Dear Readers!

I am very pleased with the positive feedback I receive from you about my articles! Thank you. This motivates me to continue working on the content you are asking for. I also invite you to the English version of my blog, where there is more content so far. The reason for this is that I work with companies from many countries and there was a need for this content to reach these people as well. However, out of respect for Polish recipients, my team will successively translate all articles into Polish! All articles available in English can be found here: https://magdalenafirlit.com/blog/
Product Owner

Is revenue a good Product Goal?

Interestingly, so many organizations have revenue or profit as their Product Goals as well as Strategic
Goals. Some organizations do not consider using Product Goals at all. Or they are not aware of this
need.
What about your organization or product? Do you have a Product or Strategic Goal?
If yes, does it revenue-oriented?

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Agile Leadership

Product Delivery – when Business and IT are talking at cross-purposes

How often have you been exposed to the conflict or different objectives between departments? If never, congratulations! You have probably seen and experienced healthy environments, meaningful shared goals, and true leaders. Keep on!

If your answer to this question is: “frequently”, “often” or “always”, this article might be helpful.

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Product Goals
Agile Leadership

The Product Goals explained

Product Goals were added to the recent version of the Scrum Guide. The idea of incorporating this concept was to emphasize the importance of having a longer-term goal than a Sprint Goal.

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Agile Leadership

Success of Implementing EBM

Previously, I have described some challenges with the Evidence-Based Management implementation. There are plenty of challenges regarding the process of applying Evidence-Based Management, there are also great results.

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experiments
Agile Leadership

Why experiment?

People in organizations are often afraid of running experiments. I have observed ca. 70% of people responsible and accountable for products are reluctant to validate their assumptions by experimenting. There are several reasons for this hesitancy.

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agile transformation
Agile Leadership

Why sometimes Agile Transformations fail?

Based on my experience working in Agile environments since 2010, I did some research and general observations on the topic. Regardless of the business domains or product area, there are some common rules that may devastate your efforts towards Agility.

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transparency
Agile Leadership

Fight for Transparency

A significantly increasing number of companies strive for Agility. They intend to progress with Agile Transformation.
Based on my research from several dozen organizations, what might prevent them from benefiting from the Scrum (or just an Agile mindset) is lack of Transparency. In these circumstances, any change seems to be impossible to proceed.

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Risk
Agile Leadership

Managing Risk with Scrum

Product development in a complex environment always poses some risks due to their unpredictable, uncertain nature. There are numerous types of uncertainties like business, market, technology, architecture, integration, currency, financial, marketing and hundreds more.
Facing a large number of risks while delivering products seems to be a standard. And it is. It is common and natural. All we need to do is to manage risk.

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agile in the spotlight
Agile Leadership

Welcome to my new YouTube channel!

Agile In The Spotlight is the brand new channel on YouTube. Topics are mostly related to Agile, Scrum, Scrum Master, Product Owner, Agile Leader, Lean, Kanban, User Experience and Business Agility.

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Evidence based management
Agile Leadership

How to start with Evidence-Based Management? Part 2

From my experience and observations, my concern is weak understanding that the Evidence-Based Management (EBM) framework is empirical. It requires transparency, frequent inspection, and adaptation. Some organizations proceed with the initial evaluation and then drop the idea. Measuring once and making some decisions is not enough! No promises that this would work.

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Virtual course
Product Owner

Experience from leading my first virtual class

Until today we were accustomed to leading/attending classes in person. Due to the extremely complex situation we experience in terms of pandemic, we needed to adapt with the speed of light. The opportunity for us is to learn something new that may benefit in the future.

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Certification

Scrum.org’s assessments – tips for non-native English speakers

Having had an opportunity to teach people certified Scrum.org classes in many countries, I noticed that there are some language pitfalls and traps. The situation concerns non-native English speakers and our assessments. While taking the assessments, people are confused with words, browsing dictionaries, looking for meaning. There is no spare time for this activity! Our Scrum.org assessments are timeboxed, time goes by so fast!

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Scrum Tapas
Agile Leadership

How Agile Leaders Can Help People Grow

In this Scrum Tapas video, Professional Scrum Trainer Magdalena Firlit discusses ways that leaders in organizations can help their teams learn and grow. She provides a few tips and thoughts for helping with better engagement. This is the third in a three part series.

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Scrum Tapas
Agile Leadership

How Agile Leaders Can Help Scrum Teams

In this Scrum Tapas video, Professional Scrum Trainer Magdalena Firlit discusses ways that leaders in organizations that are trying to improve their agility can support their Scrum Teams and help them to be more successful. This is the second in a three part series.

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Scrum Tapas
Agile Leadership

What is Agile Leadership

In this Scrum Tapas video, Professional Scrum Trainer Magdalena Firlit describes what it means to be a leader within an organization that is acting in an agile manner and things that they should understand and look out for. This is the first in a three part series.

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Scrum Master

A Scrum Master Works on Three Levels

Through my professional experience, while serving my customers, working with Scrum Teams and training people in Professional Scrum, I have observed that some Scrum Masters only work to serve the Development Team and the Product Owner.

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Agile Leadership

The Importance of Agile Leaders

An Agile mindset is crucial in management roles for organizations that are moving towards Agility. I observed this while working in various organizations and currently am a witness of it while assisting my customers.

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