A 2-day Scrum Master certification doesn't make you a master. It barely makes you a beginner.

The Japanese concept of Shu-Ha-Ri says: First learn the rules. Then question them. Then transcend them. Most teams skip straight to "transcend" and wonder why nothing works.

#agile #shuhari

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SHU-HA-RI STOP SKIPPING PHASES

"Agile is dead" is always said by people who never did agile in the first place.

They did Scrum without understanding the manifesto. They did standups without listening. They did sprints without delivering.

Agile isn't dead. It was never alive in your org.

#agile #scrum

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AGILE ISN'T DEAD IT WAS NEVER ALIVE

If your idea of a Scrum Master is "the one who runs stand-ups (aka meeting booker)", you’re missing the point a bit. Honestly, that version of the role is replaceable. #Scrum #Agile

Impact Mapping by Gojko Adzic is on sale on Leanpub! Its suggested price is $10.00; get it for $7.00 with this coupon: https://leanpub.com/impact-mapping/c/LeanPublishingDaily20260515 #agile #business_and_management #software #startups

Wieder mal ein interessanter Artikel von Rudolf Gusy.
#agile #kanban #scrum
https://agilereflection.org/while-wip-roi-0/

»The Cost of Silence« https://bobgalen.substack.com/p/the-cost-of-silence #Agilist.in #Agile #Change #Lean #Kanban #Scrum

A podcast guest told me this once: I've seen teams proudly refuse to "work agile" because every agile transformation they'd been through just added bureaucracy.

Instead they just talked directly, shipped fast, and focused on results.

That IS agile. They just didn't call it that. That's fine!

#agile #scrum

#agile

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REFUSED AGILE AND BECAME AGILE

Have you ever struggled with structuring huge backlogs? 🤯

At @openproject we have a solution for you! We introduce backlog buckets.

#agile #productmanagement #backlog #Jira

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Video presenting the backlog bucket functionality in OpenProject.

If nobody asks a follow-up question after someone's update in your Daily, you don't have a team. You have a group of people filing verbal status reports.

A real Daily has interruptions: "Wait — can you show me that after?" "Don't start that yet, I need to finish mine first."

#agile #scrum

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Your Daily is a Litmus Test

»Integrating AI into Scrum Teams: Insights with Claudio Lassala« http://drunkenpm.blogspot.com/2026/05/integrating-ai-into-scrum-teams.html #Agilist.in #Agile #Change #Lean #Kanban #Scrum

»The AI Engagement Lifecycle with Endava, Dava.X.AI, and Miro« http://drunkenpm.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-ai-engagement-lifecycle-with-endava.html #Agilist.in #Agile #Change #Lean #Kanban #Scrum

I have reworked my article against a #test / #qa column on boards and could add some more voices.
https://www.enteresc.net/why-a-test-column-on-boards-is-a-problem/

#scrum #kanban #agile

Bin erstaunt und freue mich, dass trotz Podcast-Pause die erste Folge der neuen Season am oberen Ende der Downloads nach 3 Tagen im Vergleich zu älteren Folgen ist.

NBA Kompakt ist das neue Format: Ein Thema - 5 Minuten. Der komplette Plan steht. https://no-bullshit-agile.de/nba-kompakt-alle-folgen.html

NBAK01: Gute Software schnell liefern
https://no-bullshit-agile.de/nbak01-gute-software-schnell-liefern.html

#Podcast #Agile

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GUTE SOFTWARE SCHNELL LIEFERN

Heard a story in a podcast episode: A PO once planned every sprint until the end of the year based on velocity. Every single sprint.

That's not agile planning. That's a waterfall Gantt chart wearing a Scrum costume.

#agile #scrum

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VELOCITY IS NOT A CRYSTAL BALL

You can't mandate a mindset. You can only model it.

Be that one person who just does things differently: ships smaller, asks better questions, admits mistakes first. That's the flywheel. Not a workshop. Not a framework rollout.

Change spreads through behavior, not through slides.

#agile #leadership

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THE FLYWHEEL IS BEHAVIOR, NOT SLIDES

Продолжаем полировать RetroPoint — без громкого релиза, но с заметной разницей в ежедневной работе.

Что улучшили:
📱 Мобильный интерфейс — профиль (все разделы видны сразу), команды, кабинет 1‑2‑1, OKR и Planning Poker: формы влезают в экран, кнопки не «плывут».
🤝 1‑2‑1 — к приглашению на встречу можно добавить заметки (ссылка на созвон, контекст): они уйдут в письмо, календарь и повестку.
🔐 Вход — меньше ложных «вылетов» из аккаунта при переходах между разделами и после подтверждения email.

Мелочи, которые экономят нервы команде на удалёнке.

Подробности — в новости на сайте: https://retropoint.ru/news/mobile-ui-and-stable-login-may-2026

#RetroPoint #тимлид #1to1 #управлениекомандой #retrospective #ретроспектива #agile #scrum #kanban #teamlead #it #itleads #teamleadthings #команда #retroonline #просторетро #oneonone #one2one #pokerplanning

What has become out the of "sustainable pace" idea? No more deathmarch-projects, one after another?
I have the impression, with AI-Assistance in coding the fatigue becomes not a smaller problem, but a bigger problem. With reduced staff, extensive use of "AI-Coding-Agents" we will loose even more seniors to burnout and fatigue. #GenAI #LLM #Coding #Agile

Hiring an Agile Coach won't make your company agile. Neither will a mandate from the CEO. It can help though if you also remember the following.

Agility spreads through a small group of people who actually understand it and who are given the space to prove it works.

No role, no title, no framework will do that job for you.

#agile #leadership

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Agile Coach won't save you

Every company claims to have a "culture of learning from mistakes."

Then something goes wrong and the first question is: "Who did this?"

You don't have a failure culture. You have a blame culture with better marketing.

#agile #leadership

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FAILURE CULTURE WITH BETTER MARKETING

If you work at an agency and call yourself "Product Owner" — you're not one. You're a proxy.

The real PO is the client. They own the vision, the market, the risk. You sort tickets.

Scrum defined this role for product companies, not for agencies. Stop pretending it fits. I made that error myself and it felt wrong the whole time.

#agile #scrum

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PRODUCT OWNER YOURE A PROXY

Stop trying to reach consensus in your team. You'll get silence, dominant voices, or fake agreement.

Try consent instead: "Does anyone have a serious objection?" No objection = we move forward. You can always revisit.

Faster decisions. More voices heard. Less theater.

#agile #leadership

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CONSENSUS IS A TRAP

„Wir bauen erstmal alles fertig, dann zeigen wir es dem Kunden."

Drei Monate Annahmen aufeinander gestapelt. Kein Feedback. Kein Lernen. Nur die Hoffnung, dass es passt.

Agiles Arbeiten heißt: Gute Software schnell liefern. Nicht perfekt. Nicht alles. Aber auf die Straße gebracht, damit du lernst, ob es funktioniert.

#agile #softwareengineering

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Erst bauen, dann hoffen

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Ansible for DevOps by Jeff Geerling is on sale on Leanpub! Its suggested price is $9.99; get it for $6.99 with this coupon: https://leanpub.com/ansible-for-devops/c/LeanPublishingDaily20260511 #agile #software #startups #ansible #devops #cloud_computing

Silence in a meeting is not agreement. It's fear wearing a mask.

If your team "agrees" in 5 minutes, nobody actually shared what they think. You didn't make a decision but one person did, and the rest let it happen.

#agile #leadership

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SILENCE IS NOT AGREEMENT

AI makes your team produce code faster. It does not make your team learn faster.

We tried it. Code generation looks fast until someone has to review, understand, and fix what the AI wrote. As so many already said: The bottleneck was never typing speed. I can confirm...

What OpenAI and Anthropic sell you is marketing. They have to.

#ai #agile

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FASTER CODE IS NOT FASTER LEARNING

RE: https://norden.social/@AgilePreacher/116572274676273996

Das klingt vielversprechend.

Hamburger Agile Bubble, wo seid ihr?

#Hamburg #Agile #Agilität #ProductOwner #Scrum #ScrumOfScrum #AgileJob

Kleiner Test - ich überlege, ob ich die Podcast Folgen von NBAK auch hier direkt auf #Mastodon veröffentliche... Gut?

Shownotes sind dann auf der Webseite: https://no-bullshit-agile.de/nbak01-gute-software-schnell-liefern.html

#Podcast #Mastodon #Agile

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NBAK01: Gute Software schnell liefern