Accountability

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Beyond Training: How NKD Agility’s Mentorship Model Transformed a Product Management Team Across Borders

A cross-border product team overcame misalignment and role confusion through immersive mentorship, boosting collaboration, engineering engagement, and agile delivery.

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Scrum is not a process it is a social technology designed to expose dysfunction

Explains how Scrum reveals team dysfunctions by clarifying roles and accountability, highlighting its purpose to expose issues that hinder value delivery and improvement.

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Hiring a Product Owner? Avoid copying job specs from the internet

Learn what makes an effective Product Owner, why generic job specs fall short, and which key responsibilities and skills are essential for true product leadership and success.

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The Scrum Master is accountable for Delivery

Explains how the Scrum Master is accountable for enabling effective product delivery, fostering team success, and ensuring each sprint produces a usable, valuable increment.

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No one questions a Product Owner authority

Explores why Product Owners’ authority is accepted while Scrum Masters’ is questioned, highlighting the need for clear authority to ensure team effectiveness and agile success.

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Product Owner

The Product Owner is an accountability in Scrum, responsible for maximising product value through effective backlog management and stakeholder alignment.

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Scrum Team

The Scrum Team is a defined accountability within Scrum, composed of a Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Developers working together toward a shared Product Goal.

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let-us be blunt

Accountability in Scrum requires real agency; without the power to act, roles like Product Owner and Scrum Master become ineffective and accountability is undermined.

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Most companies still get Product Ownership wrong

Many organisations misunderstand Product Ownership, treating it as simple backlog management instead of a strategic, accountable role essential for product success and team alignment.

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The True Role of a Scrum Master Beyond Facilitation

Explains how a Scrum Master drives team improvement, removes obstacles, and leads organisational change, going far beyond basic facilitation or meeting management.

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let-us be blunt—if a Scrum Team isn’t delivering, is it effective

Explores Scrum Team effectiveness, emphasising that consistent delivery is essential and highlighting the Scrum Master’s accountability for enabling successful outcomes.

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Why Teams Claim Self-Management to Avoid Alignment Discussions

Explores how teams misuse self-management to dodge alignment, clarifying that true autonomy requires accountability, shared goals, and adherence to frameworks like Scrum.

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Scrum Masters: Enabling Teams, Fostering Agility, Removing Blockers

Explains the Scrum Master’s role in ensuring team delivery by fostering agility, removing blockers, and being accountable for improving team effectiveness each sprint.

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Great Scrum Masters and Product Owners don’t micromanage

Effective Scrum Masters and Product Owners empower teams with clear goals and autonomy, balancing structure and flexibility to promote accountability and true agility.

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There Is No Such Thing as a "Junior" Scrum Master

Argues that the Scrum Master role requires proven mastery and real-world experience, not entry-level skills or certifications, and should be earned within the team, not assigned.

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Balance of Leadership and Control in Scrum

Explores how Scrum Masters and Product Owners balance leadership, authority, and team autonomy to ensure accountability, effective self-management, and organisational alignment.

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Lack of Authority Blocks Progress on Critical Projects

Scrum Masters need authority to remove obstacles and drive project success. Without empowerment, they can’t fulfil their role or be held accountable for outcomes.

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Scrum Masters and Product Owners are held accountable for results

Explores the gap between accountability and authority for Scrum Masters and Product Owners, highlighting the need to empower roles responsible for team outcomes.

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Most influential people in Agile: Simon Reindl

Many Product Owners in PSPO courses feel a lack of control or influence. This highlights the need for greater empowerment, accountability, and active engagement in their role.

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Transform Your Scrum Master Journey: Key Insights from the Advanced PSM Course

Discover how the Advanced PSM course helps Scrum Masters shift from admin tasks to empowering teams, supporting Product Owners, and tackling organisational challenges.

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You are doing Scrum but the Scrum Master tells the team what to do!

Explains why Scrum Masters should not direct teams, emphasising self-organisation, shared responsibility, and the importance of team autonomy in Scrum practices.

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The fallacy of the rejected backlog item

Explains why rejecting individual backlog items at Sprint Review is a misconception, highlighting Scrum’s focus on learning, collaboration, and delivering a complete increment.

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Scrum Masters: Why Influence Alone May Not Be Enough

Explores why Scrum Masters need authority, not just influence, to enforce Agile practices, remove blockers, and ensure teams follow Scrum for true organisational agility.

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Agentic Agility: Why You Need Both Human and AI Agency

Explore how combining human decision-making with AI-driven automation boosts team accountability, agility, and measurable value in modern organisations.

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7 deadly sins of Agile: Wrath

Explores how blame and intolerance for mistakes harm Agile teams, and offers strategies to replace blame with accountability, learning, and a safer team culture.

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What are the barriers that prevent developers from fully accepting a Product Owner as the final decision maker?

Explores key barriers preventing developers from accepting Product Owners’ authority, including accountability gaps, stakeholder interference, and trust issues.

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Hiring a Scrum Master is hard

Finding a skilled Scrum Master is challenging; true effectiveness requires deep Scrum knowledge, coaching ability, and alignment with your team’s business and technical needs.

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Free Workshop 04: Introduction to Sprint Reviews [Review & Retrospective]

Covers key concepts of Sprint Reviews, interactive workshop delivery using Teams and Mural, technical challenges faced, participant feedback, and retrospective insights.

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Challenging Misconceptions About Behaviour in Agile Teams

Explores common misconceptions about Agile teams, clarifying that true agility demands discipline, planning, and professionalism—not chaos or lack of accountability.

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