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.
All Continuous Improvement Topics
Scrum Inc Sprint 2 Retrospective: The Happiness Metric
Happiness Metric Process Improvement Priorities - ScrumInc 15 Dec 2010 Scrum, Inc. was a small company hosted by OpenView Venture Partners in Boston from 2006-2010. As a two person Scrum using Pivotal Tracker as a Scrum tool, I was a remote Product Owner traveling 2-3...
Multi-tasking makes you stupid: Give it up before you get brain damage!
We know multitasking causes project delays but it is even worse than we thought. Psychology Today reports on new research that shows it builds up a stress response that damages cells in your brain. The Difficulties of Multi-tasking Doing too much makes you slower and...
OpenView Venture Partners Video Lab: Backbone of Scrum
The Structural Backbone of Scrum According to its Founder Dec 23, 2010 by Corey O'Loughlin Jeff details the history of scrum, starting with structure When the idea of Scrum was just a notion in Dr. Jeff Sutherland’s brain, the agile development method’s creator...
Scrum Board on Steroids: The Awesome Nature of Awesomeness
Breaking news: Vodafone board wins Atlassian Ultimate Wallboard contest ... The Vodafone team in Copenhagen has a Scrum Board with RFID technology that knows when a card moves and updates data in their Jira tracking system. A video camera is always watching the board....
Give Thanks for Scrum Day – 24 Nov 2010
Dan Mezick organized the Second Annual Give Thanks for Scrum Day on 24 November at Microsoft in Waltham, MA. Ken Schwaber and I gave presentations and did a panel. A good time was had by all! Aggressive Scrum - What Happens When You Actually Remove Your Impediments?...
Performance Reviews – bogus, fraudulent, dishonest, bad management
Performance reviews are a predictable part of office life. Whether the employees write their own, or sit before a panel of bosses, it can be a grueling process. Often, managers only conduct them because they're told to, and workers embellish and obscure their...
ScrumDay Berlin: A Practical Guide to Great Scrum
On 17 November 2010, the keynote presentation at ScrumDay in Berlin was on how to systematically create hyperproductive teams. Slides are available at the link below. Available also is the Systematic Ready Ready Checklist for Product Backlog discussed during the...
Cost of Defects in Requirements
Tom Gilb, Jeff Sutherland, Kai Gilb Requirement defects cause rework. Every defect is a bug that causes extra work. So it is important to check your requirements for defects. Tom Gilb has an agile one hour workshop that will take a random page of your...
8 Lessons Learned from the first Scrum team
Joe Kinsella, one of the developers on the first Scrum team, does a retrospective on his experience. A few years back I received a call from Stephen Denning, an Australian author best known for his books on organizational storytelling. Stephen wanted to talk with me...
Henrik Kniberg on Time Reports
How we got rid of time reports A story about waste elimination Have you ever dealt with time reports? Filled them in? Approved them? Shuffled them around?Did it feel like well spent time? Can you imagine a world without time reports?
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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