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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Give Thanks for Scrum Day 22 Nov 2011
SCHEDULE- Give Thanks for Scrum, 11/22/2011 0930 AM Welcome Remarks- Dan Mezick 1000 Ken Schwaber on: 2011: WHAT A YEAR FOR SCRUM 1045 BREAK 1100 Jeff Sutherland on Why Teams are not Hyperproductive 1145 BREAK for LUNCH 1245 PM Welcome Remarks- Dan Mezick 0100 Dan...
Agile Manifesto 10 Year Reunion: Full Video
Zuckerberg would stay in Boston if he were starting up now
Zuckerberg would stay in Boston.
Takeuchi and Nonaka: The Roots of Scrum
Scrum for software was directly modeled after "The New New Product Development Game" by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka published in the Harvard Business Review in 1986. During 2011, I had the good fortune to meet and work with Professor Nonaka in Tokyo. Some say...
On the Street in Amsterdam
Breaking Departmental Silos: Scrum in Finance
By Christine Hegarty, Scrum Inc. “So-and-so does that, not me.” Upon hiring our accountant this June, I gleefully handed off the company QuickBooks file, stacks of financial statements and an overview of the bookkeeping functions and relished in the relief of no...
Forbes Blog: Steve Jobs on Get Rid of the Crappy Stuff!
Image via Wikipedia Carmin Gallo, Forbes, 5/16/2011 Apple recently passed Google as the most valuable brand in the world. It’s extraordinary to think that the world’s top brand has a product portfolio that could fit on a small table. Of course that’s part of the...
Openview: Scrum Inc. training on location
VENTURE CAPITAL Inside OpenView's corporate relocation program Posted by Scott Kirsner August 2, 2011 11:01 AM Boston.com By Scott Kirsner, Globe Columnist Scott Maxwell grew up in Silicon Valley, but these days he is practically operating a shadow economic...
Can your new hire work on a Scrum team?
New for Aspiring Doctors, the People Skills Test By GARDINER HARRIS Published: July 10, 2011, New York Times ROANOKE, Va. — Doctors save lives, but they can sometimes be insufferable know-it-alls who bully nurses and do not listen to patients. Medical...
Grandfathers of Scrum on Leadership
The Big Idea: The Wise Leaderby Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi in Harvard Business Review, May 2011In an era when discontinuity is the only constant, the ability to lead wisely has nearly vanished. All the knowledge in the world did not prevent the collapse of...
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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