Scrum.org Community Podcast

In this episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, Lindsay Velecina from Scrum.org jumps in as guest host with guests Sabrina Love, Product Owner of Courseware at Scrum.org and Professional Scrum Trainer Ravi Verma . They talk about the different ways people learn and some of the science behind it. They cover: - The current Learning landscape - Various learning formats - The benefits of an Immers...

In this episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, Dave West interviews Professional Scrum Trainer Ryan Ripley about his experiences with Scrum and what led him to become a Professional Scrum Trainer. Ryan shares his journey of implementing Scrum in various companies, from being the "crazy guy" to becoming a Scrum Master and then a manager. Dave and Ryan also dig into Evidence-Based Man...

In this PST spotlight episode, Dave West interviews Samuel Adesoga about his journey with Scrum and becoming a Professional Scrum Trainer. They talk about: - Sam's experience with implementing Scrum in various organizations - Digital transformation in Africa and the importance of simplifying approaches to change - Scrum in Africa and its potential for innovation - More!

In this episode of Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer, Arunvignesh Ramakrishnan based in Malaysia answered the audience's burning questions about Scrum and their challenges including the accountabilities of a Scrum Master, being new on a Scrum Team, how to handle a PO leaving an organization, Sprint Retrospective ideas and more!

In questo episodio di Ask a PST, Fabio Panzavolta e Stefano Milanesi rispondono a domande sulle basi "dimenticate" dell'agilità, le sfide sulla sua adozione, del futuro degli Scrum Master ed altro!

In this PST Spotlight episode, Steve Porter joins guest host and fellow PST Ryan Ripley for a deep dive into his Scrum journey. From his early days in software development to becoming a master of Scrum, Steve shares invaluable insights and experiences. Learn: How Steve's coding background led him to Scrum The strategic way he introduced XP practices in a traditional workplace A defining momen...

In this episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, Dave West chats with Yuval Yeret, a Professional Scrum Trainer at Scrum.org. The discussion covers Yuval's background in DevOps and product development, emphasizing his passion for agile and empiricism that has developed over the years. Yuval highlights the use of Scrum, Kanban, and OKRs, emphasizing transparency and flow.  The conversation...

In this episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, host Dave West is joined by the authors of the new book, Facilitating Professional Scrum Teams - Glaudia Califano, Patricia Kong and David Spinks. In this discussion they cover the very important skill of facilitation and delve into: The need for a book on facilitation practices and their impact The importance of facilitation in Scrum and knowled...

In this Professional Scrum Trainer Spotlight episode, PST Ryan Ripley from Agile for Humans steps in as guest host with Guest PST Laurens Bonnema based in the Netherlands. Learn about Laurens' transformative journey in the Scrum world, from an unplanned start to becoming a successful Scrum Master and PST. His initial struggles and the lessons learned shaped his understanding and appreciation...

In this episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, host Dave West is joined by Quincy Jordan, VP of Agility at Agile Thought. The discuss the question, "Has Agile Stalled?" and review some of the points in a recent blog that Dave wrote. They cover the following and more in this deep discussion: - Agile has reached a plateau in organizations due to a lack of vision and understanding of i...

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 Ow...

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!

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 entrepr...

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. 

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.

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-o...

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 activi...

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? - W...

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 sho...

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!

In 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!

In 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...

In 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!

In 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!

In 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.