#46 - The skills you need are more than the role you have
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#45 - People Over Technology
People are more important than technology
Register for Agile2024 so that you can collaborate and learn with like-minded people
#44 - Generative AI
Do what you do faster by partnering up with your generative AI co-pilot
Accelerate innovation and double developer productivity with CodeBoost
#43 - The SCARF Model
Enhancing collaboration through neuroscience
Assess your behaviors and collaboration abilities by registering for our Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC) course
#42 - Businesses need dollars not points
Points can help with planning, but Finance needs to talk in dollars.
Learn more about Agile Finance
#41 - How can I resourcefully answer to this?
In every challenge there's at least one opportunity in disguise. Below, find out how as a Scrum Master you can coach a team on how to give and receive feedback effectively.
Register for an upcoming CSM class
#39 - Don't manage the change....lead the change
True leaders inspire change by exemplifying new ways of working and emotional intelligence.
Find out how POETIC leadership enables Lean-Agile Leadership
#38 - Dissent & Debate
Challenge your assumptions and gain a deeper level of understanding.
Attend the daily debate at a future Agile Alliance conference
#37 - When in doubt, test it out
Shift the dial from analysis paralysis to solution discovery.
Find out about Design Thinking Bootcamp
#36 - Retrospectives
The key to agility is Continuous Improvement and the key to Continuous Improvement are Retrospectives
Learn how to deliver effective Retrospectives
#35 - Minimize the Gap
Getting instant feedback from users is key to success.
Want to test the viability of your software solution before investing in a full-scale build? You’d better.
#34 - Leading a Values-Based Culture
Are you leading to your core values?
Find better ways to influence culture - Register for our Certified Agile Leadership for Teams class
#33 - Customer Journey Mapping
Putting your feet in the shoes of a customer
Find out how you can transform customer pain points into levers for change by registering for a Customer Journey Mapping workshop
#32 - Empiricism
Empirical data helps us make the right product choices.
#31 - Facilitation
Setting the right conditions for great collaboration
Find out how you can gain essential team facilitation skills
#30 - The Change Wave
Take an evolutionary approach to change
Find out how you can create the flexibility to adapt to rapid change
#29 - User Story Mapping
Turn focus away from shared documentation to shared understanding.
Find out more about the benefits of Story Mapping
#28 - Coaching is like a Dance
Context is to coaching what music is to dance.
Explore a coaching-based class
#27 - A Product is Like a Renaissance Painting
Work iteratively putting emphasis where it matters
Become a Certified Scrum Developer
#26 - The Power of Storytelling
Telling stories is one of the most powerful ways we can influence, engage, teach, and inspire.
Find out how you can create an engaging impactful story with Visual Thinking Skills
#25 - Product Backlogs
Product Backlog Items-isn't it time you had a clear out?
Become a Certified SAFe PO/PM
#24 - Product Goal
Can you describe a future state of your product that can serve as a target for your product team to plan against?
Certified Scrum Product Owner Workshop
#23 - The Definition of Done
What can your team include in their products Definition of Done?
Find out how your teams can create transparency by providing everyone a shared understanding
#22 - Teamwork
Together, everyone achieves more.
How Design Thinking can help improve team collaboration
#21 - Hybrid Working
Staying connected and collaborating effectively in person and virtually.
Virtual solutions with a flexible delivery model
#20 - When will I get it?
It’s just time taken! Measure the right things and then we can set the right expectations.
Take a look at our Kanban workshop
#19 - Product Owners should wear their PARKA
The Scrum Guide mentions the accountabilities of a Product Owner but we wanted to visualize their key qualities and success factors.
Read our PARKA blog to find out more
#18 - Defining Agile
It is important to know the difference between being and doing Agile.
Is it possible to be agile without doing agile?
#17 - Technical Debt
If you keep using it without maintaining it, you’ll save money in the short term but pretty soon it will become less reliable.
Certified Scrum Developer® training
#16 - The Sprint
Sprints are the heartbeat of Scrum where ideas turn to value.
Certified ScrumMaster training
#15 - Product Validation
Invest time into discovery/ validation work and find approaches to connect developers directly to end users.
Certified Scrum Product Owner training
#14 - Stop starting and start finishing
Adopting Agile practices can help to visualise workflow, limit WIP, measure performance and improve outcomes. Find out what courses might help your teams to stop starting and start finishing.
Agile Fundamentals courses
#13 - Outcome vs output metrics
Would you rather have 200 points of output, or 50 points worth of value? The answer is to focus on valuable outcomes.
Product Owner courses
#12 - Leading a transformation
"Transformation is not automatic. It must be learned; it must be led" - Edward Deming
Learn how to master Business Agility; lead an organisation to success and thrive in the digital age by registering for a Leading SAFe course.
#11 - Focus on outcomes
"A product is a vehicle to deliver value. It has a clear boundary, known stakeholders, well-defined users or customers. A product could be a service, a physical product, or something more abstract." - Scrum Guide 2020
Certified Scrum Product Owner course
#10 - Don’t stop questioning
"Various practices exist to forecast progress, like burn-downs, burn-ups, or cumulative flows. While proven useful, these do not replace the importance of empiricism. In complex environments, what will happen is unknown. Only what has already happened may be used for forward-looking decision making." - Scrum Guide 2020
Certified ScrumMaster Course
#9 - Leading from behind
“Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.” ― L. David Marquet, Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders
Agile Solutions
#8 - Product Owner Focus
Use innovation to take out the guesswork by investing in ideas that customers need, want and value.
Learn more about our Cprime Learning practice
#7 - Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
"It's not the strongest business that survives nor the most intelligent - it's the one that is most adaptable to change."
Your organisation's ability to adapt to changing customer needs is what will differentiate your business from the competition.
#6 - Keep it simple, stupid!
"The most important rule in our development is always to do the simplest thing that could possibly work... But simplicity is the most important contributor to the ability to make rapid progress." - Ron Jeffries
3 simple tips to use Scrum for any project
#5 - Just Say No!
"The Product Owner is one person, not a committee. The Product Owner may represent the needs of many stakeholders in the Product Backlog. Those wanting to change the Product Backlog can do so by trying to convince the Product Owner." - Scrum Guide 2020
It's easy to say Yes to everything but as a Product Owner we have to maximise value. The team is empowered to say No to maintain quality.
#4 - Risk is the water in which the agile fish swim
"Shorter Sprints can be employed to generate more learning cycles and limit risk of cost and effort to a smaller time frame." - Scrum Guide 2020
Working in shorter iterations generates more learning cycles and limits risk.
#3 - T-Shaped vs Pi(π)-shaped…
A T-shaped person has a single area of expertise, where as a Pi-Shaped person has two, such as: Developer and UI designer or Operations and Site Reliability Engineer. Both types are willing to support other team members to learn and grow.
ScrumMaster Practitioner guide
#2 - Iterative product development is like…
Short build, test & learn cycles allow us to continuously build a valuable product for our customer.
Agile Product Development Solutions
#1 - The Art of Product Ownership
Passionate about the art of Product Ownership and all things product innovation we couldn't help but bring words from the 2020 Scrum Guide to life in pictures.
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