Driving Continuous Improvement
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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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Reviewers needed for HICSS-45 Agile research papers
HICSS is one of the top conferences in paper citation index rankings. This means papers will be seen and used by researchers worldwide more than papers from other conferences. All HICSS papers are published in the IEEE Digital Library and are FREE to download, so...
Back to the Future: Agile Manifesto Reunion
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Why a Good Product Owner Will Increase Revenue at Least 20%
Maurits Rijk did a Monte Carlo simulation of a project where implementation is not prioritized (blue) versus prioritized by return on investment (green). Value delivered is the region under the curve. Interestingly, prioritizing only by business value (orange) and not...
What is Preventing your Retrospectives from having an Impact?
Guest blog by Scott Maxwell, OpenView Partners. Scott is the managing partner of OpenView and has introduced Scrum everywhere in the venture group and the portfolio companies. See Take no Prisoners: How a Venture Capital Group Does Scrum. Retrospectives, and their...
Scrum Moves Beyond Software
Shu Ha Ri – What Makes a Great ScrumMaster?
The concept of Shu Ha Ri comes from the Japanese martial art of Aikido. I spent some years in an Aikido dojo in Denver (Sensei was in Ha state) and in Cambridge (Sensei in Ri state). The student enters in the Shu state and must exactly follows the instructions of the...
Home of Scrum, Inc. Implements Happiness Metric
How Happy Are You? In a Boston Suburb, It’s a Census Question Rick Friedman for The New York Times Residents of Somerville, Mass., like Jamie Thatcher and Maddie Carlson, are being asked to rate their happiness on a 1-to-10 scale. By JOHN TIERNEY, New York...
Nobel Prize for Scrum?
Scrum Is A Major Management Discovery By STEVE DENNING A reader remarked about my recent article on Salesforce.com, “Frankly, this looks like a plug for Scrum.” Well, yes. If there was a Nobel Prize for management, and if there was any justice in the world, I believe...
Implementing SAP with Scrum
Implementing SAP with Scrum is the same as using Scrum for development operations in general. Build your backlog, prioritize your backlog, and execute your backlog in sprints with demoable results at the end of every sprint. Executing Scrum well will cut your...
HICSS 45 Maui 4-7 Jan 2012 – Call for Papers due 15 Jun 2011
It's time for you to get your most scintillating Agile theories together, write a kick-ass paper that could get published in the IEEE library and spend a week in beautiful Maui next January. Sound good? Then get writing! HICSS is one of the top conferences in paper...
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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