Scrum - Pablo Bernardo

How much Scrum is about collaboration

The Scrum Guide has up to ten appearances between “collaborate, collaboration, collaborative …”. It is not casual or redundant. It is very important. The rules of the game that Scrum explains, the definition of roles and responsibilities, are not to have an argument with which to accuse one another when things

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Business is everyone

I have a kind of mantra that repeats a lot when it appears in a conversation, a dichotomy between business and development that says: business is everyone. It is understood the need to use terminology to differentiate between technical departments and those more specialized in plans and business strategies, but

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The paradox of being a Scrum Master

Your job, or a part of it, is to bring about change. Not so much to execute it but to promote it, to help guide it and to take notice of what needs to be changed. The strange thing is that for everything to improve, work and be more agile,

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Scrum Values - September 2018

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure to be part of a project that Gunther Verheyen has been developing for a long time: An extensive and humanized definition of the Scrum Values. This way now the Spanish version, which was not previously available, is added to the international translations

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An inspiring vision of my job

There are a few people in the Agile world that inspire for different reasons. Personally, I prefer those who stand out for being different; risky, a little complacent, with a deep vision … I hope in the future to be able to comment on some of these references (although some of

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What does Scrum say of what it does not say?

I hear a lot of sentences that start with something like: “What does Scrum say about …?” or “In Scrum can we …?” or “What does it happen in Scrum when …?”. And the most interesting is that many times the questions are about things that Scrum does not event speak about. Sometimes

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Why you should not do analogies with the Scrum roles

When you are explaining Scrum or teaching people about it, it tends to appear in the group the tendency to establish similarities with other roles, positions or responsibilities they already know. “Then you mean the Scrum Master is like a Project Manager, just that she …” or things like “Then the

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Four agile points to review beyond frameworks

For those of us who work on improving the agility in our companies, we do not limit ourselves to frameworks implementation. Some people think that a Scrum Master work, for example, is just to be sure that the development team has all of the Scrum Events. This is not even