Satisfied client, happy team… Would you call it a success? In the end it’s the satisfaction of the both sides that matters. It’s an ultimate measure of a good work and good outcome. When thinking what to measure in agile software development we often focus on the details and forget…

In a nutshell, the Scrum Guide has been completely rewritten. I find very few sentences that remained the same. Now it’s a 14-pager, so it has been substantially shortened from 19 pages. The “old” Scrum Guide was written in November 2017 and exactly 3 years after that the new version…

If you are thinking about becoming a Scrum Master or already working in this area for some time, it might be good to explore the certification opportunities. It was a surprise to me, but there are certifications where you don’t need to have any prior experience to pass an exam…

I have been working as a project manager for quite some time, when I decided to enroll in the PMP certification prep. There were rumors that the exam was very difficult and there were preparation groups running for many months at IBM, where guys who already passed an exam were…

Scrum is often associated with a task board or a physical wall of work. Stickers all around, from floor to ceiling, organized in columns. Looks great! But how effective is that for Scrum? If you are on the co-located team, and have a complex project, which Scrum as a framework…

Software is buggy — let’s admit it. Your testers, or your end users, occasionally find bugs even in production, so your product and sprint backlogs will most likely contain some of these. Bug is something that needs to be done, but it’s not a story, which creates confusion around tackling…

When I first heard of the Scrum’s imperative to build a team where everybody can do everything, I said to myself — it doesn’t make sense! I couldn’t imagine how designers can develop a quality code, how a Scrum Master can design in Photoshop and a tester back up a…