Driving Continuous Improvement
Find a vast array of advanced scrum topics and patterns that can increase your Team’s Velocity. Online courses and classes for Scrum Masters, Scrum Product Owners, and those team members seeking continuous improvement. If you’re not a member, visit our pricing and plans page for more detail.
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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Scrum Guide Refresh with Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber Now Available
Scrum Guide Refresh with Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber Now Available The Scrum Guide Refresh webinar featuring Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber is now available in ScrumLab Open. This is a rare opportunity to hear directly from the creators of the Scrum Framework...
Scrum Guide Refresh
On July 6, Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber, the creators of the Scrum Framework, held a webinar to discuss updates to the Scrum Guide. They also answered questions submitted by scrum practitioners around the globe.
Scrummer Reading List
Scrummer Reading List 2016 We asked some of our team members to share their top picks for summer* reading. The list is full of inspirational gems. If you read one, let us know what you think. We'd also like to hear from you! In the comments section, please tell us...
Scrum@Scale™ Certification Now Available
Scrum@Scale™ Certification Now Available Scrum Inc. is excited to offer our two-day Scrum@Scale™ course, which was developed by the co-creator of Scrum, Jeff Sutherland. Students who complete our training will receive a Scrum@Scale™ Practitioner certificate. For a...
Scrum in Innovation
Learn how Agile teams are using a systematic and comprehensive innovation framework with real metrics, meaningful dashboards, and a concept called “ideascrum” to power an innovation revolution.
Agile Leadership: Trust vs. Control
Trust vs. Control in Agile Leadership I Listened to Spotify enterprise coach and Agile thought leader Henrik Knieberg's keynote and loved his analogy on Trust vs. Control. He uses the concept of traffic regulation, specifically a traffic circle vs. an...
What I Learned at Toyota
What I Learned at Toyota Test driving the new Toyota hydrogen powered Mirai with Pierre Masai I first met Pierre Masai, CIO of Toyota Motors Europe (TME), a few years ago at the annual Lean IT conference in Paris. Pierre is an agile advocate committed to driving Scrum...
Writing Better User Stories
Writing Better User Stories User Stories are Product Backlog Items that are descriptions of functionality. The User Story always takes the form: “As a ______ I want to ___________ so that I can ______.” Our experience has shown that when Teams master producing clear,…
Agile Innovation: How to Scrum Ideation
Agile Innovation: How to Scrum Ideation I’m very interested in the growth and evolution of the Agile process, and its eventual mainstreaming into types of work beyond writing software. In particular, I’m very interested in the intersection of Agile and...
Executive Action Team
Responsibilities of the Executive Action Team Transitioning from traditional project management to Scrum is a paradigm shift. Too often, leadership believes implementing Scrum is a simple process change that can be delegated. Leadership must own an Agile transition...