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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Build A Car With Scrum
Scrum accelerates any effort. Yesterday at Agile DC 2013 a group of people who didn't know each other, most of whom probably have never changed the oil in their car and have likely never thought they could do it built a car in three thirty-minute Sprints. And they had...
eduScrum!
Ashram College isn’t really a special school by Dutch standards. It’s a public secondary school with about 1800 student ages 11-18. The special part comes in the Chemistry classes of Willy Wijnands. In those classes the student’s desks aren’t set up in rows, they face...
Scrum Guide 2013 is Here!
— Honored Guest Blogger Ken Schwaber Jeff and I have been working on the next revisions to the Scrum Guide... (Update: it is now posted at scrumguides.org) We first presented and published Scrum in 1995 at an OOPSLA conference in Tampa, Florida. Almost twenty years...
Women Required?
As we all know, the reason Scrum Teams are kept small is to simplify communication pathways. This allows for communication saturation, which is a cornerstone of cooperation and innovation. It is not an overstatement to say that the entire Scrum development process...
Scrum and eXtreme Manufacturing
-- Scrum Inc. Staff On July 24th Scrum Inc. is pairing with Joe Justice from Team WIKISPEED fame to broadcast a Webinar on Xtreme Manufacturing. Joe will also be teaming up with Scrum Inc. later in the week when he co-trains a Scrum Master course on the same subject....
USPS Goes Agile, At Least With Software
Often it's the things you never think about can really hit you. You've seen all of those U.S. Postal Service labelled sacks, trays, boxes, wheeled containers, etc. All of those are ordered from the postal service, some 230,000 orders each year. Large companies and...
The A3 Process: Find Your Scrum Pitfalls
Next week Scrum Inc. is broadcasting its monthly Webinar on some of the more costly pitfalls Teams wander into when implementing Scrum. In preparing slides for the presentation, Scrum Inc.’s Chief Product Owner Alex Brown is having some of the staff work through the...
Update 2018: Agile 2008 – Money For Nothing and Your Change for Free
Update 2018: Download the original Agile 2008 Money for Nothing presentation (updated) The Money for Nothing and Your Change for Free strategy has been widely deployed as the basis of most agile contracts. See the Money for Nothing and Change for Free patterns at...
Outsourcing: Scrum Best Practices
Outsourcing has long been a tool for reducing costs. Scrum changes the economics of outsourcing and helps build a strong business case for keeping development at home. If you can achieve an eighty-fold improvement in velocity with corresponding quality, why would you...
Scrum and Organizational Patterns
In the early days of what we now know as Agile processes, Mike Beedle was influenced by the online description of Scrum, implemented the process in his own company, and led the effort to drive Scrum through the Pattern Languages of Programming Design conferences. This...
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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