Agile teams need great leadership

Let’s set the record straight: Scrum Master is not a dead-end job. In fact, it might be the best stepping stone to real leadership you could ask for.

Imagine a Scrum team that cuts down trees. The team consists of Paul Bunyan and Homer Simpson. To size their work, they assign points to...

Don't overload the Sprint - it's not helpful and it slows down value delivery.

Transparency in Scrum isn’t about proving you’re busy. It’s about ensuring the most valuable work gets done.

Scrum Masters can sometimes fall into the trap of managing the process rather than coaching the team.

One of the first things you learn about Scrum is that it has five events. One of these events is the Daily Scrum.

Judging a team based on their velocity is like measuring a restaurant’s success by the quality of their kitchen timers.

This is an excerpt from the new Illustrated Scrum Myths  book by Mary Iqbal , now available on Amazon . Each myth in the book includes a...

This is an excerpt from the new Illustrated Scrum Myths book by Mary Iqbal, now available on Amazon.

How can you focus on continuous improvement if you think everything is already perfect? Scrum Masters who become too emotionally attached

Brayden Yundt, Maintenance Manager, introduced Scrum as a framework to bring structure and transparency to the maintenance team's work.

One student told me her company started using Scrum when they hired a vendor who claimed to be an expert. But that vendor piled on excessive

Many Scrum Masters see their role as protecting the Scrum Team. But when protection becomes isolation, something is wrong. Shielding a team

New Scrum teams aren't perfect, but when you use Scrum to get better, you get better at Scrum.

Scrum isn’t just a framework—it’s a shield from unreasonable expectations. It protects teams from overload, miscommunication, and last-minut

Scrum is not the Wild, Wild West. I think a lot of people think that Scrum means that we can do what we want. Like it's the Wild, Wild Wes

Management by Exception the idea that we should manage the things that are off track, rather than giving focus to things going well.

A lot of teams add unnecessary complexity to the Scrum framework itself, which results in a lot of wasted effort.

Scrum should be used in complex environments