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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Scrum and the A3 Process: Game Over for Waterfall Companies
The best teams I work with are using lean tools to identify waste, particularly value stream mapping. They then use Scrum to eliminate waste by working the Scrum impediments list. This has the benefit of pushing Scrum out of development into the rest of the...
TableNinja: Poker Consultant expert advice to Agile developers
Alex Sutherland graduated from Cal Tech a few years ago and continued into the doctoral program in math and econometrics. However, his online poker hobby was generating all the cash he needed and he noticed that the PokerStars user interface was not suitable for...
Sprint Burndown: by hours or by story points?
The best teams I work with burn down story points. They only burn down when a story is done. To do this, the team needs to have small stories. They will need to work with the product owner to make this happen. In disciplined teams this saves a lot of overhead and...
French Scrum Meetup: Should you take the Red Pill or the Blue Pill?
The first French Scrum User Group meeting was a great success and we had more people than the room could hold. I reported on the Scrum Gathering in Orlando and reviewed some of the highlights of that meeting. The major focus was on the architecture presentation that...
Selling Scrum: How to persuade people to change!
Taichi Ohno. Workplace Management. Gemba Press 2007 People constantly ask me how to sell Scrum either to management or to developers. The real question has nothing to do with Scrum. It has to do with leadership and how do you persuade people to change from an old way...
Hawaii Agile Papers – HICSS 2009
HICSS presentation on distributed Scrum is posted at link below. Software Technology Track Co-chairs: Gul Agha and Rick Kazman Agile Software Development: Lean, Distributed, and Scalable Co-chairs: Jeff Sutherland and Gabrielle Benefield ST1 Tuesday Queen’s 4; 8:00 –...
French Scrum User Group Meetup
The new French Scrum User Group now has over 100 members. We will meetup at La Defense in Paris the evening of 19 March. Click here for details.
Scrum in Seattle: Last Week to Sign Up
Civica Office Commons 225 108th Ave NE Bellevue, WA 98004 Scrum Certification Seattle 12-13 Jan 2009 This course will be led by Jeff Sutherland, Co-Creator of Scrum and Mitch Lacey, former Agile coach at Microsoft. Jeff will discuss his latest papers being submitted...
Scrum Makes You Feel Better
"The types of activities which people all over the world consistently report as most rewarding - that is, which make them feel best - involve a clear objective, a need for concentration so intense that no attention is left over, a lack of interruptions and...
Christmas Cheer: The Little Scrummer Boy
Frank Fortner, SVP of Application Development at Iatric Systems, sent me this note recently and at the request of a Scrum Trainer who I shared it with, agreed to contribute his good cheer to the larger Scrum community. ------------- Hi Jeff, We've recently implemented...
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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