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Welcome to ScrumLab Open

ScrumLab Open is a free resource that explains the basic framework, roles and key patterns of Scrum. It includes clear definitions, insightful videos from the inventor of Scrum, as well as, published papers on Scrum Practices. ScrumLab open is perfect for the Scrum curious, the Scrum beginner or the advanced practitioner looking to refresh on the fundamentals.

We also offer a more in-depth online course: Scrum Startup for Teams.

You can also improve your Scrum by attending one of our Scrum Master or Scrum Product Owner classes. Advanced practitioners may be interested in reading Jeff Sutherland’s Scrum Papers, taking our Scrum@Scale training, or visiting the official Scrum@Scale site to download the latest Scrum@Scale Guide.

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Build A Car With Scrum

Scrum accelerates any effort. Yesterday at Agile DC 2013 a group of people who didn't know each other, most of whom probably have never changed the oil in their car and have likely never thought they could do it built a car in three thirty-minute Sprints. And they had...

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eduScrum!

Ashram College isn’t really a special school by Dutch standards. It’s a public secondary school with about 1800 student ages 11-18. The special part comes in the Chemistry classes of Willy Wijnands. In those classes the student’s desks aren’t set up in rows, they face...

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Scrum Guide 2013 is Here!

— Honored Guest Blogger Ken Schwaber Jeff and I have been working on the next revisions to the Scrum Guide... (Update: it is now posted at scrumguides.org) We first presented and published Scrum in 1995 at an OOPSLA conference in Tampa, Florida. Almost twenty years...

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Women Required?

As we all know, the reason Scrum Teams are kept small is to simplify communication pathways. This allows for communication saturation, which is a cornerstone of cooperation and innovation. It is not an overstatement to say that the entire Scrum development process...

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Scrum and eXtreme Manufacturing

-- Scrum Inc. Staff On July 24th Scrum Inc. is pairing with Joe Justice from Team WIKISPEED fame to broadcast a Webinar on Xtreme Manufacturing. Joe will also be teaming up with Scrum Inc. later in the week when he co-trains a Scrum Master course on the same subject....

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USPS Goes Agile, At Least With Software

Often it's the things you never think about can really hit you. You've seen all of those  U.S. Postal Service labelled sacks, trays, boxes, wheeled containers, etc. All of those are ordered from the postal service, some 230,000 orders each year. Large companies and...

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The A3 Process: Find Your Scrum Pitfalls

Next week Scrum Inc. is broadcasting its monthly Webinar on some of the more costly pitfalls Teams wander into when implementing Scrum. In preparing slides for the presentation, Scrum Inc.’s Chief Product Owner Alex Brown is having some of the staff work through the...

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Outsourcing: Scrum Best Practices

Outsourcing has long been a tool for reducing costs. Scrum changes the economics of outsourcing and helps build a strong business case for keeping development at home. If you can achieve an eighty-fold improvement in velocity with corresponding quality, why would you...

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Scrum and Organizational Patterns

In the early days of what we now know as Agile processes, Mike Beedle was influenced by the online description of Scrum, implemented the process in his own company, and led the effort to drive Scrum through the Pattern Languages of Programming Design conferences. This...

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Story Points: Why are they better than hours?

Story points give more accurate estimates, they drastically reduce planning time, they more accurately predict release dates, and they help teams improve performance. Hours give worse estimates, introduce large amounts of waste into the system, handicap the Product...

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Hackathons: Developing Developers

Next weekend the sponsor AngleHack and two student groups at UCLA are throwing a huge hackathon. LAHacks will bring together students and alumni from Southern California’s premier technical schools in hopes of fostering a more cohesive start-up community. It seems...

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Why Hours Don’t Work

There has been a lot of debate within the business world about the merits of time sheets. Some think tracking hours is an important metric while others feel that they are a waste of time. In the Scrum community there is a similar debate: should the team use points or...

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Nativity Scene: How Scrum was Born!

IROBOT's Genghis Khan now in the Smithsonian I joined Easel Corporation in 1993 as VP of Object Technology after spending 4 years as President of Object Databases, a startup surrounded by the MIT campus in a building which housed some of the first successful AI...

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Scrum & Big Data

I’ve been reading Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger and Kenneth Cukier’s stimulating new book Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think. The premise of the book is, now that civilization has the tools to both collect and analyze huge amounts data,...

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Know the Scrum Basics: Get Your Velocity Right

This month, Scrum Inc.’s monthly webinar focuses on fundamentals and correcting bad Scrum habits. While a majority of us feel like we get the basics right, Scrum Inc. surveys and independent polls find that while most Teams understand the basics, many cannot...

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Be Critical, Scrum and Feedback

There was an interesting radio piece on American Public Media’s Market Place the other day. Host Kai Ryssdal talked with Stephan J. Dubnar of Freakonomics fame about what the latest academic research on feedback tells us.  Here’s how it breaks down: to get people to...

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The Serenity of Flow

The Scrum Master class attendees were off and running on a self-organization exercise. The drill was simple: plan, build, and test as many paper airplanes as you can in 3 minutes. I was busily preparing for the next class module when I gradually became aware of what...

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Is Your Family Agile?

New York Times columnist and author Bruce Feiler has just published a new book titled: The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More.  The secret it turns out is applying agile development to...

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