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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Reviewers needed for HICSS-45 Agile research papers
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...
Back to the Future: Agile Manifesto Reunion
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Why a Good Product Owner Will Increase Revenue at Least 20%
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...
What is Preventing your Retrospectives from having an Impact?
Guest blog by Scott Maxwell, OpenView Partners. Scott is the managing partner of OpenView and has introduced Scrum everywhere in the venture group and the portfolio companies. See Take no Prisoners: How a Venture Capital Group Does Scrum. Retrospectives, and their...
Scrum Moves Beyond Software
Shu Ha Ri – What Makes a Great ScrumMaster?
The concept of Shu Ha Ri comes from the Japanese martial art of Aikido. I spent some years in an Aikido dojo in Denver (Sensei was in Ha state) and in Cambridge (Sensei in Ri state). The student enters in the Shu state and must exactly follows the instructions of the...
Home of Scrum, Inc. Implements Happiness Metric
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...
Nobel Prize for Scrum?
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
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...
HICSS 45 Maui 4-7 Jan 2012 – Call for Papers due 15 Jun 2011
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...
Cross Functional Teams Work – How Middle Management Destroys Them
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:...
Hackathon – How it’s done at Facebook
Many companies using Scrum have hackathons. Some once a quarter, some once a month, some every week. Here is a great video from a Facebook hackathon.The Birth of Facebook Video from Soleio on Vimeo.Does Facebook do Scrum? You decide. Click here for another video...
OpenView One-on-One: Jeff Sutherland discusses Demo or Die & the Sprint …
Microsoft Agile Guidance: Visual Studio 2010
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...
Scrum, Innovation, and Jobs
Scrum, Inc. is located at the Cambridge Innovation Center, a site with hundreds of startups in one building, certainly the largest center on innovation in New England, probably in the country. Academics study us in this place. Here's an example of some research that...
Using Scrum in SAP Implementations
I continually get questions on whether Scrum is used in SAP implementations. It is a core strategy for SAP. However, it is difficult to find good documentation of this. My recommendation now is if you need this, go to Scrum training for SAP implementations. You will...
Meeting Nonaka-san in Tokyo
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...
Scrum Startup Founders Cash Out in One Year
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...
Optimized Scrum: Getting to Done Done Done Done
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...
Nonaka and Sutherland: The Roots of Scrum 13 Jan 2011 Tokyo
I'm on my way to Tokyo to discuss Scrum with Professor Nonaka. See http://innovationsprint.com
Scrum Inc Sprint 2 Retrospective: The Happiness Metric
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...
Multi-tasking makes you stupid: Give it up before you get brain damage!
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...
OpenView Venture Partners Video Lab: Backbone of Scrum
The Structural Backbone of Scrum According to its Founder Dec 23, 2010 by Corey O'Loughlin Jeff details the history of scrum, starting with structure When the idea of Scrum was just a notion in Dr. Jeff Sutherland’s brain, the agile development method’s creator...
Scrum Board on Steroids: The Awesome Nature of Awesomeness
Breaking news: Vodafone board wins Atlassian Ultimate Wallboard contest ... The Vodafone team in Copenhagen has a Scrum Board with RFID technology that knows when a card moves and updates data in their Jira tracking system. A video camera is always watching the board....
Give Thanks for Scrum Day – 24 Nov 2010
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?...
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