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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Agile 2008 video: Fully Distributed Scrum
Jeff Sutherland: Reaching Hyper-Productivity with Outsourced Development TeamsPosted by Jeff Sutherland and Guido Schoonheim on Nov 07, 2008 07:14 AM SummaryIn this presentation filmed during Agile 2008, Jeff Sutherland, co-creator of Scrum, and Guido Schoonheim, CTO...
Scrum for Research Projects
Recently, a new ScrumMaster from Atlanta pointed out the project in the photos above is a medical research project at the U.S. Center for Disease Control. The EPM Solutions blog item by Lisa Grant has a nice description of how you can cut research time in half and...
Scrum Training Institute at Oredev
Gabrielle Benefield, founder of the Scrum Training Institute, talks about her role as Agile coach at Yahoo. How does Scrum scale? What productivity gains did they achieve? What where the problems? Dave Prior from PMI creates a video podcast at the Oredev Conference in...
Scrumming in Paris: La Cremerie
Xebia France hosted an excellent ScrumMaster Certification course at La Defense in Paris. What a great location for a CSM course! Not only the French, but Danes, Swedes, Germans, Poles, and Swiss are often there. Courses sell out quickly and the next one is in March....
Agile Contracts Working Group
Working Group Formed to Produce Reusable Agile Contracts Posted by Vikas Hazrati on Oct 29, 2008 04:45 AM Contracts are required to bridge the gap of trust and uncertainty between different organizations thus enabling them to work together. Traditional ‘fixed price,...
Scrum at CNN Atlanta
During a Scrum Certification course in Atlanta, I gave a presentation at CNN for the local Agile community - Pretty Good Scrum: Secret Sauce for Distributed Teams. A good time was had by all, particularly at the dinner after the Agile meeting.
World’s Best Product Owner: Evil Genius Steve Jobs
A lot of people confuse product vision with strategy vision for the company. Product vision has to do with crafting a product that is so cool that when people see it they don't understand how they ever lived without it. Most senior management teams have no product...
Agile Contracts: Money for Nothing and Your Change for Free
An update on Money for Nothing and Your Change for Free can be found at this link. A team was working on the Open Plans Agile Contract Project in 2008. The following general principles were agreed upon. We mutually agree on working together, and thereby build trust in...
Scrum Gathering Stockholm: Pretty Good Scrum
Yesterday, I gave the keynote presentation at the Scrum Gathering - Pretty Good Scrum: Secret Sauce for Distributed Teams. Ken Schwaber, Scrum Alliance leadership, and a packed house are all here. It is raining off and on in Stockholm so the weather is not great but...
Agile Specification: is it a hoax? or a necessity?
When Alistair Cockburn says something like: "There is no such thing as 'agile specification'. The phrase is a hoax." This is exactly the kind of discussion we had at the Agile Manifesto meeting in 2001. It means there is something really interesting to talk about....
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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