Hi!
I’m conducting an anonymous survey for my bachelor’s thesis on communication in multicultural project teams. It takes around 8–10 minutes.

I would be very grateful if you could complete the survey or share it with someone who fits the criteria.
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Thank you for your help!

Hi everyone!

I think i went through every post on this subreddit about the PSM I test and they were all very helpful so i want to share some tips of my own!

This is probably repetitive but read the scrum guide religiously. I printed it out and highlighted and wrote notes then i read it everyday for 2 weeks and i’d do one open assessment question after reading the scrum guide.

The open assessment was very helpful as some of the questions were the exact copy paste, doing it every day helped me go through all the questions (the question bank is small but its important to keep doing it until you feel like you have seen every question)

I also highlighted all the times the word must was included in the the scrum guide

That somehow didn’t feel enough so i bought the scrum uk (15 pounds) question bank and solved all 500 questions over the course of a week. Obviously some of the questions from that site was irrelevant and repetitive but a good part was also very similar to the exam

On the day of the exam, i reread the scrum guide 2-3 times and took it. If you have practiced then the time wont be a problem!

Hope that helps!

Do you know how to help a product manager stay aligned with the product vision?

He incorporates every customer request into the roadmap, which makes the product more complex and blurs the definition of the offering.

I don't know if there are tools or methods to avoid this.

Thank you for your help.

Every planning poker tool I tried before this had the same two problems.

1. The site was littered with Amazon ads
2. Boring as hell

Either it was locked behind a paywall for basic stuff like voting history or custom card decks, or it was free but plastered in ads that made the whole session feel cheap and distracting mid meeting.

Neither felt right for something this simple.

Funny enough, I didn't actually build this one originally. It started as my ex co-founder's side project that was absorbed into our work, and I ended up taking it on and running with it.

Since then I've kept it lean and free, no paywalls, no ads, no upsells. As to solve the two issues at the top.

It is dead easy to use. Create a room, share the code, vote, reveal, done. No sign up needed to join a session.

It's called Scrum Planning (dot com) if you want to look it up.

Just crossed 100+ weekl teams using it and wanted to share the story rather than just drop a link. Curious what other teams use for estimation and whether you've run into the same pay to vote nonsense I did.

This comes with a plug.. please feel free to delete, disregard or give it a try

I’m working on a project with a friend (https://www.sabcdef.com/). It’s daily tier lists for friends - compare and argue etc

We have made a ‘groups’ version designed to be a quick icebreaker or game where everyone makes their tier of the day, and you can discuss about who has dumb opinions about ‘Burger Toppings’, ‘Flags’ or ‘Which Sport is best’ - we’ve enjoyed playing it with family so far, so maybe some of you might like it!

I’d love to know about your experiences of icebreakers in remote work - are they valuable? Do they help the group dynamic at all? What cool icebreakers are out there to try

And if you’d like, you can try the groups feature on https://www.sabcdef.com/ and tell me what you think

Hi everyone,
I was born in India, bachelors in civil engineering. completed my Master’s in information security systems in the USA, then moved to Canada where I got PR and eventually Canadian citizenship. I’m currently working as a Scrum Master (with 8 years of experience in Agile/Scrum, certifications like
Safe scrum master and leading teams in IT/software development projects).
I’m exploring opportunities to move/work in the US and wanted to check if a Scrum Master role typically qualifies under the TN visa (USMCA) or any other relevant work visa categories.
From what I’ve read, TN visas are for specific professions, and Scrum Master can sometimes fall under categories like Management Consultant, Computer Systems Analyst, or similar – but I’m not sure about the exact match or success rate.
• Has anyone with a similar background (Scrum Master/Agile Coach) successfully gotten a TN visa?
• What NOC/occupation code or job title worked best for reference letters?
• Any tips for the application/interview, especially highlighting my US education and Canadian citizenship?
• Alternatives if TN doesn’t fit?
Appreciate any experiences, advice, or resources! Thanks in advance.

Hey everyone, looking for some direction here.

I've been a customer support specialist at a SaaS company for a while now, about 6 years total experience in support roles. I've been wanting to transition into QA, but I've hit a wall. My company has been doing layoffs and there's a hiring freeze, so an internal move isn't happening anytime soon. Externally, I'm just not seeing many open QA positions either without having some sort of experience. I've also tried shadowing, but I can only do so much on JIRA and Confluence.

I was thinking about getting my Scrum certification, but I'm honestly not sure if that's the right move or just something to do to feel productive. Is it worth it for QA, or should I be focusing my time elsewhere (learning test automation, SQL, a specific tool like Selenium or Playwright, etc.)?

Would love to hear from anyone who made the support → QA jump, especially in this market. Happy to share my resume if anyone's willing to take a look.

Thanks in advance!

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Hi everyone!

I'm planning to take the PSK I (Professional Scrum with Kanban I) certification from Scrum.org, and I'd appreciate your advice.

Besides the study materials available on the Scrum.org website, are there any other resources you would recommend?

I'd also like to know:

- How difficult is the exam?

- Is it proctored or recorded?

- Is it generally considered easy to pass if you've prepared well?

- Do you have any tips or lessons learned that could help me prepare?

I'd really appreciate any recommendations or experiences you can share. Thank you!

I'm considering getting the PSPO I certification and wanted to hear from people who've actually gone through it. Does it help with job applications or interviews, or is it more of a "nice to have" once you're already in a Product Owner-type role?

Any experiences or advice appreciated — thanks in advance!

In Scrum, we have the Product Backlog, Sprint Planning, Refinement, Reviews, and Jira or similar tools to manage work. But I've noticed that requirements often change through stakeholder meetings, client demos, Teams/Slack conversations, or emails before they actually make it back into the backlog.

Sometimes it's straightforward, but other times it leads to questions like:

• "When did we agree to this?"
• "Was this discussed after Sprint Planning?"
• "Was this supposed to be in the next sprint or the current one?"

I'm curious how other Scrum teams handle this.

• Do you rely entirely on Jira?
• Do you document decisions somewhere else?
• Does your Product Owner maintain a separate decision log?
• Or is this just something that naturally comes with good communication?

I'd love to hear what has worked (or not worked) for your teams.

In the last two Sprint Reviews, only the Product Owner and the team attended.

The explanation is that stakeholder calendars are full. But product decisions are still being made — just outside the Review, through private conversations and separate meetings.

At that point, the Sprint Review starts becoming a demo rather than a place for inspection, feedback, and meaningful product discussion.

What would be your first experiment?

• Speak directly with the missing stakeholders?
• Build the agenda around decisions and open questions instead of completed work?
• Invite fewer but more relevant people?
• Collect feedback asynchronously?
• Stop the current format and redesign the Review?

I’m especially interested in the first small move you would try, not the perfect long-term solution.

What would you do first?

Lately, I've been observing a recurring pattern in our quarterly planning and sprint cycles that is quietly killing the team's ownership. A senior stakeholder or executive will come into a meeting, bypass the actual problem space entirely, and hand over a highly specific, pre-built feature solution. They don't say 'We need to decrease user churn during checkout.' They say 'Build a three-step gamified reward pop-up by next month.' When this happens, the standard reaction from the team or a less experienced Scrum Master is usually compliance. We update Jira, we estimate the story points, and we ask 'When do you need this by?' The immediate cost is obvious: the team stops thinking strategically. They stop looking at data, they stop validating assumptions, and they turn into a feature factory. They are executing blind orders. If the feature fails to move the needle after launch, the executive blames development for 'slow delivery' or 'poor quality,' while the team blames the executive for a bad idea. Nobody wins. I've been experimenting with shifting our phrasing during these exact intervention moments to protect the team's strategic mindset without coming across as obstructive or overly dogmatic about scrum rules. Instead of arguing about sprint capacity or backlog ownership, I've started using a specific pivot line: 'If we deliver this exact interface pattern tomorrow, what is the primary business metric we expect to shift first?' This does two things immediately. First, it forces the stakeholder out of solution-mode and back into business-value-mode. Second, it gives the Product Owner the opening they need to suggest alternative, cheaper hypotheses to hit that same metric target. I'm curious how other practitioners handle this structural pressure. How do you coach your Product Owners to intercept these top-down feature drops before they crystallize into a strict mandate? What are your go-to phrases or alignment frameworks when dealing with aggressive, solution-oriented executives?

Scrum Masters are often expected to handle difficult situations calmly, but most of us learn these skills during the actual conversation.

For example:

• pushing back when a stakeholder adds work mid-Sprint
• addressing someone who dominates every retrospective
• challenging an unrealistic deadline
• giving difficult feedback to a Product Owner

I’m exploring a small roleplay-based prototype where Scrum Masters can practise these situations with an AI character and receive feedback afterwards.

Before developing it further, I’m curious:

Would you actually use something like this, or does roleplaying workplace conversations feel too artificial?

How do you currently prepare for these situations?

Hey community!

I’ve created another one planning poker app: free, online, no ads, no sign up. only Fibonacci scale available. supports ui in deferent languages.

Link: poker.serbito.rs

Any feedback is very welcome.

Will be happy to see you are using it, like I use it daily with my teams