Scrum Events Articles

A Meeting Participant Has the Right to Expect Ten Deliverables

Even lousy movies and novels have three components: a beginning, a middle, and an end. A meeting participant (or ceremony, event, session, or workshop) should expect every session they attend to...

Facilitation Best Practices – 26 Articles To Help You Lead Better Meetings

For over ten years, we have consistently posted articles on Facilitation Best Practices. Articles are written to help you lead better meetings. Throughout, we have updated these articles to keep...

Powerful Facilitation, Gratitude, and Scrum Guide 2020

While an attitude of gratitude promotes more powerful facilitation, you won’t hear the term ‘happy’ very often in one of our meetings, sessions, or workshops, as the word is both subjective and...

Takeaways from the Global SCRUM Gathering and Control the Room

The Global SCRUM GATHERING® Austin was kicked off on a warm Monday morning in May by Daniel Pink. Because his research focused on time and timing, Daniel compiled and published his results and...

Facilitation Best Practices – 26 Articles To Help You Lead Better Meetings

Aug 12, 2021 | Analysis Methods, Communication Skills, Decision Making, Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Managing Conflict, Meeting Agendas, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support, Meeting Tools, Planning Approach, Problem Solving, Scrum Events

For over ten years, we have consistently posted articles on Facilitation Best Practices. Articles are written to help...

Powerful Facilitation, Gratitude, and Scrum Guide 2020

Dec 3, 2020 | Leadership Skills, Meeting Support, Scrum Events

While an attitude of gratitude promotes more powerful facilitation, you won’t hear the term ‘happy’ very often in one...

Takeaways from the Global SCRUM Gathering and Control the Room

Jul 25, 2019 | Facilitation Skills, Leadership Skills, Meeting Support, Scrum Events

The Global SCRUM GATHERING® Austin was kicked off on a warm Monday morning in May by Daniel Pink. Because his research...

Product Owner — Creating Products that Customers Love

Meeting Structure, Meeting Tools, Scrum Events

“Creating Products that Customers Love” strikes us as highly poignant, as much of the world heads toward a holiday...

Kanban or Scrum: Pick the Right Workflow Tool

Meeting Tools, Scrum Events

Guest post by Christian Golden, Ph.D. In the world of content and product development, Kanban and Scrum are two of the...

Do NOT Attempt a Design Sprint Without a Professional Facilitator

Decision Making, Meeting Structure, Meeting Tools, Scrum Events

What is a Design Sprint? Created at Google Ventures, a Design Sprint represents a methodology that helps teams...

Agile vs Waterfall? Don’t Risk Failure By Using the Wrong One

Meeting Agendas, Meeting Structure, Meeting Support, Scrum Events

A professional facilitator handles several types of assignments, from planning to design. However, most facilitators...

Don’t Ruin Your Scrum Sprints — Facilitate Scrum Events Using These Agendas

Meeting Agendas, Meeting Tools, Scrum Events

The Agile mindset demands frequent, and continuing, interaction among its stakeholders. Perhaps more so with Scrum,...

Scrum Master Facilitator Techniques Improve Meetings

Meeting Support, Scrum Events

Agile's Scrum Master facilitator techniques ensure that business communities get quick and responsive results....

How to Use the Principles of Agile’s Daily Scrum in Your Staff Meetings

Meeting Tools, Scrum Events

There are good meetings and there are long meetings but there aren’t many good, long meetings. Therefore, Agile's...

Evidence-based Meeting Design Improves the Agility of Your Group

Meeting Agendas, Scrum Events

The Economist reports that “Some apartment building owners now require tenants to provide a DNA sample of their dog so...

7 Reasons Why Agile Facilitation Provides a Powerful Mindset for Various Frameworks

Scrum Events

We love Agile and an Agile mindset. You should too. For most of you, some version of Agile methodology will replace or...

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