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Scrum Mastery: 5 Steps to Grow a Strong Team Identity

Stephanie Ockerman

This is the second in a series of posts exploring Scrum Mastery. In our first post, we introduced the 4 dimensions of Scrum Mastery. Scrum [...]

4 Dimensions for Scrum Mastery

Stephanie Ockerman

I often end my Scrum training classes with this quote from Ken Schwaber, "Scrum takes two days to learn and a lifetime to master.” So [...]

The Art of Product Backlog Refinement

Stephanie Ockerman

A common question I hear is, "How much Product Backlog refinement should we do and how much detail should be in the Product Backlog?" Well, [...]

What Are You and Your Team Avoiding?

Stephanie Ockerman

What we avoid runs our lives. Think of it like an app running in the background. Over time, avoidance drains our battery. What we avoid [...]

7 Big Ideas from Business Agility 2018

Stephanie Ockerman

This was my second year as a facilitator at the Business Agility Conference in New York City, and it was even more impactful than last [...]

5 Powerful Things About the Sprint

Stephanie Ockerman

The Sprint is one of the five Scrum events. In my Professional Scrum Courses, this is the event that people often forget about because it [...]

How to Build Trust to Enable Agility

Stephanie Ockerman

How do you build trust? This is one of the most common questions I get working with individuals, teams, and organizations. In this post, I [...]

4 Ways to Coach with the Scrum Values

Stephanie Ockerman

Scrum is a framework that thrives on self-organizing teams. It gives you boundaries, clear accountabilities, and goals. But it doesn’t tell you exactly how to [...]

Agility is Resilience

Stephanie Ockerman

I recently came across a definition of resilience that moved me. "The ability to transform hardship to experience." That is what agility is truly about. [...]

Top 10 Reasons You Should NOT Attend My Professional Scrum Product Owner Course in Seattle

Stephanie Ockerman

In case you are still on the fence about attending my Scrum Product Owner training course in Seattle, I've put together the top 10 reasons [...]

Top 10 Reasons to Attend My Professional Scrum Product Owner Course in Seattle

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In case you are still on the fence about attending my Scrum Product Owner training course in Seattle, I've put together the top 10 reasons [...]

4 Questions to Ask When You Want to Modify Scrum

Stephanie Ockerman

I frequently hear about people wanting to modify Scrum. This usually comes up because the transparency is painful, charge is hard, and being stuck by [...]

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Scrum Mastery: 5 Steps to Grow a Strong Team Identity

4 Dimensions for Scrum Mastery

The Art of Product Backlog Refinement

What Are You and Your Team Avoiding?

7 Big Ideas from Business Agility 2018

5 Powerful Things About the Sprint

How to Build Trust to Enable Agility

4 Ways to Coach with the Scrum Values

Agility is Resilience

Top 10 Reasons You Should NOT Attend My Professional Scrum Product Owner Course in Seattle

Top 10 Reasons to Attend My Professional Scrum Product Owner Course in Seattle

4 Questions to Ask When You Want to Modify Scrum

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