Do you know for this equation: Happy employees = Productive employees? And this is quite right. Actually, 7 of 10 people say that training and development opportunities influence their decision to stay with a company.

Having an iceberg-shaped product backlog should be a goal for any agile team. If you structure your backlog to have small, ready-to-develop items near the top and larger items with less clarity below you’ll find your team spending less time overall in product backlog refinement.

Since the last decade online education has become available to everyone – both teachers and people who highly appreciate this moment. In fact, did you know that online courses can be effective and engaging, just like traditional classrooms?

In sense of working remotely and role of a Scrum Master, there’s a dilemma: on one hand, one company has a flexible work policy that includes giving employees an opportunity to work from home, and on the other hand, most of our agile teams are primarily collocated, thus making the absence of a Scrum Master onsite noticeable.

Is the Scrum Master a full-time position or not? Let's take a closer look at these facts and see some quality details about this question.

We are hardworking bees in order to be agile even we're working remotely! Find out pros & cons for this kind of job!

Scrum Master is one of the roles defined in Scrum Framework, which says that one Scrum team consists of a Product Owner, Development Team and a Scrum Master. In a nutshell, the Scrum Master is responsible for the Scrum team living the Scrum values and principles. But what does that really mean?

The ideal Scrum team consists of 6-8 members, one of whom is a Product Owner, the other is a Scrum Master and there is a development team – a group of specialists in various fields. The Product Owner aims to maximize the value of a product/service that Scrum team develops.

Mike Cohn wrote ten tips for improving your Daily Scrum meetings. What tips can you share that have helped with your Daily Scrums?

Mike Cohn wrote a great blog post - The Career Path of a Scrum Master. From his experience, a Scrum Master’s career will usually evolve in one of four directions.