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The Journey of a Product Owner at Shell - Self-Management, Stakeholder Management, Incremental Delivery in a Complex Enterprise Environment Dec 14, 2023

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In this episode of the Scrum.org Community podcast, host Dave West is joined by Olga Rownanyk, a Product Owner at Shell and John Coleman, a Professional Scrum Trainer. Olga shares insights into agility and culture at a large scale organization, talks about her Product Ownership journey at Shell involving internal systems, processes, and customer insights and shares some helpful tips for Product Owners based on her deep experience.

Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer - Ferzeen Anis Dec 06, 2023

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In 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 Nov 30, 2023

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In 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 Control, a facilitation academy that develops leaders through certifications, workshops, and organizational coaching focused on facilitation mastery, innovation, and play. He has helped transform leaders, innovators, and creatives from Nike, U.S. SOCOM, Google, the Air Force, Gap, Tesla, MSU, Church & Dwight, Apple, Adobe, Dropbox, Fidelity, Vrbo, Liberty Mutual, Humana, and SAIC. Douglas is a thought leader and author of four books: Magical Meetings, Beyond the Prototype, How to Remix Anything, and Start Within.

Scrum for Wedding Planning - a Unique Use Case for Scrum Nov 22, 2023

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In 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 Nov 15, 2023

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In 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 Nov 02, 2023

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In 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 making
-More!

Unlocking Business Agility with Evidence-Based Management Oct 26, 2023

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In 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. You can use the code SCRUMORG for 35% off at InformIT

Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer - Product Backlog Management with Todd Miller and Ryan Ripley Oct 17, 2023

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In 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 backlog in setting when multiple teams are working together?
- How do you prioritize and order the items in your Product Backlog to ensure maximum value for the product?
- In your personal view: What is the optimal format for a Product Backlog refinement?
And many more!!!

How 17 Strangers in 7 Time Zones Scaled Scrum with Nexus and Deployed to Production in 9 Days Oct 12, 2023

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In 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 self-management, supported each other, and hit the ground running quickly with picking up the Nexus framework and running with it to deploy to production in just 9 days!
Agile for Patriots is a Dallas-based non-profit that provides military veterans and their spouses with focused Agile training, practical experience, and Professional Scrum Master certification. The mission of Agile for Patriots is to prepare military Veterans and their spouses for Agile careers through training, coaching, certification and practical experience using the Scrum framework. Its vision is that all graduates of the Agile for Patriots program are employed with fulfilling roles in Agile Value Delivery.

Using Agile to Fight Climate Change Oct 05, 2023

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In 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!

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