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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Rajile – Raj Mudhar on CMMI and Scrum
March 29 2010 – Dinner with Jeff SutherlandApril 23, 2010rmudharLeave a commentGo to comments2 VotesMonday, March 29, I had the opportunity to have dinner with Jeff Sutherland and other RTP leaders. The dinner was a fundraiser for CITCON, which came to RTP in...
Team Spirit: A Pre-Condition for Winning?
The Metaphysical Significance, Staggering Ubiquity, and Sheer Joy of High Fives The low five, the high 10, the low 10, the forearm bash, the fist bump, the flying chest bump, the shug, the leaping shoulder carom, the ass slap, the pound, the man hug, the dap, the...
Deep Lean Stockholm 12 May 2010
Deep Lean with Mary Poppendieck & Jeff Sutherland & Henrik Kniberg, May 12th Spend a day with renown experts on Lean and Agile software development. This exclusive workshop happens only once per year worldwide and is limited to 20-25 participants. This...
Excel Spreadsheet for Hyperproductive Scrum Teams – very cool!
Scrum Metrics for Hyperproductive Teams: How They Fly Like Fighter Aircraft Jeff Sutherland and Scott Downey Agile 2010 Experience Report Scrum teams use lightweight metrics like story points, the burndown chart, and team velocity. The inventor of Scrum was a fighter...
Roots of Scrum Updated: ACCU Conference, Oxford 14 Apr 2010
Dr. Jeff Sutherland covers the history of Scrum from its inception thru his participation with Ken Schwaber in rolling out Scrum to industry, to its impact on Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Oracle, Siemans, Philips, GE, and thousands of other companies. He describes the...
Scrum Log is moving to scrum.jeffsutherland.com
Google is changing their strategy for blog support. As a result, this blog must move to a subdomain, in this case http://scrumjeffsutherland.blogspot.com. However, if you go to jeffsutherland.com, you should be redirected to scrumjeffsutherland. blogspot.com. There...
Scrum city – Somerville Rocks!
Somerville is home city for both Scrum, Inc. and the Scrum Training Institute. They want Google to install high speed wireless access for the city.
Dan Mezick on Zombie Scrum Teams!
Abstract Teams must be authorized to create team culture. They must be 100% free to invent, create, manifest and work inside their own special, unique, meaningful, largely self-determined team culture. Ground rules set the stage for culture. All else follows. If the...
Roots of Scrum: Takeuchi and Self-Organizing Teams
The first Scrum team was created directly from a paper which is required reading for any Scrum practitioner. It explains how to set up self-organizing teams and clearly outlines management's role in the process. Takeuchi and Nonaka. The New New Product Development...
Project Management Institute and Massively Distributed Scrum
Non-IT Scrum is of increasing interest. Here is a Scrum run at the Project Management Institute by Dan Mesnick of Agile Boston:MegaScrum: A Scrum Structure for Massively Distributed, non-IT, All-Volunteer EffortsCopyright (c) 2009-2010 Dan Mezick. All Rights...
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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