Perfecting Scrum Basics

Here are the slides for the presentation on "Practical Roadmap to a Great Scrum" given at Microsoft on 6 Aug 2009. Date: Thursday, August 6th Time: 6 - 9pm Where: Microsoft New England R&D Center, 1 memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA RSVP: Register at agilebazaar.org...

I spent the month of June in Europe and one of the highlights was the nlscrum meeting held at Xebia in the Netherlands. We had a full house that wanted to talk about taking the Red Pill instead of the Blue Pill. See "Agile Architecture: Red Pill or Blue Pill." Good...

The velocity of the Scrum team is the number of story points they can turn into working code at the end of a sprint. This is used by the Product Owner to create a release plan with a realistic date. The investors at OpenView Venture Partners released that all the...

In my travels, I'm always hunting for a better cappucino. In general, Norway has the best coffee. There are two locations where I can get an extraordinary cappucino in Oslo. However, the best cappucino I've had is roasted and prepared in San Francisco at Ritual...

HICSS-43 PAPER SUBMISSIONS - Need reviewers with review deadline 14 Aug Track: Software Technology Minitrack: Agile Software Development: Lean, Distributed, and Scalable Co-Chairs: Jeff Sutherland and Gabrielle Benefield January 5-8, 2010 The Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort...

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-43 CALL FOR PAPERS - submissions due 15...

Agile Bazaar June Meeting Date: Thursday June 18 Time: 6:00 - 9:00pm Place: To be announced (A Burlington location was planned but we are looking for a larger space and will announce it soon) RSVP: Go to http://agilebazaar.org/  to register. We expect to fill all the...

Bob Marshall, Transformational Leadership Specialist & Co-founder of the UK Rightshifting Network I attended a great talk by Jeff Sutherland (one of the founders of Scrum) in London last night, courtesy of JP Morgan and the ACCU. For all those folks who missed it...

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At OpenView Venture Partners we encourage portfolio companies to do code reviews - online, not face to face. Contrary to most agile practices where face to face communication is preferable, there are some distinct advantages to online review - no posturing, no...

Photo by twhume On 2 April, I presented the latest version of "Shock Therapy: Self-Organization in Scrum" at British Telecom in London. An earlier version of this presentation was presented at Google in the summer of 2008. The Google presentation is now on YouTube and...

Google asked for an advanced Scrum presentation for those already doing Scrum. So we talked about "Shock Therapy" and how to bootstrap a hyperproductive team. Click here for slides.

The best teams I work with are using lean tools to identify waste, particularly value stream mapping. They then use Scrum to eliminate waste by working the Scrum impediments list. This has the benefit of pushing Scrum out of development into the rest of the...

Alex Sutherland graduated from Cal Tech a few years ago and continued into the doctoral program in math and econometrics. However, his online poker hobby was generating all the cash he needed and he noticed that the PokerStars user interface was not suitable for...

The first French Scrum User Group meeting was a great success and we had more people than the room could hold. I reported on the Scrum Gathering in Orlando and reviewed some of the highlights of that meeting. The major focus was on the architecture presentation that...

Taichi Ohno. Workplace Management. Gemba Press 2007 People constantly ask me how to sell Scrum either to management or to developers. The real question has nothing to do with Scrum. It has to do with leadership and how do you persuade people to change from an old way...

HICSS presentation on distributed Scrum is posted at link below. Software Technology Track Co-chairs: Gul Agha and Rick Kazman Agile Software Development: Lean, Distributed, and Scalable Co-chairs: Jeff Sutherland and Gabrielle Benefield ST1 Tuesday Queen’s 4; 8:00 –...

The new French Scrum User Group now has over 100 members. We will meetup at La Defense in Paris the evening of 19 March. Click here for details.

Civica Office Commons 225 108th Ave NE Bellevue, WA 98004 Scrum Certification Seattle 12-13 Jan 2009 This course will be led by Jeff Sutherland, Co-Creator of Scrum and Mitch Lacey, former Agile coach at Microsoft. Jeff will discuss his latest papers being submitted...

"The types of activities which people all over the world consistently report as most rewarding - that is, which make them feel best - involve a clear objective, a need for concentration so intense that no attention is left over, a lack of interruptions and...

Frank Fortner, SVP of Application Development at Iatric Systems, sent me this note recently and at the request of a Scrum Trainer who I shared it with, agreed to contribute his good cheer to the larger Scrum community. ------------- Hi Jeff, We've recently implemented...