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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,-....

Business 2.0, 1 Jul 2006 Why He Matters: High oil prices? Toyota says, Bring it on. In May, as the average cost of a gallon of gas approached $3, Toyota reported a 17 percent sales increase over the year before, even as General Motors and Ford saw declines of 16 and 2...

The JAOO Conference is coming up next week in Denmark. This is one of the leading annual software developer conferences and highly recommended. Last year, I presented at the JAOO conference on the Roots of Scrum. It was a great conference with about 900 Java and .NET...

In response to questions about hyperproductive Scrum teams, please take a look at the SirsiDynix project, the most productive large Java project ever documented. A 56 member distributed/outsourced team was split between Provo, Utah; Denver, Colorado; Waterloo, Canada;...

Scrum Tuning: Program Management with Scrum 1-2 Nov 2006 Boston Sign up using buttons on left side of page ... Take your ScrumMaster certification or knowledge of basic Scrum, Agile and lean practices to the next level! Get Agile at Patientkeeper, one of the most...

At the Agile 2005 conference in Denver, I presented a research paper on a multi-team, multi-product Scrum which has a daily Scrum-of-Scrums meetings and a weekly MetaScrum where all Sprints are started, stopped, or changed by a broad base of company stakeholders. Thus...

In 1993, Easel Corporation acquired a German Smalltalk compiler company and hired me to lead a team to produce Object Studio for Smalltalk. We were a Microsoft partner and they must have liked our name as they later created Visual Studio. I essentially had a position...

Fred Brooks comments: Much of present-day software-acquisition procedure rests upon the assumption that one can specify a satisfactory system in advance, get bids for its construction, have it built, and install it. I think this assumption is fundamentally wrong, and...

Peter Krantz rants on Scrum, Lies, and Red Tape at the Microsoft Vista project (see below). He's in Stockholm and I'm on a SAS flight over Greenland returning from two weeks in Sweden and Denmark doing several ScrumMaster Certification Classes. While Microsoft adopted...

In 2017, Ken Schwaber and I made the three questions in the Daily Scrum optional because we saw too many "zombie" teams that were giving lip service to the questions - not collaborating, not replanning, not swarming, and not removing impediments.  Also, we saw backlog...