by Patrick Roach | Mar 13, 2015 | Agile Leadership, Blog, Scrum in Action |
Scrum in Sales Scrum has it’s roots in software development, but it is often applied in other domains. Manufacturing, education, contracting, defense, even non-profit work. One area of early success in adopting Scrum has been sales. Businesses that have...
by JJ Sutherland | Mar 5, 2015 | Agile Leadership, Blog, Scrum in Action |
Muda Muda, or wasted effort, is one of the three types of waste outlined by Taiichi Ohno in his seminal book, The Toyota Production System. (See the slides for a breakdown of all three forms of Waste.) Estimated time for this course: 15 minutesAudience:...
by JJ Sutherland | Jun 27, 2014 | Agile Leadership, Blog, Scrum in Agile |
Agile Architecture It takes a change in mindset to do it, but Agile Architecture speeds-up development and innovation. The co-creator of Scrum, Jeff Sutherland, and the founder of Team WIKISPEED, Joe Justice, two of the industry’s thought leaders in this area, explain...
by JJ Sutherland | Jun 27, 2014 | Agile Leadership, Blog, Scrum in Agile |
Agile Contracts As Scrum and Agile practices become mainstream and fundamentally change the way companies work internally, it is only natural that the way companies work with each other will also change. Unfortunately, many procurement departments are ill equipped to...
by JJ Sutherland | Jun 27, 2014 | Agile Leadership, Blog, Scrum in Action, Scrum in Agile |
Scaling Agile for the Enterprise Scaling Agile for the Enterprise is a challenge that many large organizations face as they implement Scrum Teams across more and more of their operations. Coordinating multiple Teams that are working on multiple projects can seem...
by JJ Sutherland | Jun 26, 2014 | Agile Leadership, Blog, Scrum in Agile |
Agile Innovation Innovation is increasingly the key to commercial success, with leading companies producing new products and new features at an ever faster rate. Yet innovation is often seen as uncontrollable – the unexpected result of fortuitous happenstance. So how...