Time Tracking is Anti-Scrum: What do you do when you need it for billing?
In general, tracking hours slows teams down and confuses the Product Owner about release dates. Over 50 years of research shows that hours have high error rates and variability and relative point estimation is better. Even worse, some of our consulting partners bill...
Scrum "Shock Therapy" How To Change Teams FAST
While he was updating his paper for Scrum “Shock Therapy,” Scott Downey of Rapid Scrum found one of the original emails he wrote about how he boosted dozens of teams into hyper productivity. He comments below and the full paper was published as: J....
White House Issues New IT Contracting Guidance
Greater Accountability and Faster Delivery Through Modular Contracting Posted by Joe Jordan, Steven VanRoekel on June 14, 2012 at 03:29 PM EDT Last week, we highlighted a number of ways in which reform of Federal Information Technology Management is giving taxpayers...Happiness Metric: The Effect of a Bad Boss
Bad bosses are one of most damaging factors in companies leading to unhappy employees which directly affects customer satisfaction and lowers revenue. One of the the primary effects of Scrum is to eliminate the bad boss. Any leader who wants to be better should take a...DoD Goes Agile
With waterfall failure after failure, even the government has decided to make Agile development a priority. Some people have a hard time believing this but I just want to take you through what happened in one department, the biggest one there is, the Department of...6 Agile Ways To Increase Employee Engagement
Organizations who utilize Agile ways of working experience a 20-30% improvement in employee engagement. Engage, Equip & Empower your employees.
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