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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HICSS 2011 Agile Papers – Need Reviewers!
We need good reviewer for a series of Agile papers submitted to the HICSS Conference. Reviews are due by 14 August. If you are interested, send email to jeff@scruminc.com and let me know which papers you would like to review. You must set up an account for yourself at...
Scrum Makes You Smarter
Cartoon from Amund Tveit's Blog Brain research on rats suggests that voluntary pressure in the form of audacious goals taken on by high performance teams makes them produce more neuron stem cells, rewire the brain, and become smarter. Involuntary pressure, often seen...
Updated URL for this blog: scrum.jeffsutherland.com
The final step of migrating with Google to the new domain strategy for blogs has been completed. This blog is now available at http://scrum.jeffsutherland.com. If you use scrumjeffsutherland.blogspot.com you will be automatically redirected. Please update all...
Microsoft Team Foundation Server launches Scrum template
Announcing Team Foundation Server Scrum v1.0 Beta aaronbjork 7 Jun 2010 9:13 AM Today , we’re announcing and releasing a brand new process template… Team Foundation Server Scrum v1.0 Beta. This is a new process template built from the ground up specifically for Scrum...
Most Important Thing to Remember: 50% of what you think is wrong!
Taichi Ono teaches that 50% of what you think is wrong. The robot researchers in artificial intelligence figured this out twenty years ago as well. They had understand this to get the robots to work. Study after study on college campuses show that students get simple...
Scrum Gathering Munich Keynote: Practical Roadmap to Great Scrum
A Practical Roadmap to Great Scrum: A Systematic Guide to Hyperproductivity Jeff Sutherland, Ph.D - Chairman, Scrum Training Institute The best data in the world on Scrum comes from a CMMI Maturity Level 5 company that is migrating all data collection to function...
ScrumPloP Nyteboda Sweden 16-19 May 2010
Neil Harrison, Mike Beedle, Jim Coplien, Jeff Sutherland ... which is what we say in Danish to appreciate each other for our last time of fellowship. I think we'd all agree on many adjectives to describe the event: productive, fun, energizing, and many more. We did...
MSF for Agile Software Development v5.0
Your team can apply agile practices more easily by using the process template for MSF for Agile Software Development v5.0 with Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). The template and this guidance will help you practice Scrum and apply agile engineering...
HICSS 2011: Call for Papers (15 June 2010 deadline)
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 Hawaii next January. Sound good? Then get writing! HICSS-44 CALL FOR PAPERS - submissions due 15...
Venture Capital: An Opportunity for Expansion Stage Startups
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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