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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Why Waterfall Doesn’t Scale
Recently a group of professors online asked me whether Scrum at Scale™ works. They agreed that agile approaches worked for small teams but were wondering about large projects. I told them they needed to do their homework and read the literature, also talk to the...
How does a Scrum Master actually facilitate anything?
I was recently coaching a team and got pulled-in to mediate between the Scrum Master and the Product Owner. It was revealed that the SM felt under-utilized. As I probed for why, one of the company’ s executive asked, "In your training materials, it commonly states...
Scrum "Shock Therapy" How To Change Teams FAST
While he was updating his paper for Scrum "Shock Therapy," Scott Downey of Rapid Scrum found one of the original emails he wrote about how he boosted dozens of teams into hyper productivity. He comments below and the full paper was published as: J. Sutherland, S....
Sometimes You Get More Than Twice the Work in Half the Time
When Jeff and I wrote Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time one of our hopes is that it would help spark an Agile revolution inside of companies. As we wrote, the way the world works is broken. It's always nice to find blog posts like this one. Paul...
Backlog Refinement Takes You from Vision to Value
Backlog Refinement Takes You from Vision to Value by Ellen Gottesdiener and Jeff Sutherland Deliver Value Sooner Backlog refinement prepares your backlog for development. Investing in doing this well helps you deliver value sooner, can double your productivity, and...
Scrum Guide Refresh with Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber Now Available
Scrum Guide Refresh with Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber Now Available The Scrum Guide Refresh webinar featuring Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber is now available in ScrumLab Open. This is a rare opportunity to hear directly from the creators of the Scrum Framework...
Scrum Guide Refresh
On July 6, Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber, the creators of the Scrum Framework, held a webinar to discuss updates to the Scrum Guide. They also answered questions submitted by scrum practitioners around the globe.
Scrummer Reading List
Scrummer Reading List 2016 We asked some of our team members to share their top picks for summer* reading. The list is full of inspirational gems. If you read one, let us know what you think. We'd also like to hear from you! In the comments section, please tell us...
Scrum@Scale™ Certification Now Available
Scrum@Scale™ Certification Now Available Scrum Inc. is excited to offer our two-day Scrum@Scale™ course, which was developed by the co-creator of Scrum, Jeff Sutherland. Students who complete our training will receive a Scrum@Scale™ Practitioner certificate. For a...
Scrum in Innovation
Learn how Agile teams are using a systematic and comprehensive innovation framework with real metrics, meaningful dashboards, and a concept called “ideascrum” to power an innovation revolution.
Agile Leadership: Trust vs. Control
Trust vs. Control in Agile Leadership I Listened to Spotify enterprise coach and Agile thought leader Henrik Knieberg's keynote and loved his analogy on Trust vs. Control. He uses the concept of traffic regulation, specifically a traffic circle vs. an...
What I Learned at Toyota
What I Learned at Toyota Test driving the new Toyota hydrogen powered Mirai with Pierre Masai I first met Pierre Masai, CIO of Toyota Motors Europe (TME), a few years ago at the annual Lean IT conference in Paris. Pierre is an agile advocate committed to driving Scrum...
Writing Better User Stories
Writing Better User Stories User Stories are Product Backlog Items that are descriptions of functionality. The User Story always takes the form: “As a ______ I want to ___________ so that I can ______.” Our experience has shown that when Teams master producing clear,…
Agile Innovation: How to Scrum Ideation
Agile Innovation: How to Scrum Ideation I’m very interested in the growth and evolution of the Agile process, and its eventual mainstreaming into types of work beyond writing software. In particular, I’m very interested in the intersection of Agile and...
Executive Action Team
Responsibilities of the Executive Action Team Transitioning from traditional project management to Scrum is a paradigm shift. Too often, leadership believes implementing Scrum is a simple process change that can be delegated. Leadership must own an Agile transition...
XM Patterns
XM Patterns Just as software design patterns have dramatically accelerated the speed of quality software development, we are seeing hardware design patterns provide repeatable solutions to common challenges faced by hardware scrum team. The “Gang of Four” format is...
Scrum for Maximum Awesome
Scrum Beyond Software As Agile practices and Scrum move outside of software we are seeing new pockets of innovation occurring. In this online course, you will learn how Agile software techniques can be applied in multiple domains including physical engineering and...
How Complexity Changes Leadership
How Complexity Changes Leadership I just finished reading Retired General Stanley McChrystal’s outstanding book: Team of Teams. While the book is not specifically focused on Agile practices, it turns out that when US Troops are dying at the hands of a viral...
Who Fires a Scrum Team!?
In an Agile 1.0 organization, where a traditional management structure exists with Scrum teams in delivery roles, management fires the Scrum team if they don’t perform. In an Agile 2.0 organization, where the entire company is re-organized into Scrum teams that...
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Toyota’s A3 and Root Cause Analysis
The most basic definition of an A3 would be a Plan Do Check Act (P-D-C-A) storyboard or report, reflecting Toyota’s way of capturing the process on one sheet of paper.
Scrum Metrics: Get 4x Velocity
Get Hyper-Productive with Scrum Metrics Hyper-Productive Metrics are tools that help closely examine Teams and conduct experiments to improve their productivity. They can be used to identify strengths and weaknesses, but more importantly they allow the evaluation of...
Hyper-Productive Scrum Metrics
Hyper-Productive Metrics Hyper-Productive metrics are designed to help Scrum Masters carefully tune their teams into a hyper-productive state. Hyper-Productivity is defined as a 400% increase in Velocity over the baseline Velocity with corresponding quality. The…
Jeff Sutherland on Aggressive Scrum
Aggressive Scrum The 2015 Chaos Report from the Standish Group shows only 39% of Agile teams are successful – that means that 61% of them are not meeting the values and principles of the Agile Manifesto. Aggressive Scrum focuses on using Scrum...
The Big M Build Party
Scrum Inc.'s Joe Justice and Joel Riddle delivered a build party at SME's The Big M conference the first week in June. Special thanks to Dan Greening, Jonathan Watrous, and Ila Lee. If you are interested in sponsoring or holding a build party at your next event, visit...
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