New Takeuchi Paper on Toyota

par Jeff Sutherland | Juin 21, 2008 | Blog | 1 commentaire

The Contradictions That Drive Toyota’s Success by Hirotaka Takeuchi, Emi Osono, and Norihiko Shimizu Harvard Business Review, June 2008 (free online during June) The Toyota Production System (TPS) is a necessary but not sufficient condition for Toyota’s success....

HICSS Agile Papers deadline 15 June 2008

par Jeff Sutherland | Juin 7, 2008 | Blog | 0 commentaires

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-42 CALL FOR PAPERS – due 15...

Managing Offshore Software Projects

par Jeff Sutherland | Avr 25, 2008 | Blog | 2 commentaires

Verma, Vikas (2008) Managing Offshore Software Projects. Icfai University Press. A new book republished the Scrum case study on the highest performing large project ever recorded. Sutherland, J, Viktorov, A., and Blount, J. (2006) Adaptive Engineering of Large...

What to do when Sales guys are Waterholics …

par Jeff Sutherland | Avr 22, 2008 | Blog | 1 commentaire

Here is today’s best question in my long list of emails. The Sales guys don’t want Scrum in a company because they think they can’t commit to the customer to close deals. “We need to sign the contract first. The customer does not sign the...

PatientKeeper HIMSS08: Scrum @work

par Jeff Sutherland | Mar 2, 2008 | Blog | 0 commentaires

PatientKeeper runs a Type C Scrum and quadrupled revenue in 2007. HIMSS is the biggest IT show in healthcare and PatientKeeper was one of the hottest companies there. “I’m such a PK groupee now! I’ll be sure to get that contract signed in the next 2...

High Moon Studios: A Portrait – Scrum

par Jeff Sutherland | Jan 28, 2008 | Blog | 2 commentaires