In this blog post, Barry Overeem will share the most common question that gets asked during the Scrum.org Professional Scrum Master courses. He’ll focus on the Scrum Master role and will provide an answer based on his personal experience as a Scrum Master. This for sure isn’t the ultimate answer, it’s how he has fulfilled or experienced the situation himself; https://medium.com/the-liberators/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-scrum-master-1f0c31bc07c5
Health checks for Teams and Leadership
In this blog post, Jimmy Janlén wants to share a powerful tool, the Leadership Health Check. It will help you become stronger as a management team and reveal improvement opportunities for how you, as a team of active servant leaders, better can enable the agile teams you support.
You can find the blog post here: https://blog.crisp.se/2019/03/11/jimmyjanlen/health-checks-for-teams-and-leadership
One Scrum Cheat Sheet to rule them all
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The Reading List for Agile Newbies
Barry Overeem created a list of must-reads for agile newbies:
The Agile ManifestoThe Scrum Guide – Jeff Sutherland, Ken SchwaberThe Power of Scrum – Rini van SolingenScrum: A Pocket Guide – Gunther VerheyenSucceeding with Agile – Mike CohnThe Agile Samurai – Jonathan RasmussonThe Five Dysfunctions of a Team – Patrick LencioniThe Scrum Field Guide – Mitch LaceyThe Phoenix Project – Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George SpaffordKanban – David J. AndersonClean Code – Robert C. Martin
Read his complete blogpost here: http://www.barryovereem.com/the-reading-list-for-agile-newbies/
The Sprint Goal
In this article Jasper Alblas talks about the challenges of a Sprint Goal: https://medium.com/@jasperalblas/scrum-from-the-trenches-the-sprint-goal-e7e15203c82f
Improving your Definition of Done
The purpose of Scrum is to create a potentially releasable Done Product Increment, in order to realize business value. Many teams struggle in improving their Definition of Done. Simon Reindl describes a technique in the following article that allows for greater transparency on what the Definition of Done is, and what the next steps are.
https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/improving-your-definition-done
Engage Everyone in Making Sense of Profound Challenges
Encourage people to listen and understand each other’s perspective on a profound, shared topic or challenge instead of trying to convince or persuade others to see it your way. In this article, Christiaan Verwijs & Barry Overeem explain how you can use the Liberating Structure “Conversation Café” to achieve this: https://medium.com/the-liberators/engage-everyone-in-making-sense-of-profound-challenges-c66e44ba00f2
Free games, templates, formats and inspiration for Scrum Teams
Find a collection of free games, templates and format created by Christiaan Verwijs & Barry Overeem : https://medium.com/the-liberators/free-games-templates-formats-and-inspiration-for-scrum-teams-11f40e3fcb22
Myth: The Product Backlog is maintained exclusively by the Product Owner
In this article Christiaan Verwijs & Barry Overeem will bust the myth that the product backlog is only maintained by the Product Owner: https://medium.com/the-liberators/myth-the-product-backlog-is-maintained-exclusively-by-the-product-owner-af51bc62e90f
The Circle of Influence — A story about taking ownership
Randy Keyers tells you about the Circle of Influence that visualizes how people or teams deal with situations or challenges. It can roughly be divided into three behaviors: Influencing, Involved and Detached.
Read the complete article here: https://medium.com/@randy.keyers_19497/the-circle-of-influence-a-story-about-taking-ownership-cd5edea6d444