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.
All Continuous Improvement Topics
Roots of Scrum: Object Technology
Scrum was originally designed to support emerging object technology environments, which have now become the dominant paradigm in software development. One of the goals was to get the organization of the team to reflect the potential flexibility of the software since...
Shock Therapy: Bootstrapping Hyperproductive Scrum
Scott Downey, MySpace Agile Coach, has a way of bootstrapping Scrum teams to a high performing state in a company that is about 1/3 waterfall, 1/3 ScrumButt with project managers, and 1/3 pure Scrum with only Scrum roles. Scott consistently takes teams to 240% of the...
Agile 2008: Secret Sauce for Distributed Scrum
Guido Schoonheim, CTO of Xebia, presented a case study with me at Agile 2008 on how to get maximum productivity and quality out of a distributed Scrum. The solution shows how to create distributed velocity = local velocity, distributed quality = local quality, and...
The First Scrum: Was it Scrum or Lean?
Today I got a question in email about Scrum and Lean, fallout from the recent workshop I did with Mary Poppendieck at MIT. Is Scrum related to Lean? Are we finding out new things about Scrum or Lean? Are customers asking for Lean? After thinking about the early days...
Scrum Overview: Sometimes your waterfall manager needs one …
A good Scrum overview is hard to find even though there are many of them out there. Here is one that might be useful next time your waterfall manager wants to know, "What is Scrum?" Scrum Agile Software Engineering Management Dan Greening, Citrix Online Scrum is a...
Deep Lean and Scrum: Stockholm 25-26 Sep 2008
Crisp Academy presents Deep Lean Learn from the experts! 2 days with Mary, Tom, Jeff, and Henrik Sep 25-26, 2008 Lean Scrum XP Deep Lean is an in-depth seminar targeted to people familiar with Lean, Agile, Scrum and XP software development. This will be a unique...
Scrum and Fighter Aircraft
In 1993 at Easel Corporation when we started the first Scrum, I thought the ScrumMaster needed to see how to land a Sprint on a date, just like landing a fighter aircraft at the end of the runway. If you are high on the glidepath in a fighter you can easy land in the...
HICSS Papers: Need Reviewers
HICSS paper submissions are in and we are seeking Agile experts to review these papers. All reviews must be complete by August 15. This is your chance for an earlybird view on some of the latest Agile thinking. Contact Jeff Sutherland if you want to review one or more...
New Takeuchi Paper on Toyota
The Contradictions That Drive Toyota’s Success by Hirotaka Takeuchi, Emi Osono, and Norihiko Shimizu Harvard Business Review, June 2008 (free online during June) The Toyota Production System (TPS) is a necessary but not sufficient condition for Toyota's success. TPS...
HICSS Agile Papers deadline 15 June 2008
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-42 CALL FOR PAPERS - due 15 June 2008...
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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