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
On Fighter Pilots and Product Owners
The first Scrum Team was created in 1993 at the Easel Coporation in Massachusetts. Perhaps Jeff's most careful hire, and most thorough training, was the first Product Owner. He drew on his experience as a fighter pilot in Vietnam when thinking about the role of...
User Story: From the Command Post
HICSS-46 CALL FOR PAPERS
Get your papers ready for the January 2013 HICSS conference (in Maui)! The Agile and Lean Organizations track will be one half day during the 4-day conference. HICSS is a conference with a wide-variety of researchers (not just software) interested in...
ScrumPlop has Begun
Google Automation of my QA Strategy
I have consistently found in my own companies and Openview Venture Partners companies that I coach that carefully prioritized implementation of acceptance tests produces higher quality faster than anything I have seen.An Open-E in Poland they implemented continuous...
Agile Planning – Fighter Pilot Meets Solo Sailor
Recently I visited Hank de Velde on his boat that he uses to sail solo around the world with Rini van Solingen, original author of "The Power of Scrum." Hank and I had similar ideas on planning for high risk adventures.
Software in 30 Days is Out!
The official publication of "Software in 30 Days" is May 1. The book is a collaboration between the two creators of Scrum, Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber. The goal of Scrum is to actually have working software at then end of each Sprint, which should be 30 days or...
Scrum: The Future for Education?
When we first heard about teachers using Scrum in a classroom we had to know more and got in touch with those teachers through Ilja Heitlager at Schuberg Philis in the Netherlands. Here's what they sent in. It's translated into English from the original Dutch....
The Agile Manifesto, Elaborated
The Agile Manifesto is one of those documents that at one level is simple, but actually holds a lot of meaning: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation...
In the end, resistance is futile. Change or die.
Steve Denning has written a great post over at Forbes addressing some of the traditional management arguments against Scrum. His key point, I think. "What’s wrong here is the corporate culture, not Agile. Surviving in today’s marketplace requires individual and team...
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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