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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Everyone Scrum!
By Joel Riddle Scrum is exploding across the industry according to the latest annual State of Agile Survey. Yesterday I talked to Robert Holler, CEO of VersionOne, a maker of agile tools and the sponsor of the survey. He believes the most dramatic number is a 14%...
Work Less, Get More Done!
There was a really interesting Op-Ed in Sunday’s New York Times by Tony Schwartz at The Energy Project. As any good Scrum Master knows, finding a sustainable pace for the team is incredibly important to increasing velocity. At Scrum Inc., we talk about avoiding Muri...
Another Waterfall Disaster: Steve Denning for Forbes
Reconciling Innovation With Control: The Air Force's $1.3 Billion Lesson In Agile Steve Denning, Forbes 11 Dec 2012 What are we to make of the news that the Air Force recently canceled a six-year-old software modernization effort that had consumed $1.3 billion and...
Scrum and Lean: Building Cars
As we prepare for the joint Joe Justice/WikiSpeed Scrum training in Redmond on 4-5 February, I'm reviewing the connection between Scrum and Lean. We continue to meet with key staff of the Lean Enterprise Institute to discuss opportunities to work together. John Shook,...
WIKISPEED, Scrum Inc, and Solutions IQ Team Up
Here at Scrum Inc. we are really excited about this new class we're doing with Joe Justice on taking Scrum beyond just software. Dear Agilistas, Are you enjoying what Scrum Project Management is doing for your software delivery teams? How about sharing some of that...
Richard Hackman and Scrum
A guest post from Jens Meydam (@jmeydam) on the death of Richard Hackman. A few days ago, on January 8, a man passed away who may be considered one of the patron saints of Scrum, even though he had never heard of Scrum and few in the Scrum community know his name....
Requirements for Product Owner: Common Pitfalls
Recently during a leadership workshop an engineering manager complained that his Scrum teams deliver the product and that it was not what the customer wanted. He thought this was a problem with Scrum. I pointed out that the Product Owner determines what is DONE at the...
Scrum Goes Mainstream in France
As Scrum enters the mainstream, Xebia France has become one of the leading Scrum coaching companies for French developers. What they have noticed is that as Scrum expands, the basic ideas become watered down. For example, their Scrum Master Academy Rule #2, is the the...
Continuous Improvement for a Perfect 10
By Arline Sutherland I remember sitting on the basement steps in the summer of 1976 watching Nadia Comaneci win the worlds first perfect 10 in the history of modern gymnastics. Her command of the whirling routine on the uneven bars was a marvel. The announcers told...
Waterfall to Agile
Ade Shokoya of agile.tv has written a good book on Waterfall to Agile. The added value starts in the preface:As you know, the global economy is very volatile at the moment, and things aren't looking like they will get better any time soon. Across Europe and America...
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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