This site is dedicated to Michael James’ Example Scrum Master Checklist, an example list of things a Scrum Master should pay attention to in a typical organization. Check it out at http://scrummasterchecklist.org/
The Evolution of the Scrum Guide— ‘10 to ‘19
The Scrum Guide has changed — are you up to date?
Read the complete article here: https://medium.com/serious-scrum/the-evolution-of-the-scrum-guide-10-to-19-f3ac4d82cfcb
7 Key Factors for Scaling Agile in Large Organizations
Agile adoption has grown from a small number of agile teams within an organization to many agile teams, larger teams, and entire organizations themselves, bringing a new set of challenges and complexities. Regardless of the framework, some important factors play a major role in making large-scale agile adoption successful. Here are seven aspects you should consider when scaling agile across an organization.
- Executive leadership support
- Knowledge acquisition
- Engineering excellence
- Tools and infrastructure
- Communities of practice
- Integrating nonsoftware teams
- Agile champions and change agents
Read the complete article here: https://www.agileconnection.com/article/7-key-factors-scaling-agile-large-organizations
How to Deal with Bad Scrum User Stories as a ScrumMaster
It is common in the early stages of Scrum implementation for there to be misunderstandings about what User Stories are for and what makes them useful. A ScrumMaster’s task is to be able to help the Team and Product Owner when they are faced with ineffective User Stories as they go into Sprint Planning.
Read the complete article here: https://agilepainrelief.com/notesfromatooluser/2019/01/deal-with-bad-scrum-user-stories-as-a-scrummaster.html
Scrum Guide in One Slide
Moisés Armani Ramírez posted the following image on LinkedIn that captures an overview of Scrum in the following slide:
You can find the original post here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/scrum-guide-one-slide-mois%C3%A9s-armani-ram%C3%ADrez/
Agile Retrospective Smells Cards
During one of
You can find it – and other tools/games – here: https://www.benlinders.com/shop/agile-retrospective-smells-cards/
There are also a couple of interesting articles about smells like: blaming, passiveness and actions. You can find them here: https://www.benlinders.com/portfolio/retrospective-smells/
Patterns for Splitting User Stories
Good user stories follow Bill Wake’s INVEST model. They’re Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Small, and Testable. The small requirement drives us to split large stories. But the stories after splitting still have to follow the model.
Read the complete article here: https://agileforall.com/patterns-for-splitting-user-stories/
How to create a Value Stream Map
Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is a -very- useful tool to gain insight in the workflow of a process and can be used to identify both Value Adding Activities and
Going from a Value Stream Map to Value Stream Optimisation
Read this blog if you already have a Value Stream Map (VSM) and you are wondering how to reap its benefits using a structured process: https://xebia.com/blog/going-from-a-value-stream-map-to-value-stream-optimisation/
The Product Management @Scale game: How can Product Owners scale their role?
Now that many
Read about it here: https://medium.com/the-liberators/the-product-management-scale-game-a-simple-way-to-figure-out-what-a-product-owner-should-do-cc143cb85ecd