The Agile Manifesto’s values and principles offer more than just a shift in mindset—they are proven drivers of productivity and efficiency. By focusing on collaboration, delivering value, and adapting to change, Agile transforms workflows and boosts team performance. Discover how applying Agile’s core values leads to measurable improvements in time-to-market, quality, and customer satisfaction, helping organizations thrive in today’s fast-paced environment.

As organizations strive to scale their agile practices, the Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) framework provides a streamlined solution. By promoting simplicity, transparency, and cross-functional teamwork, LeSS helps teams collaborate effectively while maintaining the core principles of Scrum. This post explores the key concepts, benefits, and challenges of implementing LeSS, along with resources for further learning.

Most of you know the situation when we had planned some work, let’s say a few different tasks. Then we started most of them, work in parallel and when time is up only a small portion of the work is really completed. In teams working towards deadlines or iterations this usually at least feels bad or has consequences, such as more budget needs to be requested or delay of delivery.

Recently I’ve written a post about The Ball Point Game and about variations of the game, a game that simulates Scrum with all the sprint ceremonies, such as planning, sprint, review and retrospective. This post emphasizes the learning from a Scrum Master perspective.