TL;DR: Scrum Master Salary Report 2023 — An Anonymous Poll by the Community for the Community The purpose of this anonymous Scrum Master salary report 2023 is to create a clear, data-backed benchmark that allows everyone in the agile community to understand whether their compensation is adequate. (And yes, the report will cover Scrum Masters as well as Agile Coaches, both employed and freelancing.)

TL; DR: Constructive Feedback Framework — Food for Agile Thought #396 Welcome to the 396th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 47,254 peers. This week, we learn about Roman Pichler’s new constructive feedback framework to help you to have difficult conversations with stakeholders, management, and team members. …

TL; DR: Can ChatGPT 4.0 Create Scrum Master Interview Questions? Previously, I tested how ChatGPT would answer questions from the Scrum Master Interview Guide; see below. Back in January 2023, I would not have taken the next step in the Scrum Master interview process, inviting ChatGPT to a full-size interview with several Scrum team members. So, if the GPT 3.5…

TL; DR: Micromanagement Is Good — Food for Agile Thought #395 Welcome to the 395th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 47,112 peers. This week, Jim Highsmith advocates that the agile community’s “don’t micromanage” tenet is entirely wrong; in other words: Micromanagement is good in some places. We then share a success story of replacing Scrum with…

TL; DR: How Elon Musk Would Run YOUR Business with Joe Justice Joe Justice worked for Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk. In this Hands-on Agile meetup, Joe shared DX, or Digital Transformation, the agile operating system for TeslaSpeed — a term coined by the EU Commission to talk about how fast Tesla moves and how fast they need to move…

TL; DR: Amazon Product Management Framework — Food for Agile Thought #394 Welcome to the 394th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 46,957 peers. This week, we start with exploring the Amazon product management framework, a 10-step process. Moreover, we assess the state of ethics in agile coaching and apply Goldratt’s idea that a business aims to make…

TL; DR: Retrospective Facilitation — Going from Good to 🦄 Great The magic technique to turn a boring Retrospective into an outstanding Retrospective is the rotation of the facilitator role equally among all team members. Check out the following ten benefits of this Retrospective facilitation practice, from boosting learning and skill development to ensuring continuity to encouraging ownership. 🇩🇪 Zur deutschsprachigen…

TL; DR: The Double Diamond Problem — Food for Agile Thought #393 Welcome to the 393rd edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 46,731 peers. This week, Jason Godesky takes a deep dive into the well-established design process, pointing to the Double Diamond problem. Also, we reflect on the hype the agile coaching industry is experiencing, causing the market…

TL; DR: 60 ChatGPT Prompts for Agile Practitioners ChatGPT can be an excellent tool for those who know how to create prompts. The simplest form of prompting ChatGPT is to feed it the task and ask for results. However, this approach is unlikely to trigger the best response from the model. Instead, invest more time in prompt engineering…