Scrum simulation
How to Facilitate a Remote Scrum Workshop That Actually Works
Remote and hybrid work is no longer the exception. It is the default. Yet most Scrum training materials, exercises, and facilitation techniques were designed...
Experiential Learning
Why Experiential Learning Beats Theory in Agile Training
There is a quiet irony at the heart of most Agile training programs. The Agile Manifesto values “responding to change over following a plan” and...
Experiential Learning
Teaching Scrum to Non-Technical Teams: What Changes and What Stays the Same
Scrum started in software development. That much is true. But if you open the Scrum Guide today, you will find something that surprises many people: there […]
Scrum simulation
5 Scrum Simulation Games Compared: Which One Fits Your Training?
Scrum trainers face a familiar dilemma. You know lectures don’t stick. You know experiential learning works. But which simulation tool should you reach...
Experiential Learning
How to Run a Scrum Workshop Without Slides
The Slide Deck Problem Nobody Talks About You have done it. I have done it. We have all sat through a Scrum training where someone walks […]
Experiential Learning
Beyond Agile: How ScrumTale Transforms Team-Building Workshops
Team-building trainers are constantly searching for engaging activities that go beyond traditional trust falls and icebreakers. What if we told you that one of...
Experiential Learning
Pros and Cons of Using ChatGPT in ScrumTale Crime Story Writing
ScrumTale immerses participants in collaborative storytelling, where teams write a crime story while practicing Scrum. With AI tools like ChatGPT now widely...
Scrum simulation
The Importance of Engagement in Scrum Workshops and How ScrumTale Delivers
In today’s fast-paced and ever-evolving business environment, organizations increasingly turn to Agile methodologies to solve complex problems and streamline...
Experiential Learning
Subjective comparison of Lego City and ScrumTale
Trainers interested in our Scrum simulation often ask us to compare ScrumTale with simulations using Lego bricks. We have decided to summarize differences...
Experiential Learning
Why crime story is a perfect product in Scrum simulation
ScrumTale is built upon collaborative story writing concept to simulate iterative product development. It has been designed for IT companies, however it is...
Experiential Learning
Product News – February 2021
Dear Trainers, Hope you are well at the beginning of 2021. We want to share with you couple of product and training news. German Online Edition […]
Experiential Learning
Online Scrum Simulation with ScrumTale
COVID-19 freezed global economy and shut down businesses around the world: from huge plants to barber shops. It also affected Agile Trainers who are not able...
Agile Transformation
The Product Mindset in software development
What are the benefits of using a product approach in software development and how is this different from typical IT projects? More and more modern IT […]
Experiential Learning
Scrum Training based on ScrumTale simulation
ScrumTale is becoming more and more popular around the world. There are two categories of our customers: consultancy business and company’s internal Agile...
Agile Transformation
Roles Definition Framework for Agile Organizations
Roles transformation is one of the hardest aspects of Agile transformation. It’s easier to introduce new meetings or metrics, but roles modifications make...
Engineering Practicies
How to cope with inattentional blindness in software development
Cognitive tunnelling is a very useful phenomenon of our brains that helps us to focus on a single, most important task. It allows us to filter […]
Engineering Practicies
Invest in people skills or forget about effective development teams
The most important foundations of high performing Scrum teams is not fun, trust, common values and all soft-skills, but hard engineering skills. Developers are...
Product Management
Improve your Product Backlog with Story Mapping and ScrumTale
Product Backlog is one of the most important artefacts in Scrum. It provides alignment so much needed for the development team to build a successful product....
Experiential Learning
Apply empiricism to teaching Scrum
Scrum is a proven framework for solving complex problems, mostly in software development area. Unfortunately, many organisations struggle with it, not getting...
Engineering Practicies
Human fears are underestimated pair programming success factor
Pair programming is a perfect tool for building a quality culture. Quality starts from a single well written line of code. Having somebody who constantly...