The only reason I’m still stuck with Scrum is because I’ve experienced it. Over the years I’ve seen it working so great, that I sort of felt in love with the energy well-functioning teams are creating. I love the self-management, I love the value-creation, and the impact the environment has on customers and the overall … The post Getting out of “Dark Scrum” first appeared on Agile and Scrum Blog ..read more

Companies often ask me how to find a good Product Owner. To start with, great Product Owners need to have a good business knowledge. It’s not about the product feature knowledge that much as your developers will have it as well, but it’s about understanding the overall business and market dynamics, the competitors, the existing … The post Becoming a Great Product Owner first appeared on Agile and Scrum Blog ..read more

Every year I speak at many conferences and based on my experience I recommend some places to go for inspiration. Here is my list of Top 10 Agile conferences to attend in 2025. It’s not my intention to cover them all, I’m sharing places where I like to return. Inspiring places with interaction, high energy, and great … The post Top 10 Agile conferences to attend in 2025 first appeared on Agile and Scrum Blog ..read more

People often ask me how to sell an agile way of working to their customers. To the customers who are used to the traditional way of working, customers who are used to requirements and fix scope, fix time, and fix budget, and customers who are used to big upfront analysis. Don’t expect any magic. Selling … The post Sell Agile to Customers first appeared on Agile and Scrum Blog ..read more

People always ask how to start, what are the practices we need to do, what is the magic. They are looking for a cookbook, something to copy step by step. And they are often disappointed that I refrain from recommending them where to see the ideal example. Look what good or bad copying Spotify way … The post How to Start Good Agile first appeared on Agile and Scrum Blog ..read more

One of the biggest issues ScrumMasters have at the beginning of their journey is to believe that they are here to solve the problems, but this is just wrong. You’re not here to solve the problems, quite the opposite. Your ultimate goal is to create a self-managing team that can solve the problem. Solving is … The post Stop Solving first appeared on Agile and Scrum Blog ..read more

When I started my agile journey, I didn’t know much about facilitation. I thought it was something we didn’t need, I thought that it was enough to tell people what to do and they would do it. But the more I worked in different environments I realized that forming a well-functioning team or creating an … The post Facilitation is Key to the Success of Agile first appeared on Agile and Scrum Blog ..read more

#1: Inspirational Speakers Several years in a row we managed to achieve high-quality program while keeping it affordable to the participants. This year you can be looking forward to awesome speakers, for example, Mirko Kleiner the Thought Leader in Lean-Agile Procurement, Roman Pichler a leading product management expert, and Per Beining the only FaST Autorized Trainer in Europe. And I can continue. Register soon, the conference is sold out every year. #2: Practical Case studies Every year we find interesting case studies from agile journey companies where they share not only their succe ..read more

Over the years, I was hoping that if we, agile coaches and trainers do our job well, we can multiply the success we experienced. I was part of the early adopters’ wave of agility. We were open to trying new things, experimenting with different ways of working, trying one step at a time, and inspecting and adapting along the way. And it worked. I experienced the new energy, better outcomes, happier customers, and more successful products. Later I leveraged that experience, became an agile coach, and started helping various organizations with their agile transformation. I was able to smooth thei ..read more

The recent shift to the virtual space and home office created a more convenient work-life balance but created very new challenges as well. How to grow talents, how to collaborate, and how to build relationships. In many cases, people simply went back to individual work. In many organizations, the only time where they see each other is some sort of Standup that looks more like a status meeting where individuals who have their own tasks, share their progress with anyone who is interested which is usually close to no one as the don’t collaborate and don’t have the shared ownership. Such Standup i ..read more