The South Africa Regional Scrum Gathering provides great opportunities for passionate Scrum practitioners to learn, share, and network. This year's event is in Cape Town on March 16 and 17. Attend and earn up to 16 SEUs! Find out more here.
Scrum Australia is back in early 2023! A gathering like no other for the Australian and New Zealand Agile community. Let’s reconnect and explore how we can not just survive but thrive in the new normal. We’ll explore a broader set of topics than ever before through the highly interactive conference experience that have been the…
Agile en Chile 2023 en una conferencia presencial que atraerá a destacados Agilistas locales e internacionales que ser reunirán por dos días consecutivos en el Hotel W de Santiago.
What’s next for agile? Where are we going as individuals and as a community shaping the future of the world of work? Gather with us to dive into these questions and more alongside other like-minded changemakers this May in Portland, Oregon for the Global Scrum Gathering 2023 Portland + Beyond. Scrum Alliance has proudly hosted our…
The Business Agility Conference returns to New York City on April 26 & 27, 2023. It's two days full of stories, insights, pragmatic advice, and inspiration centered on business agility. Discover how today’s most successful, resilient companies are harnessing the power of change to seize opportunities, rather than merely sustaining yesterday’s business models. Explore how organizations…
The Product Backlog is an ordered list of hypotheses, requirements, features, enhancements, or Product Backlog Items that help the team accomplish the Product Goal. The Product Backlog is the team’s single source of work. Meaning, anything the Developers are working on should be coming from the Product Backlog. There are no side requests. Any work should…
The Scrum team consists of 3 accountabilities, Developers, Product Owner, and Scrum Master. Developers are accountable for building and delivering a quality working Product Increment at the end of each Sprint. They are a small group, typically 3 to 9 members that are cross-functional and self-organizing. Developers are cross-functional to remove bottlenecks and dependencies. Developers on…
In Scrum, there are 3 accountabilities, 3 artifacts, and 5 events. The 3 accountabilities in Scrum are: Product Owner, accountable for the delivery of a valuable product. Developers, accountable for building and delivering a working quality product. Scrum Master, accountable for the effectiveness of the Scrum team and organization in building and delivering a valuable, quality,…
On November 2, 2022, Fadi Stephan presented at the Agile Online Summit on 6 Tips for Effective Product Backlog Refinement. Below are some of the resources mentioned in the talk: 6 Tips For Effective Product Backlog Refinement 13 Patterns For Splitting User Stories The Product Backlog Refinement Canvas
Congrats on completing your Scrum foundations class: Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), or Certified Scrum Developer (CSD). Well done! Now it's time to take the post class assessment. If you did not do the pre-class prep, please go ahead and do that now: Read the Scrum Guide (15 pages) . Read and/or watch…
On October 17-19, 2022, Fadi Stephan presented at the Global Scrum Gathering in Lisbon on Coaching Your Team to Technical Excellence and on 6 Tips for Effective Product Backlog Refinement. Below are some of the resources mentioned in the talk: Coaching Your Team To Technical Excellence 8 Steps to Technical Excellence The Definition of Done Canvas…
On October 3, 2022, Fadi Stephan was at AgileDC and presented 6 Tips for Effective Product Backlog Refinement. Below are some of the resources mentioned in the talk: 6 Tips For Effective Product Backlog Refinement 13 Patterns For Splitting User Stories The Product Backlog Refinement Canvas
Scrum Alliance has proudly hosted our signature Global Scrum Gatherings since 2004, turning them into the not-to-be-missed event. In Lisbon, you'll join presentations and interactive sessions led by experts in the field who inspire with stories of success, current implementation best practices, and creative applications of agile and the scrum framework. You'll meet agile-minded people from…
At the 2022 Global Scrum Gathering in Denver, I presented on 6 Tips for Product Backlog Refinement. Below is the abstract of the talk, along with the presentation slides and a blog post related to the presentation. Abstract: Are your Sprint planning meetings taking longer and longer each Sprint? Are some of the stories vague, complex,…
At the 2222 Global Scrum Gathering in Denver, I presented on Agile Metrics. Below is the abstract of the talk, along with the presentation slides. Abstract: There are more to Agile metrics than velocity and burn-down charts. However, most Agile teams just focus on velocity and target story points which leads to managers misusing the metric…