Increasing Revenue in the Enterprise
Our scrum leadership classes and courses are directed at leaders looking to leverage scrum to drive revenue across their business unit or enterprise. If you’re not a member, visit our pricing and plans page for more detail.
Scrum at Scale Part 1
Alex Brown and Jeff Sutherland present Scrum at Scale Part I – an object-oriented model for scaling Scrum across the business. The modular approach allows for the overall system to work together even if individual modules aren’t agile. Visit the full course page.
Disruptive Leadership
Jeff Sutherland, Scrum Inc’s CEO and co-Creator of Scrum, talks about disruptive leadership and the inspiration for his book The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time at TEDx in Aix en Provence, France.
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Scrum Hardware: eXtreme Manufacturing Explained
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.
Agile at Scale Podcast a Conversation with Jeff Sutherland and Darrell Rigby
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 […]
Janelle Monae, Dirty Computer, Scrum
Janelle Monae’s list of favorite books includes Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time. She wanted to find the quickest way to get quality results that her team at Wondaland Records were all happy with, and Scrum was that way.
How to Design Office Space for Scrum or Optimal Productivity
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
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...
In Memory of Mike Beedle
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
Why Do We Use Fibonacci Numbers to Estimate User Stories?
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.
Jeff Sutherland Launches The Scrum@Scale Guide
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
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 Keynote at 53rd Management 3.0 Stammtisch, Munich
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 Be Replaced By Robots and Other Advice from Jeff Sutherland
"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...
Give Thanks for Scrum 2017 – Scrum@Scale
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
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
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...
Overcoming Obstacles
We asked you to tell us about the Scrum challenges that your team is facing. In this video, JJ Sutherland and Jess Larsen tackle some challenging questions.
Doubling Productivity by Scrumming Leadership
Doubling Productivity by Scrumming Leadership by Steve Daukas | Sep 29, 2017 | Blog If you love to cook like I do, or if you have ever watched one of the many cooking shows on TV these days, you'll understand when I say that leading a Scrum transformation of any size...
Scrum Guide Revision 2017
2017 Scrum Guide Revision Webinar Watch the Full Video of the Scrum Guide Revision Webinar Please post your comments or questions related to the webinar on this page so that responses are transparent and shared with everyone. The Scrum Guide reflects the...
Teaching Scrum at Tesla, Talking with Silicon Valley Agile Leadership Network
During the week of the Tesla Model 3 Launch in Fremont, CA, Tesla invited Scrum Inc. to host a Scrum Inc Scrum Master and Scrum Inc Product Owner course at the factory. On Wednesday, we had a tour at the production site in Elon Musk's personal golf cart. An awesome...
2017 Scrummer Reading List
2017 Scrummer Reading List Last year our team shared a list of our favorite books and it was so popular, we've decided to do it again! This year's installment spans genres well beyond Agile to include Children's Picture Books, Health & Wellness, and Leadership...
How to Optimize Your Kanban
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...
Scaling Scrum at Lufthansa and ScrumDay Stuttgart May 2017
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...
What is Timeboxing?
What is Timeboxing? Timeboxing is allotting a fixed, maximum unit of time for an activity. That unit of time is called a time box. The goal of timeboxing is to define and limit the amount of time dedicated to an activity. Scrum uses timeboxing for all of the Scrum...
#SGCAL – The Shu, Ha, Ri of Scrum@Scale™
At the Scrum Alliance Scrum Gathering in San Diego, I presented a keynote talk on The Shu Ha Ri of Scrum. Pete Behrens tweeted a graphic summary. The first point in the orange box is "If you want to Scale Scrum get it working on the team first!" Scrum@Scale™ is a...
Business Leaders in Japan Embracing Scrum
This past February, Japan’s telecom giant KDDI invited Scrum Inc. to deliver a Scrum Inc Scrum Master and Product Owner training. Dr. Jeff Sutherland and I traveled to Tokyo to teach these classes. KDDI also hosted an evening event for 100+ of Japan’s most prominent...
Scrum in Military Aviation
Saab Defense uses the Scrum framework to organize thousands of engineers into hundreds of teams that deliver a new iteration of the jet every three weeks.