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
Release Duration and Enterprise Agility
You ever wonder why your cellphone Apps seem like they have a new version every day or two? Dan Greening doesn't have to wonder, he knows why, they make better products, faster. - jj Short release duration—the time from starting development on a feature set until it...
Power of Scrum On the Kindle
After many, many requests for an eBook version of The Power of Scrum we’re happy to announce that it is now available on the Kindle. It really is a powerful book that lays out in a narrative form the difficulties and triumphs people and companies experience when...
The Importance of the Product Owner
Scrum Inc.'s Christine Hegarty wrote this today, just before she went on vacation, of course, so I'm posting it for her - jj Here at Scrum Inc. we've been thinking a lot about the role of Product Owner recently. It's something that we see a lot of companies struggle...
The Power of Scrum
Please read before ScrumMaster and Product Owner courses in Los Angeles and Boston in February. Book Description The Power of Scrum tells the inspiring story of Mark Resting, CTO of a software company struggling with a major client and a project with more problems...
Do You Have a Bunch of Specialists That Can’t Work Together?
Do You Have a Team or Just a Bunch of Talents? January 29, 2012 By maricelam As a leader or founding member of any project or startup, it is necessary to surround yourself by people talented in their areas of contribution. However, it is indispensable that everyone of...
Scrum: Looks Like We Created an Industry!
In the last month there were 10,964 Scrum jobs posted at simplyhired.com. This is probably less than half the real jobs out there for Scrum. In a good month we have 200,000 new jobs in the U.S. and the unemployment rate goes down. IsScrum generating 10% of those new...
Agile Manifesto – original 2001 notes from Snowbird
Jon Kern has surfaced a very cool historical artifact from the original Agile Manifesto 2001 meeting in Snowbird, Utah. If you download this document you can see all his notes from the meeting.
Medication
Dan Mezick I'm pleased to add this content to Jeff's blog regarding pain medication and the Agile Manifesto.Delivering software as a team is a highly intentional act. If we say we want working software, the results are by no means assured. Confronting reality, at the...
Powerful Strategy for Defect Prevention: Improve the Quality of Your Product
A classic paper from IBM shows how they systematically reduced defects by analyzing root cause. The cost of implementing this practice is less than the cost of fixing defects that you will have if you do not implement it so it should always be implemented. 1. First...
An Alternative to Kanban: One-Piece Continuous Flow
Jim Coplien I'm pleased to be visiting here as a guest this week at Jeff's invitation. The topic at hand is kanban. Unfortunately, this entry is a bit long, because I want to go beyond the usual level of sound bites afforded to an important topic. A Terminology...
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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