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Category: Agile

  • Agile Movers & Shakers (1): Viktor Cessan

    Agile Movers & Shakers (1): Viktor Cessan

    TL; DR: The Agile Movers & Shakers Interview with Viktor Cessan

    Welcome to the Agile Movers & Shakers interview series. Today’s guest is Viktor Cessan. Viktor has dedicated his career to helping companies consciously design organizations that keep motivation, engagement, and performance levels high. In the 14 years since he started working with Agile methodologies, he has helped companies such as Spotify, H&M, King, Avanza Bank, Telenor, and Sony Ericsson work more effectively.

    Viktor has coached teams of as few as 5 members to organizations with more than 200 people, enabling them to greatly improve their effectiveness as well as levels of happiness and well-being. He specializes in working with executive teams to help implement company-wide agile transformation.

    Viktor runs training and workshops on a wide variety of topics such as agile team dynamics, product ownership, leadership, and management. His case study detailing his work with Avanza’s agile transformation has been downloaded and shared thousands of times.

    Viktor Cessan holds a diploma in professional coaching (ICF), is a Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), and Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO). And in addition, he has extensive experience in/with FIRO, SCARF, Virginia Satir’s work, and Tuckman’s and IMGD.

    Agile Movers & Shakers (1): Viktor Cessan

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  • Agile Movers & Shakers (1): Viktor Cessan

    Agile Movers & Shakers (1): Viktor Cessan

    TL; DR: The Agile Movers & Shakers Interview with Viktor Cessan

    Welcome to the Agile Movers & Shakers interview series. Today’s guest is Viktor Cessan. Viktor has dedicated his career to helping companies consciously design organizations that keep motivation, engagement, and performance levels high. In the 14 years since he started working with Agile methodologies, he has helped companies such as Spotify, H&M, King, Avanza Bank, Telenor, and Sony Ericsson work more effectively.

    Viktor has coached teams of as few as 5 members to organizations with more than 200 people, enabling them to greatly improve their effectiveness as well as levels of happiness and well-being. He specializes in working with executive teams to help implement company-wide agile transformation.

    Viktor runs training and workshops on a wide variety of topics such as agile team dynamics, product ownership, leadership, and management. His case study detailing his work with Avanza’s agile transformation has been downloaded and shared thousands of times.

    Viktor Cessan holds a diploma in professional coaching (ICF), is a Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), and Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO). And in addition, he has extensive experience in/with FIRO, SCARF, Virginia Satir’s work, and Tuckman’s and IMGD.

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  • Scrum Master Career 2020 — Using Ecocycle Planning to Identify Opportunities

    TL; DR: Scrum Master Career 2020

    Last week, about 30 members of the Hands-on Agile community in Berlin came together to identify opportunities for personal and professional growth for the coming year, using Liberating Structures’ Ecocycle Planning in the process, to further your Scrum Master career 2020.

    Read on and learn in this post what opportunities you have to advance your career as a Scrum Master or agile coach in the next year.

    Scrum Master Career 2020 — Using Ecocycle Planning to Identify Opportunities

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  • agile-camp-berlin-2020

    Save the Date: Agile Camp Berlin 2020

    The Agile Camp Berlin 2020 will happen from April 17-18, 2020, at the Evangelische Schule Berlin Zentrum right in the center of Berlin.

    Join the Agile Camp Berlin and experience two energizing days with 200 agile peers focusing on community, sharing, and learning. We will practice games and exercises—from Liberating Structures to paper snowflakes and airplanes to building castles with 50 other folks you have never met in your life. We will share tips & tricks, lessons learned, war stories from the agile trenches, and enjoy the company of 200 like-minded people at a perfect venue for our purpose: the Evangelische Schule Berlin Zentrum, one of twelve organizations that Frédéric Laloux describes in his book “Reinventing Organizations.”

    Like in 2019, the conference language is English.

    ???? Agile Camp Berlin 2020 — Introducing the Waiting List

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  • Agile Metrics Survey 2020

    TL; DR: The Agile Metrics Survey 2020

    Let’s stop guessing and start crowdsourcing data and information on this critical topic: Who is using what metrics under which context to what success? Participate in the agile metrics survey 2020 now.

    Join your peers and participate in the Agile Metrics Survey 2020 — Berlin Product People GmbH

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  • Liberating Structures for Scrum (5): Strategy

    Liberating Structures for Scrum (5): Strategy

    TL; DR: The Liberating Structures Strategy Meetup

    During this Liberating Structures strategy for Scrum meetup we addressed dealing with uncertainty — a particularly useful skill in highly competitive markets. Learn more about how to train and grow the resilience of your team when dealing with the unexpected.

    Liberating Structures Strategy — Critical Uncertainties

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  • Faking Agile Metrics or Cooking the Agile Books

    TL; DR: Faking Agile Metrics — An Eye-Opening Exercise

    Imagine you’re a Scrum Master and the line manager of your team believes that the best sign for a successful agile transformation is a steady increase in the Scrum Team’s velocity. Moreover, if the team fails to deliver on that metric something is wrong with the Scrum Team. Alternatively, something is wrong with you as you are the Scrum Master and hence responsible for the team’s performance. (Apparently, not faking agile metrics, or being transparent in this case, does not seem to be valued here.)

    Learn more about how to coach these kinds of line managers and help them overcome their preference for the industrial past with a simple exercise on how to cook the agile books.

    Faking Agile Metrics or Cooking the Agile Books — Berlin Product People GmbH

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  • The Agile Workspace: The Undervalued Success Factor

    The Agile Workspace: The Undervalued Success Factor

    TL;DR: Agile Workspace Means Choice Among a Diversity of Spaces

    If you want your organization to become agile, adding more whiteboards to the workspace will not suffice. You have to abandon the idea that the workspace is an assembly line for white-collar workers. You need to let go Taylorism. We are now in the age of the creative worker.

    To become agile – and reap its benefits such as becoming more innovative –, you need a diversity of workspaces to support all forms of creative work: focus, collaborate, learn, and socialize. Also, you have to let your creative workers choose which space is best suited for a task.

    Upcoming Scrum and Liberating Stuctures Training Classes and Workshops

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  • Scrum Master Engagement Patterns: The Development Team

    TL; DR: Scrum Master Engagement Patterns

    Last year, I ran a (non-representative) survey on how Scrum Masters are allocating their time when working with a single Scrum Team. Much to the surprise of many readers, the direct Scrum Master engagement with a single Scrum Team of average size and a typical 2-week Sprint turned out to be about 12 hours per week.

    This result immediately prompted two additional questions: What are Scrum Masters doing during the rest of the week, and in what way does a Scrum Master’s work manifest itself over time? While answering the above question requires additional research and data collection, the latter can be answered to a certain grade by focusing on a few common scenarios.

    The first article of this series will address the Scrum Master engagement with the Development Team.

    Scrum Master Engagement Patterns: The Development Team — Berlin Product People GmbH

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  • Hey Scrum Master — What Are You Doing all Day? [Survey Results]

    TL;DR: Scrum Master Duties, Serving a Single Team

    Scrum Master Duties: supposedly, a great Scrum Master serves only one Scrum Team—that’s at least a popular narrative in the Scrum community. Nevertheless, there is also a loud voice that doubts that approach: what would you do the whole day—with a single team? Aren’t they supposed to become self-organizing over time? And if so, does the Scrum team then need a Scrum Master 24/7?

    As I worked for years as a Product Owner on Scrum Teams without a dedicated Scrum Master-which was working well-I was curious to learn more about that question, too. Hence I ran a survey in late June and early July 2018, the results of which are presented here.

    In total, 261 Scrum Masters participated in this non-representative survey in the two weeks before July 5th, 2018. 19 participants chose not to provide their consent to Google processing and to store their answers. Hence their contributions were deleted, resulting in a sample size of 242 responses.

    Scrum Master Duties — What Are You Doing all Day? — Berlin Product People GmbH

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