Barry Overeem

The masterclass is coming up. A day of learnings, tips and tricks to make yourself and your team(s) better and create that steady pace of improvement. We need that improvement, every single day so let’s dive into it.

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I am excited to share that I have successfully passed the Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I) certification from Scrum.org. This certification validates my knowledge of the Scrum framework and my ability to support and enable value creation and delivery. Earning PSPO I shows my understanding of how to bridge the gap between strategy and agile product management in order to create valuable products using Scrum.

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𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘂𝗽 𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁? Recently I was with a customer developing software products using multiple scrum teams.  When teams started working on a certain feature, only high level architecture was defined. This might leave nice responsibilities to the scrum team. But it is not helping in developing efficiently. Additional discussions are needed to clear out the architecture further. This slows you down. And the architectural outcome might be more complex; you might need more time to develop. Having architectural design well in place not only enables efficient sprints. It also enables developing reusable software. Which really accelerates your development cycles. It allows you to build on proven, tested components rather than starting from scratch each time. Regardless of how you handle architectural design, it’s crucial to prepare the necessary level of detail before the sprint that implements the functionality begins. Whether it's work for a dedicated architect or the Scrum team itself, it’s essential to organize this effectively. Curious to hear your perspective on this. Join the conversation in the comments! #SoftwareDevelopment #ScrumTeams #AgileMethodology #Architecture #TechLeadership #SoftwareEngineering #DevelopmentCycle

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A successful workshop feels awesome! This week I used several agile games again to teach and deeply anchor agile concepts. Time will tell, whether this workshop group gets long-term value out of it. But my experience tells me that it's much more likely because of the games! One of the many games was the "Boss Worker Game" that you see in the game cheat sheet. I want other coaches to easily get similar benefits in their workshops and trainings, too. That's why I'm putting all my games in a collection – together with experiences, facilitation tips from the real world, cheat sheets (like this one), video and written instructions, and downloadable materials. If you want to tap into this growing collection, you can still get in for a reduced price until Sunday: https://lnkd.in/eZtQn9Us Have fun while making this world a better and more agile place! #agility #agile

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Continuous Everything demystified What is Continuous Everything (CE) about? Since I started to write the 17 books about CE, I mentioned that this term is less understood as I expected. Everybody talks about Continuous Testing, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment et cetera so Continuous Everything should be easy to grasp I thought. To bridge this gap I composed this small blog to demistify the term CE using concrete examples. Let me introduce some CE aspect areas: Continuous Testing This aspect area of CE aims to realise a Shift left in feedback of the DTAP street where 80% of the bugs are found in the development environment using test driven development instead of 80% in the acceptance environment. Continuous Integration This aspect area of CE aims to programme software using short lived branches in order to prevent the merge hell. Continuous Deployment This aspect area of CE aims to reduce the time to market of new functionaliteit or adjusted existing functionality. It includes both dark launching (invisible deployments) as well as releases in many ways. The frequency vary from seconds, to minutes, hours and days instead of four times per year. Continuous SLA This aspect area of CE focuses on the decrease of the SLA lifetime. Not each year but each month the SLA is reviewed based on value stream mapping to find the bottleneck is solve this in the comming month. Continuous auditing This aspect area of CE focuses on automatic gathering of evidence by build-in controls to make sure risks are in control all the time instead of yearly. This all is made possible by having DevOps engineers that work together with the business and security as cross functional teams. Visit now www.bizdevsecops.co and learn all about CE!    Bart de Best [email protected]

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I am excited to share that I have successfully passed the Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I) certification from Scrum.org. This certification validates my knowledge of the Scrum framework and my ability to support and enable value creation and delivery. Earning PSPO I shows my understanding of how to bridge the gap between strategy and agile product management in order to create valuable products using Scrum.

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𝐃𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 "𝐋𝐞𝐭'𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭!" 🧪 It was the last day at work of my colleague. The team prepared a farewell gift. 🎁 A t-shirt with the slogan: "Let's Experiment!" I was curious about it. Apparently, that sentence was used on a daily basis by the Agile Coach for anything. "We don't have testers!" "-Let's experiment!" "Our preprod environment is unstable." "-Let's experiment!" "Our Tribe Lead micromanages us! " "-Let's experiment!" And the list goes on. However, it didn't mean much. You could foresee the Agile Coach's reply. "𝐋𝐞𝐭'𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭!" 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬. Why? 3 reasons: ❌ No improvement ❌ Just a funny phrase ❌ Ideas were not validated 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞. It doesn't mean go with the flow or improvise. Instead: ✅ You need to start with a hypothesis ✅ We are looking for empirical evidence ✅ It supports our beliefs or disconfirms them P.S. Tomorrow, I'll publish a post with a template you can use and share an example of how I use it. Stay tuned! 🤗 #experiment #improvement #hypothesis

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I am excited to share that I have successfully passed the Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I) certification from Scrum.org. This certification validates my knowledge of the Scrum framework and my ability to support and enable value creation and delivery. Earning PSPO I shows my understanding of how to bridge the gap between strategy and agile product management in order to create valuable products using Scrum.

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I’m on the @scrumpodcast this week with Vasco Duarte, 5 days in a row! Today we discuss on how to bridge the communication gaps between Agile Teams. 💡Let me know what you think https://lnkd.in/eZU_fT8Y

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In the upcoming period, we host a wide variety of public meetups. All of them are free, online, and don't have any limitations. It's one of our ways to give back to the community. 🥳 👉 Apr 16, The Rise & Decline of the Scrum Master with Tjeerd Dijkstra 👉 May 7, An interactive guided tour of Columinity 👉 May 21, What The Military Taught Me (Martin Ahlström) About Effective Teams 👉 May 28, Working With Emotional Debt In Organizations, with Christian Hofstetter 👉 June 13, Clean Up Your Pile Of Meetings! (Ecocycle Planning), with Tjeerd Dijkstra 🎈 About The Liberators Network 🎈 We are a global community that exists to help practitioners of Agile methods and Liberating Structures find support, offer help, and draw inspiration. We believe in the power of peer-to-peer inspiration to overcome the tough challenges we face when trying to liberate teams and organizations from ineffective working methods. We aim to offer a safe space for constructive exploration of various topics where everyone feels heard, seen, and respected ❤️. A space where we can learn and grow together! See you online soon? 😃 https://lnkd.in/evf9wRqJ

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Quick tip: disable meeting invite notifications in Teams activity feed https://lnkd.in/eyWAyqNK

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Last day of the Online Scrum Master summit 2024. As for the previous days, the topics look exciting today and spark my curiosity. As always, Bob Galen 🇺🇦's session looks promising, as I hear a lot of Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches telling me not enough attention is given to what they bring to their team(s). Well, could it be that we are falling short on communicating that, on making it visible to others? Consequence is that when faced with budget constraints, organizations usually get rid of their coaches first. Interestingly, you wouldn't consider having a football/soccer team without a coach, or would you? Yes companies do that, sadly... Well, anyway, join us, it's free! See you there... #osms24 #agile #scrum

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I am excited to share that I have successfully passed the Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I) certification from Scrum.org. This certification validates my knowledge of the Scrum framework and my ability to support and enable value creation and delivery. Earning PSPO I shows my understanding of how to bridge the gap between strategy and agile product management in order to create valuable products using Scrum.

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In 2018 Sjoerd Kranendonk and I wrote: "Many in “the business” just shrug when you mention Scrum, to them little has changed. Apart from teams making more noise and a ludicrous amount of wall decoration in the shape of self adhesive colorful square pieces of paper, little has changed." And finally I seem to consistently work in product teams that combine discovery and delivery every sprint. Enabling us to deliver business value every sprint. They still shrug, as it doesn't matter and never mattered. Delivering fast what users need does matter however. Let's hope the next big idea doesn't take 6 years to get implemented.

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I am excited to share that I have successfully passed the Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I) certification from Scrum.org. This certification validates my knowledge of the Scrum framework and my ability to support and enable value creation and delivery. Earning PSPO I shows my understanding of how to bridge the gap between strategy and agile product management in order to create valuable products using Scrum.

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I am excited to share that I have successfully passed the Professional Agile Leadership I (PAL I) certification from Scrum.org. This certification validates that I am a leader who understands the value Agile can bring to a business and how to actively practice Agile. It also demonstrates my knowledge of why leadership support of agile teams is essential to achieving organizational agility and what leaders can do to support their teams to help them achieve higher performance.

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🌐 𝐍𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝑪𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒔 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏: 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 🌐 As an IT Leader, effectively managing stakeholder communication during a crisis is crucial for maintaining trust and transparency. In turbulent times, clear, consistent, and compassionate communication can make the difference between chaos and cohesion. 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘬𝘦𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘴: 🔄 "𝑬𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒂 𝑪𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒔 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒏" 🛡️ 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 ↣ Develop a crisis communication plan that clearly outlines roles and responsibilities within the communication team. ➜ Ensure that everyone knows their specific duties, from drafting messages to liaising with media and stakeholders. 🛡️ 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐢𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 ↣ Conduct regular training sessions and crisis simulations to prepare your team for real-life scenarios. ➜ These exercises help identify potential communication gaps and improve the team’s ability to respond quickly and effectively under pressure. 🔄 "𝑴𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏" 🛡️ 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐔𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 ↣ Provide regular updates to stakeholders, even if there is no new information. ➜ Consistent communication demonstrates that you are actively managing the situation and keeps stakeholders informed. 🛡️ 𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐌𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 ↣ Be transparent about what you know, what you don’t know, and what you are doing to find out. ➜ Avoid jargon and complex language to ensure clarity. Honest communication builds trust, even if the news is not positive. 🔄 "𝑭𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒂 𝑻𝒘𝒐-𝑾𝒂𝒚 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒍" 🛡️ 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐅𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐌𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐦𝐬 ↣ Create channels for stakeholders to ask questions and provide feedback. ➜ This could include dedicated email addresses, hotlines, or online forums. 🛡️ 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐲 ↣ Acknowledge the emotional impact of the crisis on stakeholders. ➜ Empathetic communication involves not just providing information but also showing understanding and support. 𝘌𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨-𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱𝘴. #ITleadership #crisiscommunication #stakeholderengagement #transparency #trust #empathy #crisismanagement

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What's the difference between taking visual notes with a pen on paper and taking them digitally? This was the very interesting question that was raised during the excellent workshop "The power of Personal Engagement" that Evelien Acun-Roos ran in Regional Scrum Gathering Ghent 2024. A couple of very good answers were given during the event. As I think the topic is super interesting I want to capture the key points here for everyone's benefit & maybe even add a few more 🙂 First of all: what's in a nutshell the power of taking written notes? To write we need to activate many more parts of the brain than we would by just listening. This enhances our focus & improves retention. If instead of writing words we draw something we stimulate even more our brain increasing even more that focus & retention. This applies to both the digital & analog world. There are also differences between the 2 medias though. Digital formats have certainly their benefits. They make your entire studio easily portable and they offer the ability to edit cheaply & indefinitely. The resulting work can be shared instantaneously without losing quality. All of this is great, useful and practical but doesn't help our brain. Writing on a physical medium instead stimulates our brain with many inputs that help making the experience unique, and so more memorable. Before, during and after. BEFORE To start with, writing on paper requires choosing what pen to use. We may always use the same or change everytime. Similarly, we are required to choose some colors. We also need to choose on what paper/block we will write and each has different size. DURING A pen moving on a piece of paper will produce resistence. How much and of what type will depend non only on the pen but on the paper. There are screens that try to simulate that on tablets but they can only simulate 1 single combo. When we draw we will be touching the paper, that has its own texture. The surface position will also change depending on whether we are writing on the first or last page of a block. Each type of paper has a special smell. That's true also for most pens. So while we draw we stimulate also our tact and sense of smell. When we want to change color, we literally have to change pen. We need to put down what we are using and pick up something else. That uses time and space, and again, asks our mind to make decisions, to think deeper. AFTER The final result is tangible. We can fold it, scrap it, burn it or hand it over to someone. We can hang it on a wall or collect it in a binder, maybe enriched with some post-its. We can even take a picture of it, like Evelien & I have done with her Scrum Master Playbook. Every experience will be unique and our brains saturated of rich information. We will often remember not only what we have written but also the conditions we were in when we wrote that something. Beyond having the memory of the data we will have also an emotional imprinting of their meaning.

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I am excited to share that I have successfully passed the Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I) certification from Scrum.org. This certification validates my knowledge of the Scrum framework and my ability to support and enable value creation and delivery. Earning PSPO I shows my understanding of how to bridge the gap between strategy and agile product management in order to create valuable products using Scrum.

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