Know the Scrum Basics: Get Your Velocity Right

by JJ Sutherland | Mar 15, 2013 | Blog | 10 comments

This month, Scrum Inc.’s monthly webinar focuses on fundamentals and correcting bad Scrum habits. While a majority of us feel like we get the basics right, Scrum Inc. surveys and independent polls find that while most Teams understand the basics, many cannot...

Be Critical, Scrum and Feedback

by JJ Sutherland | Mar 11, 2013 | Blog | 4 comments

There was an interesting radio piece on American Public Media’s Market Place the other day. Host Kai Ryssdal talked with Stephan J. Dubnar of Freakonomics fame about what the latest academic research on feedback tells us.  Here’s how it breaks down: to get people to...

Call for Papers: Agile and Lean Organizations, HICSS 2014

by Jeff Sutherland | Mar 6, 2013 | Blog | 0 comments

Now in its 47th year, the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) is one of the longest-standing continuously running scientific conferences. This conference brings together researchers in an aloha-friendly atmosphere conducive to free exchange of...

The Serenity of Flow

by wpengine | Mar 4, 2013 | Blog | 0 comments

The Scrum Master class attendees were off and running on a self-organization exercise. The drill was simple: plan, build, and test as many paper airplanes as you can in 3 minutes. I was busily preparing for the next class module when I gradually became aware of what...

Is Your Family Agile?

by JJ Sutherland | Mar 1, 2013 | Blog | 0 comments

New York Times columnist and author Bruce Feiler has just published a new book titled: The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More.  The secret it turns out is applying agile development to...

Everyone Scrum!

by Patrick Roach | Feb 26, 2013 | Blog | 1 comment

By Joel Riddle Scrum is exploding across the industry according to the latest annual State of Agile Survey. Yesterday I talked to Robert Holler, CEO of VersionOne, a maker of agile tools and the sponsor of the survey. He believes the most dramatic number is a 14%...