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
Story Points: Why are they better than hours?
Story points give more accurate estimates, they drastically reduce planning time, they more accurately predict release dates, and they help teams improve performance. Hours give worse estimates, introduce large amounts of waste into the system, handicap the Product...
Hackathons: Developing Developers
Next weekend the sponsor AngleHack and two student groups at UCLA are throwing a huge hackathon. LAHacks will bring together students and alumni from Southern California’s premier technical schools in hopes of fostering a more cohesive start-up community. It seems...
Why Hours Don’t Work
There has been a lot of debate within the business world about the merits of time sheets. Some think tracking hours is an important metric while others feel that they are a waste of time. In the Scrum community there is a similar debate: should the team use points or...
Nativity Scene: How Scrum was Born!
IROBOT's Genghis Khan now in the Smithsonian I joined Easel Corporation in 1993 as VP of Object Technology after spending 4 years as President of Object Databases, a startup surrounded by the MIT campus in a building which housed some of the first successful AI...
Scrum & Big Data
I’ve been reading Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger and Kenneth Cukier’s stimulating new book Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think. The premise of the book is, now that civilization has the tools to both collect and analyze huge amounts data,...
Know the Scrum Basics: Get Your Velocity Right
This month, Scrum Inc.’s monthly webinar focuses on fundamentals and correcting bad Scrum habits. While a majority of us feel like we get the basics right, Scrum Inc. surveys and independent polls find that while most Teams understand the basics, many cannot...
Be Critical, Scrum and Feedback
There was an interesting radio piece on American Public Media’s Market Place the other day. Host Kai Ryssdal talked with Stephan J. Dubnar of Freakonomics fame about what the latest academic research on feedback tells us. Here’s how it breaks down: to get people to...
Call for Papers: Agile and Lean Organizations, HICSS 2014
Now in its 47th year, the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) is one of the longest-standing continuously running scientific conferences. This conference brings together researchers in an aloha-friendly atmosphere conducive to free exchange of...
The Serenity of Flow
The Scrum Master class attendees were off and running on a self-organization exercise. The drill was simple: plan, build, and test as many paper airplanes as you can in 3 minutes. I was busily preparing for the next class module when I gradually became aware of what...
Is Your Family Agile?
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...
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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