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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Update: Excel Spreadsheet for Hyperproductive Scrum Teams
In the years since the first paper on metrics for hyperproductive teams, I have been thinking about new ways to measure high-performing teams. Tune in to the webinar "Hyperproductive Metrics" for the latest metrics to guide teams on the path to hyperproductivity....
Tipping Point: Get Agile or Get Outsourced
In the past six months, Scrum jobs on simplyhired.com have increased from 20,000 to 420,000. Despite this tsunami of Scrum job offerings, many of the traditional project leaders and senior IT staff I talk with are still resisting the inevitable and they fail to see...
Give Thanks for Scrum 2012
THANKS FOR EVERYONE WHO MADE [GIVE THANKS FOR SCRUM] A GREAT TIME !! TUESDAY NOVEMBER 20: The 4th Annual GIVE THANKS FOR SCRUM Event, Honoring Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber. Learn more about GIVE THANK FOR SCRUM 2012. (Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber, Give Thanks...
How Scrum Was Made: Kenji Hiranabe
Why and how you made Scrum – Interview with Jeff Sutherland by Kenji Hiranabe November 21, 2012 at 12:57 am kenjihiranabe Leave a comment Boston where Scrum Inc. based-in Kenji: I visited scruminc. in Boston last September. Unfortunately, Jeff was out in Zurich at the...
Scrum Ripples: Bringing Scrum Beyond IT
As the 20th anniversary of Scrum approaches, I’m struck by how the idea has spread. Tens of thousands of people hold Scrum credentials . Thousands of companies across the globe use Scrum. The US Department of Defense has a mandate to be Agile. Gartner Group says...
Webinar: Scrum Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Next year will mark the 20th anniversary of Jeff Sutherland’s invention of Scrum. What does it mean to reach such a landmark? There is a gulf between those who were there at the beginning and those who have joined the journey more recently. It behooves us all to...
Technical Debt: Every Company Needs a Technical Debt Remediation Program
The Gartner Application Development Advisory for 2012 strongly mandates abandoning waterfall, going Agile, and implementing a technical debt remediation program. This needs to be driven by the Product Owner and supported by management. But what is technical debt, and...
Getting Lean with Scrum
By Christine Hegarty In working for the creator of Scrum, I have gained an appreciation for the influence of Lean thinking on the development of Scrum principles. The concepts of continuous improvement, eliminating waste, limiting work in progress, etc. are intrinsic...
Scrum Inc. had the privilege to visit Kaplan Test Prep’s New York Office in August of 2013.
Scrum Inc. had the privilege to visit Kaplan Test Prep’s New York Office in August of 2013. Kaplan participated in the Scrum Capability Assessment Program and their strong performance earned two Bronze medallions: for the Agile Center of Excellence Team and for the Nursing Development Team.
How Scrum Manages Risk
There are 457,889 Scrum job openings today in the United States, up from only 20,000 earlier in the year. The top companies hiring are: Cybercoders8,113 Deloitte Development6,202 Randstad Technologies3,663 Robert Half Technology3,138 Deloitte2,939 Computer Sciences...
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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