List: Scrum Master's Favorites

Jul 29

19 stories

inThe Startup

Sep 9, 2020

Everything Is a “Must Have”? How to Prioritize.

In agile companies one goal is to deliver value to customers within short iterations. But what really delivers value? It often seems that…

May 12

The Size Of The Scrum Team

When Is Small Too Small?

Jul 22

Why Goals Are Important For Scrum Masters

And how to set them

Why An Introvert Agile Coach Is Also A Great Coach

Do extraverted and introverted attitudes really matter?

Jun 21

Program Increment (PI) Planning With Miro

Create with a bit of customization the perfect board for your next remote planning

Commitment: A Guiding Star for Achieving Goals

How Commitments Guide the Scrum Team

Feb 8

Kanban in a Nutshell

Four Principles and Six Practices

Jan 29

Meeting Facilitation: An Underestimated Scrum Masters’ Task

Practices to Get More Out of Your Meetings

Feb 15

#NoEstimates: The Product Owner Flying Blind?

Why it’s Worth Taking a Closer Look at the #NoEstimates Approach

Jan 12

The Perfect Scrum Master? Make Mistakes and Get Better!

Recognize the typical Mistakes and Learn from them.

Feb 25

A Scrum Master Is An Agile Coach!

Why it Doesn’t Make Sense To Distinguish Between Agile Coach And Scrum Master

May 9

The Speed Of The Team

How To Use Normalized Velocity As A Starting Point

Oct 9, 2020

Never work again!?

How to benefit from maximizing the amount of work not done.

inAn Idea (by Ingenious Piece)

Sep 28, 2020

The energy of “Ba”: Creating space for new knowledge

Do you know the Ballpoint Game, developed initially by Boris Gloger? During this game, a team has to process balls based on certain rules…

inElf of Bricks

Nov 9, 2020

Find your “Why”.

Use the Work Expo method and build your “Why” with LEGO® bricks.

Building Ducks: Unlock Creativity and Diversity

Icebreaker for Meetings — also applicable for remote setups.

Mar 22

Agile Frameworks And The Cargo Cult: When The Planes Stop Coming

I often meet managers who tell me: “Agility? That’s an old hat! We have been doing this for a long time.”

Mar 8

Principles of Pair Agile Coaching

When I look back at my recent engagements as an Agile Coach, I realize that the most effective ones were the ones where I worked with…

Sep 9, 2020

The tale of a “missing agile mindset”: Why agile transformations really fail and how to achieve…

Recently I saw an advertisement in a social network for a training course to become an “Agile Mindsetter” — with appropriate certification…