10+ years of helping organizations scale Scrum from one team to 500+ teams has taught me one thing – most practitioners abandon the scientific principles and core values of Scrum in their pursuit of scaling Scrum. To many of these practitioners, Scaling Scrum is...
10+ years of helping thousands of practitioners with implementation of Professional Scrum has taught me one thing – most practitioners have a very superficial understanding of Scrum. To most, Scrum is nothing more than “Daily Standup” and...
Around 14 years ago, my Coach – Peggy Reed changed my life by sending me to Scrum Training. I fell in love with Scrum and chose to become a Scrum.org Professional Scrum Trainer with the support of Ken Schwaber. Since then, I have trained thousands of students...
THE PRODUCT OWNER (PO) (This definition is based on the November 2020 version of the Scrum Guide, available at – https://scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html) The Product Owner is a tech-savvy entrepreneur who maximizes the value stakeholders get from the product....
As a recovering manager I want to stop solving problems for teams So that I can enable self-organization… One of the biggest reasons I failed my first attempt at the Scrum.org PSM-1 assessment was that I had a habit of solving problems I had no business solving....
Over the past 10 years, I have had the privilege to guide Scrum adoption for organizations from 10 people to 10,000 people and have made some glorious, cringe-worthy mistakes that often wake me up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat. As I look back at my...
