How to Measure Agility of Organizations and Teams—The Results of the Agile Maturity Survey earlier.)

Scrum Master Career: How to Get Hired as a Scrum Master

by Stefan Wolpers | 2018-01-09 Agile and ScrumBooks

🏖 & 📖: Free Download of ‘How to Get Hired as a Scrum Master’ as a Kindle Ebook on Amazon

Summer 2019 is coming, and I like to give away two Kindle ebooks you might consider adding to your reading list. From today until next Monday, that is June 20–24th, 2019, ‘ How to Get Hired as a Scrum Master’ will be available for free on Amazon: Download your copy of ‘How to Get Hired as a Scrum Master’ now.

Check also for ‘Lean User Testing.’ This title is also available for free in Amazon’s Kindle shop.

TL;DR: Scrum Master Career: How to Get Hired as a Scrum Master

Scrum Master Career: How to Get Hired as a Scrum Master: From Job Ads to Your Trial Day — Learn How to Pick the Right Employer or Client details how Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches can systematically identify suitable employers or clients to avoid mismatches and disappointments at a later stage. If you are planning a career move into the Scrum Master profession, don’t miss out on these tips.

Scrum Master Career: How to Get Hired as a Scrum Master by Age-of-Product

Scrum Master Career: How to Get Hired as a Scrum Master is currently available as a Kindle ebook. Shortly, the paperback version will be available, too.

The “How to Get Hired as Scrum Master or Agile Coach” Book — I Need Your Help

by Stefan Wolpers | 2017-01-22 Agile and ScrumBooks

📕 Update 2018-01-01: ‘How to Get Hired as a Scrum Master’ Is Available on Amazon Kindle

Scrum Master Career: How to Get Hired as a Scrum Master is currently available as a Kindle ebook. Shortly, the paperback version will be available, too.

TL;DR: How to Get Hired as Scrum Master or Agile Coach

A few days ago, LinkedIn published the LinkedIn Data Reveals the Most Promising Jobs of 2017 report. The report lists the Scrum Master position among the “most promising jobs in America based on the potential for career advancement, job growth, and salary.”

The number of downloads of the “38 Scrum Master Interview Questions” book which already have exceeded 7,000 copies also reflect this positive trend. Hence, I thought it a good idea to write a new guide from a candidate’s perspective: “How to get hired as Scrum Master or Agile Coach.”

From the identification of a suitable agile organization via the interview process to preparing for trial day—everything will be created with the candidate’s goal in mind. However, to do so, I need feedback from you.

Hands-on Agile: How to Get Hired as Scrum Master or Agile Coach