Perfecting Scrum Basics

Wild man Evan Campbell demonstrates Type C Scrum at HICSS 2007 Agile Software Development: Lean, Distributed, and Scalable Co-Chairs: Jeff Sutherland and Hubert Smits HICSS 41, January 7-10, 2008 - Hilton Waikoloa Village Resort Waikoloa, Big Island, Hawaii ST 1...

Programmer time vs. Quality Software Score. Totally uncorrelated! Actually time sheets are worse than lame: * they demotivate developers * 10-15% loss of productivity is the minimum * developers have to fake the time to fill them out properly * erroneous data is used...

More light hearted than "Developer Abuse" the video "Being Agile is Our Favorite Thing" won 2nd place at Agile 2007.

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There is an Agile You Tube video contest going on sponsored by VersionOne, Google, and InfoQ. The best video will be selected (and rewarded) at the Agile 2007 conference in Washington, D.C. next month. Check out current video submissions and submit your entry now!

For a more complete discussion of the orgins of Scrum see the Scrum Papers. Scrum derives directly from the Takeuchi and Nonaka paper in the Harvard Business Review, "The New New Product Development Game." The best example in this paper is Honda and their style of...

I'm using the XP Game in ScrumMaster classes and many people want to know the orgins of the game and how to obtain materials. The full game can be downloaded from the site below. We use a short version of the XP Game to show how Scrum teams can improve estimation,...

Get your papers in by 15 June 2007 - don't miss Hawaii in January 2008! Agile Software Development: Lean, Distributed, and Scalable (Jeff Sutherland and Hubert Smits) Agile software development processes have been influenced by best practices in Japanese industry,...

Thanks to Örjan Hillbom CPG we now have a Scrum World Tour T-Shirt produced by Trifork in Denmark. Örjan is a rock group/motorcycle gang video expert who attended a ScrumMaster training by me and Jens Ostergaard in Copenhagen recently. He said Scrum really "rocks" and...

Listen to conversations with thought-leaders at the interface between Web 2.0, Libraries, and the Semantic Web... by Andy Latham Jeff Sutherland talks with Talis about SCRUM In our latest Talking with Talis podcast, I talk with Jeff Sutherland about SCRUM. Jeff is one...

    I had an exciting week in the Amsterdam area at the beginning of April working with Xebia, a consulting company that has set up a subsidiary in India that uses a SirsiDynix style Scrum where geographic transparency rules and teams are made up of people from...

Photo from cover of Crosstalk, Apr 2007Spend two days with two signatories of the Agile Manifesto - Jeff Sutherland, Co-Creator of Scrum, and Ron Jeffries, XP author and consultant.You wouldn't want to miss a two day deep dive into Agile: Scrum, Extreme...

In a recent draft of "The Scrum Papers" I document the use of the GNATS bug tracking system at my company PatientKeeper for managing a complex Scrum implementation. In my Scrum Tuning course I use a complexity number which equals (number of teams) x (number of...

Montage-a-google Montage-a-google is a simple web-based app that uses Google's image search to generate a large gridded montage of images based on keywords (search terms) entered by the user. Not only an interesting way of browsing the net, it can also be used to...

In 1993, at Easel Corporation, we went to the local university and hired their best Master of Computer Science graduate to join the test team and focus 100% on automation. This was one of the decisions that put the first Scrum into a hyperproductive state where we...

A Zen master famous for his collection of wooden Buddhas once said, "Enlightened people are everywhere but a good wooden Buddha is hard to find!" Really good ScrumMasters are hard to find because they get promoted to VP of Engineering or head of a business unit or run...

Ko Sasaki for The New York Times. An instructor ends a class on auto maintenance. The program is part of Toyota's efforts to maintain quality in the face of rapid overseas expansion. In the typical company where I do Scrum consulting there may be urgency around...

Open Space hosted by Jens Ostergaard Minneapolis, Nov 2006 Notes by Stacia Broderick The purpose of this open space was to discuss the role of the manager in the scrum process. Jens told us that Scrum could be CMMI Level 5 compliant if a manager role were to be...

Incorporating Lean Development Practices into Agile Software Development Co-Chairs: Jeff Sutherland and Jean Tabaka For details see CALL FOR PAPERS Fortieth Annual Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences Hilton Waikoloa Village Resort and Spa on the Big...

When I am in Scandinavia, I often work with Softhouse, a consultancy with clients like Sony/Ericson and IKEA. They have an excellent short paper called: Scrum in 5 Minutes On my laptop, I can run this PDF in full screen mode as a slide show and use it for press...

The ScrumMaster Trainers list is discussing the Scrum CMMI Level 5 paper and raise good questions: Does CMMI provide any benefits? Some have worked on CMMI projects that just generated more overhead with no benefits. What do the authors think about this? Systematic...

The ScrumMaster Certification course will be led by Jeff Sutherland and take place at "El Querandi", Peru 322, Buenos Aires, Argentina. It's a very nice place. CSM Course includes 1 hour lunch an coffee breaks during morning and afternoon. CSM rate is USD 900,-....