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Nicolás Chirio
07 Apr, 2025
New Project? Here's What to Do Before You Start Doing
Before you rush into hitting milestones, take a moment to set things up right. This step-by-step guide helps you lay the foundation for a successful project—less rework, more impact, and better collaboration. Checklist included.
business agility
product ownership
Cedric Multigner
01 Apr, 2025
Making Agile and Scrum Tangible: Lessons from a Hands-On Training
How do you make Agile and Scrum truly tangible? We put it to the test in a hands-on training with young professionals at Ormit Talent Belgium. Through a playful Scrum simulation, we turned theory into action—uncovering key lessons about iteration, feedback, and structure. Here’s what we learned.
business agility
Tiago Garcez
28 Mar, 2025
The 3 Key Questions for Organizational Design
To design an effective organizational structure and operating model, start by answering three key questions: What is your product? How do you handle Business As Usual (BAU) work? Do you need two layers of governance? This guide explores strategic options for structuring delivery teams, balancing ongoing work, and optimizing governance for better efficiency and alignment.
business agility
Alberto Gómez
13 Mar, 2025
Prioritization Techniques: A Practical Guide for Success
Learn how to prioritize effectively with our Prioritization Techniques Guide. This practical guide covers key strategies like maximizing economic value, cost of delay, and the Kano Model, helping you focus on tasks that deliver the most value. Get the tools you need to make smarter decisions and keep your projects on track. Download the guide now!
business agility
product ownership
Tiago Garcez
10 Mar, 2025
The four perspectives of a Product Owner
One of the challenges organizations face when moving towards Agile ways of working is the role of a product owner. We generally …
product ownership
Gabriel Ledesma
06 Mar, 2025
Agile Estimation from Sprint 1 – A Practical Guide for Teams and Scrum Masters
Struggling with Agile estimations?This guide breaks it down and teaches you how to improve estimation accuracy, manage stakeholder expectations, and create a smoother planning process.
business agility
scrum mastery
Nicolás Chirio
05 Mar, 2025
Overcoming challenges when implementing OKRs
Implementing Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) in your organization is a great step toward aligning teams and improving performance. However, despite having a structured checklist, many teams encounter challenges along the way. Let’s explore some of the most common issues and how to overcome them effectively.
product ownership
Rico Trevisan
25 Feb, 2025
Process Mapping for Scrum Teams
Struggling with team structure or organizational silos? Process mapping for Scrum teams can help you define value, align stakeholders, and enhance collaboration. Here's how to get started.
scrum mastery
product ownership
Nicolás Chirio
24 Feb, 2025
How to make OKRs work for you
Struggling with shifting priorities, low engagement, and lack of transparency? OKRs can help—but only if implemented effectively. In this article, I break down the key steps to making OKRs your new goal-setting standard.
product ownership
Nicolás Chirio
19 Feb, 2025
What are OKRs and why the hype?
Ever feel like your work isn’t making an impact? Or that priorities keep shifting without clear direction? OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) might be the solution.
product ownership
Tiago Garcez
05 Feb, 2025
Scaling Agile:
When done right, scaling Agile ensures that this customer-centric mindset is preserved. As teams and organizations grow, maintaining a tight feedback loop with customers becomes more complex. However, Agile’s inherent focus on delivering incremental value enables teams to remain responsive, even as the scope of work increases.
business agility
Rico Trevisan
13 Dec, 2024
Facilitation: Guiding the Game Without Stealing the Spotlight
Facilitating isn’t about leading the spotlight—it’s about guiding the flow so others shine. From preparation to handling tough moments, here’s how to make meetings matter and decisions stick.
scrum mastery
Rico Trevisan
30 Oct, 2024
Strategic Conversations Between a Product Owner and Scrum Master
Are you looking to get along with your Scrum Master or Product Owner? Here’s the key! Explore the relationship between the Product Owner and Scrum Master.
scrum mastery
product ownership
Tiago Garcez
05 Jun, 2024
Productivity is an advanced topic, be patient
Everybody is interested in improving productivity. It’s in the title of the book from one of the creators of Scrum – boost …
business agility
Xavier Quesada Allué
20 Dec, 2021
How to become a credible Agile Coach
Are you looking to hire an Agile Coach to support your organization's agile journey? Check this out!
scrum mastery
business agility
Joke Vandemaele
21 Sep, 2021
Agile Contract: know the deal before you set it
Learn how sharing risk, tolerances, and establishing clear escalation paths can transform your supplier relationships and create a more collaborative, efficient environment. Ready to embrace Agile contracts? This guide will help you navigate the path to better collaboration and project success.
business agility
product ownership
Xavier Quesada Allué
15 Sep, 2021
5 top skills to develop for a Scrum Master or Agile Coach
Are you looking to become a better Scrum Master or Agile Coach? Here’s where you need to focus on! We give you 5 essential skills for a Scrum Master or Agile Coach.
scrum mastery
agile leadership
Joke Vandemaele
25 Jun, 2021
How the wrong question can nip self organization in the bud
Are you looking to become a better Scrum Master or change agent? Here’s the key! Understand that even a small leading question is a way of control that can nip self-organization in the bud and be ready to let go small leading questions.
business agility
scrum mastery
Raúl Herranz
25 Jun, 2021
Publication of the new Scrum Guide (November 2020)
Celebrating 25 years of Scrum, the new guide was presented on November 18, 2020 at an event held jointly by Scrum Inc.
scrum mastery
agile leadership
Rico Trevisan
19 Apr, 2021
Case Study - ABInBev's Sales BI Team
Discover how AB InBev, a global brewing company, embraced agility to revolutionize its operations, culture, and customer experience.
scrum mastery
agile leadership
Tiago Garcez
12 Mar, 2021
Beyond Agile scaling frameworks – continuously adapting structures
Over the past few years, as organizations looked to scale their ongoing Agile initiatives beyond the team level, scaling frameworks were all the rage. And as people discussed at length the merits of Large Scale Scrum (LeSS), Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Nexus, or the “Spotify Model”, something got lost along the way.
product ownership
scrum mastery
Xavier Quesada Allué
23 Nov, 2020
Front Line Agility – the missing link to true innovation and customer centricity
Front line employees are often overlooked in an agile transformation – but they can be the key to a truly successful approach. Here's what you need to know!
business agility
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