Scrum.org Community Podcast
150 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 days ago -Welcome to the Scrum.org Community podcast, a podcast from the Home of Scrum. In this podcast we feature Professional Scrum Trainers and other Scrum Practitioners sharing their stories and experiences to help learn from the experience of others.
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Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer - Ferzeen Anis
December 06, 2023 21:00 - 54 minutes - 37.8 MBIn this recorded session of Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer, PST Ferzeen Anis based in Australia, answers questions about becoming a Professional Scrum Trainer, how business analysts and project managers fit in Scrum, companies new to Scrum, Scrum event facilitation and more!
The Importance of Good Facilitation Skills to Drive Success in Agile Teams
November 30, 2023 20:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBIn this episode, host Dave West is joined by Douglas Ferguson from Voltage Control to talk about facilitation and the importance of effective facilitation. They chat about: - How to approach facilitation and how to choose certain techniques - Common anti-patterns -Different facilitation techniques - Showing up to meetings with intention - and more! About our guest: Douglas Ferguson is an entrepreneur, educator, and human-centered technologist. He is the founder and president of Voltage ...
Scrum for Wedding Planning - a Unique Use Case for Scrum
November 22, 2023 17:00 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MBIn this episode, Dave West is joined by Julien Deray, a fellow podcaster, Scrum practitioner and author of the book, How I Planned my Wedding with Scrum. They discuss what Julien learned while planning his wedding with his wife and how Scrum helped them stay organized and plan their wedding incrementally. Listen in for this fun discussion about using Scrum for complex work outside of software.
Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer - Steven Deneir, Belgium
November 15, 2023 19:00 - 59 minutes - 40.9 MBIn this recording of a live session of Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer, PST Steven Deneir based in Belgium answers questions about Scrum, the Scrum Master and the challenges people often encounter with their Scrum Teams and Stakeholders.
A Discussion about Evidence-Based Management, OKRs and Other Metrics
November 02, 2023 18:00 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MBIn this episode, guest host Patricia Kong is joined by Kurt Bittner from Scrum.org and Professional Scrum Trainer Laurens Bonnema from Xebia. They talk about Evidence-Based Management (EBM) and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), and the importance of focusing on outcomes and delivering value. They discuss: - The importance of feedback loops - Measuring and setting goals in business using outcome-oriented metrics - The differences between EBM and OKRs - How to combine EBM and OKRs in decision...
Unlocking Business Agility with Evidence-Based Management
October 26, 2023 19:00 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MBIn this episode, Patricia Kong, Kurt Bittner, Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller discuss topics in their new book - Unlocking Business Agility with Evidence-Based Management: Satisfy Customers and Improve Organizational Effectiveness. They discuss Evidence-Based Management, , using EBM for agile transformations, the importance of setting expectations, goal setting, prioritizing effectiveness over activity and more! The book is available for shipping to the US and pre-order for the e-book here. ...
Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer - Product Backlog Management with Todd Miller and Ryan Ripley
October 17, 2023 20:00 - 58 minutes - 40.1 MBIn this recorded session of the Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer series, PSTs Todd Miller and Ryan Ripley answered your burning questions on the topic of Product Backlog Management. They answered questions like: - What would your advice be for a new Scrum Master for understanding backlog management? -What tips can you share on how to refine a Large PBI that is too large to fit within a Sprint? - What would be your advice if management doesn’t understand advantages of a single product backlo...
How 17 Strangers in 7 Time Zones Scaled Scrum with Nexus and Deployed to Production in 9 Days
October 12, 2023 18:00 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MBIn this episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, Patricia Kong joins as guest host with guests Professional Scrum Trainer Ravi Verma and Agile for Patriots graduates Brittny Snyder, Chris Cole and Jeremy Thomas to talk about their journey through the Agile for Patriots program and how they used Nexus to scale Scrum in their cohort of 17 people, where they were tasked with building a website showcasing their profiles. They talk about how they worked through challenges together, enabled sel...
Using Agile to Fight Climate Change
October 05, 2023 18:00 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MBIn this episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, Dave West is joined by Marjolein Pilon, a Scrum Master based in the Netherlands to talk about the very important topic of Climate Change. She discusses how we can use Scrum to combat climate change, the importance of sustainability in software development, the concept of a Planet Earth Retrospective and more!
An Introduction to the new PSPBM Skills training course and the importance of Product Backlog Management skills
September 27, 2023 16:00 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MBIn this episode of the Scrum.org Community podcast, PSTs Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller join host Dave West to introduce the new Professional Scrum Product Management Skills training course. They talk about the importance of having good Product Backlog Management skills in order to succeed as well as the importance of transparency, stakeholder engagement and more!
How Simplyhealth Successfully Applied Professional Scrum with Kanban
September 21, 2023 19:00 - 24 minutes - 16.6 MBIn this episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, Dave West chats with Helen Swift from Simplyhealth, a health solutions provider about how they implemented using Professional Scrum with Kanban in their organization after the Professional Scrum with Kanban training course. They talk about the transition from waterfall to Agile, how Scrum and Kanban together help improve delivery, the benefits of limiting work in progress and more!
How Simplyhealth Applied Professional Scrum with Kanban
September 21, 2023 19:00 - 24 minutes - 16.6 MBIn this episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, Dave West chats with Helen Swift from Simplyhealth, a health solutions provider about how they implemented using Professional Scrum with Kanban in their organization after the Professional Scrum with Kanban training course. They talk about the transition from waterfall to Agile, how Scrum and Kanban together help improve delivery, the benefits of limiting work in progress and more!
Scrum in Japan Part 2 - Culture, Mindset Shifts and More!
September 14, 2023 20:00 - 26 minutes - 18.1 MBIn this episode, Dave continues his conversation with PST Gregory Fontaine about agile adoption in Japan. They dig into the challenges of agile adoption, the value of discipline in agile and Scrum, culture and more!
Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer - Ciprian Banica, Switzerland
September 07, 2023 20:00 - 57 minutes - 39.7 MBIn this recording of a live session of Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer, PST Ciprian Banica answers questions about the Scrum Master accountability, Product Ownership, measurement, how to improve your Sprint Retrospective and more!
Scrum in Japan Part 1 - Agile Trends
August 31, 2023 18:00 - 27 minutes - 19 MBIn this episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, host Dave West chats with Professional Scrum Trainer Gregory Fontaine about his Scrum journey and background, his experience with agile and Scrum in Japan, agile trends in Japan and more! Here is a link to an IPA survey Gregory references in the show.
Professional Scrum Trainer Spotlight - David Sabine
August 24, 2023 19:00 - 26 minutes - 18.1 MBIf you are familiar with Scrum.org, you may associate the organization with Professional Scrum and/or Professional Scrum Training Courses and Certifications. Behind those hands-on training courses are highly qualified Professional Scrum Trainers (PSTs), who go through a rigorous process to take their real world Scrum experience and create value for Scrum.org students. In several episodes of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, our host and Scrum.org CEO Dave West interviews Professional Scrum Tr...
How the Google Project Management Certificate Program helped Nancy Martinez's Career
August 17, 2023 19:00 - 24 minutes - 16.9 MBThe Google Project Management Certificate helps people prepare for entry-level jobs in the high-growth field of project management. The certificate dives deep into project management software, tools and templates, with an emphasis on Scrum. Scrum.org collaborated with Google to bring Scrum and Agile expertise to the Google Project Management Certificate and prepare for the Professional Scrum Master I certification. In this podcast series hosted by Scrum.org CEO, Dave West, he interviews Goog...
Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer with PSTs Gregory Crown, Robb Pieper and Jason Malmstadt, USA
August 09, 2023 19:00 - 57 minutes - 39.6 MBIn this recording of a live session of Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer, PSTs Gregory Crown, Robb Pieper and Jason Malmstadt of Responsive Advisors, answered questions about the Scrum events, the accountabilities in Scrum, Scrum outside of software, metrics and more!
A Discussion about Agile Organizational Design
July 25, 2023 18:00 - 21 minutes - 14.6 MBIn this episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, Host Dave West is joined by Professional Scrum Trainers and authors of the book Creating Agile Organizations, A Systemic Approach, Cesario Ramos and Ilia Pavlichenko. They chat about their motivation behind the book, problems with traditional organizational design, the importance of senior management support and more. Learn more: https://creatingagileorganizations.com/
Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer - David Sabine, Canada
July 11, 2023 19:00 - 59 minutes - 40.9 MBIn this recording of Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer, David Sabine who is based in Canada answers questions about transparency, trust, the Scrum Master Accountability, the Product Owner accountability and more!
Professional Scrum Trainer Spotlight - Andreanna Marshall
June 28, 2023 19:00 - 25 minutes - 17.6 MBIn this episode of the Scrum.org Community podcast, we get to know Professional Scrum Trainer Andreanna Marshall! She shares her background of how she got started as an executive assistant learning and using Scrum to becoming a Scrum Master and now a Professional Scrum Trainer!
Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer - Lavaneesh Gautam
June 14, 2023 18:00 - 56 minutes - 39.1 MBIn this session of Ask A Professional Scrum Trainer, Lavaneesh Gautam answers questions about the Daily Scrum, performance measurement, facilitating the Sprint Retrospective, Scrum with Kanban and more!
Edition en français - Demandez à un Formateur Scrum Professionnel (PST) - Scrum en Afrique
May 31, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour - 41.6 MBDans cet épisode de Ask a Professional Scrum Trainers, les PST Alex Gbaguidi, Fanny Ndengue et Romuald Franck Kenmeugne Tchuinkam répondent à vos questions brûlantes sur Scrum et les défis auxquels vous ou vos équipes pouvez être confrontés. Ils seront également disponibles pour répondre aux questions axées sur l'utilisation de l'Agilité et de Scrum en Afrique. Venez préparés avec vos questions pour cette session interactive et agréable !
A Discussion About Agile Marketing
May 25, 2023 19:00 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MBIn this episode Dave West interviews Jim Ewel and Melissa Reeve from the Agile Marketing Alliance to talk about how marketers use Scrum and other Agile frameworks based on their experiences, accountabilities in Agile Marketing, the differences between software development and marketing and more.
Ask A Professional Scrum Trainer with Reshma (Simran) Nagrani - Answering Your Burning Scrum Questions
May 10, 2023 20:00 - 58 minutes - 40.4 MBScrum has been in existence for more than 25 years as a simple framework for effective team collaboration on complex products. While it is lightweight and simple to understand, it can be difficult to apply effectively. The Scrum.org Ask A Professional Scrum Trainer series features Professional Scrum Trainers (PSTs) in a live session, answering your most pressing questions regarding the challenges and situations your Scrum Teams are facing. In this recorded session of Ask a Professional Scru...
A Discussion about the Importance of Psychological Safety on Scrum Teams
May 04, 2023 14:00 - 19 minutes - 13.2 MBAs a follow up to their recent webinar - Psychological Safety for Effective Facilitation and Better Team Interactions, Patricia Kong, Product Owner of Enterprise Agility and Professional Scrum Trainers Andy Hiles and Ravi Verma, reconvene to discuss the importance of fostering psychological safety and trust on Scrum Teams based on their own experiences.
Engaging Stakeholders and Management with Evidence-Based Management - Your Questions Answered
April 20, 2023 17:00 - 30 minutes - 21.1 MBIn the latest episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, Patricia Kong, Product Owner of Enterprise Agility guest hosts and is joined by Professional Scrum Trainer Todd Miller to answer open questions from their recent Scrum Pulse Webcast Engaging Stakeholders and Management with Evidence-Based Management. This discussion is focused around EBM, Agile Measurement and how to work with stakeholders and managers who are skeptical.
Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer - Jay Rahman
April 05, 2023 22:00 - 59 minutes - 40.8 MBIn this recording of Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer, PST Jay Rahman answers questions about Product Ownership, Scrum Master challenges, Scrum Events, facilitation and more!
Professional Scrum Trainers - In Depth: Jay Rahman - Scrum in Finance, Leadership, Agile Mindset and More
March 28, 2023 17:00 - 27 minutes - 18.9 MBIf you are familiar with Scrum.org, you may associate the organization with Professional Scrum and/or Professional Scrum Training Courses and Certifications. Behind those hands-on training courses are highly qualified Professional Scrum Trainers (PSTs), who go through a rigorous process to take their real world Scrum experience and create value for Scrum.org students. In several episodes of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, our host and Scrum.org CEO Dave West interviews Professional Scrum Tr...
Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer with PSTs Joanna Plaskonka and Magdalena Kucharska - Answering your Burning Scrum Questions
March 16, 2023 20:00 - 59 minutes - 40.7 MBScrum has been in existence for more than 25 years as a simple framework for effective team collaboration on complex products. While it is lightweight and simple to understand, it can be difficult to apply effectively. The Scrum.org Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer series features Professional Scrum Trainers (PSTs) in a live session, answering your most pressing questions regarding the challenges and situations your Scrum Teams are facing. In this session of Ask a Professional Scrum ...
What does it take to be a Scrum Master and land that first interview?
March 09, 2023 20:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MBThere is a lot of information out there about how to prepare for a Scrum Master interview. But, how do you land that interview? What are the qualities, mindset and personality traits needed to be a Scrum Master? In this episode of the Scrum.org Community podcast, career transition expert and former agile coach, Nada Buhendi joins host Dave West to discuss these questions to give some guidance on this stepping stone to getting a position as a Scrum Master. They dive into the importance of goo...
Scrum at Lightyear: Using Scrum to Develop Solar Electric Vehicles - Part 2
February 24, 2023 17:00 - 35 minutes - 24.8 MBIn this episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, Dave West continues his discussion with Willem van den Corput, VP Engineering at Lightyear and Michelle Siau, Agile Coach about how Scrum is used at Lightyear to develop Solar electric vehicles, managing complexity and adapting to growth in their organization.
Scrum at Lightyear: Using Scrum to Develop Solar Electric Vehicles - Part 1
February 22, 2023 17:00 - 33 minutes - 22.8 MBIn this episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, host Dave West chats with Willem van den Corput, VP Engineering at Lightyear and Michelle Siau, Agile Coach about how Lightyear came about, how they use Scrum to build Solar electric vehicles, coaching and more!
Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer - Sander Dur - Scrum Mastery, Self-Management and more!
February 14, 2023 21:00 - 57 minutes - 39.6 MBIn this episode of Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer, Sander Dur, PST at Xebia, joins to answer questions around Scrum Mastery, Self-Management, Product Ownership, estimation, metrics and more!
How Professional Scrum Master Certification and Google Career Certificates helped my Career featuring Nicholas Otu
February 01, 2023 20:00 - 16 minutes - 11.3 MBThe Google Project Management Certificate helps people prepare for entry-level jobs in the high-growth field of project management. The certificate dives deep into project management software, tools and templates, with an emphasis on Scrum. Scrum.org collaborated with Google to bring Scrum and Agile expertise to the Google Project Management Certificate and prepare for the Professional Scrum Master I certification. In this podcast series hosted by Scrum.org CEO, Dave West, he interviews Goog...
Spanish edition - Pregúntale a un PST (Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer): ¿Cómo se valida el trabajo en Scrum?
January 17, 2023 22:00 - 1 hour - 42.3 MBEl Product Owner es responsable de gestionar el Product Backlog, que incluye la comunicación clara de los Ítems, pero no se dice en ningún lugar de la Guía Scrum que sea responsable también de aceptarlos. La sombra alargada del rol de Project Manager merodea por muchas organizaciones, expandiendo el mito que el Product Owner debe aceptar el trabajo de los Desarrolladores. En esta sesión Alex Ballarín, Professional Scrum Trainer, te solucionará como: ¿Es el Sprint Review el lugar donde se a...
Leadership, the Importance of Transparency, Trust and More
January 04, 2023 16:00 - 27 minutes - 19 MBIn this episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, Professional Scrum Trainer Sander Dur from Xebia joins host Dave West for a discussion about leadership where they delve into topics including the importance of building trust, transparency and psychological safety in Scrum Teams and organizations.
How Do Agility and Software Architecture Fit Together?
December 09, 2022 15:00 - 35 minutes - 24.4 MBIn this episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, Kurt Bittner guest hosts and has Professional Scrum Trainers Peter Goetz and Thomas Schissler on to talk about the relationship between software architecture and Agile Teams. They discuss common misconceptions Agile teams have about software architecture, the role of the Product Owner in software architecture and more!
Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer - Leadership, Scrum Mastery and More with Jay Rahman
November 30, 2022 21:00 - 58 minutes - 40 MBIn this episode of Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer, PST Jay Rahman will be available answer your burning Scrum questions as well as topics related to leadership including: -Defining an Agile Leader -Scrum Master tips -Product Ownership -Retrospective tips -More!
Professional Agile Leadership - Part 3 - Hierarchy and More
November 23, 2022 18:00 - 27 minutes - 19 MBIn this episode of the Scrum.org Community podcast, Kurt Bittner, PST Ron Eringa and PST Laurens Bonnema come together again to join host Dave West for a discussion on some of the topics in the new book, The Professional Agile Leader, including hierarchy and shifts to more flat, agile organizations.
From Sergeant to Scrum Master - Building a Career Journey with Professional Scrum
November 10, 2022 18:00 - 18 minutes - 12.8 MBDuane Girard learned to help build strong teams as a Sergeant in the US Army. In the military, he paralleled many of the Scrum events and values and practiced his ability to build teams in complex environments - later finding a civilian position as a Scrum Master in one of his first jobs out of the military. In this podcast, Duane has a discussion with host, Dave West, and shares those parallels, talks about his career journey as a Scrum Master, and speaks about how the Professional Scrum Ma...
The Professional Agile Leader part 2 - Dual Operating Model, Self-Management and More
November 01, 2022 18:00 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MBIn this episode of the Scrum.org Community podcast, Kurt Bittner, PST Ron Eringa and PST Laurens Bonnema come together again to join host Dave West for a discussion on some of the topics in the new book, The Professional Agile Leader: The Leader's Journey Toward Growing Mature Agile Teams and Organizations, including the Dual Operating Model, Culture, self-management, bottom up intelligence and more!
German edition - Ask a PST - Product Owner Focus
October 26, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour - 41.4 MBMit PSTs Simon Flossmann and Martina Luenzmann Scrum gibt es seit mehr als 25 Jahren. Es ist ein einfaches Rahmenwerk, um für komplexe Probleme erfolgreich Lösungen zu gestalten, die dabei Wert generieren sowohl für den Kunden als auch für den Produzenten. Obwohl es leicht und einfach zu verstehen ist, kann es schwierig sein, Wertschöpfung effektiv zu gestalten und zu maximieren. Die Verwendung von Scrum stellt selbst erfahrene Product Owner:innen oder Produkt Manager:innen häufig vor Frag...
Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer - The Power of Facilitation Skills to improve Scrum Events and more!
October 19, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour - 42.1 MBGreat Scrum Teams are self-managing, cross-functional and have the ability and skills necessary to drive to successful outcomes. However, team interactions don’t always go as expected and can cause conflict or roadblocks. Effective facilitation can help the Scrum Team move forward toward their desired outcomes. Within the Scrum events and beyond there are a lot of opportunities where good facilitation can help teams work better together. In this episode of Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer m...
Scrum.org Community Podcast - A Discussion about the new Professional Agile Leader book - Part 1
October 12, 2022 21:00 - 25 minutes - 17.8 MBIn this episode of the Scrum.org Community podcast, Kurt Bittner, PST Ron Eringa and PST Laurens Bonnema join host Dave West for a discussion on some of the topics in the new book, The Professional Agile Leader: The Leader's Journey Toward Growing Mature Agile Teams and Organizations, including: - The difference between traditional leadership and agile leadership - Self-managing teams - Leadership styles - The notion of giving control to the people who work with you - Ideas around trust - M...
How Professional Scrum Master Certification and Google Career Certificates helped my Career featuring Joanne Cheng
September 30, 2022 13:00 - 13 minutes - 9.07 MBThe Google Project Management Certificate helps people prepare for entry-level jobs in the high-growth field of project management. The certificate dives deep into project management software, tools and templates, with an emphasis on Scrum. Scrum.org collaborated with Google to bring Scrum and Agile expertise to the Google Project Management Certificate and prepare for the Professional Scrum Master I certification. In this podcast series hosted by Scrum.org CEO, Dave West, he interviews Goog...
Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer - Scrum for Leaders
September 15, 2022 19:00 - 57 minutes - 39.6 MBScrum has been in existence for more than 25 years as a simple framework for effective team collaboration on complex products. While it is lightweight and simple to understand, it can be difficult to apply effectively. The Scrum.org Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer series features Professional Scrum Trainers (PSTs) in a live session, answering your most pressing questions regarding the challenges and situations your Scrum Teams are facing. In this episode of Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer...
The Importance of Facilitation Skills on the Scrum Team
September 12, 2022 16:00 - 26 minutes - 18.3 MBIn this episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, Patricia Kong leads a discussion with PSTs Todd Miller and Glaudia Califano focused on how Facilitation can help Scrum Teams, the importance of Facilitation Skills for Scrum Team members and the themes that inspired the creation of the new Professional Scrum Facilitation Skills training course.
Ask a PST - Scrum Outside of Software with Daria Bagina, Mary Iqbal and Shirley Santiago
August 25, 2022 20:00 - 59 minutes - 40.8 MBScrum has been in existence for more than 25 years as a simple framework for effective team collaboration on complex products. While it is lightweight and simple to understand, it can be difficult to apply effectively. The Scrum.org Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer series features Professional Scrum Trainers (PSTs) in a live session, answering your most pressing questions regarding the challenges and situations your Scrum Teams are facing. In this recording of Ask a Professional Scrum Train...
Company Spotlight - Scrum at Gillette
August 12, 2022 12:00 - 21 minutes - 14.6 MBIn this podcast we feature Professional Scrum Trainers and other Scrum Practitioners sharing their stories and experiences to help learn from the experience of others. In this episode, host Dave West interviews David Ingram, VP of Global R&D at Gillette about developing razors using Scrum and how they transitioned to Scrum to do so.