Perfecting Scrum Basics
Find clear definitions and the original thinking behind the core Scrum Framework.
Retrospectives
One of the core principles in Scrum is the idea of continuous improvement. Each Sprint the Team engages in an inspect-and-adapt cycle during the Retrospective meeting. Beyond that though, the Scrum Guide doesn’t offer much insight into how to run a successful Retrospective and how to use the meeting to improve production, quality, and velocity. Visit the full course page.
How To Launch a Scrum Team
Join us as we share how we help clients launch teams. We share our step-by-step backlog for launching new teams or reinvigorating old. Three different perspectives from three Scrum Inc. coaches on what to do, what the common impediments are, how to avoid the worst and conquer the inevitable. Visit the full course page.
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How The C-Suite Hurts America
Steve Denning, one of the smartest guys today thinking about management and how companies are run, just pointed out a new Harvard Business Review article which should be required reading: If some progressive journal were to write about overpaid CEOs, it wouldn’t be...
Force Yourself To Be Better: Strengthen Your Sprint Retrospective
Here at Scrum Inc. we've been thinking a lot about two things: impediments and the Sprint Retrospective. These are really where the rubber meets the road in terms of improving productivity. We'll have a later post on impediments, but I wanted to share this excerpt...
The Dangers of Not Being Done, Or Ready For That Matter
On March 8, Jeff will be giving a webinar hosted by SmartBear software. As we put together the presentation, one of the re-current themes of good Scrum came up. Getting stories ready, and getting things done. We've also been working on a new book we're calling "The...
The Maxwell Curve: Getting more production by working less!
Recently I was coaching teams at OpenView Venture Partners and Scott Maxwell, the founding partner, jumped up and said, “Jeff, I want to show you the Maxwell Curve! Here is what we have learned by running Scrum internally with teams of venture capitalists making...
Scrum Assessment Checklist
Several people have asked me for the Scrum Checklist we have used for years, created by Henrik Kniberg at Crisp in Stockholm. The earlier version was a mindmap. The current version is a Scrum Checklist. I've used it for assessment in OpenView Venture Partners...
Release Duration and Enterprise Agility
You ever wonder why your cellphone Apps seem like they have a new version every day or two? Dan Greening doesn't have to wonder, he knows why, they make better products, faster. - jj Short release duration—the time from starting development on a feature set until it...
Power of Scrum On the Kindle
After many, many requests for an eBook version of The Power of Scrum we’re happy to announce that it is now available on the Kindle. It really is a powerful book that lays out in a narrative form the difficulties and triumphs people and companies experience when...
The Importance of the Product Owner
Scrum Inc.'s Christine Hegarty wrote this today, just before she went on vacation, of course, so I'm posting it for her - jj Here at Scrum Inc. we've been thinking a lot about the role of Product Owner recently. It's something that we see a lot of companies struggle...
The Power of Scrum
Please read before ScrumMaster and Product Owner courses in Los Angeles and Boston in February. Book Description The Power of Scrum tells the inspiring story of Mark Resting, CTO of a software company struggling with a major client and a project with more problems...
Do You Have a Bunch of Specialists That Can’t Work Together?
Do You Have a Team or Just a Bunch of Talents? January 29, 2012 By maricelam As a leader or founding member of any project or startup, it is necessary to surround yourself by people talented in their areas of contribution. However, it is indispensable that everyone of...
Scrum: Looks Like We Created an Industry!
In the last month there were 10,964 Scrum jobs posted at simplyhired.com. This is probably less than half the real jobs out there for Scrum. In a good month we have 200,000 new jobs in the U.S. and the unemployment rate goes down. IsScrum generating 10% of those new...
Agile Manifesto – original 2001 notes from Snowbird
Jon Kern has surfaced a very cool historical artifact from the original Agile Manifesto 2001 meeting in Snowbird, Utah. If you download this document you can see all his notes from the meeting.
Medication
Dan Mezick I'm pleased to add this content to Jeff's blog regarding pain medication and the Agile Manifesto.Delivering software as a team is a highly intentional act. If we say we want working software, the results are by no means assured. Confronting reality, at the...
Powerful Strategy for Defect Prevention: Improve the Quality of Your Product
A classic paper from IBM shows how they systematically reduced defects by analyzing root cause. The cost of implementing this practice is less than the cost of fixing defects that you will have if you do not implement it so it should always be implemented. 1. First...
An Alternative to Kanban: One-Piece Continuous Flow
Jim Coplien I'm pleased to be visiting here as a guest this week at Jeff's invitation. The topic at hand is kanban. Unfortunately, this entry is a bit long, because I want to go beyond the usual level of sound bites afforded to an important topic. A Terminology...
Give Thanks for Scrum Day 22 Nov 2011
SCHEDULE- Give Thanks for Scrum, 11/22/2011 0930 AM Welcome Remarks- Dan Mezick 1000 Ken Schwaber on: 2011: WHAT A YEAR FOR SCRUM 1045 BREAK 1100 Jeff Sutherland on Why Teams are not Hyperproductive 1145 BREAK for LUNCH 1245 PM Welcome Remarks- Dan Mezick 0100 Dan...
Agile Manifesto 10 Year Reunion: Full Video
Zuckerberg would stay in Boston if he were starting up now
Zuckerberg would stay in Boston.
Takeuchi and Nonaka: The Roots of Scrum
Scrum for software was directly modeled after "The New New Product Development Game" by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka published in the Harvard Business Review in 1986. During 2011, I had the good fortune to meet and work with Professor Nonaka in Tokyo. Some say...
On the Street in Amsterdam
Breaking Departmental Silos: Scrum in Finance
By Christine Hegarty, Scrum Inc. “So-and-so does that, not me.” Upon hiring our accountant this June, I gleefully handed off the company QuickBooks file, stacks of financial statements and an overview of the bookkeeping functions and relished in the relief of no...
Forbes Blog: Steve Jobs on Get Rid of the Crappy Stuff!
Image via Wikipedia Carmin Gallo, Forbes, 5/16/2011 Apple recently passed Google as the most valuable brand in the world. It’s extraordinary to think that the world’s top brand has a product portfolio that could fit on a small table. Of course that’s part of the...
Openview: Scrum Inc. training on location
VENTURE CAPITAL Inside OpenView's corporate relocation program Posted by Scott Kirsner August 2, 2011 11:01 AM Boston.com By Scott Kirsner, Globe Columnist Scott Maxwell grew up in Silicon Valley, but these days he is practically operating a shadow economic...
Can your new hire work on a Scrum team?
New for Aspiring Doctors, the People Skills Test By GARDINER HARRIS Published: July 10, 2011, New York Times ROANOKE, Va. — Doctors save lives, but they can sometimes be insufferable know-it-alls who bully nurses and do not listen to patients. Medical...
Grandfathers of Scrum on Leadership
The Big Idea: The Wise Leaderby Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi in Harvard Business Review, May 2011In an era when discontinuity is the only constant, the ability to lead wisely has nearly vanished. All the knowledge in the world did not prevent the collapse of...
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