Perfecting Scrum Basics

HICSS is one of the top conferences in paper citation index rankings. This means papers will be seen and used by researchers worldwide more than papers from other conferences. All HICSS papers are published in the IEEE Digital Library and are FREE to download, so...

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Maurits Rijk did a Monte Carlo simulation of a project where implementation is not prioritized (blue) versus prioritized by return on investment (green). Value delivered is the region under the curve. Interestingly, prioritizing only by business value (orange) and not...

  How Happy Are You? In a Boston Suburb, It’s a Census Question Rick Friedman for The New York Times Residents of Somerville, Mass., like Jamie Thatcher and Maddie Carlson, are being asked to rate their happiness on a 1-to-10 scale. By JOHN TIERNEY, New York...

Scrum Is A Major Management Discovery By STEVE DENNING A reader remarked about my recent article on Salesforce.com, “Frankly, this looks like a plug for Scrum.” Well, yes. If there was a Nobel Prize for management, and if there was any justice in the world, I believe...

Implementing SAP with Scrum is the same as using Scrum for development operations in general. Build your backlog, prioritize your backlog, and execute your backlog in sprints with demoable results at the end of every sprint. Executing Scrum well will cut your...

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 Maui next January. Sound good? Then get writing! HICSS is one of the top conferences in paper...

The surge's 'secret weapon': Lessons of interagency high-value targeting teams Posted By Thomas E. Ricks  Friday, March 25, 2011 - 10:45 AM There's a good new study out of interagency high value target teams and the role they played in Iraq in 2007. Secret Weapon:...

  Agile Principles and Values, by Jeff Sutherland Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Agile development is a term that was derived from the Agile Manifesto, which was written in 2001 by a group that included the creators of Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), Dynamic...

A father of Scrum meets a grandfather of Scrum in Japan Sean Osawa talks about Atlassian January 24, 2011 10:50 AM The historic event An historic event, Innovation Sprint 2011, took place in Japan on January 13. As some readers may know, the word Kanban in agile...

Founders of TableNinja went to Scrum Inc. ScrumMaster Course in Los Angeles (see next course in LA) and one year later cashed out and retired. You can play 75 simultaneous online poker hands with this software.   Table Ninja Review Table Ninja is a standalone...

At my last company we delivered production software to multiple large enterprises at the end of every sprint. Within two years we dominated all competitors. Our CEO said he didn't understand why we couldn't get Done (feature testing), Done (integration testing), Done...

I'm on my way to Tokyo to discuss Scrum with Professor Nonaka. See http://innovationsprint.com

Happiness Metric Process Improvement Priorities - ScrumInc 15 Dec 2010 Scrum, Inc. was a small company hosted by OpenView Venture Partners in Boston from 2006-2010. As a two person Scrum using Pivotal Tracker as a Scrum tool, I was a remote Product Owner traveling 2-3...

We know multitasking causes project delays but it is even worse than we thought. Psychology Today reports on new research that shows it builds up a stress response that damages cells in your brain. The Difficulties of Multi-tasking Doing too much makes you slower and...

Dan Mezick organized the Second Annual Give Thanks for Scrum Day on 24 November at Microsoft in Waltham, MA. Ken Schwaber and I gave presentations and did a panel. A good time was had by all! Aggressive Scrum - What Happens When You Actually Remove Your Impediments?...