Driving Continuous Improvement
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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 Influencers: Colin Angle, CEO of IRobot
Scrum origins include the work of Colin Angle. As an MIT student, he sublet space in 1990 at my Object Databases lab in Cambridge and had his early robots hunting me down in my office. I spent a lot of time understanding Rodney Brooks subsumption architecture and it...
The First Scrum Project Manager
John Scumniotales, the first ScrumMaster "The end of the project manager, the birth of the ScrumMaster, a transient job valid until the organization has changed and is self-managing." Ken Schwaber The quote from Ken Schwaber elequently describes the role of a project...
Scrum Evolution: What’s it all about?
Love it or hate it, the Agile 2005 Conference reviewers thought the paper below was either a major innovation or a gross violation of the principles (dogma) of Scrum. It's motto is innovate or die and only the paranoid survive in the global economy. Does it show the...
Attila II: Scrum Progenitor Honors Scrum Gathering
Attila II: Progenitor of Scrum, hotel@MIT The Scrum Gathering this week is at hotel@MIT in Cambridge. I'm sitting in on a ScrumMaster training course led by Ken Schwaber. We plan on doing one together at PatientKeeper in Boston in August. This would be a great...
Scrum: Where Did Rapid Application Development Come From?
IEEE Computer published an issue on agile development in 2003. Of particular interest is an article on the history of iterative development, highly recommended for anyone interested in the background Agile methods. Most of the "Rapid Application Development (RAD)"...
Scrum Godfathers: Takeuchi and Nonaka
Takeuchi and Nonaka are Godfathers of the Scrum Agile Process since they coined the term in their seminal paper in the Harvard Business Review in 1986: Takeuchi, H. and I. Nonaka, The New New Product Development Game. Harvard Business Review, 1986(January-February)....
Scrum Evolution: Type A, B, and C Sprints
One of the key influences that led to creation of the first Scrum was a paper on the Japanese way of new product development by Takeuchi and Nonaka [2]. This paper had a chart showing product development separated into silo’s (Type A), phases slightly...
Scrum: Involving the Customer
Creation of the Agile Manifesto at Snowbird 2001 There was a dialogue in the scrumdevelopment group today on how customers should be involved with Scrum teams, prompting me to regurgitate a few of the examples I have been involved in since the first Scrum in 1993....
Google Gmail
Now that I have given away Gmail accounts to anyone on the PatientKeeper development team who wants one, I have a few more to pass on to people in the Scrum community. If you have been looking for a Gmail account, send me a note. First come, first serve.
Scrum: Subsumption Architecture and Emergent Behavior
PicBot exhibiting emergent behavior Yesterday's posting on the birth of Scrum generated some questions on Rodney Brooks' subsumption architecture. One could argue that Agile processes emerge architectures by building the simplest possible thing and evolving into more...
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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