Driving Continuous Improvement
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Patterns: Finish Early, Accelerate Faster
Finish Early, Accelerate Faster (FEAF) is a Scrum pattern language composed of a number of Scrum Patterns used together. FEAF is an incredibly powerful pattern language because it will help new Teams establish good practices and take experienced Teams Hyper-Productive; defined as a Velocity 400% higher than a Teams’ initial Velocity.
Scrum Retrospectives
One of the core principles in Scrum is the idea of continuous improvement. Each Sprint the Team engages in an inspect-and-adapt cycle during the Retrospective meeting. Beyond that though, the Scrum Guide doesn’t offer much insight into how to run a successful Retrospective and how to use the meeting to improve production, quality, and velocity.
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Change or Be Replaced By Robots and Other Advice from Jeff Sutherland
"Change or Get Replaced by Robots" and Other Advice from Jeff Sutherland by Jeff Sutherland | November 29, 2017 | Blog Below is a partial transcript of the Q & A from the "Scrum at Scale: The Path to Agility" presentation that I delivered to the International...
Give Thanks for Scrum 2017 – Scrum@Scale
Recently I attended the Agile-Boston Give Thanks for Scrum day. See Scrum Beyond Software GTFS 2017. There were great talks by many people using Scrum to make their work and life better. My presentation was on the Scrum@Scale which is designed for full company Scrum...
Part 2: Doubling Productivity by Scrumming Leadership
Part 2: Doubling Productivity by Scrumming Leadership by Steve Daukas | Nov 13, 2017 | Blog Read part one of Doubling Productivity by Scrumming Leadership In part 2, Steve shares his success and details the deployment steps of this Scrum at Scale transformation. My...
Less WaterScrum More Agility at Agile Amsterdam
Less WaterScrum more Agility at Agile Amsterdam Scrum@Scale: The Path to Agile by Jeff Sutherland | October 25, 2017 | Blog The Agile Amsterdam 2017 conference started with my keynote on Scrum@Scale. I wanted to make four key points in this presentation: True Scrum is...
Overcoming Obstacles
We asked you to tell us about the Scrum challenges that your team is facing. In this video, JJ Sutherland and Jess Larsen tackle some challenging questions.
Doubling Productivity by Scrumming Leadership
Doubling Productivity by Scrumming Leadership by Steve Daukas | Sep 29, 2017 | Blog If you love to cook like I do, or if you have ever watched one of the many cooking shows on TV these days, you'll understand when I say that leading a Scrum transformation of any size...
Scrum Guide Revision 2017
2017 Scrum Guide Revision Webinar Watch the Full Video of the Scrum Guide Revision Webinar Please post your comments or questions related to the webinar on this page so that responses are transparent and shared with everyone. The Scrum Guide reflects the...
Teaching Scrum at Tesla, Talking with Silicon Valley Agile Leadership Network
During the week of the Tesla Model 3 Launch in Fremont, CA, Tesla invited Scrum Inc. to host a Scrum Inc Scrum Master and Scrum Inc Product Owner course at the factory. On Wednesday, we had a tour at the production site in Elon Musk's personal golf cart. An awesome...
2017 Scrummer Reading List
2017 Scrummer Reading List Last year our team shared a list of our favorite books and it was so popular, we've decided to do it again! This year's installment spans genres well beyond Agile to include Children's Picture Books, Health & Wellness, and Leadership...
How to Optimize Your Kanban
John Cutler posted a Hackernoon blog titled "I Hate Kanban ..." with a picture of this board. If you don't want to hate your Kanban, you can optimize it using the strategy below. Overview For work that is interrupt driven such as a help desk or call center, a...