Increasing Revenue in the Enterprise

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...

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...

     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...

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...

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?

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...