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Business 2.0, 1 Jul 2006 Why He Matters: High oil prices? Toyota says, Bring it on. In May, as the average cost of a gallon of gas approached $3, Toyota reported a 17 percent sales increase over the year before, even as General Motors and Ford saw declines of 16 and 2...

The JAOO Conference is coming up next week in Denmark. This is one of the leading annual software developer conferences and highly recommended. Last year, I presented at the JAOO conference on the Roots of Scrum. It was a great conference with about 900 Java and .NET...

In response to questions about hyperproductive Scrum teams, please take a look at the SirsiDynix project, the most productive large Java project ever documented. A 56 member distributed/outsourced team was split between Provo, Utah; Denver, Colorado; Waterloo, Canada;...

Scrum Tuning: Program Management with Scrum 1-2 Nov 2006 Boston Sign up using buttons on left side of page ... Take your ScrumMaster certification or knowledge of basic Scrum, Agile and lean practices to the next level! Get Agile at Patientkeeper, one of the most...

At the Agile 2005 conference in Denver, I presented a research paper on a multi-team, multi-product Scrum which has a daily Scrum-of-Scrums meetings and a weekly MetaScrum where all Sprints are started, stopped, or changed by a broad base of company stakeholders. Thus...

In 1993, Easel Corporation acquired a German Smalltalk compiler company and hired me to lead a team to produce Object Studio for Smalltalk. We were a Microsoft partner and they must have liked our name as they later created Visual Studio. I essentially had a position...

Fred Brooks comments: Much of present-day software-acquisition procedure rests upon the assumption that one can specify a satisfactory system in advance, get bids for its construction, have it built, and install it. I think this assumption is fundamentally wrong, and...

Peter Krantz rants on Scrum, Lies, and Red Tape at the Microsoft Vista project (see below). He's in Stockholm and I'm on a SAS flight over Greenland returning from two weeks in Sweden and Denmark doing several ScrumMaster Certification Classes. While Microsoft adopted...

In 2017, Ken Schwaber and I made the three questions in the Daily Scrum optional because we saw too many "zombie" teams that were giving lip service to the questions - not collaborating, not replanning, not swarming, and not removing impediments.  Also, we saw backlog...