How do you calculate how much work to take into a Sprint? While not a part of the official Scrum Guide, Sprint Capacity Planning is a great way to establish how much work the Development Team can do. Here’s how it works.

Picture the scene: As a ScrumMaster, you note that your team has gradually become deferential to a very dominant team member. This team member isn’t always right but their natural domineering style just sweeps the team along with them. You feel certain that it’s harming the team and want to address it. But how do you deal with it?

To earn a Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) credential from the Scrum Alliance, you need to take an exam. Here’s what I did to prepare for, and pass, that exam.

Recently, the Scrum Alliance introduced a mandatory pass/fail test for prospective Certified Scrum Masters (CSM). In this article, I relate my experience of the CSM Test and the assessment process.

Who’s responsible for maximizing the value of the software product you’re working on? Who’s responsible for the work of the software development team? The CEO? Head of Engineering? PMO? Software Development Manager? In Scrum, the responsibility lies with the Product Owner. In this article, I’ll detail all those things that a Professional Product Owner does and hope to convince you just how important they are to a successful Scrum implementation.