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Coaches teams to create high value products - Co-founder/Editor/Writer Serious Scrum

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Delivery Management

Scrum is an awful project management methodology’

A tale with a twist

Willem-jan Ageling

Nov 17, 2019 • 9 min read

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10 Situations Where Scrum Is a Burden For Developers

Scrum isn’t always the best approach

Willem-jan Ageling

Oct 16, 2022 • 7 min read

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12 Awful Scrum Master Mistakes

Destructing their team

Willem-jan Ageling

Nov 21, 2021 • 8 min read

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7 Reasons Why Scrum Fails

How many have you experienced yourself?

Willem-jan Ageling

Nov 20, 2022 • 7 min read

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8 Agile and Scrum related misconceptions many middle managers have

Based upon my engagements with hundreds of them in the past year

Willem-jan Ageling

Jan 02, 2022 • 6 min read

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9 Practices that Haunt Developers Working with Scrum

Why Scrum has a bad name

Willem-jan Ageling

Sep 11, 2022 • 8 min read

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Assessment of 6 approaches to scale Scrum

Scaling Scrum, part 14

Willem-jan Ageling

Apr 05, 2019 • 17 min read

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Create teams for your goals, not goals for your teams

Fluid Scrum Teams Organize Around Meaningful Work

Willem-jan Ageling

Mar 06, 2022 • 5 min read

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Developers Need To Understand It’s Not About Coding

It’s about creating valuable products

Willem-jan Ageling

Jun 13, 2021 • 6 min read

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Do You Hate Scrum And Wish to Abandon It? Here Are Some Tips for When You Do!

And this is equally applicable to Agile

Willem-jan Ageling

Jun 12, 2022 • 5 min read

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Do you wish to adopt Scrum in your large organisation? The odds aren’t in your favour

Countless organisations have failed before you

Willem-jan Ageling

Dec 12, 2021 • 8 min read

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Does Scrum hold up to scrutiny? — The Increment

Chapter 16

Willem-jan Ageling

Jul 09, 2023 • 5 min read

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Does Scrum hold up to scrutiny? — The Product Backlog

Chapter 14

Willem-jan Ageling

Jun 25, 2023 • 7 min read

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Does Scrum hold up to scrutiny? — The Scrum Artifacts

Chapter 13

Willem-jan Ageling

Jun 11, 2023 • 5 min read

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Does Scrum hold up to scrutiny? — The Scrum Guide End Note

Chapter 17

Willem-jan Ageling

Jul 16, 2023 • 5 min read

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Does Scrum hold up to scrutiny? — The Sprint Backlog

Chapter 15

Willem-jan Ageling

Jul 02, 2023 • 6 min read

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Don’t Waste Your Sprint Review. Make It Bigger Than Just Your Sprint

Information may arrive months later. Don’t let it stop you from bringing it up at the Sprint Review.

Willem-jan Ageling

Nov 01, 2020 • 8 min read

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Everyone Uses Scrum But Many Haven’t Uncovered Its Full Potential

There’s so much more to unpack

Willem-jan Ageling

Oct 25, 2020 • 7 min read

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Fluid Scrum Teams and Dynamic Reteaming

The valuable lessons from Heidi Helfand

Willem-jan Ageling

Oct 03, 2021 • 6 min read

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Fluid Scrum Teams to Address the Complete Product Experience

A product experience is about more than the core product — it requires more diversity in your teams

Willem-jan Ageling

Feb 27, 2022 • 6 min read

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Fluid Scrum Teams vs Fixed Scrum Teams — A comparison

Using the 6 conditions of successful teams

Willem-jan Ageling

Sep 26, 2021 • 7 min read

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Great Managers Are Catalysts of Succesful Agile Organisations

But they have to step up as Agile Leaders

Willem-jan Ageling

Jun 20, 2021 • 7 min read

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Great Scrum Masters Know When Their Team Should Abolish Scrum

Scrum Masters should challenge the use of Scrum

Willem-jan Ageling

Jul 25, 2021 • 5 min read

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Here Is Why Many Developers Hate Scrum

And what you can learn from this

Willem-jan Ageling

Oct 04, 2020 • 5 min read

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Here’s a Shocking Revelation: You Can Create Long-Term Plans with Scrum

It’s just another way of planning

Willem-jan Ageling

Feb 06, 2022 • 5 min read

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How I learned Scrum and the “Spotify Model” don’t match

Autonomy vs Product focus

Willem-jan Ageling

Nov 28, 2021 • 6 min read

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How company culture can impact Scrum adoption

3 entities, 3 different cultures — survival of the fittest, the helicopter parent, empiricism

Willem-jan Ageling

Feb 17, 2019 • 6 min read

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How effective is your Sprint Review, really?

How to improve this vital event

Willem-jan Ageling

Dec 18, 2022 • 6 min read

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How to Avoid Agile Transformation Pitfalls

Pitfall 5 — Failing to actively involve the people

Willem-jan Ageling

Oct 08, 2023 • 6 min read

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How to Avoid Agile Transformation Pitfalls

Pitfall 2 — Agile transformation as a traditional project

Willem-jan Ageling

Sep 17, 2023 • 5 min read

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How to effectively use the concept of Fluid Scrum Teams in SAFe

To allow flexibility in achieving your goals

Willem-jan Ageling

May 28, 2023 • 6 min read

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I made my function obsolete

And my team thrives because of it

Willem-jan Ageling

May 15, 2019 • 4 min read

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If you don’t need goals, you don’t need Scrum

It is that easy!

Willem-jan Ageling

Dec 11, 2022 • 5 min read

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Let’s Discuss the True Meaning of the Term “Developer” in Scrum

Developers aren’t developers

Willem-jan Ageling

Nov 06, 2022 • 7 min read

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Liberty vs Control — Why Scrum Teams And Managers Collide

And what you can do to fix this anti-pattern

Willem-jan Ageling

Mar 21, 2021 • 5 min read

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Managers Can Make Or Break Your Scrum Teams — Their Influence Is Essential

Scrum anti-patterns and how management can help to remove them

Willem-jan Ageling

May 29, 2022 • 7 min read

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Organizational Development

Modern leadership is engaged leadership

Collaboration is the key to success

Willem-jan Ageling

Jun 18, 2023 • 4 min read

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Organisations Fail With Scrum Because They Don’t Want True Change

Let go of your sacred habits or perish

Willem-jan Ageling

Apr 05, 2021 • 6 min read

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SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) — an introduction

Scaling Scrum, part 3

Willem-jan Ageling

Feb 28, 2019 • 5 min read

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SAFe is like the Borg

All agile and lean approaches will be assimilated

Willem-jan Ageling

Jun 06, 2022 • 6 min read

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Scaling Scrum: assessment and rating of Scrum@Scale

Scaling Scrum, part 13

Willem-jan Ageling

Mar 24, 2019 • 6 min read

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Scrum Has Failed the Developers

But there’s a way out of the misery

Willem-jan Ageling

Aug 28, 2022 • 6 min read

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Scrum Has Hit the Glass Ceiling

Many believe in the power of Scrum but most top managers won’t have it

Willem-jan Ageling

Jan 31, 2021 • 6 min read

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Scrum Teams Nailed Agile Delivery. Let’s Now Focus on Creating Actual Value.

The delicate difference between delivering according to objectives and achieving desired results

Willem-jan Ageling

Dec 19, 2021 • 7 min read

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Scrum Teams That Don’t Verify Their Outcomes Are Basically Waterfall Teams

And they are set up for failure

Willem-jan Ageling

Mar 28, 2021 • 6 min read

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Scrum Teams are often Coached to Death, while the Problems are With Management

Team-level coaching isn’t enough

Willem-jan Ageling

Jun 19, 2022 • 7 min read

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Scrum Teams need to know their REAL customers

If they wish to build the right thing right

Willem-jan Ageling

Apr 10, 2019 • 3 min read

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Scrum of Scrums, an introduction

Scaling Scrum, part 5

Willem-jan Ageling

Mar 05, 2019 • 3 min read

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Scrum — Self-organisation isn’t a fluffy thing

Self-Organisation is about creativity and productivity

Willem-jan Ageling

Mar 27, 2019 • 3 min read

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Scrum — Two approaches to expand the Definition of Done

Two different ways to reach the same goal

Willem-jan Ageling

Mar 21, 2019 • 3 min read

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Self-organising a new organisation — the Marketplace

Let your people choose where they wish to work!

Willem-jan Ageling

Apr 03, 2019 • 8 min read

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Self-selection of teams in the virtual marketplace

How we coped with the topic of online facilitation

Willem-jan Ageling

Nov 14, 2021 • 9 min read

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Serious Scrum News #3

To our readers and writers

Willem-jan Ageling

Sep 14, 2018 • 4 min read

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Serious Scrum News #3

To our readers and writers

Willem-jan Ageling

Sep 13, 2018 • 4 min read

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Serious Scrum Weekly Update #26

Welcome to the latest edition of Serious Scrum! In this weekly digest, we’ll round up all the Serious Scrum publications from February…

Willem-jan Ageling

Mar 04, 2019 • 3 min read

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Serious Scrum Weekly Update #29

Welcome to the latest edition of Serious Scrum! In this weekly digest, we’ll round up all the Serious Scrum publications from March 16th…

Willem-jan Ageling

Mar 25, 2019 • 2 min read

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Serious Scrum Weekly Update #31

Welcome to the latest edition of the Serious Scrum digest! In this weekly digest, we’ll round up all the Serious Scrum publications from…

Willem-jan Ageling

Apr 08, 2019 • 2 min read

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Serious Scrum Weekly Update #36

Welcome to the latest edition of the Serious Scrum digest! In this weekly digest, we’ll round up all the Serious Scrum publications from…

Willem-jan Ageling

May 13, 2019 • 2 min read

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Serious Scrum Weekly Update #37

Welcome to the latest edition of the Serious Scrum digest! In this weekly digest, we’ll round up all the Serious Scrum publications from…

Willem-jan Ageling

May 20, 2019 • 2 min read

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Serious Scrum Weekly Update #44

Welcome to the latest edition of the Serious Scrum digest! In this weekly digest, we’ll round up all the Serious Scrum activities and…

Willem-jan Ageling

Jul 08, 2019 • 2 min read

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Spotify Engineering Culture (Spotify Model)— an introduction

Scaling Scrum, part 4

Willem-jan Ageling

Mar 03, 2019 • 4 min read

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The 10 Most Misunderstood Parts of the Scrum Guide

And your capacity to create valuable products

Willem-jan Ageling

May 22, 2022 • 6 min read

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The Disastrous Impact Of Framing Scrum As An Incomplete Framework

Let Scrum be Scrum

Willem-jan Ageling

Apr 11, 2021 • 8 min read

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The Dutch Government Battles Corona with Unprecedented Transparency in Their Decision-Making

To overcome this crisis, governments need to show what is happening behind the curtains

Willem-jan Ageling

Apr 26, 2020 • 5 min read

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The Market Nerfed the Scrum Master — And Made It a Failing Role

Save the Scrum Master!

Willem-jan Ageling

May 09, 2021 • 5 min read

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The Scrum Master’s Role to Ensure Effective Daily Scrums

The Scrum Master at the Events, part 2

Willem-jan Ageling

Aug 07, 2022 • 7 min read

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The Scrum Master’s Role to Ensure Effective Sprint Retrospectives

The Scrum Master at the Events, part 4

Willem-jan Ageling

Aug 21, 2022 • 6 min read

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The Scrum Master’s Role to Ensure Effective Sprint Reviews

The Scrum Master at the Events, part 3

Willem-jan Ageling

Aug 14, 2022 • 7 min read

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The evolution of the Sprint Goal

Scrum then and now, part 6

Willem-jan Ageling

Jul 10, 2019 • 6 min read

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The management Scrum team

Lead by example

Willem-jan Ageling

May 22, 2019 • 3 min read

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The rise and fall of the Definition of Ready in Scrum

And the redundancy of a misunderstood attribute

Willem-jan Ageling

Oct 10, 2021 • 7 min read

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The sense or nonsense of Scrum

Chapter 1 — Empiricism

Willem-jan Ageling

Jan 08, 2023 • 7 min read

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The “That’s not Scrum” Argument and Why It’s Often a Valid Remark

The No True Scotsman argument and a rebuttal

Willem-jan Ageling

Oct 30, 2022 • 4 min read

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These are the 8 things I have the most problems with from Scrum Guide

From my series ‘Does Scrum Hold up to Scrutiny?’

Willem-jan Ageling

Jul 23, 2023 • 6 min read

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Trust: Scrum’s Achilles heel

With an absence of trust, Scrum ceases to be effective

Willem-jan Ageling

Sep 04, 2022 • 5 min read

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We Addressed Our Anti-Money Laundering Duties With Scrum

And transformed from problem child to best in class on AML

Willem-jan Ageling

Apr 25, 2021 • 13 min read

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We Hate the Scrum Events!

How they ended up hurting the people they should strengthen

Willem-jan Ageling

Sep 18, 2022 • 10 min read

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Why Do Many Developers Consider Scrum to Be an Evil Scam?

How did we get here and what can be done to change this?

Willem-jan Ageling

Dec 04, 2022 • 5 min read

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Why Does Agile exist? Scrum Has the Answer

The fascinating search to find the answer to “Why Agile”

Willem-jan Ageling

Nov 15, 2020 • 8 min read

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Will Scrum Fall Victim to Its Own Success?

Do the creators of Scrum have the courage to let go of their (certification) goldmine?

Willem-jan Ageling

Feb 14, 2021 • 7 min read

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“Our REAL Product Owner isn’t involved. Only our proxy PO is!”

Are you serious? — Episode 44

Willem-jan Ageling

Feb 13, 2019 • 3 min read

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“Product Owner” Is the Most Misunderstood Role in Scrum

Most adaptations of the Product Owner function invalidate the Product Owner role

Willem-jan Ageling

Sep 13, 2020 • 7 min read

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“Scrum Revealed — Training Book” doesn’t teach you Scrum

I reveal how International Scrum Institute’s training book doesn’t grasp the essence

Willem-jan Ageling

Jul 07, 2019 • 7 min read

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“The Scrum Values got me fired”

Are you serious? — Episode 43

Willem-jan Ageling

Feb 10, 2019 • 4 min read

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“What Is The Right Answer to Address Our Tough Scrum Team Issue?”

In complex environments, what works for one team doesn’t work for another team. There are no easy answers.

Willem-jan Ageling

Sep 06, 2020 • 4 min read

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“While I’m Forced to Work Remotely, It’s Not OK to Say I’m Struggling”

The ‘Are you Serious’ series tackles Scrum misconceptions. All its articles have this theme and cover a specific topic.

Willem-jan Ageling

Apr 19, 2020 • 5 min read

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“With Scrum you don’t look beyond the Sprint”

Are you serious? — Episode 47

Willem-jan Ageling

Apr 07, 2019 • 3 min read

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