Agile Contracts: Money for Nothing and Your Change for Free
An update on Money for Nothing and Your Change for Free can be found at this link. A team was working on the Open Plans Agile Contract Project in 2008. The following general principles were agreed upon. We mutually agree on working together, and thereby build trust in...Scrum Gathering Stockholm: Pretty Good Scrum
Yesterday, I gave the keynote presentation at the Scrum Gathering – Pretty Good Scrum: Secret Sauce for Distributed Teams. Ken Schwaber, Scrum Alliance leadership, and a packed house are all here. It is raining off and on in Stockholm so the weather is not great...Agile Specification: is it a hoax? or a necessity?
When Alistair Cockburn says something like: “There is no such thing as ‘agile specification’. The phrase is a hoax.” This is exactly the kind of discussion we had at the Agile Manifesto meeting in 2001. It means there is something really...Roots of Scrum: Object Technology
Scrum was originally designed to support emerging object technology environments, which have now become the dominant paradigm in software development. One of the goals was to get the organization of the team to reflect the potential flexibility of the software since...Shock Therapy: Bootstrapping Hyperproductive Scrum
Scott Downey, MySpace Agile Coach, has a way of bootstrapping Scrum teams to a high performing state in a company that is about 1/3 waterfall, 1/3 ScrumButt with project managers, and 1/3 pure Scrum with only Scrum roles. Scott consistently takes teams to 240% of the...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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