Increasing Revenue in the Enterprise

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

    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...

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...

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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...

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...

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...

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...

  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...