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Traditional thinking tells us that the more planning we do, the more reliable our plan is, but what if this isn't the case? PST Stephen Woolston explores the question in his new blog post. https://ow.ly/PFME50Z5pf4

Agile leaders are essential for team success. While self-organization and self-management are essential for any agile team, it takes skills, experience and discipline to get there. This process needs guidance by those in leadership roles.

Looking to boost your skills as an agile team leader? In the new Leading Agile Teams self-paced online course, you will learn the core Agile Leadership principles and how they can be applied when leading agile teams. These principles serve as a foundation for delivering value in the modern workplace. You will go beyond processes and explore the essential pillars of self-leadership, including personal vision, resilience, and the discipline required to lead teams effectively. You will gain a practical understanding of how to apply delegation frameworks and leverage Generative AI (GenAI) tools through real-world scenarios.

This course also teaches you how to navigate common workplace challenges, including early burnout detection and how to avoid common AI traps through a series of focused exercises. Learn more: https://ow.ly/yPnv50Z4TZF

How do you measure the value of AI? Companies want a clean number. "Our AI investment produced X in value." That number doesn't exist and it won't exist, for the same reason that organizations never successfully quantified the value of email, spreadsheets, or the internet itself. These are enabling technologies whose value is diffused across every process they touch, modified by how skillfully they're used, and contingent on decisions that haven't been made yet.

In this blog, PST Jesse Houwing highlights that what you can measure is cost. What you can observe is whether your customers are happier, your employees are less burned out, your products are more refined, and your judgment about what to build is getting sharper.

Read full blog: https://ow.ly/WRjl50Z5JOG

Is being a "good enough" Scrum Master good enough? The world with AI is changing faster than most Scrum Masters have time to notice. This raises another burning question "Does AI make the Scrum Master more important or less important?" Dave West reflects on this question and shares insights on how deepening Scrum Master skillsets is critical. He also shares some information about the new Professional Scrum Scrum Master™ Advanced Fundamentals self-paced online course! Read blog: https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/why-being-good-enough-scrum-master-no-longer-good-enough

Agentic coding tools have collapsed the friction of producing plausible software; output is no longer an issue. However, they have not collapsed the friction of knowing what is worth building, whether it fits the system, or whether users will change their behavior because of it, the much-desired outcome. When generating plausible code becomes cheap, every hour spent building the wrong thing becomes waste that can now be produced at scale. Discovery, validation, product judgment, and verification are what stand between your team and creating expensive waste at high-speed. Get more insights on this topic from PST Stefan Wolpers in his latest blog. https://ow.ly/JHPF50Z4x6H

NEWS: Today we launched the new self-paced Professional Scrum Scrum Master™ Advanced Fundamentals self-paced online course! This new interactive training course goes beyond the basics to help you grow your skills as a Scrum Master. You will explore what it takes to enable self-management across the entire Scrum Team, how to support the Product Owner, and how to engage with the wider organization in ways that drive value.

Read Press Release: https://ow.ly/h3E850Z6fSL

One of the most powerful things leaders can do is ask people what they actually need — and genuinely listen to the answer. Building trust is key!

Learn about how a voluntary feedback workshop helped a struggling project rebuild trust, improve leadership practices, and create lasting organizational change. The practices are some of the great tips in the new Leading Agile Teams course created by Dominik Maximini and endorsed by https://ow.ly/L6ez50Z6aBv!

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Is AI making Scrum obsolete — or more important than ever?

In our latest podcast Dave West sits down with Tony Hinkley, CTO of Avanade UK, to talk about what AI is really doing to product teams, knowledge work, and Professional Scrum practice.
Spoiler: the bottleneck did not disappear. It just moved.

Listen now and find out why context is the new currency, why specialists will win, and why mid-market companies have a unique opportunity right now.

Tune in: https://ow.ly/3a4t50Z4WfJ