Shu Ha Ri – What Makes a Great ScrumMaster?
The concept of Shu Ha Ri comes from the Japanese martial art of Aikido. I spent some years in an Aikido dojo in Denver (Sensei was in Ha state) and in Cambridge (Sensei in Ri state). The student enters in the Shu state and must exactly follows the instructions of the...
Home of Scrum, Inc. Implements Happiness Metric
How Happy Are You? In a Boston Suburb, It’s a Census Question Rick Friedman for The New York Times Residents of Somerville, Mass., like Jamie Thatcher and Maddie Carlson, are being asked to rate their happiness on a 1-to-10 scale. By JOHN TIERNEY, New York...
Nobel Prize for Scrum?
Scrum Is A Major Management Discovery By STEVE DENNING A reader remarked about my recent article on Salesforce.com, “Frankly, this looks like a plug for Scrum.” Well, yes. If there was a Nobel Prize for management, and if there was any justice in the world, I believe...
Implementing SAP with Scrum
Implementing SAP with Scrum is the same as using Scrum for development operations in general. Build your backlog, prioritize your backlog, and execute your backlog in sprints with demoable results at the end of every sprint. Executing Scrum well will cut your...