The Scrum Master’s role revolves around service to the organization. This sense of duty includes creating a learning environment that is continuously inspecting and adapting. At Applied Frameworks, we’ve learned that building Communities of Practice is the surest way to embed a learning mindset in your organization.
Scrum Masters are core to creating an environment to help teams be as effective as possible. They are responsible for ensuring the team lives up to the Agile values and principles. The team is their primary focus. What should a Scrum Master do when an individual on the team is ...
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Sprint Reviews can be dull affairs with little useful output. Instead of focusing solely on the demo, we recommend creating an environment focused on collaboration — and saving some time for celebration.
Laura Richardson talks with John Mulligan and Kevin Rosengren, about their experiences preparing and running fully remote PI Planning sessions focusing on the role of RTEs and ScrumMasters.
Frequently, learners in our Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) courses have questions about the CSM exam: How do I prepare? So, we set out to create a practice test, written by actual Certified Scrum Trainers (CSTs), with current content, which helps you gauge your readiness for the exam.
Writing specific, observable and repeatable Action Items with clear owners is an important skill for Product Owner and ScrumMasters to master (see my last post on why I feel this way). In Online Education at Applied Frameworks, we will give you plenty of opportunities to put this skill into practice as you ...
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Retrospectives without concrete action items are pretty much a complete waste of time (and this coming from a guy who thinks the Retrospective is the MOST important discussion in Scrum!!). Over-and-over again, when I encounter teams and organizations struggling to adopt Scrum and Agile, I often find lame, uninspiring Action ...
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Back in 2012, I worked with a colleague to develop a new course for ScrumMasters (and other Agile change agents). Our goal was to figure out a way to support learners on a progressive educational journey from ScrumMaster to Agile Coach (CSP-SM). While the specific offering we developed did not ...
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An Agile coaching dojo is a safe place to improve three important skills for an Agile Coach - observing, listening and questioning. The goals of an Agile coaching dojo are to offer opportunities to practice listening without judgment, gather information more effectively and ask different kinds of questions to understand ...
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One of the many important skills for any Agile leader to master is the ability to facilitate a group's discussion. When the issue before the group is familiar, an Agile leader does not need to take an overly active part facilitating the group. However, when the issue is unfamiliar, or requires participants ...
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