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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Ritual Roasters: Is this the world’s best cappucino?
In my travels, I'm always hunting for a better cappucino. In general, Norway has the best coffee. There are two locations where I can get an extraordinary cappucino in Oslo. However, the best cappucino I've had is roasted and prepared in San Francisco at Ritual...
HICSS 2010 Papers: Need Reviewers!
HICSS-43 PAPER SUBMISSIONS - Need reviewers with review deadline 14 Aug Track: Software Technology Minitrack: Agile Software Development: Lean, Distributed, and Scalable Co-Chairs: Jeff Sutherland and Gabrielle Benefield January 5-8, 2010 The Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort...
HICSS 43 Call for Papers – submissions due 15 June 2009
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-43 CALL FOR PAPERS - submissions due 15...
Scrum in Church
We presented this paper at Agile 2009. Our reviewers think this will become one of the great Agile papers. Scrum in Church: Saving the World One Team at a Time Rev. Arline Conan Sutherland, Jeff Sutherland, Ph.D., Christine Hegarty From 2005-2009 the author led Scrum...
Ken Schwaber on "Flaccid Scrum – A New Pandemic?"
Agile Bazaar June Meeting Date: Thursday June 18 Time: 6:00 - 9:00pm Place: To be announced (A Burlington location was planned but we are looking for a larger space and will announce it soon) RSVP: Go to http://agilebazaar.org/ to register. We expect to fill all the...
Evidence-based Advocacy of Scrum and Agile
Bob Marshall, Transformational Leadership Specialist & Co-founder of the UK Rightshifting Network I attended a great talk by Jeff Sutherland (one of the founders of Scrum) in London last night, courtesy of JP Morgan and the ACCU. For all those folks who missed it...
Scrum Video
Scrum methodology from Soul' on Vimeo.
SmartBear: A better way to do code review …
At OpenView Venture Partners we encourage portfolio companies to do code reviews - online, not face to face. Contrary to most agile practices where face to face communication is preferable, there are some distinct advantages to online review - no posturing, no...
Shock Therapy: British Telecom Presentation
Photo by twhume On 2 April, I presented the latest version of "Shock Therapy: Self-Organization in Scrum" at British Telecom in London. An earlier version of this presentation was presented at Google in the summer of 2008. The Google presentation is now on YouTube and...
Self-Organization: The Secret Sauce for Improving your Scrum team
Google asked for an advanced Scrum presentation for those already doing Scrum. So we talked about "Shock Therapy" and how to bootstrap a hyperproductive team. Click here for slides.
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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