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.
All Topics on Scrum Basics
Performance Reviews – bogus, fraudulent, dishonest, bad management
Performance reviews are a predictable part of office life. Whether the employees write their own, or sit before a panel of bosses, it can be a grueling process. Often, managers only conduct them because they're told to, and workers embellish and obscure their...
ScrumDay Berlin: A Practical Guide to Great Scrum
On 17 November 2010, the keynote presentation at ScrumDay in Berlin was on how to systematically create hyperproductive teams. Slides are available at the link below. Available also is the Systematic Ready Ready Checklist for Product Backlog discussed during the...
Cost of Defects in Requirements
Tom Gilb, Jeff Sutherland, Kai Gilb Requirement defects cause rework. Every defect is a bug that causes extra work. So it is important to check your requirements for defects. Tom Gilb has an agile one hour workshop that will take a random page of your...
8 Lessons Learned from the first Scrum team
Joe Kinsella, one of the developers on the first Scrum team, does a retrospective on his experience. A few years back I received a call from Stephen Denning, an Australian author best known for his books on organizational storytelling. Stephen wanted to talk with me...
Henrik Kniberg on Time Reports
How we got rid of time reports A story about waste elimination Have you ever dealt with time reports? Filled them in? Approved them? Shuffled them around?Did it feel like well spent time? Can you imagine a world without time reports?
Agile Manifesto Translation Project
I worked with Henrik Kniberg in Stockholm this week and heard the latest about the Agile Manifesto translation project. A simple idea is having some far reaching effects. See agilemanifesto.org. Agile Manifesto Translation - program report Henrik Kniberg - Agile...
Scrumming on the iPhone
I've been working with a lot of developers using Scrum to build iPhone apps lately. Not sure if they used Scrum to build the music app in the video below, but JJ Sutherland thought it was cool enough to do a piece on it at National Public Radio. Sometimes Somethings...
Scrum in Sales?
Working with OpenView Venture Partners, I've seen Scrum implemented everywhere in 100% of the venture group and some of our portfolio companies. Now I'm seeing other companies doing the same thing. In the past month I have seen people aggressively implementing Scrum...
OpenView Venture Partners Opens Their Kimono
OpenView Labs supports expansion stage startup companies with a strong offering of expert support to portfolio companies. They have decided to open up their experience and expertise to all who are interested after working with agile practices and implementing Scrum in...
HICSS 2011 Agile Papers Accepted
The following papers have been accepted for presentation at HICSS-44 and for publication in the IEEE Digital Library. They have been uploaded to the publication site and are print ready. About 40% of papers submitted were accepted and each paper was reviewed by at...
Tom Wujec: Build a tower, build a team | Video on TED.com
Tom Wujec: Build a tower, build a team | Video on TED.com
Scrum is based on complex adaptive systems and emergent behavior
In the early days of Scrum we were steeped in complex adaptive systems theory and autonomous intelligent systems. This area of research is emerging in a new form called Ambient Intelligence (AmI) due to the proliferation of intelligent devices on the internet. This...
Nokia Test: Latest Version
The "Nokia Test" for Scrum teams was developed orginally by Bas Vodde at Nokia Siemens Networks in Finland. It has been updated several times and appears in it latest incarnation in Jeff Sutherland's Scrum Certification classes where he demonstrates that attending the...
Haegwan Kim interviews Jeff Sutherland
Law of Success 2.0 To Make The World A Better Place Where All Human Beings Can Achieve Success For first part of the interview click here ... Conclusion: HK: Time moves on, so I want to have few questions about success. What is the definition of your success as an...
Estimation Accuracy: Extraneous information and anchoring effects
The Simula Lab in Norway has supported research on estimation error. Stein Grimstad's Ph.D. thesis on this topic has spawned several papers and references are provided below from the IEEE Digital Library in response to requests for sources. In particular, irrelevant...
HICSS 2011 Agile Papers – Need Reviewers!
We need good reviewer for a series of Agile papers submitted to the HICSS Conference. Reviews are due by 14 August. If you are interested, send email to jeff@scruminc.com and let me know which papers you would like to review. You must set up an account for yourself at...
Scrum Makes You Smarter
Cartoon from Amund Tveit's Blog Brain research on rats suggests that voluntary pressure in the form of audacious goals taken on by high performance teams makes them produce more neuron stem cells, rewire the brain, and become smarter. Involuntary pressure, often seen...
Updated URL for this blog: scrum.jeffsutherland.com
The final step of migrating with Google to the new domain strategy for blogs has been completed. This blog is now available at http://scrum.jeffsutherland.com. If you use scrumjeffsutherland.blogspot.com you will be automatically redirected. Please update all...
Microsoft Team Foundation Server launches Scrum template
Announcing Team Foundation Server Scrum v1.0 Beta aaronbjork 7 Jun 2010 9:13 AM Today , we’re announcing and releasing a brand new process template… Team Foundation Server Scrum v1.0 Beta. This is a new process template built from the ground up specifically for Scrum...
Most Important Thing to Remember: 50% of what you think is wrong!
Taichi Ono teaches that 50% of what you think is wrong. The robot researchers in artificial intelligence figured this out twenty years ago as well. They had understand this to get the robots to work. Study after study on college campuses show that students get simple...
Scrum Gathering Munich Keynote: Practical Roadmap to Great Scrum
A Practical Roadmap to Great Scrum: A Systematic Guide to Hyperproductivity Jeff Sutherland, Ph.D - Chairman, Scrum Training Institute The best data in the world on Scrum comes from a CMMI Maturity Level 5 company that is migrating all data collection to function...
ScrumPloP Nyteboda Sweden 16-19 May 2010
Neil Harrison, Mike Beedle, Jim Coplien, Jeff Sutherland ... which is what we say in Danish to appreciate each other for our last time of fellowship. I think we'd all agree on many adjectives to describe the event: productive, fun, energizing, and many more. We did...
MSF for Agile Software Development v5.0
Your team can apply agile practices more easily by using the process template for MSF for Agile Software Development v5.0 with Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). The template and this guidance will help you practice Scrum and apply agile engineering...
HICSS 2011: Call for Papers (15 June 2010 deadline)
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-44 CALL FOR PAPERS - submissions due 15...
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