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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.

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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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All Continuous Improvement Topics

Nokia Test: Where did it come from?

www.slashphone.com In 2005, Scrum Trainer Bas Vodde was coaching teams at Nokia Networks in Finland and developed the first Nokia test focused on Agile practices. He had hundreds of teams and wanted a simple way to determine if each team was doing the basics. The...

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Role of the Manager in Scrum

Pete Deemer, our Business Manager at the Scrum Training Institute, has written an excellent article on the role of the manager in Scrum. --------- Like me, you probably get asked the following question quite often: "What's the role of a manager in Scrum? I'm a...

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Agile 2010 Abstract Posted: Hitting the Wall!

Hitting the Wall: What to Do When High Performing Scrum Overwhelms Operations ll-at-once Scrum implementations require total commitment to change, high level management participation and aggressive removal of impediments. In July of 2009, Pegasystems (NASDAQ:PEGA)...

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Iterative vs. Incremental Development

Drawing by Jeff Patton What is iterative and what is incremental development? Even the experts are confusing themselves when describing it. Perhaps our language is an inadequate reflection of reality. Jeff Patton thinks software should be built the way an artist...

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HICSS 2010: Schedule of Agile Papers

Free download of IEEE library of HICSS papers from previous years! HICSS has an agreement with IEEE for free download of all published papers. Click on link above. HICSS-43 Agile Papers Schedule Track:   Software Technology Minitrack: Agile Software Development: Lean,...

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Jeff Sutherland @ Google, Dec 14 2009

Interesting discussion at Google on Monday evening this week. Slides are available at the link below. Available also is the Systematic Ready Ready Checklist for Product Backlog discussed during the presentation. The talk was based on the Agile 2009 experience report:...

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Give Thanks for Scrum Day

GiveThanksforScrum_23, originally uploaded by IT Event Photography Boston. Ken Schwaber and I had a spirited discussion answering questions from the audience at the Agile Boston conference on 25 November. I started off the day with  "Practical Roadmap to Great Scrum:...

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