Keep those Scrum Questions Coming [October 1st]
My last stream was a sneaky one, and many of you didn’t get a chance to participate. However, you can watch the recording here – that way you didn’t really miss anything. In addition, in this livestream I gave you a short tour of the Mastering Scrum Pro community to give you a better view […]
Creating a Community of Practice for Scrum Masters
Let’s be honest – being the only Scrum Master in an organization is not fun! Whenever I would find myself as the only Agile person in an organization, I would feel very alone. Even when I was already experienced in the role. The reason is that change is hard, especially change of ways of working. […]
How do you assess a team? My personal tools
Every Scrum team is different. Even when two teams seem to have similar challenges, similar products, and similar environment, they would not be actually the same. So your approach will change depending on the situation. I often say that the best answer a Scrum Master can give to an open-ended question is “It depends…” However, […]
Velocity is a made-up number 
Velocity has become a word specifically associated with measuring how well a Scrum team is doing. This metric is often associated with negative feeling new Scrum Teams are feeling towards Agile in general. However, the issue with velocity is not the metric itself, but rather how we use it. In this video, I will be […]
The “always busy” syndrome
Last month I shared a short post where I urged Scrum Masters to not fill in their calendars with meetings just because it look empty. In this post, I’d like to talk about that weird way of tracking how hard someone is working and how it is killing your success as a Scrum Master. No […]
14 Scrum Questions Answered [July 2021]
A quick recap of the live event we had yesterday, July 28th. If you were not able to join, here is a recording of the answers. Unfortunately, I was not able to save the video, therefore, it’s an audio only recording. I will be holding another live session next month. If you want to be […]
Is your Product Owner secretly a Project Manager?
There are three roles in a Scrum Team as we know. However, without the Product Owner there is no team. The Product Owner is there to translate the needs of the market into a Product and deliver value to customers. Or at least that is what the Scrum Guide tells us about the role – […]
There is only one number one in your Product Backlog
The way your Product Backlog is ordered will define how focused your Scrum Team is on what’s the most valuable. Help your Product Owner with these essential toolsl.
Training Plan for New Scrum Teams
Starting with a new Scrum team? There are a few things that you need to do to set them up for success: training, agreements, retrospectives.
Are your estimates really agile? 
Estimation in agile teams can quickly turn into something that no one wants or needs. How do you help your team use it properly?
You know what your customer needs! Or do you?
A product cannot exist without customers or users. A great product fulfills customer needs and wants. Any Scrum team must understand these needs if they want to build a great product. However, when we start it might be difficult to truly connect with our customers, so we start making assumptions. This can quickly become a […]
Myth: Scrum Master is an extrovert 
Scrum Master has to be an extrovert to be successful. So if you are an introvert, most likely it’s not a job for you… Or is it a myth and a misconception? Let’s discuss. There are a lot of different expectations and interpretations of the role of a Scrum Master out there. Often it is […]
It’s all about ‘Done’
The key point of Scrum (and Agile for that matter) is getting something valuable into the hands of our customers more frequently. However, this concept, closely linked to the Definition of Done, is often misunderstood and misinterpreted. With the release of the new Scrum Guide back in November 2020, many people were taken aback by […]
How to Interview Scrum Masters
Recently I’ve posted an article where I roast my old Scrum Master resume which was well received but raised even more questions by candidates: how do you pass the interview for a Scrum Master role? That’s why I decided to film another video to share my thoughts on the subject. Let me set the expectations […]
Roasting my Old Scrum Master Resume
I wanted to do this for a while: review my first “real” Scrum Master resume and evaluate it. I hope that it can be helpful for you when you prepare your own CV. My goal is to critically access everything that I wrote back then in my resume and look at it with the lense […]