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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Pattern Language: Finish Early, Accelerate Faster
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...
Is Your Company Agile?
On my recent book tour in London, I was asked to appear on Sky News. They asked me to talk about why the United Kingdom's productivity is less than other G7 countries. The hot topic of the day was earnings reports from U.K. companies and U.S. companies based in the...
Cultivating Continuous Transformation
Recently, I listened to a presentation by a CTO of a large software company. During the presentation, the CTO talked about a common misconception that the farmer grows food. The fact is, he pointed out, that food grows itself. Plants have the power and ability within...
Extreme Manufacturing Yellow Belt Class
Accelerate all of your company with Joe Justice, the creator of eXtreme Manufacturing. Together we will practice with attendees how to set up new teams, collaborate with remote teams, stay in sync across a wide portfolio of backlogs, and work as cross functional teams...
Yesterday’s Weather
Yesterday's Weather Yesterday’s Weather is a Scrum pattern that helps Teams quickly calculate how many Points they will likely complete in the upcoming Sprint. The name comes from the fact that the best predictor of today’s weather is yesterday’s weather. In most...
Do You Need a Transition Team?
We recently assessed a young Scrum implementation and our observations led to a lot of discussion around the office. We saw excited teams, a stable cadence of meetings, and leadership eager to support the implementation — in other words, a very promising start. Yet...
“Scrum” Book Tour Events
Silicon Valley 10/7 Silicon Valley Agile Leadership Network presents: Disruptive Leadership: The Power of Scrum Atlanta 10/13 VersionOne presents: An Agile Community Event with Jeff Sutherland, co-Creator of Scrum London 10/21-22 BBC World Service -...
Book Launch – Silicon Valley, Atlanta, Paris, London
In October I began a month's worth of events in the U.S. and Europe this week promoting my new book Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time. The first event was a Reddit IAMA. One question I liked: jf200399: Hi Jeff, we know about the mechanics and...
The Origins of the Daily Scrum
Jeff's new book Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time is coming out on September 30, 2014. I thought I'd share an excerpt from it on how the Daily Scrum came to be. Pre-order the book from Amazon, BN, iTunes, or Indiebound. With the first Scrum team...
Scrum Alliance, Scrum Inc., Scrum.org Endorse The Scrum Guide
Scrum Inc. is pleased to join Scrum Alliance and Scrum.org in announcing a new website ScrumGuides.org that will be the new home of the Scrum Guide. From the Press Release: Scrum Alliance, Scrum.org, and Scrum Inc. announce the release and joint endorsement of a new...
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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