As a ScrumMaster, your job is to remove impediments and facilitate the Scrum process. But how do you know when an impediment exists? The truth is, the discovery of most impediments will not come from your team or Product Owner telling you about them. You will find them because you see them happening.

The Scrum Guide says that the ideal Scrum team size is between 3 and 9 members. Here’s why: think of a team of two people, you and me. I can communicate with you, you can communicate with me. Pretty straight forward, right? Now let’s introduce another person - we’ll call her Kate. Immediately, there are more lines of communication...

Recently, the Scrum Alliance decided to raise the maximum number of attendees allowed in certification classes to 50 people. The Druckman Company will NOT be teaching classes of that size. In my opinion, that is not a class – it is a seminar. I’ve been to some large seminars that I very much enjoyed. But a certification class and a seminar are not the same thing.