Selling Scrum: How to persuade people to change!

by Jeff Sutherland | Feb 18, 2009 | Blog | 6 comments

Taichi Ohno. Workplace Management. Gemba Press 2007 People constantly ask me how to sell Scrum either to management or to developers. The real question has nothing to do with Scrum. It has to do with leadership and how do you persuade people to change from an old way...

Hawaii Agile Papers – HICSS 2009

by Jeff Sutherland | Feb 10, 2009 | Blog | 0 comments

HICSS presentation on distributed Scrum is posted at link below. Software Technology Track Co-chairs: Gul Agha and Rick Kazman Agile Software Development: Lean, Distributed, and Scalable Co-chairs: Jeff Sutherland and Gabrielle Benefield ST1 Tuesday Queen’s 4; 8:00 –...

French Scrum User Group Meetup

by Jeff Sutherland | Jan 8, 2009 | Blog | 0 comments

The new French Scrum User Group now has over 100 members. We will meetup at La Defense in Paris the evening of 19 March. Click here for details.

Scrum in Seattle: Last Week to Sign Up

by Jeff Sutherland | Jan 4, 2009 | Blog | 0 comments

Civica Office Commons 225 108th Ave NE Bellevue, WA 98004 Scrum Certification Seattle 12-13 Jan 2009 This course will be led by Jeff Sutherland, Co-Creator of Scrum and Mitch Lacey, former Agile coach at Microsoft. Jeff will discuss his latest papers being submitted...

Scrum Makes You Feel Better

by Jeff Sutherland | Jan 3, 2009 | Blog | 7 comments

“The types of activities which people all over the world consistently report as most rewarding – that is, which make them feel best – involve a clear objective, a need for concentration so intense that no attention is left over, a lack of...

Christmas Cheer: The Little Scrummer Boy

by Jeff Sutherland | Dec 20, 2008 | Blog | 0 comments

Frank Fortner, SVP of Application Development at Iatric Systems, sent me this note recently and at the request of a Scrum Trainer who I shared it with, agreed to contribute his good cheer to the larger Scrum community. ————- Hi Jeff,...