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.
All Continuous Improvement Topics
Yet Another $163B Waterfall Disaster
The F-35 Is Worse Than HealthCare.gov Vocative.com - Eric Markowitz, 25 Mar 2014 The $400 billion jet project is the most expensive weapon the Pentagon has ever purchased. It's also seven years behind schedule and $163 billion over budget ... And here’s the kicker:...
Potentially Shippable Product Increment
Increment or Potentially Shippable Product An Increment (sometimes referred to as a 'Potentially Shippable Product') is the value delivered for the customer via the Product Backlog Items completed during a Sprint. Each Increment should interface seamlessly with all...
Happiness Metric – The Wave of the Future
The Happiness Online Course archive is available. ... any investor should be able to measure its return, and now a group of U.K. researchers say they've provided the first scientifically-controlled evidence of the link between human happiness and productivity: Happier...
Six Signs your Team’s Acceleration is Too Good to be True
Let me say right from the beginning that I am a huge fan of tracking velocity in Scrum…it is an amazingly powerful concept. The ability to measure team output from sprint to sprint allows a team to systematically experiment with different process improvements and...
Agile Progamming for Families
New York Times columnist and author Bruce Feiler has just published a new book titled: The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More. The secret it turns out is applying agile development to...
Agile Leadership Dashboards: Post 1
I am having lots of conversations these days about executive dashboards for Scrum…what does a leadership team really need to know in order to do their job well, and how can teams provide that information without wasting valuable of time preparing reports? Within...
How Waterfall Led Healthcare.gov Off a Cliff
....And no one noticed until it was too late. Steven Brill's recent cover story in Time about how a handful of Silicon Valley engineers and experts resurrected HealthCare.gov from technical and political disaster should be a warning to politicians and policy experts...
Kickstart an XM Class in Seattle
Scrum Inc. in collaboration with Joe Justice and Team WIKISPEED are Kickstarting a hands-on workshop teaching the basics of Scrum and eXtreme Manufacturing (XM) in which participants will build a car over the course of two days. XM is the newest Agile framework that...
Call for Papers – HICSS 48
HICSS is one of the top conferences in paper citation index rankings. This means papers will be seen and used by researchers worldwide more than papers from other conferences. All HICSS papers are published in the IEEE Digital Library and are FREE to download, so...
Guidance on Agile Acquisition in DOD
Just got a heads up from Will Hayes who took one of our regular Product Owner training courses a few weeks ago. He works at the Software Engineering Institute at CMU and is the lead author of a technical note that gives guidance to acquisition professionals at 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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