Barry Overeem

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Freelance Scrum Master at Scrum.org @Barryovereem

Joined Jun 2016

http://www.barryovereem.com/

About

Barry is a freelance Scrum Master and Professional Scrum Trainer at Scrum.org. He’s an active member of the Scrum community and shares his insights and knowledge by speaking at conferences, facilitating workshops and writings blog posts. As a Scrum Master, Barry has a focus on creating successful teams with strong skills in self-organization and cross-functionality and a drive for continuous improvement. Barry supports Product Owners in visualising progress, creating a transparent Product Backlog and maximizing the value of the product. He helps organisations in making Scrum successful by supporting management in changing processes, procedures, culture and behaviour. Due his strong focus on the principles of Agile and the values of Scrum, Barry ensures the spirit of Scrum is truly understood.

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Using 'Critical Uncertainties' to Quickly Respond to Future Challenges

Here's how you identify and explore the most critical and uncertain “realities.”

June 26, 2019

· 7,374 Views · 1 Like

Trigger Big Change by Starting Small With 15% Solutions

If you don't know where to start, start with yourself and the 15% Solution Liberating Structure that begins with individual contributions.

November 2, 2018

· 6,949 Views · 1 Like

Create Focus With Ecocycle Planning

With only so much time and finite resources, every business needs a way to determine if the work they are doing bringing appropriate value.

October 18, 2018

· 8,731 Views · 3 Likes

Myth 2: The Sprint Backlog Can't Change During the Sprint

This is false, because, a Sprint Backlog is flexible, as long as changes do not distract from the focus on the Sprint Goal.

November 24, 2017

· 14,849 Views · 4 Likes

Scrum Master Misunderstandings

As Agile and Scrum methods become more widely adopted, there's bound to be some confusion. In this post, we look at what a Scrum should, and shouldn't be.

April 7, 2017

· 8,605 Views · 10 Likes

A Product Owner Self-Assessment

Assessing Roman Pichler's Product Management framework, and the use of the DRIVEN acronym in the product manager's role.

Updated March 21, 2017

· 7,431 Views · 4 Likes

Scrum Myths: Scrum Is Meeting-Heavy

Scrum shouldn't consider events as meetings with all the smells attached, but as an opportunity to collaborate, learn, and have fun.

January 24, 2017

· 6,113 Views · 5 Likes

3 Ways to Improve a Scaled Sprint Review

How should you organize a Sprint Review with an increasing amount of teams and stakeholders and preserve a valuable outcome?

January 11, 2017

· 3,056 Views · 1 Like

8 Best Practices to Start a Scrum Project

Want to get onboard the Scrum train? Start right here with a list of best practices to onboard from the start.

July 15, 2016

· 15,112 Views · 3 Likes

The Strength of Scrum

Scrum has been around for almost 20 years. This post is a big retrospective on the successes and failures of the methodology in that time.

July 12, 2016

· 5,243 Views · 4 Likes

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Scrum Master Misunderstandings

Apr 14, 2017 · Barry Overeem

Hi Rusi, thanks for the feedback. You're right, the article doesn't contain an in-depth analysis. I did however wrote a white paper (see link in first paragraph) about a related topic. That paper does contain more background information (mostly about the preffered roles). Best, Barry