Perfecting Scrum Basics

eXtreme Manufacturing provides the technical practices to test and select the tools, materials, orientations and flows that can give us mass-production quality with no additional cost. Continuous deployment via eXtreme Manufacturing allows us to get inside our competitors’ loop without over-extending our resources.

We live in an age of disruption. A time when entire industries can be upended by a single, thinly staffed start-up. With customers demanding near-constant innovation and the concept of brand loyalty on the wane, more and more executives are wondering […]

I was asked to work with a global architecture firm developing parts of Apple’s new campus. This campus is built for scaling Scrum. Open, flexible team rooms with minimal furniture ring the building, and every five meet together in an open room for Scrum of Scrums and Meta Scrum.

Why Scrum is the Best Way to Create AI by Tom Bullock, Joe Justice, Alex Sutherland| 04-20-2018 | Blog There is no broad agreement on what constitutes artificial intelligence (AI). Still, this much is clear, we have already entered the age of AI and business. Just ask...

The Scrum and Agile community lost a giant this weekend. Mike Beedle was a close friend and inspiration to many of us. Our thoughts are with his family. “Mike was an amazing and magical guy that could take a new idea like Scrum and

Frequently there are great debates about the use of the Fibonacci sequence for estimating user stories. Estimation is at best a flawed tool but one that is necessary for planning work.

Scrum@Scale is the framework for organizations to iteratively develop the best way for Scrum to work in their context. So I’ve kept it simple. The Scrum@Scale Guide is just a few pages. Just like with Scrum, and the Scrum Guide, it’s free.

A Note from our New CEO, JJ Sutherland by JJ Sutherland | January 8, 2018 | Blog In December of 1993 my father, Jeff Sutherland, gathered a team of people and asked them to go on a new journey with him, a new way of working. A way he had started developing...

Jeff Sutherland presented a management keynote in Germany at the Management 3.0 Stammtisch on 4 December 2017. Jürgen Ditmar started the Stammtisch meetup 5 years ago after starting Management 3.0 classes because participants wanted to continue the discussions in the...

"Change or Get Replaced by Robots" and Other Advice from Jeff Sutherland by Jeff Sutherland | November 29, 2017 | Blog Below is a partial transcript of the Q & A from the "Scrum at Scale: The Path to Agility" presentation that I delivered to the International...

Recently I attended the Agile-Boston Give Thanks for Scrum day. See Scrum Beyond Software GTFS 2017. There were great talks by many people using Scrum to make their work and life better.  My presentation was on the Scrum@Scale which is designed for full company Scrum...

Part 2: Doubling Productivity by Scrumming Leadership by Steve Daukas | Nov 13, 2017 | Blog Read part one of Doubling Productivity by Scrumming Leadership In part 2, Steve shares his success and details the deployment steps of this Scrum at Scale transformation. My...

Less WaterScrum more Agility at Agile Amsterdam Scrum@Scale: The Path to Agile by Jeff Sutherland | October 25, 2017 | Blog The Agile Amsterdam 2017 conference started with my keynote on Scrum@Scale. I wanted to make four key points in this presentation: True Scrum is...

John Cutler posted a Hackernoon blog titled "I Hate Kanban ..." with a picture of this board. If you don't want to hate your Kanban, you can optimize it using the strategy below. Overview For work that is interrupt driven such as a help desk or call center, a...

In May I attended the Lufthansa Project Management Workshop near Frankfurt and then ScrumDay in Stuttgart. My keynote for both conferences was on the Shu, Ha, Ri of Scaling Scrum. At the Scrum Gathering in San Diego, I gave an earlier version of this presentation and...