Perfecting Scrum Basics

  The Metaphysical Significance, Staggering Ubiquity, and Sheer Joy of High Fives The low five, the high 10, the low 10, the forearm bash, the fist bump, the flying chest bump, the shug, the leaping shoulder carom, the ass slap, the pound, the man hug, the dap, the...

Deep Lean with Mary Poppendieck & Jeff Sutherland & Henrik Kniberg, May 12th Spend a day with renown experts on Lean and Agile software development. This exclusive workshop happens only once per year worldwide and is limited to 20-25 participants. This...

Scrum Metrics for Hyperproductive Teams: How They Fly Like Fighter Aircraft Jeff Sutherland and Scott Downey Agile 2010 Experience Report Scrum teams use lightweight metrics like story points, the burndown chart, and team velocity. The inventor of Scrum was a fighter...

Dr. Jeff Sutherland covers the history of Scrum from its inception thru his participation with Ken Schwaber in rolling out Scrum to industry, to its impact on Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Oracle, Siemans, Philips, GE, and thousands of other companies. He describes the...

Abstract Teams must be authorized to create team culture. They must be 100% free to invent, create, manifest and work inside their own special, unique, meaningful, largely self-determined team culture. Ground rules set the stage for culture. All else follows. If the...

The first Scrum team was created directly from a paper which is required reading for any Scrum practitioner. It explains how to set up self-organizing teams and clearly outlines management's role in the process. Takeuchi and Nonaka. The New New Product Development...

www.slashphone.com In 2005, Scrum Trainer Bas Vodde was coaching teams at Nokia Networks in Finland and developed the first Nokia test focused on Agile practices. He had hundreds of teams and wanted a simple way to determine if each team was doing the basics. The...

Agile Manifesto 2021 - Remembering Mike Beedle I have been doing Scrum and Org Patterns since the fall of 1995 when I saved a large multi-million dollar project from failure at William Mercer in Deerfield, IL. Completion of this project not only put the system in...

Pete Deemer, our Business Manager at the Scrum Training Institute, has written an excellent article on the role of the manager in Scrum. --------- Like me, you probably get asked the following question quite often: "What's the role of a manager in Scrum? I'm a...

Hitting the Wall: What to Do When High Performing Scrum Overwhelms Operations ll-at-once Scrum implementations require total commitment to change, high level management participation and aggressive removal of impediments. In July of 2009, Pegasystems (NASDAQ:PEGA)...

Drawing by Jeff Patton What is iterative and what is incremental development? Even the experts are confusing themselves when describing it. Perhaps our language is an inadequate reflection of reality. Jeff Patton thinks software should be built the way an artist...

Free download of IEEE library of HICSS papers from previous years! HICSS has an agreement with IEEE for free download of all published papers. Click on link above. HICSS-43 Agile Papers Schedule Track:   Software Technology Minitrack: Agile Software Development: Lean,...

Interesting discussion at Google on Monday evening this week. Slides are available at the link below. Available also is the Systematic Ready Ready Checklist for Product Backlog discussed during the presentation. The talk was based on the Agile 2009 experience report:...

GiveThanksforScrum_23, originally uploaded by IT Event Photography Boston. Ken Schwaber and I had a spirited discussion answering questions from the audience at the Agile Boston conference on 25 November. I started off the day with  "Practical Roadmap to Great Scrum:...

Join the Agile Boston user group as we GIVE THANKS FOR SCRUM on the day before Thanksgiving, 11/25, at the Microsoft facility in Waltham Massachusetts from 12:30 - 5:30 pm. This is your fun, informative, convenient, content-rich, no-empty-calories, 100% Scrum-centric...