In this episode, Dave West is joined by Julien Deray, a fellow podcaster, Scrum practitioner and author of the book, How I Planned my Wedding with Scrum. They discuss what Julien learned while planning his wedding with his wife and how Scrum helped them stay organized and plan their wedding incrementally. Listen in for this fun discussion about using Scrum for complex work outside of software. 

In this recording of a live session of Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer, PST Steven Deneir based in Belgium answers questions about Scrum, the Scrum Master and the challenges people often encounter with their Scrum Teams and Stakeholders.

In this episode, guest host Patricia Kong is joined by Kurt Bittner from Scrum.org and Professional Scrum Trainer Laurens Bonnema from Xebia. They talk about Evidence-Based Management (EBM) and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), and the importance of focusing on outcomes and delivering value. They discuss:
- The importance of feedback loops
- Measuring and setting goals in business using outcome-oriented metrics
- The differences between EBM and OKRs
- How to combine EBM and OKRs in decision making
-More!

In this episode, Patricia Kong, Kurt Bittner, Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller discuss  topics in their new book - Unlocking Business Agility with Evidence-Based Management: Satisfy Customers and Improve Organizational Effectiveness.

They discuss Evidence-Based Management, , using EBM for agile transformations, the importance of setting expectations, goal setting, prioritizing effectiveness over activity and more!

The book is available for shipping to the US and pre-order for the e-book here. You can use the code SCRUMORG for 35% off at InformIT

In this recorded session of the Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer series, PSTs Todd Miller and Ryan Ripley answered your burning questions on the topic of Product Backlog Management. They answered questions like:

- What would your advice be for a new Scrum Master for understanding backlog management?
-What tips can you share on how to refine a Large PBI that is too large to fit within a Sprint?
- What would be your advice if management doesn’t understand advantages of a single product backlog in setting when multiple teams are working together?
- How do you prioritize and order the items in your Product Backlog to ensure maximum value for the product?
- In your personal view: What is the optimal format for a Product Backlog refinement?

And many more!!!

In this episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, Patricia Kong joins as guest host with guests Professional Scrum Trainer Ravi Verma and Agile for Patriots graduates Brittny Snyder, Chris Cole and Jeremy Thomas to talk about their journey through the Agile for Patriots program and how they used Nexus to scale Scrum in their cohort of 17 people, where they were tasked with building a website showcasing their profiles. They talk about how they worked through challenges together, enabled self-management, supported each other, and hit the ground running quickly with picking up the Nexus framework and running with it to deploy to production in just 9 days!

Agile for Patriots is a Dallas-based non-profit that provides military veterans and their spouses with focused Agile training, practical experience, and Professional Scrum Master certification. The mission of Agile for Patriots is to prepare military Veterans and their spouses for Agile careers through training, coaching, certification and practical experience using the Scrum framework. Its vision is that all graduates of the Agile for Patriots program are employed with fulfilling roles in Agile Value Delivery. 

In this episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, Dave West is joined by Marjolein Pilon, a Scrum Master based in the Netherlands to talk about the very important topic of Climate Change. She discusses how we can use Scrum to combat climate change, the importance of sustainability in software development, the concept of a Planet Earth Retrospective and more!

In this episode of the Scrum.org Community podcast, PSTs Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller join host Dave West to introduce the new Professional Scrum Product Management Skills training course. They talk about the importance of having good Product Backlog Management skills in order to succeed as well as the importance of transparency, stakeholder engagement and more!

In this episode of the Scrum.org Community Podcast, Dave West chats with Helen Swift from Simplyhealth, a health solutions provider about how they implemented using Professional Scrum with Kanban in their organization after the Professional Scrum with Kanban training course. They talk about the transition from waterfall to Agile, how Scrum and Kanban together help improve delivery, the benefits of limiting work in progress and more!

In this episode, Dave continues his conversation with PST Gregory Fontaine about agile adoption in Japan. They dig into the challenges of agile adoption, the value of discipline in agile and Scrum, culture and more!